Letter to DBH

November 30, 2015
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Apartment 136
Washington, DC  20008

Tanya A. Royster, M.D.
Acting Director
D.C. Department of Behavioral Health 
64 New York Avenue, NE
3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20002 

Dear Dr. Royster:

I am a consumer of mental health services provided by the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health (DBH).  I receive weekly out-patient psychotherapy from Alice E. Stone, M.D., a third-year psychiatry resident working under the supervision of Earl Baughman, M.D. (St. Elizabeths Hospital).  I have been a DBH consumer since mid-year 1996, 19 years.  Supportive psychotherapy is inadequate for my needs.  I believe I need psychodynamic psychotherapy.  

In wrongful termination litigation from the year 1993 I made an admission against interest that I require intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy, preferably with a psychoanalytically-trained therapist like Stanley R. Palombo, M.D.  The District Government did not dispute my admission.  See Freedman v. D.C. Dept. Human Rights, D.C.C.A no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998), record on appeal at 499-500 (enclosed).

Increasingly I view my situation as precarious, desperate and futile.  The failure of DBH to provide adequate treatment for me is a terrible strain. The District Government admits that my case is extremely serious.  See Letter dated July 30, 2015 from Gary Freedman to Barbara J. Bazron (enclosed).

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

Letter to DC DBH

November 23, 2015
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Apartment 136
Washington, DC  20008

Tanya A. Royster, M.D.
Acting Director
D.C. Department of Behavioral Health64 New York Avenue, NE
3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20002
Dear Dr. Royster:

I am a consumer of mental health services provided by the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health (DBH).  I receive weekly out-patient psychotherapy from Alice E. Stone, M.D., a third-year psychiatry resident working under the supervision of Earl Baughman, M.D. (St. Elizabeths Hospital).  I have been a DBH consumer since mid-year 1996, 19 years.  I do not derive benefit from supportive psychotherapy.  I believe I need psychodynamic psychotherapy.  Is there something that DBH could do to help me obtain psychodynamic psychotherapy?

I enclose for your information a psychological profile that details my personality problems as I see them.

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

Letter to the Attorney General of the United States

November 10, 2015
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Apt. 136
Washington, DC  20008

The Honorable Karl A. Racine
Office of the Attorney General
Government of the District of Columbia
Judiciary Square
441 4th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 727-3400
Fax: (202) 347-8922

RE:  Current Psychiatric Treatment

Dear Mr. Racine:

This will advise the Office of Attorney General that on the afternoon of November 9, 2015 I had a psychiatric consultation with Alice E. Stone, M.D., a psychiatry resident affiliated with St. Elizabeths Hospital working under the supervision of Earl Baughman, M.D.   There is evidence that said psychiatric consultation, whose cost is billed to DC Medicaid and Medicare, was medically questionable or fraudulent. 

I receive weekly psychotherapy provided by the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health consistent with a determination made by the D.C. Department of Human Rights that effective October 29, 1991, my former employer, the D.C. law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld had genuine and credible reasons to conclude that I required counseling for a paranoid "disorder" that might be associated with a risk of violent conduct.  See Initial Determination, D.C. Department of Human Rights (DOHR), Freedman v. Akin Gump Hauer & Feld, Docket No.: 92-087-P(N) (June 30, 1993) ("Respondent also consulted mental health professionals who advised that Complainant did in fact need counseling and may exhibit violent behavior"); See also, DOHR Final Determination (September 24, 1993) ("That concern coupled with the advice of mental health professionals that Complainant needed counseling and that according to one professional could engage in violent behavior, was sufficient grounds for Respondent’s action to terminate Complainant.").

I was administered psychological testing by The George Washington University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in 1994 and in 1996. The testing failed to disclose that I suffer from any diagnosable mental illness. I achieved a perfect score on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (6 errors) in 1996, which virtually rules out schizophrenia and delusional disorder.  See Ibanez-Casas, I. "Deficits in Executive and Memory Processes in Delusional Disorder: A Case-Controlled Study."  PLoS One, 2013 Jul 2;8(7):e67341.

I have been diagnosed with psychotic mental illness -- Paranoid (Delusional) Disorder (consistent with the prior findings of DOHR) -- and receive monthly disability benefits paid by the U.S. Social Security Administration therefor.  There is evidence that the only reason I qualify for disability benefits is that I believe I have been the victim of a longstanding criminal conspiracy carried out by attorney managers of the D.C. law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, my former employer. There is evidence that St. Elizabeths Hospital is billing D.C. Medicaid and Medicare for the treatment of nonexistent mental illness.  But see,  Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, D.C.C.A 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998) (Akin Gump had genuine and credible reasons to determine that I suffered from mental illness that rendered me unemployable and a direct threat in the workplace).  

In fact, Akin Gump's disability determination was based on a medically worthless psychiatric opinion, offered by a psychiatrist who did not examine me personally and who did not obtain my written consent for the opinion.  See American Psychiatric Association (APA) Goldwater Rule, Section 7.3 of the APA's ethics principles.  As of the filing of the complaint in the Superior Court proceedings (cited above), in October 1995, and at all times thereafter, it was unlawful under the laws of the District of Columbia for a psychiatrist to offer a professional psychiatric opinion about an individual without benefit of personal examination per APA Section 7.3.  The D.C. Code in its latest revision makes it unlawful for a physician to "[fail] to conform to standards of acceptable conduct and prevailing practice within a health profession." See D.C. Code 2-3305.14(26). This provision was added to the District of Columbia Health Occupations Revision Act by D.C. Law 10-247, enacted on March 23, 1995. The Court of Appeals in Freedman v. DHR expressly found that the professional psychiatric opinion offered by the psychiatrist to the employer amounted to the diagnosis of a "disorder." See No. 96-CV-961 at 4.  Under current District law the actions of my former employer, Akin Gump in soliciting an illegal act by a psychiatrist might be deemed prosecutable as conspiracy and solicitation. 

