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#1 11-08-2005, 07:16 AM

Kansas couple convicted of abusing mentally ill
08 Nov 2005 02:32:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
KANSAS CITY, Kan., Nov 7 (Reuters) - A Kansas couple who ran a psychotherapy practice were convicted on Monday of holding mentally ill people as slaves and forcing them to perform sex acts on videotape while billing Medicare nearly $1 million for therapy.

Arlan Kaufman, 69, was convicted of 33 criminal counts, including charges of forced labor, involuntary servitude, health care fraud, mail fraud and obstruction of a federal audit.

His wife, Linda Kaufman, 62, was found guilty of all charges with the exception of one charge of making a false writing.

The judge in the case ordered their bonds revoked and remanded them to jail.

During the trial in the U.S. District Court in Wichita, prosecutors said the Kaufmans billed relatives and insurers for therapy, rent, utilities and food for patients who were forced to engage in manual labor in the nude on a farm the couple owned and to pose for videotapes in a variety of sexual acts.

Patients were physically injured or restrained if they resisted, authorities charged.

Authorities said the abuse began in 1985 and involved at least 14 mentally ill people.

The Kaufmans submitted almost $1 million in claims to Medicare from 1991 through 2000 and were paid $216,906, authorities said. The couple face more than 200 years in prison. No date has yet been set for sentencing.

Botnst · #2 11-08-2005, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by MedMech

Kansas couple convicted of abusing mentally ill
08 Nov 2005 02:32:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
KANSAS CITY, Kan., Nov 7 (Reuters) - A Kansas couple who ran a psychotherapy practice were convicted on Monday of holding mentally ill people as slaves and forcing them to perform sex acts on videotape while billing Medicare nearly $1 million for therapy.

Arlan Kaufman, 69, was convicted of 33 criminal counts, including charges of forced labor, involuntary servitude, health care fraud, mail fraud and obstruction of a federal audit.

His wife, Linda Kaufman, 62, was found guilty of all charges with the exception of one charge of making a false writing.

The judge in the case ordered their bonds revoked and remanded them to jail.

During the trial in the U.S. District Court in Wichita, prosecutors said the Kaufmans billed relatives and insurers for therapy, rent, utilities and food for patients who were forced to engage in manual labor in the nude on a farm the couple owned and to pose for videotapes in a variety of sexual acts.

Patients were physically injured or restrained if they resisted, authorities charged.

Authorities said the abuse began in 1985 and involved at least 14 mentally ill people.

The Kaufmans submitted almost $1 million in claims to Medicare from 1991 through 2000 and were paid $216,906, authorities said. The couple face more than 200 years in prison. No date has yet been set for sentencing.

Give'em each a mop and a bucket and send them to NOLA's 9th Ward for clean-up.

boneheaddoctor · #3 11-08-2005, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by MedMech

Kansas couple convicted of abusing mentally ill
08 Nov 2005 02:32:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
KANSAS CITY, Kan., Nov 7 (Reuters) - A Kansas couple who ran a psychotherapy practice were convicted on Monday of holding mentally ill people as slaves and forcing them to perform sex acts on videotape while billing Medicare nearly $1 million for therapy.

Arlan Kaufman, 69, was convicted of 33 criminal counts, including charges of forced labor, involuntary servitude, health care fraud, mail fraud and obstruction of a federal audit.

His wife, Linda Kaufman, 62, was found guilty of all charges with the exception of one charge of making a false writing.

The judge in the case ordered their bonds revoked and remanded them to jail.

During the trial in the U.S. District Court in Wichita, prosecutors said the Kaufmans billed relatives and insurers for therapy, rent, utilities and food for patients who were forced to engage in manual labor in the nude on a farm the couple owned and to pose for videotapes in a variety of sexual acts.

Patients were physically injured or restrained if they resisted, authorities charged.

Authorities said the abuse began in 1985 and involved at least 14 mentally ill people.

The Kaufmans submitted almost $1 million in claims to Medicare from 1991 through 2000 and were paid $216,906, authorities said. The couple face more than 200 years in prison. No date has yet been set for sentencing.

Make them orderlies that have to clean up in the psyc ward where they have a facination with slinging feces......a few years of that woudl be a start....

J. R. B. · #4 11-08-2005, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

Give'em each a mop and a bucket and send them to NOLA's 9th Ward for clean-up.

And make them work in the nude.

Carleton Hughes · #5 11-08-2005, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by J. R. B.

And make them work in the nude.

And eat pork chops for dinner!

Botnst · #6 11-08-2005, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

And eat pork chops for dinner!

Whoa, that's diabolical.

B

Carleton Hughes · #7 11-08-2005, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Botnst

Whoa, that's diabolical.

B

Yes, and treife too.

Plantman · #8 11-08-2005, 10:34 AM

Send them in to Harlem with a sign that says I hate "NWORD" like Bruce Willis in Die Hard 3.

Or "I hate Muslims" and send them to Somalia.

boneheaddoctor · #9 11-08-2005, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Plantman

Send them in to Harlem with a sign that says I hate "NWORD" like Bruce Willis in Die Hard 3.

Or "I hate Muslims" and send them to Somalia.

I'd pay money to see that...........send them into harlem in a sambo outfit.....along with that sign.

Plantman · #10 11-08-2005, 11:33 AM

do youguys remember how Geraldo first gained national exposure?

It was by doing an piece on the abuses in a mental hospital in NJ called Willowbrook.

Man that was something. Elderly folks tied up in their own waste, living in basements with no light.

If I 'm not mistaken, he posed as an orderly and took all the pics while undercover.

This was in th eearly 70's I guess. They showed a replay of the piece in the early 80's

i used to drive by it when I first got my license in 1983. The place was high up on a hill and looked like a castle, very majestic and beautiful building on beautifully manicured lawns.

Whoda thunk it.