MEDIA
Sacramento Bee (California) December 9, 2006 Saturday METRO FINAL EDITION Psychiatrist faces sex assault charges BYLINE: Ryan Lillis SECTION: METRO; Pg. B2 LENGTH: 109 words DATELINE: SACRAMENTO A Granite Bay psychiatrist has been arrested and his medical license suspended after a female patient said he groped her, authorities said. Mandeep Behniwal, 50, was arrested Nov. 20, three days after authorities issued a warrant for his arrest, police said. Behniwal allegedly touched the patient after a session in his Sacramento office, said Sacramento County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Tim Curran. Behniwal has been charged with several counts of sexual assault, including [...]
States News Service December 6, 2006 Wednesday LOCAL PHYSICIAN SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR ROLE IN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR FRAUD SCHEME BYLINE: States News Service LENGTH: 669 words DATELINE: HOUSTON, Texas The following information was released by the U.S. Department of Justice: Lewis Gottlieb, a Houston area psychiatrist, was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay millions to the Medicare and Medicaid health care benefit programs for his involvement in a motorized wheelchair fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Don DeGabrielle announced today. At a sentencing hearing held on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2006, U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal sentenced Dr. Gottlieb [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire March 26, 2007 Monday 7:02 PM GMT Methadone clinic doctor sentenced for prescription fraud SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL LENGTH: 290 words DATELINE: PORTLAND Maine A psychiatrist who founded a methadone clinic in Westbrook was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for his convictions last year for prescription fraud. Dr. Marc Shinderman was convicted of writing prescriptions for controlled substances using the name and drug registration number of another physician. Shinderman, who was not licensed to write the prescriptions in Maine, said he thought the arrangement was acceptable. Shinderman also must serve another [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire January 12, 2007 Friday 4:03 PM GMT Tuscaloosa doc accused of sexual misconduct with patients SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL LENGTH: 333 words DATELINE: TUSCALOOSA Ala. A Tuscaloosa psychiatrist has been banned from practicing medicine in the state after allegations of sexual misconduct with at least four of his patients. Allie Boyd's medical license was revoked when the Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners ruled on Jan. 4 that he engaged in unprofessional conduct that was "immoral, willful, and shameful" and goes against the Medical Licensure Commission's rules. Five former patients filed suit against [...]
Marine Corps Times September 4, 2000 Monday public163538889.sgml BYLINE: By, Gordon Lubold LENGTH: 404 words The Navy psychiatrist accused of soliciting sex from his patients, including a female Marine and a Marine wife, pleaded guilty to four of the five charges against him. Capt. Scott R. McClelland, 52, pleaded guilty in a pretrial agreement Aug. 22 to an article of conduct unbecoming an officer, which included charges of wrongful use of government property, sodomy, adultery and fraternization. In light of his plea, the military judge, Col. Alvin W. Keller, dismissed the other charges against McClelland to avoid duplication. McClelland faces [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire June 29, 2000, Thursday, BC cycle Dispute with tenants leads to charge against doctor, wife SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 507 words DATELINE: NEOSHO, Mo. A psychiatrist and his wife have been charged in a dispute with their tenants in which a shot was allegedly fired at a sheriff's deputy and property was damaged with a pickax. Dr. Charles Patterson, 61, a staff psychiatrist at the Ozark Center in Joplin, was charged Tuesday with unlawful use of a weapon. His wife, Carol Patterson, 52, was accused of property damage, assault and driving while [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire June 23, 2000, Friday, BC cycle Wayne State psychiatrist charged in online sex case SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 281 words DATELINE: WHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. A Wayne State University psychiatry professor has been charged with soliciting sex with a minor over the Internet. Matthew P. Galloway, 47, of Bloomfield Hills is accused of having three sexually explicit online chatroom conversations with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl. In fact, he was chatting with an undercover White Lake Township police officer, said Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca. The conversation occurred in the [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire June 16, 2000, Friday, BC cycle Psychiatrist admonished for bill in Resendiz trial SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 446 words DATELINE: HOUSTON An expert witness who submitted a $63,100 bill for psychiatric work in convicted railroad killer Angel Maturino Resendiz's trial is under a judge's orders to trim his expenses. Maturino Resendiz has been sentenced to death in Texas for the 1998 rape and murder of a Houston-area doctor. His lawyers have conceded that he killed eight other people in Texas, Illinois and Kentucky in a cross-country killing spree. All were killed at [...]
The Miami Herald March 22, 2007 Thursday Psychiatrist jailed on fraud charges BYLINE: JOHN DORSCHNER, jdorschner@MiamiHerald.com LENGTH: 162 words Moraima Trujillo, a Miami-Dade psychiatrist, has been arrested and jailed on charges that she defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, the Veteran's Administration and several private employers, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced this afternoon. Investigators found documents that between January and December 2004, Trujillo billed the Medicaid and Medicare programs for treatment of patients at the same times she was supposedly working for the Veteran's Administration and several other employers. In 2004, Trujillo submitted time reports on 207 days to several employers and [...]
Arthur Schramm
Dayton Daily News (Ohio) March 15, 2007 Thursday Psychiatrist's license revoked for life; Two of Dr. Arthur Schramm's patients had given him lap dances at strip clubs, state medical board finds. BYLINE: By Anthony Gottschlich Staff Writer SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. A4 LENGTH: 304 words COLUMBUS - The state medical board revoked the medical license of local psychiatrist Dr. Arthur R. Schramm Wednesday on charges of professional misconduct and neglect. The revocation is permanent and goes into effect when the order is mailed to Schramm this week, said Joan Wehrle, spokeswoman for the State Medical Board of Ohio. Among several charges [...]