California Professional License Defense Blog

Dr. Kevin Brown was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department on accusations that he molested eight patients, one of them being 15. Dr. Brown was arrested July 8, 2008 and was charged with sexual battery and exploiting his position as a physician involving incidents relating to a female patient and under cover police officer posing as a patient.

Dr. Brown is widely respected in the medical community for his charitable contributions including his disaster-relief medical charity, Urban Health Institute. Those closest to Brown are shocked and vow to stand behind him.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed 19 felony counts against Brown, including a lewd act on 15 year old, rape, sexual battery and fraud. Currently, Brown is being investigated by California’s Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse in an alleged health care fraud scheme although he has yet to be charged with any criminal charges. It is unclear whether the California Medical Board has taken any action against Dr. Brown’s license to practice medicine.

Dr. Brown’s Los Angeles criminal defense lawyers declined to comment. Dr. Brown’s bail was set at $4 million due to his connections to Bermuda and their lack of extradition.

Dr. Anthony Lee, 64 of Villa Park, an exclusive Orange County neighborhood pleaded guilty to felony charges including sexual battery by fraud, first-degree residential burglary and lewd acts on a minor. Dr. Lee who had a medical practice in Anaheim was sentenced to three years in state prison and stripped of his California Medical License.

Dr. Lee, who was friends with the victim’s family visited the minor under the guise of prescribing birth control. When Dr. Lee arrived at the home, he went upstairs to the victim’s bedroom and told her that he needed to do an exam on her prior to prescribing birth control. Without any medical equipment or gloves, Dr. Lee digitally penetrated the victim, saying he needed to do so to check for infections. In addition, Dr. Lee kissed the girl, touched her breasts and manipulated her body into sexual positions telling her he was teaching her techniques men like.

Besides allegations of the victim who resides in Irvine, two other women came forward and reported Dr. Lee had sexually assaulted them in his Anaheim Office. The statute of limitations on those crimes has already passed and prosecutors cannot charge Dr. Lee for those crimes.

Dr. Christopher Thompson, a Brentwood doctor was charged with abruptly stopping his car in front of two cyclist, in what might have been a road rage incident. Dr. Thompson has previously been investigated for a similar road rage incident against cyclist in March of 2008, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Dr. Thompson faces two felony counts of reckless driving causing injury and battery causing serious bodily injury in an accident that occurred July 4, 2008. The Los Angels County District Attorney’s Office is alleging that Thompson slammed on his brakes directly in front of two bicyclist who were riding downhill on Mandeville Canyon Road. The bicyclist, without time to stop or avoid Thompson’s red Infiniti collided with the vehicle with one rider crashing through the read window and the other crashing to the pavement.

Ron Peterson, 40 who crashed through the window suffered broken teeth, broken nose and cuts to the face. Christian Stoehr, 29 suffered a shoulder separation which will require surgery. Both riders describe riding down the hill when they heard a honk and someone yell profanities at their direction. The car that honked, then pulled right in front of them and immediately slammed on their brakes.

Thompson, who lives on Mandeville Canyon Road is an owner of a medical documentation company in Woodland Hills. Thompson is out on bail and is awaiting a court date on August 1, 2008 where he will be arraigned on the felony complaint. If convicted, Thompson faces up to 7 years in prison.

In addition to any criminal charges, Dr. Thompson also faces discipline by the California Medical Board. Such discipline can include license suspension all the way to total revocation of all privileges to practice medicine in the state.