Olsen Ebright, KNBC-TV (Los Angeles), November 4, 2009
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Levon Tebelekian, 72, is accused of giving medical clearance to immigrants applying for U.S. visas by allegedly falsifying the results of medical exams and lab tests, the Los Angeles Times reported.
In one case, he allegedly told an undercover ICE agent that he was not going to “disturb his blood” and that he “did not look like he had AIDS,” according to an affidavit.
Authorities are unsure how many other patients were victims of the alleged scam and may have received one of these apparent visual AIDS tests.
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“By allegedly giving some of his patients a clean bill of health without even examining them, this physician potentially put our communities at risk,” Unzueta [Miguel Unzueta, of ICE in Los Angeles] said.
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Original article
(Posted on November 5, 2009)
Comments
There is something I’m curious about…
Of what race or ethnicity is this physician? And, did he become a doctor by being admitted to medical school through affirmative action?
- There is something I’m curious about…
Of what race or ethnicity is this physician? And, did he become a doctor by being admitted to medical school through affirmative action? -
He’s Armenian. He went to med school in Armenia. He may not have benefitted much from AA, but immigration did him some good….
He’s Armenian. Armenians are considered white folks by the govt., so they aren’t eligible for affirmative action. He may not have had his medical training in the US anyway.
1 Francois: The “ian” or “yan” ending on a family name is almost universal among Armenians, though quite a few other peoples use it as well. I once went to a Soviet trained Armenian doctor and was impressed with his diagnostic skill, so I’d be reluctant to pin this on Armenian doctors as a group.
Armenians get affirmative action privileges for city jobs in Pasadena, California.
Armenians are just-on-the-literal-borderline Europeans or Asians.
However, Armenian-Americans have been turned down by US colleges when claiming special affirmative action privileges on the grounds that they qualify as Asians.
Puzzling.
George Deukmejian was the Governor of California from 1983 to 1991. He was born in the Albany, NY area. Albany and SoCal seem to be the big Armenian-American centers.
The irony of this is that Bush 41 considered Deukmejian as a running mate during his successful run for President in 1988, but he didn’t want the grind of a national campaign, so Bush settled on Dan Quayle. Bush 43 did everything in his power to stifle Congressional resolutions against the Turkish genocide of Armenians, because Turkey is supposed to be a great ally in the whatchamacallit war on somebody or some tactic.
American physicians are doing so many tests which costs the nation.
