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[213372bu]

I love this kid.

He's the new and improved Latarian Milton.

 

[Trouble]

I loved catch me if you can as both a movie and a book.

The musical was pretty decent, too.

 

[Marion Cobretti]

Oh man, really hope John Oliver gets wind of this.

 

[Octavianus]

Watched catch me if you can again recently because of this thread.

 

[Risible]

I love this kid.

He's the new and improved Latarian Milton.

I too love people who defraud old people, mislead people into thinking they are doctor, and commit insurance fraud wile thieving money for iPads and cars.

 

[FelixOrion]

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[RBH]

The teenager who gained notoriety for allegedly posing as a doctor and who is now facing charges in two states for fraud and theft, at one point last year, had a real job in the medical field, making a professional's salary.

Malachi Love-Robinson worked for months at a Boynton Beach drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility, where his employers said they thought he had a Ph.D.

Love-Robinson was hired in June 2015 as program director at New Directions Treatment Center, and his job included counselling patients. His salary was impressive for a then-18-year-old who has never confirmed whether he graduated from high school.

"He was probably making between $65,000 and $70,000, I would say, for his level," said Dr. Lisa Cicetti, New Directions owner and psychologist. "If we believed he's a doctor, we're not going to give him $30,000."

Patients and a former manager said Love-Robinson participated in discussions about patients' treatment.

"He was in every executive meeting, every clinical meeting, because he came in and said he was an M.D.," Doug Hallman said.

Love-Robinson counselled Brittany Suggs, 28, who had left her baby son temporarily in Georgia and came to Florida for a four-month attempt at getting her life on track.

"I always knew there was something off about him, but I couldn't put my finger on it, but every time I would ask him, like how old he was, when he graduated from high school, where he went to high school, he wouldn't say," Suggs said.

Suggs said Love-Robinson counselled her for an hour each week, recommended she change medications and asked personal questions.

"I feel violated, I feel angry about it," Suggs said.

Suggs wasn't the only New Directions patient shocked to later learn that Love-Robinson, who was briefly promoted to clinical director, was not a licensed doctor.

"At first I kind of laughed it off, and then I really thought about what it meant that he was a fake doctor and how much he knew about me and other friends of mine, and I got furious, I felt so violated," said former patient Jeff Woods.

So how did the teenager with no real credentials manage to pose as a medical professional, and counsel vulnerable patients?

"He fooled all of us," Cicetti said.

Cicetti said Love-Robinson told her he had a Ph.D in psychology, and he'd been raised in France.

"When he came to us he said he was 28, and he was sick for ten years in France, and when he came to the United States that they made a mistake and put his date of arrival on the birth certificate instead of his date of birth," Cicetti said.

Love-Robinson also provided a diploma from Arizona State University, purportedly awarding him a Ph.D in psychology, as well as transcripts. The Florida Department of Health said Love-Robinson later admitted the documents were fake.

Cicetti said she found an unexplained charge on her credit card from Next Day Diplomas, with Love-Robinson's name on the bill.

According to Boynton Beach Police, that's not all the teen used her credit card for.

Their arrest report said Love-Robinson used Cicetti's bank account to pay cellphone companies, car insurers, credit cards, internet providers and paid a car dealer more than $28,000 for his new Nissan, charges totaling over $42,000.

Cicetti said when she told him to repay her money he'd used for a trip, Love-Robinson wrote her a check for $5,877, which bounced.

Cicetti went to police, and after months of investigation, they charged Love-Robinson with another grand theft charge, in addition to the 10 he was already facing in West Palm Beach.

"He was sloppy and he got caught," said Cicetti, who said she let him go when she closed the business and turned it over to new managers in late September.

In October, The Florida Department of Health began investigating Love-Robinson after receiving an anonymous complaint that he was working as a doctor at New Directions.

They determined that because clinic records did not show him treating patients, or administering drugs, he was not breaking the law.

They did, however, issue him a cease and desist order to stop practicing medicine without a license.

Five months later, health investigators and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrested him at a West Palm Beach medical clinic he had just opened and named "New Birth, New Life Alternative Medicine and Urgent Care Clinic."

An female undercover agent said Love-Robinson examined her and recommended treatment.

He was charged with practicing medicine without a license and practicing naturopathy without a license.

A few weeks later, he was arrested again, this time for allegedly stealing almost $40,000 from an elderly woman he'd treated in her home.

Although it begun in November, the Boynton Beach investigation was not completed until August, when detectives tacked on the new charge of allegedly stealing from Cicetti. Prosecutors also charged him with writing a worthless check to a Royal Palm Beach car dealer.

Then, Friday, Love-Robinson was arrested in Stafford County, Va., where the Sheriff's Office said he attempted to buy a Lexus using false credentials and without the knowledge of the elderly woman he said was co-signing for the car.

Court officials in VA said Love-Robinson will stay in their custody on their new charges until his next hearing in November, unless prosecutors in Palm Beach County work out a different timetable. He was due to go to trial in November on his original ten felony charges.

http://www.wpbf.com/article/accused-fake-teen-doctor-made-dollar70000-working-in-clinic/3386824

 

[cntr]

oh wow

 

[Lemaitre]

This kid needs to reevaluate his life choices.

At least he's young so he has time to change it around, even with his upcoming (likely) prison sentences. What a mess tho.

