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OC Weekly Series Spurs Federal Indictments

By AAN Staff

july 22, 2005 11:59 am

OC Weekly Series Spurs Federal Indictments

Photo by Jack Gould

R. Scott Moxley, a writer for the Santa Ana, Calif., alt-weekly, first reported on Dr. George Steven Kooshian (pictured) in July 2001, sparking an FBI investigation. The article detailed allegations of illegal practices, which included administering saline solution -- passed off and billed as expensive medication -- to AIDS patients. Because of the doctor's good reputation in the local gay community, Moxley's series of six investigative stories was at times bitterly criticized. Kooshian (and one of his former nurses) will be arraigned Aug. 1 on 25 counts of health-care fraud and other charges.

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