Psych Observer – Exposing Bad Psychiatry

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A psychiatrist has been convicted on 39 counts of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid over five years by billing the government for services she did not perform.

A federal jury also decided late Wednesday that Dr. Maria Carmen Palazzo must repay the government more than $500,000. She faces up to 10 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon set sentencing for early July.

Palazzo’s home in New Orleans was raided in November 2004 by federal and state agents. The raid culminated a three-year investigation that U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said had uncovered fraud dating back to August 2000.

Another mental health expert arrested for having possession of child pornography on his computer. Is this a new form of therapy that hasn’t yet been published yet by the APA = American Psychiatric Association and American Psychological Association?

This heinous waste of human flesh has some explaining to do in the court and to his clients.

Associated Press – April 17, 2008 1:44 PM ET

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – An Iowa City psychologist has been arrested after a computer service center allegedly found child pornography on his computer.

Howard Weinberg was arrested Wednesday night after investigators searched his home and seized a computer, which police say contained numerous images of children under the age of 5 engaged in sex acts.

Police say they were called by a local computer service center on Tuesday about a customer’s computer that contained child pornography. That computer also was seized by investigators.

Officials at the Johnson County jail say he was being held and was in court Thursday morning.