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Oklahoma City abortion doctor charged with racketeering
NewsOk ^ | December 18, 2014 | Nolan Clay and Robby Trammell

Posted on 12/19/2014 1:27:49 PM PST by Morgana

An Oklahoma City abortion doctor was charged Thursday with racketeering — a felony offense punishable by at least 10 years in prison.

Dr. Naresh G. Patel, 62, also was charged with three counts of obtaining money by false pretenses.

Patel was arrested Dec. 9 at his Warr Acres clinic after an undercover fraud investigation. The clinic, Outpatient Services for Women, has not reopened since his arrest.

He is accused of providing abortion-inducing drugs to three female undercover investigators who posed as patients. Each paid the clinic $620.

Women not pregnant

Each time, Patel did an ultrasound on the woman’s abdomen, told her she was pregnant and gave her five pills of RU-486 to induce an abortion, according to a court affidavit. The women were not actually pregnant.

“We will enter a plea of not guilty,” his defense attorney, Mack Martin, said Thursday. “We will try this case in the courtroom and not in the media.”

Prosecutors rarely file racketeering cases. Assistant Attorney General Megan Tilly said Thursday the racketeering count is merited this time “based on the egregious nature of the allegations and Dr. Patel’s use of his medical practice as a criminal enterprise to defraud vulnerable women.”

Prosecutors also can seek a much more severe punishment at trial for Patel by adding the racketeering count. Patel faces only three years in jail at most and $15,000 in fines if convicted of all three counts of obtaining money by false pretenses.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionist; crime; nareshpatel; oklahoma; patel; prolife; rape

1 posted on 12/19/2014 1:27:49 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

If you can’t trust a baby murderer, who can you trust?


2 posted on 12/19/2014 1:31:37 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

No honor among thieves or baby killers.


3 posted on 12/19/2014 1:33:10 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

It seems like the media has taken the stance of ignoring the other sordid details of the Doctor’s ‘bedside manner’.

IIRC, several of the women complained of being sexually assaulted. Similar to the allegations in the Cosby case, while they were under anesthetics, he made his move on them.

Yet none of this has even gotten any mention in the media lately.


4 posted on 12/19/2014 1:36:25 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Morgana

This is the monster that was caught burning babies in a field, stacked up like cord wood.


5 posted on 12/19/2014 2:13:24 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: Morgana

This reminds me of the quote by Lysander Spooner: “Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”

Those who gleefully profit from killing innocent unborn babies in their mother’s wombs would certainly not have any qualms about committing a little fraud in order to promote their bloody business.


6 posted on 12/19/2014 3:14:42 PM PST by Nevadan
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To: Nevadan

bump


7 posted on 12/19/2014 3:15:11 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Nevadan; Morgana

Planned Parenthood and other groups formulated the strategy to claim clerical and religious support for abortion.


8 posted on 12/19/2014 3:15:48 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Morgana

Were these R U 4 86 pills (86 being editorial code for “Kill this story) paid for by government money?


9 posted on 12/19/2014 4:21:25 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Morgana

Hope they nail this murderous bastard.


10 posted on 12/19/2014 5:20:50 PM PST by miserare (2015--The Year We Win!)
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