MEDIA
Henry Spitzer, Ca Psychiatrist, house seized
Henry Spitzer The Associated Press Marshals Seize Home of Drug-Issuing Psychiatrist January 17, 1990 -- Excerpt U.S. marshals, acting under a federal law aimed at stripping drug dealers of their means of doing business, seized the house of a 73-year-old psychiatrist accused of illegally writing prescriptions there. Tuesday's seizure of the home of Henry Spitzer marked the first use of the forfeiture statute against a doctor in California, authorities said. Spitzer surrendered his license to practice last year after he was charged with 16 felonies in 1988. Undercover agents had concluded he was prescribing Valium and an amphetamine in cases [...]
Carlton Blake, Long Island psychiatrist, Pleads Guilty To Bilking Medicaid
Carlton Blake Newsday (New York) Doctor Pleads Guilty To Bilking Medicaid By Arnold Abrams November 16, 1989 -- Excerpt A Long Island psychiatrist has pleaded guilty to a charge of repeatedly inflating bills for treating a client he believed was a Medicaid patient. The psychiatrist, Dr. Carlton Blake, was arrested and arraigned Tuesday in First District Court, in Hauppauge, where he pleaded guilty before Judge Peter J. Newman to offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree. He also agreed to make restitution to Medicaid of $ 1,000 on the charge, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a [...]
Paul Walters, Harvard Psychiatrist, accused
The Boston Globe 2 psychiatrists accused of abuse lose Mass. licenses By Alison Bass November 14, 1989 -- Excerpt ...Paul Walters, former head of Harvard University's mental health services, permanently surrendered his medical license in Massachusetts last month rather than face public hearings accusing him of sexual misconduct. Walters told the board he would also surrender his medical license in California, but officials there said yesterday he has not yet done so... In the past year, nine Massachusetts psychiatrists have been charged by the state medicine board with having had improper sexual contact with patients. So far, five have either [...]
Cesar Menez, Farmington Psychiatrist, accused of false insurance claims
Cesar Menez St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) DOCTOR ACCUSED OF FALSE INSURANCE CLAIMS DOCTOR IS CHARGED IN FALSE CLAIMS Farmington, Mo. (AP) October 13, 1989 --Excerpt A psychiatrist in Farmington has been charged with stealing from an insurance company. A year ago, he surrendered his Kansas psychiatric license after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against him. The psychiatrist, Dr. Cesar Menez, 52, was arrested Wednesday in Farmington after an indictment last month charged him with stealing from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City. A grand jury in Jackson County handed up the indictment Sept. 29, but prosecutors [...]
Francesco Di Leo, Maryland Psychiatrist, gave hallucinogenic drugs
Francesco Di Leo The Washington Post Psychiatrist's Patient Granted $ 700,000 in Md. October 1, 1989 -- Excerpt A Circuit Court jury in Baltimore has awarded $700,000 in damages to a woman who was fondled and given hallucinogenic drugs by a psychiatrist who said the practice was a new form of therapy. The Maryland Board of Physician Quality Assurance temporarily suspended Francesco Di Leo's license in July 1987, after finding him guilty of immoral conduct and incompetence in the case. Authorities also found that Di Leo was taking hallucinogens...
Redencio Bugaoan, Massapequa psychiatrist, charged with Medicaid fraud
Redencio Bugaoan Newsday (New York) Two Psychiatrists Accused of Fraud By Mara D. Rose September 22, 1989 -- Excerpt Two Long Island psychiatrists have been indicted on charges of Medicaid fraud for falsely inflating the amount of time they spent with patients from 1987 from 1988, officials said yesterday. Dr. Eugeniu Liteanu of Ridge was indicted on five counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, while Dr. Redencio Bugaoan of Massapequa was charged with six counts of the same felony... Bugaoan was charged with submitting false reimbursement claims between Dec. 18, 1987, and July 11, 1988, stating that [...]
Eugeniu Liteanu, Long Island Psychiatrist, charged
Eugeniu Liteanu Newsday (New York) Two Psychiatrists Accused of Fraud By Mara D. Rose September 22, 1989 -- Excerpt Two Long Island psychiatrists have been indicted on charges of Medicaid fraud for falsely inflating the amount of time they spent with patients from 1987 from 1988, officials said yesterday. Dr. Eugeniu Liteanu of Ridge was indicted on five counts of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, while Dr. Redencio Bugaoan of Massapequa was charged with six counts of the same felony... Liteanu was charged with filing fraudulent claims between July 7 and Oct. 26, 1987, and overstating session lengths [...]
Beltran Pages, Florida Psychiatrist – Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
Beltran Pages St. Petersburg Times HRS gets veiled look at blots on doctors' records November 20, 1988 By Carol Gentry -- Excerpt ... In another August case, the board pondered what to do about 37-year-old psychiatrist Beltran Pages, who had been found guilty of sexually abusing a patient while in private practice. By the time Pages came before the board, he was working at Health and Rehabilitative Services' Miami hospital for the criminally insane. Board members suspended Pages' license for three years, but agreed that the suspension could be put on hold while he was appealing his case as long [...]
Jerome Driesen, Manhattan psychiatrist, sentenced
Jerome Driesen The New York Times Psychiatrist Given Probation In New York Corruption Case September 26, 1987, Saturday, Late City Final Edition By The Associated Press -- Excerpt A Manhattan psychiatrist who testified for the prosecution at last year's city corruption trial was sentenced yesterday to three years' probation for mail fraud. Dr. Jerome Driesen, 48 years old, a close friend of Geoffrey L. Lindenauer, the former deputy director of the Parking Violations Bureau, pleaded guilty last October to one count of mail fraud in a plea bargain with prosecutors...
Franklin Simon, Manhattan psychiatrist, 4-year-old girl abuse
Franklin Simon The New York Times State Psychiatrist Held In Sex Abuse of Girl, 4 September 26, 1986 --Excerpt A supervising psychiatrist at the state's Manhattan Psychiatric Center on Wards Island was arrested yesterday and charged with sexually abusing a 4-year-old neighbor girl at his home. The psychiatrist, Dr. Franklin Simon, 45, of 325 Riverside Drive in Manhattan, was charged with first-degree sexual abuse, a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison. State officials said he would be suspended without pay from his $75,000-a-year job pending the case's outcome. Lieut. Richard J. Marcus of the Manhattan sex crimes [...]