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

cc: U.S. Attorney General Loretta  E. Lynch

Letter to DC Attorney General

November 6, 2015
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Apt. 136
Washington, DC  20008

The Honorable Karl A. Racine
Office of the Attorney General
Government of the District of Columbia
Judiciary Square
441 4th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 727-3400
Fax: (202) 347-8922

RE:  Current Psychiatric Treatment

Dear Mr. Racine:

This will advise the Office of Attorney General that I am currently in weekly out-patient psychotherapy with Alice E. Stone, M.D., a psychiatry resident affiliated with St. Elizabeths Hospital working under the supervision of Earl Baughman, M.D. 

I was administered psychological testing by The George Washington University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in 1994 and in 1996. The testing failed to disclose that I suffer from any diagnosable mental illness. I achieved a perfect score on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (6 errors) in 1996, which virtually rules out schizophrenia and delusional disorder.  See Ibanez-Casas, I. "Deficits in Executive and Memory Processes in Delusional Disorder: A Case-Controlled Study."  PLoS One, 2013 Jul 2;8(7):e67341.

I have been diagnosed with psychotic mental illness -- Paranoid (Delusional) Disorder -- and receive monthly disability benefits paid by the U.S. Social Security Administration therefor.  The cost of psychiatric treatment is reimbursed by Medicare.  There is evidence that the only reason I qualify for disability benefits is that I believe I have been the victim of a longstanding criminal conspiracy carried out by attorney managers of the D.C. law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, my former employer. There is evidence that St. Elizabeths Hospital is billing Medicare for the treatment of nonexistent mental illness.  But see,  Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, D.C.C.A 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998) (Akin Gump had genuine and credible reasons to determine that I suffered from mental illness that rendered me unemployable and a direct threat in the workplace).  


In fact, Akin Gump's disability determination was based on a medically worthless psychiatric opinion, offered by a psychiatrist who did not examine me personally and who did not obtain my written consent for the opinion.  See American Psychiatric Association (APA) Goldwater Rule, Section 7.3 of the APA's ethics principles.  As of the filing of the complaint in the Superior Court proceedings (cited above), in October 1995, and at all times thereafter, it was unlawful under the laws of the District of Columbia for a psychiatrist to offer a professional psychiatric opinion about an individual without benefit of personal examination per APA Section 7.3.  The D.C. Code in its latest revision makes it unlawful for a physician to "[fail] to conform to standards of acceptable conduct and prevailing practice within a health profession." See D.C. Code 2-3305.14(26). This provision was added to the District of Columbia Health Occupations Revision Act by D.C. Law 10-247, enacted on March 23, 1995. The Court of Appeals in Freedman v. DHR expressly found that the professional psychiatric opinion offered by the psychiatrist to the employer amounted to the diagnosis of a "disorder." See No. 96-CV-961 at 4.  Under current District law the actions of my former employer, Akin Gump in soliciting an illegal act by a psychiatrist might be deemed prosecutable as conspiracy and solicitation. 

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

cc: U.S. Attorney General Loretta  E. Lynch

Letter to the Attorney General of the United States

November 4, 2015

3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW

Apartment 136

Washington, DC  20008

The Honorable Loretta E. Lynch

Attorney General of the United States

Office of the Attorney General

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC  20530-0001

RE:  Felony Fraud Certification

Dear Attorney General Lynch:

There is evidence that I committed a felony against the Government of the United States on November 3, 2015.  There is evidence that I have been engaged, since the year 1991, in a scheme to defraud the federal government in up to a half million dollars in government benefits (U.S. Social Security Disability and Medicare benefits).  My claim for disability, filed in April 1993, was based in substantial part on sworn statements executed by my former employer, the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (Dennis M. Race, Esq. and Laurence J. Hoffman, Esq.) .  There is persuasive evidence that said sworn statements, alleging that I had been determined by the employer, in consultation with a psychiatrist, to suffer from severe mental illness and that I posed a direct threat in the workplace (thereby rendering me unfit for employment), were false, perjured or medically worthless since the assessing psychiatrist did not examine me in person or obtain my written consent for a psychiatric opinion.  See American Psychiatric Association (APA) Goldwater Rule, Section 7.3 of the APA's ethics principles.

I want to thank the U.S. Department of Justice for allowing me to collect a monthly disability check since the effective date of my disability (October 29, 1991).  The forbearance of the Justice Department has allowed me to pursue my writing ambitions.  Enclosed are two novels that I have written during the term of my disability.  My psychiatrists have concluded that I am an individual of average intellect who suffers from severe (psychotic) mental illness.  See opinions of Napoleon Cuenco, M.D.; Dimitrios Georgopoulos, M.D.; and Albert H. Taub, M.D. (enclosed).  Despite my obvious intellectual and severe psychological limitations I have made an attempt to make good use of the largesse of the federal government.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

Enclosures