Thomas M. Keller, MD, 72, is a neurosurgeon, pain management specialist, and addiction medicine specialist with suboxone treatment in Santa Rosa, CA. With 46 years of experience in his specialty, he is now a target of the DOJ and is being batted back and forth by the US DOJ and the California AG. The method in this double teaming is usually to force the victim into a plea. “Throw enough charges at you from enough directions and you will cave” is the thinking process of the rogue DOJ.
Back in September, 2018, Dr. Keller was indicted federally for unlawfully prescribing fentanyl and oxycodone “outside the scope of his professional practice and without a legitimate medical need” and 2 counts of billing health care fraud, one to Anthem Blue Cross of California and one to Medi-Cal, according to USA Alex G. Tse,
The charges were based on the following prescriptions:
- June 2017 for oxycodone
- March, 2018, for Tramadol
- July, 2018 for fentanyl
Since forfeiture of a doctor’s assets is spread around the investigating agencies, those mentioned to get financial support are the DEA, FBI, DHHS-OIG, and California’s Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse (BMFEA).
Obviously Dr. Keller chose to fight the charges. So now the state of California has jumped in to twist his arm with murder charges. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra had Dr. Keller arrested and placed in jail this week for the deaths of five patients. Three of those patients are documented suicides, and one was an unintentional overdose with methadone not prescribed by Dr. Keller. But that doesn’t stop the government from levying ridiculous charges to get the doctor to eventually cop a plea. Wear them down, throw on more charges, and the government can confiscate all the doctor’s assets without the cost of a trial. Simple, isn’t it? What a shame our country has stooped to illegal persecution of innocent citizens for the monetary advancement of rogue government agencies and the politicians running them.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra states in his press release:
“The California Department of Justice will prosecute fairly all those who are alleged to have abused our healthcare system and over-prescribe drugs at the expense of their patients.”
What a lying SOB. Fairly? Here is the actual criminal complaint on file: The People of the State of California v. Thomas McNeese Keller
In the criminal complaint, each count states that Dr. Keller “killed a human being” “ with implied malice aforethought in violation of Penal Code section 187 (a).
Malice aforethought is the deliberate intent to cause death or great bodily harm to another person before a person commits the crime. Malice aforethought is comprised of any one of the following three elements:
- an intent to kill;
- an intent to inflict grievous bodily injury; or
- an intent to act in a manner that creates a plain and strong likelihood that death or grievous harm will follow.
Of these three prongs of malice, the first two prongs require a specific intent on the part of the defendant, measured subjectively, while the third prong only requires a general intent, measured both subjectively and objectively. Accordingly, malice aforethought may exist without an actual intent to kill or do grievous bodily harm, if there is proof of the “third prong” of malice. This simply means that the perpetrator knew of circumstances that a reasonably prudent person would have known created a plain and strong likelihood of death or grievous bodily harm resulting from the perpetrator’s act.
The government has laid the propaganda out through the media that they will now use against Dr. Keller and other doctors in California who have been identified through the government searches of the PDMP and CURES.
They will be hanging their cross on the “third prong” of malice through making comments like:
| Propaganda | Truth |
| Prescribed wide range of highly addictive opioids | Opioids don’t CAUSE addiction |
| Dosages were drastically increased | There is no “toxic” limit to an opioid |
| Prescribed other medications “known” to cause a dangerous drug interaction | This combination of drugs has been prescribed safely for years. Government propaganda has given the combination a bad name for prosecution purposes. |
| Dr. Keller’s prescriptions far exceeded the recommended 50 mg Morphine Equivalent Dosage set by the CDC. | The CDC guidelines are for new prescriptions and were never intended to be treated as law. |
| Dr. Keller’s prescriptions contribute to the nationwide opioid epidemic. | The opioid epidemic is government-created and government-driven, not caused by legitimate doctors treating legitimate pain. |
This is the first time that a California attorney general has filed murder charges against a doctor for overprescribing opioids, but you can bet it won’t be the last, especially if Dr. Keller cops a plea, or if he goes to trial and has poor representation that doesn’t fight the propaganda with the truth.
Everyone throughout the country needs to understand that a doctor’s treatment of pain does not constitute “malice aforethought”. We MUST stop these attacks on doctors for money by the rogue government, using propaganda to brainwash America.
Addendum:
In March, 2020, Dr. Keller was acquitted at trial on 4 of the 9 counts against him. However, the remaining 5 were undecided. The government has money and jobs to support, so they retried him and in November, 2022, in spite of the Ruan/Kahn SCOTUS decision, he was convicted of distribution to patients, totally against the intent of the CSA. So at the age of 75, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
To end these attacks, restore pain management, and provide compensation to all the families that have been destroyed by government overreach, we must get the Controlled Substance Act repealed. Join Doctorsofcourage to get that done. Learn what we teach and spread the word. NO DRUG CAUSES ADDICTION!! Let’s end the War on Drugs, Doctors and Pain Patients, end the black market, solve the southern border crisis, and restore proper pain management. It CAN be done!