 

[FeenixRising]

http://www.wpbf.com/article/connecticut-school-apologizes-for-hitler-football-play/6274193

Wrong link

 

[Dreams-Visions]

the link RBH meant to post

http://www.wpbf.com/article/accused-fake-teen-doctor-made-dollar70000-working-in-clinic/3386824

 

[Aaronology]

Damn. He was about that con life, frrlfrrl.

 

[RBH]

Wrong link

the link RBH meant to post

http://www.wpbf.com/article/accused-fake-teen-doctor-made-dollar70000-working-in-clinic/3386824

Thanks!

 

[CadetMahoney]

Scumbag move, I mean on top of the other pile of scumbag moves he's already done.

Confidence scammer ripping off the elderly.

Needs to be put under the jail. Imagine if we hear next year he's continued to walk free and go on like this.

 

[Harothewanderer]

Malachi Love-Robinson

They should have seen it coming.

 

[Nightbird]

Something i just realized:

He must have done something right for everyone to geniuly believe he had an PhD for months.

This guy scams on another level

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

FBI needs to hire this kid

 

[jmood88]

http://www.wpbf.com/article/accused-fake-teen-doctor-made-dollar70000-working-in-clinic/3386824

Meanwhile, I just got an MPH but I never have enough experience for program director jobs. Maybe I should start lying on my resume. Just gotta avoid stealing money, though.

 

[Dali]

Something i just realized:

He must have done something right for everyone to geniuly believe he had an PhD for months.

This guy scams on another level

Yeah i really don't get how he got the job. They paid him like he had a doctorate without even confirming. What was the interview like?

"Are you a doctor with experience giving consultations?"

"Why, yes. Yes, I am."

"You're hired!"

 

[eyeball_kid]

Even his new attorney can't believe this shit.

While the situation is hilarious in a way, when you think of all the people he conned with fake medical advice, I mean he's lucky nothing bad seemed to happen to any of his patients/marks.

 

[Kayhan]

"He was probably making between $65,000 and $70,000, I would say, for his level," said Dr. Lisa Cicetti, New Directions owner and psychologist. "If we believed he's a doctor, we're not going to give him $30,000."

This kid was making $70,000.

What are YOU doing with your life, GAF?

 

[The Kree]

This kid was making $70,000.

What are YOU doing with your life, GAF?

Staying out of jail.

 

[Nivash]

Yeah i really don't get how he got the job. They paid him like he had a doctorate without even confirming. What was the interview like?

"Are you a doctor with experience giving consultations?"

"Why, yes. Yes, I am."

"You're hired!"

I'm going with the suggestion that they were all incompetent idiots. How didn't he have any references they could check? And I mean come on, how on Earth did they buy that he had a PhD - even if they assumed he was 28 instead of 18? That takes at least 5 years - on top of at least 8 or so years you'd need for an MD, and that's providing you were talented and driven enough to take some sportcuts. It's simply not possible to get to that point at that age unless you were some kind of God's gift to medicine, and in that case there would have had to be someone that can verify it.

I mean come one, I seriously doubt you can even get a PhD without publishing something along the way. It would take all of 5 seconds to verify that.

EDIT: Oh, and on a side note I can't help but snicker at him getting charged for practicing naturopathy without a license. They're basically accusing him of not committing fraud the proper way.

 

[Lucumo]

Something i just realized:

He must have done something right for everyone to geniuly believe he had an PhD for months.

This guy scams on another level

Well, he correctly said the undercover agent isn't sick, so he probably has at least some knowledge. Too bad he also stole money instead of just playing a doctor and getting paid.

 

[Fuchsdh]

Well, he correctly said the undercover agent isn't sick, so he probably has at least some knowledge. Too bad he also stole money instead of just playing a doctor and getting paid.

If he'd done this, he'd probably have gone undiscovered. Problem with these guys is they always take the con too far. Reminds me of the Washington Metro employees who would have gotten away with stealing fare money if they hadn't decided to start stealing millions each year. A few thousand here and there and no one would ever have known.

 

[Ozigizo]

This kid was making $70,000.

What are YOU doing with your life, GAF?

Not committing fraud and getting life off of the three strike rule.

Also not hurting people by pretending to be something that I'm not.

 

[zeemumu]

Next Day Diplomas?!

 

[NealMcCauley]

Wait... did he have access to her personal bank accounts or the company's?

 

[Vicetrailia]

Not committing fraud and getting life off of the three strike rule.

Also not hurting people by pretending to be something that I'm not.

This guy's talent is charisma and fraud, what can I say. I don't have it like that (nor is it desired).

He found his god given talent sean hannity.

 

[neshcom]

Next Day Diplomas?!

ON HIS BOSS'S CARD NO LESS! This kid has balls.

I do wonder how he got her bank account info. Credit cards are pretty easy to make purchases with, but banking info means another level of data intrusion. Was he sleeping with his boss or what?

 

[K.Jack]

Next thing we'll here is that the CIA is charging him with fraud, after having mistakenly embedded him in Afghanistan training militia forces, because he had a fake résumé detailing an illustrious career in the NSA.

 

[Rootbeer]

Should just put a unmistakably large tattoo on his forehead warning people not to trust him in any capacity. After the numerous repeat offenses I wonder if anything could stop him from continuing this behavior in the future?