MEDIA
Stuart Brown
Los Angeles Times October 29, 1988, Saturday, San Diego County Edition MORE SEXUAL MISCONDUCT CHARGES LEVELED AGAINST LA JOLLA PSYCHIATRIST BYLINE: By LINDA ROACH MONROE, Times Staff Writer SECTION: Metro; Part 2; Page 1; Column 1; Metro Desk LENGTH: 1010 words A La Jolla psychiatrist has been accused by the state Board of Medical Quality Assurance of three more instances of incompetence and negligence because of alleged sexual misconduct with women who went to him for psychiatric help. Instead of helping them, the charges say, Dr. Stuart L. Brown concentrated during therapy sessions on talking about his personal problems, expressing [...]
The New York Times June 28, 1996, Friday, Late Edition - Final Park Ave. Doctor Is Arrested in Sale of Tranquilizer Prescriptions BYLINE: By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER SECTION: Section B; Page 8; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk LENGTH: 482 words A psychiatrist supposedly known as Dr. Cash to clients who lined up by the dozens outside his Park Avenue office, often drinking beer from cans in paper bags, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon in an undercover operation and charged with selling prescriptions for a controlled substance, the tranquilizer Xanax. The psychiatrist, identified by the State Attorney General's office as Mark M. [...]
James Tashjian
PR Newswire December 16, 1988, Friday PSYCHIATRIST SENTENCED FOR BCBSM CLAIM FRAUD DETROIT, Dec. 16 /PRN/ -- A former Oakland County psychiatrist has been sentenced to two year's probation and ordered to repay Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) $6,000 for filing fradulent health-care claims. James Tashjian, M.D., 46, was convicted in a jury trial last month on charges brought in 1983, following a lengthy investigation by BCBSM, Michigan State Police and the Oakland County prosecutor's office. Also sentenced on Monday was Dr. Tashjian's billing clerk, Joyce Thomison. She was given two year's probation and fined $600 in [...]
Lionel Schwartz
The Boston Globe Therapist accused of sex abuse resigns license By Alison Bass and Judy Foreman April 4, 1989 On the eve of a public hearing on complaints that he sexually abused three female patients, Dr. Lionel A. Schwartz, a psychiatrist affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital, last night gave up his license to practice medicine in Massachusetts. Schwartz, 66, who sent a copy of his resignation to the Globe, said he wants his resignation to become effective May 15 to allow him time to terminate with patients he is currently seeing and refer them to other therapists. [...]
The Providence Journal (Rhode Island) March 9, 2007 Friday All Editions Psychiatrist's license suspended for lying to board BYLINE: Felice J. Freyer, Journal Medical Writer SECTION: NEWS; Pg. B-02 LENGTH: 570 words Dr. Lorin Mimless prescribed narcotics for his wife, then misled state investigators about it. The state has suspended the license of Dr. Lorin Mimless, a Providence psychiatrist who prescribed a narcotic to his wife and then led state investigators on a "wild goose chase" to cover up his actions. Although the prescription to his wife was ethically questionable, the deception - which included repeatedly lying to the board [...]
Telegram & Gazette (Massachusetts) May 07, 2002 Tuesday, FINAL EDITION Medicaid fraud is finally jailed BYLINE: Lee Hammel; TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A1 LENGTH: 856 words Five years after a jury convicted him of larceny and filing false Medicaid claims, a former Worcester psychiatrist got handcuffs placed on him yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court. Dr. Lorin H. Mimless, 50, his appeals exhausted, was led off to begin a one-year term in the Suffolk House of Correction. The state Appeals Court upheld his conviction on 219 counts of filing false Medicaid claims and two counts of grand larceny [...]
Cheryl Richardson
The Associated Press State & Local Wire January 14, 1999, Thursday, PM cycle Psychiatrist suspended when Mississippi fraud plea comes to light SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 457 words DATELINE: MOBILE, Ala. A Baldwin County psychiatrist was suspended after her employer learned that earlier this week she had pleaded guilty in Mississippi to defrauding Medicaid of more than $ 220,000. The director of the Baldwin County Mental Health Center in Fairhope suspended Dr. Cheryl Elizabeth Richardson on Wednesday after receiving a call from a local reporter seeking comment about her guilty plea in Jackson, Miss. on Monday. Ms. Richardson had [...]
Soorani
Los Angeles Times November 16, 1994, Wednesday, Valley Edition DOCTORS CHARGED IN KICKBACK CASE; MEDICINE: NORTHRIDGE ORTHOPEDIST IS AMONG THE FOUR ACCUSED OF PAYING TO GET WORKERS' COMPENSATION PATIENT REFERRALS. BYLINE: By JACK CHEEVERS, TIMES STAFF WRITER SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 4; Column 1 LENGTH: 719 words A Northridge doctor and three other physicians have been charged with paying illegal kickbacks to a medical referral firm that is under investigation for workers compensation fraud. The physicians allegedly paid for patient referrals from L.A. Management, a former Sherman Oaks firm under investigation for possibly paying kickbacks to get patients from [...]