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Jessy Ang, Tacoma Psychiatrist
The Seattle Times May 2, 1996, Thursday, Final Edition PSYCHIATRIST, WIFE ACCUSED OF FRAUD TACOMA - A Tacoma psychiatrist and his wife have been charged with taking part in a conspiracy that defrauded state and federal agencies out of up to $ 4 million a month. Dr. Jessy Ang provided about 200 patients, most of them Southeast Asian refugees, with false diagnoses of mental illnesses to qualify them for welfare and Social Security benefits, the federal charge alleges. The charge says Ang overbilled the state Department of Social and Health Services for dozens of individual 60-to-90-minute diagnostic sessions with the [...]
William Forte, Psychiatrist, Charges against him include charges, including larceny, attempted sodomy and sexual harassment
Los Angeles Times PENDLETON PSYCHIATRIST FACES COURT-MARTIAL ON SEX CLAIMS; MILITARY: A FORMER DIRECTOR OF A REHABILITATION UNIT IS ACCUSED OF LARCENY, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ATTEMPTED SODOMY. HIS ATTORNEY CALLS THE CHARGES 'GROSS OVERCHARGING OF MISCONDUCT.' By Michael Granberry August 24, 1993 A Navy psychiatrist who formerly directed the drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit at Camp Pendleton faces a general court-martial today on a range of charges, including larceny, attempted sodomy and sexual harassment of clients and co-workers. The controversy swirling around Cmdr. William J. Forte, 41, is only the latest at Camp Pendleton, which last week was rocked by [...]
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William Aldrich, Ohio Psychiatrist, ordered to psychiatric treatment for sexual addiction
Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) STATE BOARD LIFTS PSYCHIATRIST'S LICENSE By Laurie Loscocco July 15, 1993 A Columbus psychiatrist who admitted having a sexual addiction and personality disorders will have his license suspended indefinitely under an agreement with the State Medical Board. The board yesterday approved a consent agreement with Dr. William T. Aldrich, who had offices at 28 W. Henderson Rd. As part of the agreement, Aldrich must get psychiatric treatment as deemed necessary by two evaluations - one of which will come from a board-approved psychiatrist and the other from a psychiatrist at the Center for Marital and Sexual Health [...]
Donald Dudley, Seattle Psychiatrist, Suspended after a report of providing weapons to suicidal boy
The Seattle Times BOARD SUSPENDS PSYCHIATRIST'S LICENSE -- HE'S ACCUSED OF LEAVING GUNS WITH SUICIDAL TEEN IN BELLEVUE HOTEL By Christy Scattarella June 25, 1993 The license of a prominent Seattle psychiatrist has been suspended after he allegedly provided weapons to a suicidal 15-year-old boy in a Bellevue hotel. A hearing on the administrative charges against Dr. Donald Dudley, 56, is expected within the next four weeks by the state Medical Disciplinary Board. Dudley has been in private practice as a neuro-psychiatrist, treating mental problems that arise from brain injuries. Board investigators, working in conjunction with Bellevue police, allege that [...]
Richard Payne
The Boston Globe State revokes 3 doctors' licenses in fraud convictions By Alison Bass, Globe Staff December 20, 1992 The state medical board has revoked the medical licenses of three Massachusetts physicians who had been convicted of separately filing fraudulent Medicaid claims for services totaling tens of thousands of dollars. Alexander Fleming, executive director of the Board of Registration in Medicine, said these license revocations should send a strong message to other physicians that Medicaid fraud or any kind of criminal conviction will not be tolerated by the state regulatory agency. According to information released yesterday, the board, at its [...]
Psychiatrist Gordon Maden jailed
Press Association PSYCHIATRIST JAILED FOR SEX ATTACKS ON PATIENTS SECTION: HOME NEWS A psychiatrist was jailed for three years today for a series of sex attacks on his teenage patients. For more than ten years the victims of Gordon Maden, 58, were too scared to report him because they were convinced no-one would believe them. But he was finally trapped when he abused a younster while another patient spied on them through a half open door. Hospital authorities launched an inquiry and suspended Maden. Today his 30-year long career came to an end when he was jailed after being convicted [...]
Henry Fenigstein
The Canadian Press May 18, 1993 QUEBEC-ONTARIO REGIONAL GENERAL NEWS TORONTO - A renowned psychiatrist who specialized in counselling Holocaust survivors has admitted having sex with a patient over a five-year period. Dr. Henry Fenigstein, 80, himself a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, also admitted telling the victim she may be subjected to electric shock therapy by other doctors if she revealed their sexual relationship. Fenigstein pleaded guilty to professional misconduct Monday in front of a discipline panel of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. The college revoked Fenigstein\'s licence. In a statement released after the ruling, the [...]
Donald Rife
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Doctor loses license for misconduct By Carol Gentry June 7, 1993 Florida authorities have known since 1987 that a Tampa child psychiatrist likes to have sex with boys. But for legal reasons they have been unable to take his medical license away. Until now. On Sunday, the Florida Board of Medicine revoked the license of Dr. Donald Lee Rife, following the lead of a similar board in Vermont. The Florida board cited Vermont officials' assessment that Rife is a sexual predator. Rife volunteers in schools and juvenile detention centers and other places where it would be [...]
