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Stephen Greer, Oklahoma VA Hospital Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Stephen Greer PRESS RELEASE Tulsa Man Sentenced To 21 Months For Tampering With Witness Thursday, October 25, 2018 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma VA Psychiatrist Inappropriately Involved With Patient MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Stephen Lester Greer, age 58, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment and three years supervised release for Tampering With A Witness, Victim, Or Informant, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1512(b)(3). The charge arose from an investigation by the Department of Veterans Affairs - [...]
Samuel Loomis
Dead Entertainment Misdiagnosed: Psychiatrist Loses Medical License After Releasing Violent Murderer from Hospital The embattled Dr. Loomis thought “everything checked out” with patient Michael Myers. By The Rotting Corpse October 18 2018 Smith's Grove Sanitarium psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis recently came under fire for releasing a violent psychopath from his care following a less-than-thorough examination of the patient’s mental state. Michael Myers was committed to the facility after murdering his older sister and promptly put under the watch of the veteran doctor with a penchant for trusting his instincts. Unfortunately, those instincts gave him the totally wrong idea with respect [...]
Alexander Neumeister, Yale psychiatrist, Sentenced
Alexander Neumeister Yale News Ex-Professor Sentenced to Play Piano By Carly Wanna October 16, 2018 -- Excerpt Alexander Neumeister, a former associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, was sentenced to play the piano last Wednesday after pleading guilty in June to stealing government funds. Neumeister was a psychiatry professor at the New York University School of Medicine from 2011 to 2015. According to his guilty plea, Neumeister stole $87,000 from NYU as well as from other grant programs from 2012 to 2014. During his time as a researcher at Yale from 2004 to 2010, Neumeister was [...]
Kurt Freund, Czech psychiatrist Kurt Freund – Court Rules Psych’s Penis Measuring Treatment has “No Relation to Medical Treatment” and “No Evidence of any therapeutic benefit”
Appeals Court Rejects Arousal Test for Sex Offender BY TANYA CALDWELL JUNE 21, 2006 12 AM PT Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options TIMES STAFF WRITER A periodic test that measures a man’s response to erotic images is “Orwellian” because it examines his mind, not just his body, and should not be used because it deprives him of more freedom than necessary, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. In order to be released from prison, U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson had ruled in 2001, Matthew Weber would have to subject himself to tests in which a pressure-sensitive electronic device is [...]
John Katzenberg, Townsend Psychiatrist, License revoked
John Katzenberg Lowell Sun Well-known Townsend doctor’s license revoked September 12, 2018, Updated: July 11, 2019. By Scott Shurtleff -- Excerpt TOWNSEND — A well-known physician with a long-standing downtown practice has had his state medical license revoked, in part for having a romantic relationship with a patient, according to a press release from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine. The decision to revoke Dr. John P. Katzenberg’s medical license was announced recently following a disciplinary decision by the board on Aug. 9. According to a final report of action, the Internal Medicine doctor “engaged in a romantic relationship [...]
Kimberly Frank, Mequon Psychiatrist, “pleaded insanity”
FOX 6 Now Milwaukee 'It was just dropped, like it never happened:' Child psychiatrist still practicing after psychotic episode By Bryan Polcyn September 12, 2018 MEQUON — A Wisconsin psychiatrist pleaded insanity, and the court agreed, so how is she still practicing? ... In the spring of 2011, a mother took her three young children to a Naples, Florida beach, where a mentally unstable stranger mistook the children for her own. "The woman was yelling 'these are my kids. Jesus, these are my kids!'" said Ashli Minor, the mother of the three children. Minor lives in [...]
Riyaz Mazcuri, (Texas & Florida), psychiatrist, sentenced
Riyaz Mazcuri U.S. Department of Justice Press Release Houston Psychiatrist Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison for Role in $155 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Tuesday, September 4, 2018 For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs A Houston psychiatrist was sentenced today to 150 months in prison for his role in a $155 million Medicare fraud scheme involving false and fraudulent claims for psychiatric services. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick of the Southern District of Texas, Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI’s Houston [...]
Harry Brown, Weston Psychiatrist – let his secretary sign prescriptions
Harry Brown Hartford Courant State Medical Board Disciplines 3 Doctors By Kate Farrish August 21, 2018 --Excerpt Also on Tuesday, the board rejected a consent order that would have imposed a $25,000 fine against a Weston psychiatrist who let his secretary sign prescriptions for controlled substances for herself and for patients he had not examined.The psychiatrist, Dr. Harry Brown, would also have been reprimanded and had his license placed on probation for two years under the order. Brown has surrendered his state registration to prescribe controlled substances. Board members said the proposed discipline was not stringent enough. From 2014 [...]
Peter Neubauer, Austria Psychiatrist, split up triplets at birth “to study them”
Peter Neubauer NaijaNews The Incredible Story Of The Identical Triplets Separated At Birth July 24, 2018 By Olawale Adeniyi -- Excerpt The triplets became a media phenomenon after they met at age 19, but things began to shift in the 1990s Robert, David and Eddy were born in a suburb of New York in July 1961. They were separated at birth and given to adoption for three different families. The three grew up unaware that they were identical twins, until, by a coincidence, they finally got to know each other. At age 19, Robert Shafran went to university for [...]
Aviel Goodman, Saint Paul Psychiatrist, Child Porn
Aviel Goodman Press Release Saint Paul Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty To Receipt Of Child Pornography Friday, July 20, 2018 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of AVIEL LI GOODMAN, 62, to one count of receipt of child pornography. GOODMAN, who was initially charged on February 20, 2018, pleaded guilty earlier today before U.S. District Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to the defendant’s guilty plea and documents filed in court, on multiple occasions between March 1, 2015, and August 27, 2017, [...]