by Linda Cheek, MD | Sep, Thu, 2017 | Plea agreement |
Richard Andrews, DO, 65, of Dallas, was co-owner and supervising physician of McAllen Medical Clinic in Dallas. He is now in a prison cell for the next 8 years for doing his job. Arrested in January, 2016, he finally pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Sep, Thu, 2017 | Plea agreement |
Innocent doctors are being talked into taking pleas by their lawyers today. Doctors need to STOP doing this. Here are the reasons why: The lawyers lie. The prosecution and defense lawyers will tell you one thing, but in the end only the judge makes the decision on...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Sep, Wed, 2017 | Plea agreement |
Here’s a case of a doctor with known and provable innocence paying the price for a plea. Nathaniel Brown, MD, 62, was a family physician in Cleveland, Mississippi who was medical director of two hospices. He is a friend of a friend. He explained to my friend why he...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Sep, Mon, 2017 | Plea agreement |
Pawankumar Jain, M.D, 64,—another minority casualty in, what I term, an establishment ethnic cleansing of the medical profession—was a neurologist in pain management in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Having spent 2 years in jail as an innocent man, he finally pleaded guilty...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Sep, Thu, 2017 | Plea agreement |
86 y/o Lillian “Bubbie” Meghnot was the owner of The Meghnot Comprehensive Center for Hope in Ann Arbor, Michigan, conducting legitimate pain management and yet shut down by the government in March, 2015. She, along with office manager Gerardo...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Sep, Mon, 2017 | Plea agreement |
On August 31, 2017, Dr. Rassan Tarabein, 58, a neurologist in Daphne, Alabama, pled guilty to one count of health care fraud and one count of unlawful distribution of a schedule II controlled substance. As part of his plea agreement, Dr. Tarabein will no longer be...