Margaret Bean-Bayog
The Associated Press Psychiatrist Accused in Patient's Suicide Resigns; State Hearing Canceled By Jonathan Yenkin September 19, 1992 A psychiatrist accused of seducing a patient who later committed suicide has succeeded on her second try at resigning her medical license. The resignation submitted Friday by Dr. Margaret Bean-Bayog was "permanent, unconditional and unequivocal," unlike the one offered Thursday that had strings attached, said Michelle Haynes, a spokeswoman for the state Office of Consumer Affairs. Haynes said the disciplinary action against Bean-Bayog was over and a state hearing scheduled for Monday would be canceled. Bean-Bayog can continue work as a psychotherapist [...]
Peter M. Panzarino
PR Newswire FORMER MCLEAN HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIST SENTENCED IN FEDERAL COURT ON TAX EVASION CHARGE Dateline: Boston September 14, 1992 A former Weston psychiatrist and staff member at McLean Hospital in Belmont was sentenced Friday in federal court on charges of tax evasion for the tax year 1986. Acting U.S. Attorney A. John Pappalardo announced today that Peter M. Panzarino, M.D., 45, formerly of 70 Fairview Rd., Weston, Mass., and now a resident of San Diego, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock to three years probation and community service, following his plea, earlier this year, to income tax [...]
Byron Crawford
Los Angeles Times DEAL REACHED IN WORKERS' COMP SUIT; LEGAL: WITHOUT ADMITTING WRONGDOING, A CLINIC AGREES TO PAY INSURER AN UNDISCLOSED SUM. By STUART SILVERSTEIN August 18, 1992 An insurance company waging an unorthodox legal attack on alleged workers' compensation fraud claimed its first victory Monday, reaching a settlement with a clinic that it accused of running up big medical bills by providing unnecessary treatment. The settlement requires the clinic, Wellington Medical Corp. of Los Angeles, and any other firms owned by psychiatrist Byron Crawford to abide by a list of "protocols" designed to prevent health care providers from bilking [...]
Luis Herrero
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) August 10, 1992 3 Pinellas doctors disciplined By Carol Gentry Don't you just hate it when doctors say your pain is all in your head? Clearwater psychiatrist Luis Herrero has learned to be cautious about making that assumption. A 41-year-old woman he diagnosed with "psychogenic pain disorder" actually had stomach cancer. Eventually, doctors figured that out, but not before she spent some time in a psychiatric ward. Herrero's was one of several cases involving Pinellas County physicians that came before the Florida Board of Medicine in Tallahassee this past weekend. Others involved Dr. Si H. Azar, [...]
Sofia Pamplona
Los Angeles Times D.A. DECIDES NOT TO CHARGE 4 PSYCHIATRISTS; MOONLIGHTING: PROSECUTORS ARE UNABLE TO PROVE THE STATE HOSPITAL DOCTORS WERE DOUBLE DIPPING BY WORKING AT COUNTY FACILITIES. By TINA DAUNT April 11, 1992 The Ventura County district attorney's office has decided not to file criminal charges against four Camarillo State Hospital psychiatrists who were accused of moonlighting at county psychiatric clinics while they were also being paid to work at the state facility. After an 11-month investigation, Deputy Dist. Atty. James P. Cloninger determined that there was no way to prove that psychiatrists were double dipping by working at [...]
Beth Milford
Los Angeles Times D.A. DECIDES NOT TO CHARGE 4 PSYCHIATRISTS; MOONLIGHTING: PROSECUTORS ARE UNABLE TO PROVE THE STATE HOSPITAL DOCTORS WERE DOUBLE DIPPING BY WORKING AT COUNTY FACILITIES. By TINA DAUNT April 11, 1992 The Ventura County district attorney's office has decided not to file criminal charges against four Camarillo State Hospital psychiatrists who were accused of moonlighting at county psychiatric clinics while they were also being paid to work at the state facility. After an 11-month investigation, Deputy Dist. Atty. James P. Cloninger determined that there was no way to prove that psychiatrists were double dipping by working at [...]
Thomas Arthur Williams
St. Petersburg Times Mentally ill psychiatrist suspended By CAROL GENTRY April 5, 1992 The former chief of psychiatry at Tampa's VA hospital has been stricken by the same illness he once treated. On Saturday, the Florida Board of Medicine suspended the license of Dr. Thomas Arthur Williams, 55, on the grounds he is mentally ill. Williams did not appear at the hearing in Jacksonville. Records show he agreed to the suspension. It was a precipitous fall for Williams, who once led the Department of Psychiatry at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He was earning $ 175,000 a year as medical director [...]
Robert L. McDonald
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Psychiatrist accused of practicing illegally License revoked earlier in sex cases By Bill Robinson and Rebecca Perl February 29, 1992 Dr. Robert L. McDonald, an Atlanta psychiatrist whose license was revoked in September for having sex with two women patients, was arrested Friday on a charge of practicing without a license, according to the GBI. Dr. McDonald had continued practicing out of his office at 3390 Peachtree Road N.E., said GBI spokesman John Bankhead. A GBI agent posing as a patient made an appointment with Dr. McDonald "to see if there was evidence, and obviously [...]
