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Brian Hyatt, Rogers psychiatrist, arrested
Brian Hyatt KNWA Fayetteville Former Rogers doctor facing Medicaid fraud charges arrested by U.S. Marshals --Excerpt FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Brian Hyatt, a former Northwest Arkansas psychiatrist accused of Medicaid fraud, was arrested Saturday by the U.S. Marshals Service. The 53-year-old was booked into the Washington County Detention Center on March 28 and is being held on a federal detainer... Hyatt previously led the Behavioral Health Unit at Northwest Medical Center in Springdale from Feb. 2018 to May 2022... In addition to criminal charges, Hyatt faces more than 200 civil lawsuits from former patients who allege false imprisonment during his [...]
Iftikhar Rasul, Orlando psychiatrist – license revoked
Iftikhar Rasul Miami Herald What happened after 3 patients said Florida psychiatrist touched their breasts? --Excerpt An Orlando psychiatrist banned from seeing female patients after being accused of molestation now can’t see any patients. A 2025 state Board of Medicine final order that just posted on Feb. 16 revoked Dr. Iftikhar Rasul’s license. Professional justice, as usual, moved at a more stately pace than criminal justice. The Florida Department of Health filed the first administrative complaint, which starts the discipline process, in January 2021 after the first accusation. The next two accusations were grouped in an April 2023 administrative complaint, [...]
Shazia Malik, Missouri psychiatrist, pleaded guilty
Shazia Malik Press Release Psychiatrist Reaches Civil Settlement of $360,000 to Resolve Allegations of False Claims to Federal Health Care Programs Monday, March 9, 2026 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri ST. LOUIS – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri and a Missouri psychiatrist have reached a $360,000 civil settlement that will resolve False Claims Act (FCA) allegations, U.S. Attorney Thomas C Albus announced Monday. The settlement resolves allegations that from Jan. 1, 2019, through May 31, 2024, Dr. Shazia Malik falsely indicated to both Medicare and Missouri Medicaid that she provided [...]
Fez Psychiatrist sentenced to 20 years
Yabiladi Fez psychiatrist sentenced to 20 years for sexually assaulting patients --Excerpt The preliminary criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal in Fez has sentenced a local psychiatrist to 20 years in prison and fined him 200,000 dirhams after convicting him of human trafficking. The case involved the sexual assault of female patients at his private clinic, as well as charges related to the possession and consumption of hard drugs, including heroin, and facilitating their use by others. The psychiatrist, who specialized in treating mental health disorders and addiction, was arrested in June last year following a complaint filed [...]
Walter Crook, Tuscaloosa Psychiatrist, Arrested
Walter Crook Tuscaloosa Thread CyberTip Leads to Bryce Hospital Psychiatrist’s Arrest for Having Child Sex Abuse Material --Excerpt A Cybertip from Google led to last week's arrest of a psychiatrist at Tuscaloosa's Bryce Hospital for possession of child sex abuse material. The accused, 73-year-old Walter Joseph Crook, is reportedly a long-time psychiatrist at the state-run, in-patient Bryce Hospital here in Tuscaloosa. According to court documents filed late last week, Google sent an alert to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children after a user reportedly stored illegal files depicting the sexual abuse of children to their cloud storage service, [...]
Andrew Sorial, Florida psychiatrist, suspended
Andrew Sorial Herald Tribune Florida psychiatrist allegedly asked patients to show their breasts --Excerpt A Florida psychiatrist’s license was suspended under an emergency order following patients’ claims that he asked to see their breasts and for them to get naked. The order issued Jan. 21 suspended the license of Dr. Andrew Sorial, who practiced at Boca Raton Psychiatry. The Florida Department of Health filed an administrative complaint, starting a discipline case to determine whether Sorial will be exonerated or punished by the state Board of Medicine. Reports document claims by two of Sorial’s female patients in their late 20s and [...]
Psychiatrist Abby Fredrickson, Moorhead Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Psychiatrist Abby Fredrickson KVRR Woman given probation after pleading guilty to aiding an offender in fatal Moorhead shooting --Excerpt MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — A psychiatrist who was charged as an accomplice in her then-boyfriend’s fatal drive-by shooting in Moorhead last April is sentenced to probation. 33-year-old Abby Fredrickson pleaded guilty last October to a single count of aiding an offender in the shooting death of 39-year-old James Hamilton by 35-year-old Jerome Thomas. Fredrickson was given a three-year “stayed sentence” of probation during sentencing Monday in Clay County Court... Excerpted from: Woman given probation after pleading guilty to aiding an offender [...]
Jesse Armstrong, UF Psychiatrist, sentenced
Jesse Armstrong Press Release FORMER PHYSICIAN SENTENCED TO OVER SEVEN YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Friday, January 23, 2026 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Florida GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA – Jesse Roger Armstrong, 35, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to ninety months in prison after previously pleading guilty to distribution of child pornography. The sentence was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. U.S. Attorney Heekin said, “Our state and federal law enforcement partners are committed to identifying, investigating, and rooting out the scourge of exploitation and [...]
Big Pharma’s Evil Playbook
PsychSearch Big Pharma’s Evil Playbook Colin Taufer On July 10, 2010, Stewart Dolin, a happy, funny, loving, wealthy, dedicated husband and father, started taking Paxil, as prescribed by his psychiatrist. Six days later, in the middle of the afternoon, he leapt off a subway platform and into the path of an approaching train. How do the biggest drug pushers poison the world for profit and get away with murder? Just ask GlaxoSmithKline, one of the kingpins in the pill-pushing cartel known as Big Pharma. GSK has perfected the playbook of turning drugs they know to be deadly and dangerous into [...]
Drugging Children for Conformity
PsychSearch Drugging Children for Conformity Colin Taufer Throughout its long history, Ritalin has been a drug in search of a “disorder”. Its manufacturer Ciba (now Novartis) has spent millions on advertising and “doctor education” trying to find and create a profitable “disease” for its drug. In the mid-1950’s Ritalin was advertised as a way to boost spirits and to make patients more cooperative and manageable. Later, in the same decade, Ciba tried another approach and marketed Ritalin as a “safe, effective geriatric supplement”. In the 1960’s promotional focus again shifted and it touted itself as a way to “restore [...]