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Eric Schwietering, Wisconsin Psychiatrist, sentenced
Eric Schwietering Pioneer Press Psychiatrist ordered to stand trial in sex case --Excerpt WAUKESHA, Wis.—A psychiatrist already serving four years of probation for possession of child pornography has been ordered to stand trial on a sexual assault charge. The move came after a 14-year-old boy tearfully testified that Eric B. Schwietering, 41, of Milwaukee, molested him during a counseling session in 2006. The boy testified at a preliminary hearing Friday that Schwietering questioned him during a counseling session about his sexual habits and asked him to disrobe July 10, 2006. The boy said that, when he declined, Schwietering forced him [...]
Larry Anderson, Penticton psychiatrist, More Jail
Larry Anderson Castanet Psychiatrist Gets More Time November 22, 2006 -- Excerpt A former Penticton psychiatrist has been given an additional jail sentence. Larry Anderson is currently serving an 18-month sentence on charges of sexual and indecent assault against former female patients between the late 70's and 90's. On Tuesday, he plead guilty in Penticton provincial court to assaulting his wife at their home near Princeton in 2005. The assault took place while Anderson was out on bail awaiting sentencing on sexual and indecent assault charges...
Naseem Chaudhry, Downers Grove Psychiatrist, Indicted
United States Attorney U.S. Department of Justice Northern District of Illinois FORMER MEDICAL DIRECTOR AT ROCK CREEK PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY INDICTED IN ALLEGED $875,000 HEALTH CARE FRAUD SCHEME FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY JUNE 30, 2006 CHICAGO – A suburban psychiatrist who was the medical director at the shuttered Rock Creek Center in Lemont was indicted for allegedly defrauding Medicare of more than $875,000 by falsely claiming to have provided services that he never performed and billing for more complex services than he actually provided. The defendant, Dr. Naseem Chaudhry, allegedly admitted patients to the privately-owned Rock Creek psychiatric facility, routinely kept [...]
Sheldon Zigelbaum, Mass. Psychiatrist, five women testified against him
Sheldon Zigelbaum Boston Magazine Head Games May 15, 2006 By Gretchen Voss -- Excerpt An alarming number of Massachusetts psychiatrists have gotten caught again and again having sex with some of this society's most vulnerable people: their own patients... Dr. Sheldon Zigelbaum lost his license in 1992 after five women testified before the medical board that he engaged in a variety of sexual acts with them in his office, hotel rooms, his car, and, in one case, a hot tub. Some said he shared marijuana, and one woman said he did cocaine with her. Zigelbaum denied having sex [...]
Eric Ressner
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) PHARMACIST, PSYCHIATRIST ARE INDICTED; TWO ACCUSED IN $9.9 MILLION INSURANCE FRAUD --Excerpt Federal prosecutors Monday charged a pharmacist and a psychiatrist with orchestrating a multimillion-dollar insurance fraud scheme out of a Palm Beach Gardens pharmacy, court documents show... Two physicians, including psychiatrist Dr. Eric Ressner of Palm Beach Gardens, helped Sutera substantiate the fake prescriptions, while a chiropractor and a pharmacy technician assisted in the conspiracy, prosecutors said. Sutera provided Ressner with “cash payments delivered in envelopes on a regular basis” and a $34,000 check in August 2002 for a down payment on Ressner’s Bocce [...]
George Frimpong, Ghana Psychiatrist, convicted
George Frimpong GhanaWeb Psychiatrist fined for arson August 26, 2005 -- Excerpt George Frimpong, a Ghanaian psychiatrist based in London was on Friday fined two million cedis by a circuit court in Kumasi for setting a house on fire. Frimpong, who was convicted on his own plea of guilty... She said sometime in 2004, neighbours saw signs of smoke coming out of Madam Ofori's house but managed to put it under control. Madam Ofori made a report to the police but before the suspects could be traced Frimpong had gone back to London, the prosecutor said. Chief Inspector Oseiwaah [...]
Persistent sleuthing uncovers state flaw
St. Petersburg Times Persistent sleuthing uncovers state flaw --Excerpt In a second bedroom converted to an office, amid file cabinets filled with cases of psychiatric abuse, Ken Kramer banged away on his Hewlett-Packard, sending e-mail after e-mail to Tallahassee, late into the night, night after night. His focus was the psychiatric profession. And after months of dogged persistence, his work finally paid dividends last month. The state Department of Health admitted Kramer had uncovered an embarrassing flaw in its disciplinary system that may have spared hundreds of medical professionals from criminal prosecution. Last week, state Health Secretary John O. Agwunobi [...]
Crusader Pressed State For List Of Possible Violations
Tampa Tribune Crusader Pressed State For List Of Possible Violations --Excerpt Save for the persistence of one person, Ken Kramer, of Clearwater, the Florida Department of Health might not be telling prosecutors about alleged sexual improprieties involving psychotherapists... Kramer began wondering last year whether the health department was complying with a 1992 state law requiring it to notify local prosecutors of cases involving alleged sexual contact between therapists and patients and sent the department a public records request on the subject in July. "They couldn't find anything" at first, Kramer says. He kept at it. Finally, the department sent him [...]
State Eyes Psych Misconduct
Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) October 12, 2004 City Edition State eyes psych misconduct; Older cases reviewed; prosecution possible BYLINE: J. TAYLOR RUSHING, Capital Bureau Chief SECTION: NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL; Pg. A-1 TALLAHASSEE -- Several misconduct cases involving psychiatrists are being belatedly sent to state attorneys across Florida, years after the doctors were disciplined by the state but never referred for possible criminal prosecution. Under Florida law, the cases should have been forwarded to prosecutors by a division of the Department of Health. State officials would not comment on particular cases. But Amy Jones, director of the Medical Quality Assurance Division of the [...]
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