Addendum:
I have failed in my mission to end these attacks on doctors and pain patients. Through John Bevere’s book The Bait of Satan, I have figured out why—my lack of forgiveness to those who attacked me. As in Mark 11: 24-26:
Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.
And when you do not do the will of the Father, you are estranged from him and he will ignore you. So we all must forgive the agents who attacked us in order for things to be made right through any of our works.
Jesus said
“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
But we cannot lay down our lives for God unless we know Him well enough to trust Him. We must have the assurance that He would never do anything to harm us. He always looks out for what He knows is in our best interest. As a nation, those of us suffering from these attacks must understand that we are serving as God’s messengers of love. We must forgive those who persecute us and love them instead, following God’s will for us. Then and only then will we see fruits from our labor.
So I hope that everyone who has suffered from what happened to Dr. Keller can trust the Lord, forgive those who have hurt you, and help bring this country back to the God-fearing country that our forefathers founded. Then, and only then, can you be a part of the effort to stop these attacks. I look forward to that day.
Linda Cheek is a teacher and disenfranchised medical doctor, turned activist, author, and speaker. A victim of prosecutorial misconduct and outright law-breaking of the government agencies DEA, DHHS, and DOJ, she hopes to be a part of exonerating all doctors illegally attacked through the Controlled Substance Act. She holds the key to success, as she can offset the government propaganda that drugs cause addiction with the truth: The REAL Cause of Drug Abuse.
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Dear: Dr. Linda Cheek, I personally knew Dr. Thomas M Keller MD, and he was an extremely
nice person. I can remember when I visited him where he lived at the time, and he played the
piano, with such great talent. I invited him to visit me for lunch, where I prepared a nice spaghetti
lunch with French bread.
However, Tom mentioned to me the meal way great, but a little watery. I had asked him to play
my piano, and with my memory Tom played ragtime with excitement. After I complemented him
for his abilities in music.
Dr. Linda, I worked at the University Hospital as MRT Medical Record’s technician, where I met
Dr. Keller MD. I too am a Christian, if we pray and believe that ” God,” is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him. As I also remember Dr. Keller also played a Christian song on my piano, and
I only know part of the song. The Lord Is my guide he is my all, He’s right here by myside, He Knows The way.
Thank you, Dr. Linda Cheek for your writing’s and faith. I hope and pray for Dr. Thomas M. Keller that God will intervene in his life in a way, that he is uplifted and can find peace.
If you know what prison Dr. Thomas M. Keller is I’d like to send him and card or write him.
Thank You, Sincerely
Sabrina
Dr. Keller should be out soon to either a halfway house or home confinement. His release date is 12/8/24, and that is after time in halfway house. So you need to write to him quickly. Write his address exactly. The BOP wants to make sure everyone knows he is in a prison, so they always duplicate that on the address. Here it is:
Thomas Keller #25135
FCI TERMINAL ISLAND
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
PO BOX 3007
SAN PEDRO, CA 90733
If you want to help get him and all of us exonerated and freed, and bring pain management back to America, please learn what I teach–the REAL Cause of Drug Abuse, and teach it to others.
What are you actually doing to help these doctors? Are you paying for legal representation? Bail money? Fighting the civil assets forfeiture laws?
Thanks you for your questions. “If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he can eat forever.”
No, we don’t provide money for legal representation or bail. We don’t have the donations enough for that. We would be willing to set something like that up, but we would need a donation of $2500 per doctor to make a trust available for doctors to use, and we can’t hardly get $100 donation from a doctor. Most of them don’t think they are a target until the DEA walks through the door, and then it is too late.
We could help them protect their assets from forfeiture, but again, that has to be done way before there is an inkling that they are a target, or they can be charged with a crime. So we get nowhere with offering that information because no one comes.
Basically, we are an organization trying to get the word out to the entire population of the US that what is happening in the Justice Department against doctors is unconstitutional and illegal. We are trying to fight the government propaganda that opioids cause addiction and doctors are no more than drug pushers. We actually know the REAL cause of addiction, and try to teach it to everyone interested, but no one is really interested.
Apathy is what we fight every day, and it is apathy that will bring people to their knees. As things look now, if people don’t come around and learn what we teach on DoC, it will be 50 years before opioids will be an accepted method of pain management. And in the process, hundreds of thousands of people will die.
As for civil asset forfeiture laws, yes, we are working to get those amended so that innocent people do not lose everything simply because the government can target and confiscate. That is one of many things we try to inform the legislators about.
I hope I’ve answered your questions. If you have more, feel free to email me at [email protected]