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UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails, Suit Says
Los Angeles Times ^ | March 2, 2006 | William Lobdell

Posted on 03/03/2006 11:58:15 AM PST by E-Mat

A renowned psychiatrist from UC Irvine was duped into squandering at least $1.3 million of his family's fortune on a Nigeria Internet scam, according to a lawsuit recently filed by his son.

The son, also an Orange County doctor, said his father — Dr. Louis A. Gottschalk — gave as much as $3 million over a 10-year period in response to an Internet plea that promised the doctor a generous cut of a huge sum of cash trapped in African bank accounts in exchange for money advances.

The court documents, filed last month in Orange County Superior Court, allege Gottschalk even traveled to Africa to meet a shadowy figure known as "The General."

Gottschalk — who at 89 still works at the UCI campus medical plaza that bears his name — said in court papers that the losses were caused by "some bad investments."

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In the Gottschalk case, both the amount of the alleged losses and the reputation of the victim set it apart.

Louis Gottschalk, a neuroscientist, is the founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at UCI College of Medicine. He gained national prominence by announcing in 1987 that President Reagan had been suffering from diminished mental ability as early as 1980.

He came to this conclusion by using the Gottschalk-Gleser scales, an internationally used diagnostic tool he helped develop for charting impairments in brain function, to measure speech patterns in Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential debates.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: critics; dumbkeywords; gottschalk; irony; president; reagan; ronald; scam
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So, at age 79 the doctor began his "investments" in Nigerian e-mail solicitors Did he ever bother to apply the Gottschalk-Gleser scales to himself?

"Note to Self: Perform self-test before making financial decisions."

1 posted on 03/03/2006 11:58:17 AM PST by E-Mat
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To: E-Mat

Sounds like the old guy has lost it eh?
Maybe he just needs a new tinfoil hat?


2 posted on 03/03/2006 12:00:35 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775 (I)
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To: E-Mat
Turns out he was more of a dummy than Reagan. Another liberal hero takes a fall.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

3 posted on 03/03/2006 12:01:14 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: E-Mat

LOL, there's someone who actually fell for the Nigerian bank account scam?? LMAO! And needless to say it was a Reagan hating looney tune.


4 posted on 03/03/2006 12:01:47 PM PST by MikeA (Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, the mainstream media: The As*es of Evil)
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To: E-Mat

I always wondered why those patently absurd Nigerian emails kept making the rounds.

Large amounts of money for nothing? Still sounds darned good, doesn't it?


5 posted on 03/03/2006 12:02:15 PM PST by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: MikeA

Sweet irony.


6 posted on 03/03/2006 12:02:30 PM PST by formercalifornian (One nation, under whatever popular fad comes to mind at the moment, indivisible...)
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To: siunevada

Buy any lottery tickets lately? The Nigerians only wish they could run a scam as good as that one.


8 posted on 03/03/2006 12:04:36 PM PST by saganite (The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
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To: E-Mat

I think "Physician, heal thyself" certainly applies here!


9 posted on 03/03/2006 12:05:45 PM PST by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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THE NIGERIA THING IS A SCAM?????? OH CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!


10 posted on 03/03/2006 12:05:58 PM PST by Lekker 1 ("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
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Man, if he's been doing this for "a period of ten years" he was sure smart getting in early. LOL!

Doctors are consistently the WORST investors. They can never believe they're wrong.


11 posted on 03/03/2006 12:07:12 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Funny taglines are value plays.)
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To: E-Mat

Do not invent your own headlines for articles. Always use the one at the source you've put in the link.


12 posted on 03/03/2006 12:07:34 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: formercalifornian

What a shame.


13 posted on 03/03/2006 12:08:04 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: E-Mat

Holy brainless Batman!!!


14 posted on 03/03/2006 12:08:06 PM PST by Waco
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To: E-Mat

The Nigerians probably moved in on this guy right after he came out about RR-when he 'outed' himself as a total moron.


15 posted on 03/03/2006 12:08:41 PM PST by Spok (Est omnis de civilitate.)
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To: E-Mat

Always good to see another liberal dupe.


16 posted on 03/03/2006 12:08:47 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: E-Mat

This only reinforces my beliefs about psychologists AND university professors.


17 posted on 03/03/2006 12:08:51 PM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: saganite

The lottery is a tax on people who flunked high school math, and at least when the numbers were run by the Mob, they gave out a 100% payoff.


18 posted on 03/03/2006 12:08:59 PM PST by jonascord ("As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!")
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To: goldstategop

"I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie."


Sounds like you did'nt attend the Fri. nite dinner at the CRP Convention! (Arnold spoke.)


19 posted on 03/03/2006 12:09:19 PM PST by gc4nra ( this tag line protected by Kimber and the First Amendment (I voted for McClintock))
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To: formercalifornian

I call it karma.


20 posted on 03/03/2006 12:10:04 PM PST by MikeA (Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, the mainstream media: The As*es of Evil)
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