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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 [...]
Monterey County Herald (California) March 15, 2009 Sunday Accused Soledad prison doctors were tracked BYLINE: By VIRGINIA HENNESSEY Herald Salinas Bureau SECTION: LOCAL LENGTH: 1245 words State investigators used GPS tracking devices, cell phone records and rental car receipts to determine if five doctors at Salinas Valley State Prison were falsifying their billing hours. Grand jury transcripts, unsealed at The Herald's request, indicate the state opened its investigation after another psychiatrist at the Soledad prison complained in a letter to one of his legislators. With the prison's cooperation, investigators began monitoring the doctors' movements by collecting security videos and entry [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire January 10, 2012 Tuesday 7:33 PM GMT Doctor accused of overbilling surrenders license SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL LENGTH: 147 words DATELINE: SALINAS Calif. A California doctor accused of fraudulently overbilling the state is surrendering his license. Dr. David Hoban allegedly billed the state for 242 hours while he was chief psychiatrist at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, the Monterey County Herald ( http://bit.ly/y22jwa) reported Tuesday. In November 2008, an indictment was filed against six doctors, including Hoban, in Monterey County Superior Court. It alleged the state prison was overbilled by $160,000. The [...]
Stanley Kanter, nationally known Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, surrenders medical license – allegations of sex abuse
The Boston Globe Psychiatrist accused of abuse agrees to shut down practice By Alison Bass, Globe Staff July 15, 1992 A nationally known Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, already charged with sexually abusing one female patient, has agreed to stop practicing medicine in the wake of three new allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Dr. Stanley S. Kanter, known for his work in group therapy, will officially give up his medical license on Oct. 1 under the arrangement made with the Board of Registration in Medicine last week. The resignation means he can never again practice medicine in Massachusetts or any [...]
Margaret Bean-Bayog, Massachusetts Psychiatrist, accused of sexual misconduct, psychiatric malpractice and wrongful death
The Boston Globe Written records cover case notes, letters, fantasy By Don Aucoin April 6, 1992 The case of a Lexington psychiatrist and the patient she is accused of driving to suicide has unfolded publicly to an unusual extent because of a voluminous written record that includes three major groups: case notes, sexual fantasies, and correspondence between the pair. While such records are not uncommon in psychiatric cases, they are not usually available at this early stage of a case. This documentary evidence was attached on March 26 to a civil lawsuit filed late last year at Middlesex Superior Court [...]
Harold Goldberg, Massachusetts Psychiatrist, suspended, 11-year sexual relationship with a patient
The Boston Globe Center suspends director; Psychiatrist admits sexual relationship with private patient By Dolores Kong June 2, 1989 The director of the state-run West-Ros-Park Mental Health Center has been suspended without pay after admitting he had an 11-year sexual relationship with a patient he was treating in his private psychiatry practice. Dr. Harold L. Goldberg, 53, of Needham, was suspended last week by the Department of Mental Health, which plans to review his performance during his 27 years with the state in light of the admission, a spokeswoman said. The agency acted after it learned that the Board of [...]
Ajit Trikha, Illinois Psychiatrist, Sentenced for Defrauding Medicare $1.755 million
Belleville News-Democrat (Illinois) Belleville psychiatrist sentenced to more than two years for fraud By Beth Hundsdorfer April 3, 2008 A Belleville psychiatrist received a 30-month prison sentence today after he admitted to defrauding Medicare of $1.755 million. Ajit Trikha, 55, pleaded guilty to two counts of health care fraud in June by overbilling Medicare and Medicaid, billing for services that weren't performed and exceeding number of patients allowed in group therapy sessions. Trikha pleaded guilty in June. John Stobbs, Trikha's attorney, didn't return calls for comment. On Thursday, U.S. District Chief Judge David Herndon sentenced Trikha to 30 months in [...]
Arnold Hutschnecker, 89-YEAR-OLD Psychiatrist, sued for Sex with a patient – under the guise of psychiatric treatment
Newsday (New York) Therapist, 89, Accused of Seduction By Anthony M. DeStefano January 30, 1988 She was in her thirties. He was her octogenarian psychiatrist. Was what they had together love or was it therapy? That is the question to be answered in an unusual medical malpractice action now winding its way through State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Irene Miller, 37, of Manhattan, started the case last year when she sued her former psychiatrist, 89-year-old Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker. According to court documents, she charged that he exploited their patient-doctor relationship by inducing her to have sexual relations with him [...]
UK psychiatrist Brian Harris on trial – charges of indecent assault and rape against five men
BBC Dr Brian Harris, 77, worked for the NHS and in a private practice in Cardiff for 40 years. March 14, 2017 UK psychiatrist Brian Harris He denies all 13 charges of sexual assault, indecent assault and rape against five men. The allegations are said to have taken place between 1991 and 2011. The trial at Merthyr Crown Court is expected to last up to five weeks. The jury heard the first of the alleged assaults took place in 1991 on a man who was a patient at Sully Hospital and the Amy Evans clinic in Barry, Vale of [...]