by Linda Cheek, MD | Oct, Mon, 2016 | Plea agreement |
Uzma Ehtesham, MD, a psychiatrist in Norton, VA is the next independent minority SW Virginia doctor to be attacked illegally by the government for monetary gain. This time it appears to be state, not federal. Naturally with all the money the feds are making with these...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Sep, Fri, 2016 | Plea agreement |
It’s always with mixed emotion when a person learns that their predictions of government evil have started to become reality. And so I write this post, with the egotistic “I told you so”, but wishing that it wasn’t so, and hoping that this will not become the next...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Sep, Thu, 2016 | Plea agreement |
Tressie Duffy, MD, 46, a family practice physician in Martinsburg, WV was sentenced June 28, 2016 to a year and a day in jail along with an $18,200 penalty after pleading guilty to seven felonies for illegal distribution of oxycodone. The plea agreement also required...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Sep, Tue, 2016 | Plea agreement |
Shelinder Aggarwal, MD, 48, known as “Shaun”, a pain management specialist in the area of physical medicine and rehabilitation of Huntsville, Alabama has accepted a plea agreement for supposed health care fraud. He has agreed for forfeit his home and pay...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Aug, Tue, 2016 | Plea agreement |
On August 25, 2016, Melanie Mencer-Parks, MD was arrested, placed in handcuffs, and escorted out of her office by the DEA based on one charge of one count of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute controlled substances. Dr. Mencer-Parks is a solo family practice...
by Linda Cheek, MD | Jun, Thu, 2016 | Plea agreement |
This is the first case I’ve seen of hospital-owned physicians being charged. David Neil Ringel, DO, family physician in Connersville, Indiana, entered a guilty plea in Fayette Circuit Court to a single count of conspiracy to commit forgery June 17, 2016. In exchange...