MEDIA
The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) October 24, 2012 Wednesday Dover doctor pleads guilty, gets prison term BYLINE: By, Sean O'Sullivan SECTION: CRIME & COURTS LENGTH: 350 words The News Journal A former Dover psychiatrist who was accused of improperly prescribing painkillers and defrauding the state's Medicaid program of more than $172,000 admitted guilt Tuesday, was fined and sentenced to a year in prison. Yvette K. Baker, 53, admitted to four felony counts of health care fraud and two misdemeanor charges of false representation and making a false statement in Kent County Superior Court. Baker, who has been incarcerated since she [...]
San Antonio Express-News October 8, 2011 Saturday STATE&METRO Edition Checking account costs doc his license BYLINE: Karisa King, STAFF SECTION: METRO AND STATE NEWS; Pg. 1B LENGTH: 616 words More than two years after the Texas Medical Board reprimanded a San Antonio psychiatrist for having sex with a woman he was treating, the agency has revoked the doctor's license for overstepping boundaries with another patient. Alan T. Lloyd, 51, who most recently worked at the Laurel Ridge Treatment Center, lost his license last month after the board concluded he had opened a joint checking account with the patient. The board [...]
The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) September 7, 2011 Wednesday Neuroscience causes court headaches BYLINE: By, Tom Wilemon | The Tennessean SECTION: NEWS LENGTH: 579 words A Jackson psychiatrist sentenced to prison this year for defrauding Medicare said the blood flow in his brain would prove he was telling the truth. That might sound like a defense strategy that only a psychiatrist could dream up, but questions about neuroscience are increasingly causing courtroom quandaries. The psychiatrist, Dr. Lorne Allan Semrau, has filed an appeal saying that the federal judge in his case erred by refusing to allow evidence from a brain scan [...]
Times-Picayune (New Orleans) April 14, 2011 Thursday Correction Appended Doctor guilty in porn case ; Covington psychiatrist pleads to lesser charge BYLINE: Ramon Antonio Vargas St. Tammany bureau SECTION: METRO; Pg. B 01 LENGTH: 496 words A retired Covington psychiatrist booked in 2008 with possessing more than 100 sexually explicit pictures of children on his computer has pleaded guilty to less severe charges. Dr. Steve Taylor, 71, admitted to attempted possession of juvenile pornography during a hearing at the St. Tammany Parish courthouse in Covington on Tuesday, according to the district attorney's office. In exchange for his plea, state Judge [...]
Chicago Daily Herald June 8, 2005 Wednesday Lake Edition; Cook Edition Psychiatrist gets 7-year sentence for sex abuse BYLINE: Tony Gordon, Daily Herald Legal Affairs Writer SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4 LENGTH: 230 words A Long Grove psychiatrist was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday after admitting he molested three young boys. Gary Almy, 61, molested the boys while they were attending the Truth in Action Academy that Almy ran in his home at 3115 Old McHenry Road. The academy was a privately operated counseling center for troubled youths. Lake County Assistant State's Attorney Ken LaRue said Almy plead guilty [...]
Daily News (New York) December 23, 2004 Thursday SPORTS FINAL EDITION PILL-PUSH DOC GETS OFF EASY BYLINE: BY Helen Peterson SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 37 LENGTH: 152 words A PARK AVENUE psychiatrist who was accused of doling out prescription drugs like candy when he was arrested last year walked away with community service yesterday. Dr. Ahron Friedberg, 41, pleaded guilty to a low-level misdemeanor for writing a prescription for a patient's wife in exchange for a sentence of 1,000 hours of community service. Friedberg had been charged with five counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance when he was arrested [...]
Ginari Price, Fayetteville Psychiatrist, signed more than a thousand prescriptions – from her jail cell
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution DEA: Husband, nurses illegally sign 1K prescriptions while psychiatrist was jailed for DUI Updated Jan 28, 2019 By Zachary Hansen, Psychiatrist Ginari Price Authorities said a psychiatrist signed more than a thousand prescriptions in Fayetteville — from her jail cell. Her husband and two of her nurse practitioners joined her in jail after allegedly writing those prescriptions without a license, Channel 2 Action News reported. Dr. Ginari Price, of Psycare LLC off Devant Street, was in jail for allegedly driving under the influence and hitting two cars while her infant was in her lap, Channel 2 [...]
Hartford Courant (Connecticut) September 21, 2011 Wednesday FINAL - 5 EDITION STATE REVOKES PSYCHIATRIST'S LICENSE; GERSON STERNSTEIN ALSO FINED $50,000 FOR OVERMEDICATING 10 DRUG-ADDICTED PATIENTS; MEDICAL EXAMINING BOARD BYLINE: JOSH KOVNER, jkovner@courant.com SECTION: CTNOW; Pg. B1 LENGTH: 835 words DATELINE: HARTFORD -- In trying to salvage his client's medical license, Dr. Gerson Sternstein's lawyer argued that the Berlin psychiatrist selflessly treated a class of patients that few other doctors would touch: chronic-pain patients with a history of drug abuse. The contention failed to mollify the Connecticut Medical Examining Board, which on Tuesday revoked Sternstein's license and fined him $50,000 for [...]
The Journal News (Westchester County, New York) December 8, 2012 Saturday 1 Edition New City psychiatrist, 82, sentenced BYLINE: By, Erik Shilling SECTION: A; Pg. 3 LENGTH: 388 words An 82-year-old New City psychiatrist who has admitted to illegally giving out prescription drugs was sentenced Friday to three months' home confinement, a year's probation and a $1,000 fine. Dr. Aristide Esser faced up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in June before U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas in White Plains. But on Friday Karas largely agreed with the lower end of federal guidelines, which didn't call [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire December 8, 2011 Thursday 3:53 AM GMT Child psychiatrist gets a year in prison for porn SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL LENGTH: 270 words DATELINE: BILLINGS Mont. A former child and adolescent psychiatrist from Billings who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography was sentenced Wednesday to about a year in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Jack Shanstrom sentenced 49-year-old James H. Peak to a year and one day in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Peak also must register as a sex offender. Prosecutors say he went to the FBI in February [...]