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Woman Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison For Stealing $345,000 From The State By Filing Fraudulent Unemployment Claims
Erica Rivera, 35, of Beachwood, N.J., was sentenced today to seven years in state prison by Superior Court Judge Peter E. Warshaw in Mercer County. She pleaded guilty on Sept. 19 to an accusation charging her with second-degree theft by deception. As part of the plea...
California Woman Charged with Stealing More than $87,000 from Her Elderly Mother Who Resides in a Passaic County Assisted-Living Facility
Pamela M. Land, 68, of La Canada, California, who had been serving as her mother’s power of attorney, was indicted on charges of misapplication of entrusted property, and theft by unlawful taking, both in the second degree. The indictment was handed up to...
New Jersey Board of Chiropractic Examiners Bars Warren County Chiropractor from Treating Female Patients Without Oversight of a State-Approved Female Monitor, Amid Allegations He Committed Sexual Misconduct with Two of His Patients
Under an agreement with the Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Dr. Edward R. Kramer, Jr. who operates Kramer Family Chiropractic in Blairstown, must immediately cease his treatment of female patients until a Board-approved monitor is in place. The monitor will oversee...
New Jersey Board of Nursing Permanently Revokes License of Bergen County Registered Professional Nurse After Video Purportedly Shows Her Slapping and Roughly Treating a Ventilator-Dependent, Bed-Bound Patient
Dorothea Harvilik, RN, voluntarily surrendered her license, to be deemed a permanent revocation effective immediately, in a Consent Order with the Board that resolves the allegations against her. The patient’s mother set up a camera to record Harvilik’s...
New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners Permanently Revokes License of Middlesex Doctor for Indiscriminately Prescribing “Subsys,” A Highly-Restricted Spray Form of Painkiller Fentanyl to His Patients – Revocation Follows Doctor’s Criminal Conviction for Concealing More Than $3.6 Million in Income from His Medical Practice to Evade Taxes and for Paying Kickbacks to Other Doctors for Referrals to His Pain Management Centers
Dr. Manoj Patharkar, who owns Pain Management Associates of Central Jersey (PMACJ) in Edison and Prospect Pain Management (PPM) in Passaic, is forever barred from practicing medicine in New Jersey under a Consent Order with the Board that found, among other things,...