Arthur J. Gross
Newsday (New York) MD Charged in Scam By Shirley E. Perlman February 20, 1992 A Hicksville psychiatrist yesterday was charged with five counts of criminal sale of a prescription and one count of fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. Arthur J. Gross, 65, was arrested Tuesday at his office at 372 S. Oyster Bay Rd. after a three-month investigation by Nassau police, the district attorney's office and the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency. Gross, who entered a plea of not guilty, was arraigned on the charges yesterday in Hempstead before First District Court Judge Leonard Clarke, who set bail at [...]
E. Stuart Hendrickson
The Associated Press Psychiatrist Charged With Sending Racists Faxes Dateline: Pittsburgh February 19, 1992 A psychiatrist was accused of faxing 100 racist messages to people, including former Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Lynn Swann. E. Stuart Hendrickson, 51, of Murrysville, pleaded innocent Monday to 13 counts of ethnic intimidation and harassment by communication. He remained jailed Tuesday in lieu of $ 15,000 bond. Detectives said Hendrickson, who is white, admitted sending the messages, but said he was only joking. "When I found out this guy is a psychiatrist, I wondered what his patients had been told," said Swann, who got the faxes [...]
Paul Ernest Morentz
The San Francisco Chronicle Vacaville Prison Psychiatrist Had Drug Conviction Doctor is reprimanded for 1989 misdemeanor By Susan Sward July 11, 1991 The chief psychiatrist at the Vacaville state prison, where three drug-related inmate deaths were reported last week, has been reprimanded in connection with his 1989 guilty plea to a federal charge of dispensing drugs without prescriptions, The Chronicle has learned. The state Board of Medical Quality Assurance issued a decision effective last Saturday that Paul Ernest Morentz be given a letter of reprimand for dispensing prescription drugs without prescriptions to co-workers who were not his patients. The reprimand [...]
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, psychiatrist, sentenced to life
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen Aljazeera German court opens trial of Saudi doctor for Christmas market attack November 10, 2025 A nine-year-old boy and five women were killed in the ramming attack in a busy market. A court in southeastern Germany is set to open the trial of a Saudi Arabian doctor who is suspected of carrying out a ramming attack last year. Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 51-year-old psychiatrist, will appear in court on Monday in the town of Magdeburg, accused of killing six people and wounding more than 300 when he drove a van into a busy Christmas market last December. The defendant [...]
Yang Jae-woong
https://www.chosun.com/english/kpop-culture-en/2025/10/21/46BJVDBM5BAEREGL3G3E26CGFY/ Attending Physician Arrested Over Patient's Death at Yang Jae-woong's Hospital Doctor charged with professional negligence; 11 suspects including hospital director investigated By OSEN Published 2025.10.21. 07:43 [OSEN=Choi Lee-jung Reporter] Dr. Yang Jae-woong (43), a psychiatrist and broadcaster, has seen the attending physician A at his hospital finally arrested in connection with a patient’s death. Yonhap News reported on the 20th that the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency arrested Dr. A on charges including professional negligence resulting in death. Presiding Judge Yang Woo-chang of the Bucheon Branch of the Incheon District Court issued a bench [...]
Alexander Wills, Boise psychiatrist, arrested
Idaho Press Boise psychiatrist arrested, accused of sexually assaulting a patient --Excerpt A Boise doctor was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of committing forcible penetration with a foreign object against one of his patients. Alexander Wills, 45, was booked into the Ada County jail on the felony charge Tuesday evening, online arrest records show. He was arraigned Wednesday afternoon. Wills’ LinkedIn account lists him as the owner of/psychiatrist at PERMA Mental Health. The company’s LinkedIn page lists its mission as “to create the highest quality psychiatric mental health services for all by combining psychotherapy, psychedelics, and medication management … “ [...]
Lazaro Pomeraniec, Fairfield psychiatrist, arrested
CTPOST Patient recorded Fairfield doctor accused of sexually assaulting women in his office, police say --Excerpt FAIRFIELD — Police have charged a Fairfield psychiatrist already suspected of groping three patients in his Post Road office with two additional sexual assaults, one of which was captured on an audio recording made by the victim, according to an arrest warrant. The doctor, 75-year-old Lazaro Pomeraniec of Westport, who surrendered his license to practice medicine in July, was arrested Aug. 25 in connection with incidents that are alleged to have occurred March 5 and May 16, according to court records… According to [...]
Anissa Maroof, Potomac Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Anissa Maroof Press Release Bethesda Doctor Sentenced to Over a Year in Federal Prison for Unlawfully Distributing Controlled Substances Tuesday, August 26, 2025 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Defendant unlawfully distributed Xanax, Adderall, and Buprenorphine to patients Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Court Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Anissa Maroof, 48, of Potomac, Maryland, to 15 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for distributing and dispensing controlled substances. After she is released from prison, Maroof will serve the first nine months of supervised release on home detention. Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. [...]