THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2005

LONG ISLAND MAN CHARGED WITH POSING AS GYNECOLOGIST AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTING WOMAN FOLLOWING UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION
Faces Up to Four Years in Prison

Queens County District Attorney Richard A. Brown, joined by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, announced today that a Long Island waterproofer who allegedly posed as a gynecologist and conducted job interviews for office staff at two Queens motels has been charged with a variety of crimes – including practicing medicine without a license and aggravated sexual assault – after requesting an undercover police officer posing as a job seeker to strip and submit to a pap smear swab before soliciting her to perform a sexual act on him.

District Attorney Brown said, “Masquerading as a medical doctor, the defendant is alleged to have intentionally taken advantage of the implicit trust that is the foundation of the doctor-patient relationship to sexually assault and exploit vulnerable women for his own sexual gratification. The consequences of such assaults on the victims can be profound. Such exploitation cannot be tolerated.”

Police Commissioner Kelly said, “The suspect was a wolf in sheep’s clothing who our detectives recognized as the sexual predator he was.”

The District Attorney identified the defendant as Alan Psaty, 55, of 28 Park Circle in Cedarhurst and of 144-32 69 Road in Queens. He is being held pending arraignment in Queens Criminal Court on two felony complaints charging him with two counts of Unlawful Practice of a Profession (Medicine), two counts of Unauthorized Use of a Professional Title, one count of Aggravated Sexual Abuse in the Fourth Degree, one count of Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree and one count of Patronizing a Prostitute in the Fourth Degree. If convicted he faces up to four years in prison.

The District Attorney said that a criminal complaint charges that the defendant, posing as Dr. Richard Rubin, telephoned a Brooklyn employment agency and requested the agency to provide him with potential employees who were female and immigrants. The agency put him in touch with a 20-year-old Polish immigrant who earlier in the year had paid the agency a $100 fee to assist her in obtaining a job. The defendant requested the woman to meet him for a job interview at the Imperial Hotel, located at 135-33 38th Avenue in Flushing, on November 14, 2005. During the interview, the defendant allegedly sexually assaulted her on the pretext that he was looking for someone to assist with medical examinations and that to ensure she did not have any infections he had to perform a pap smear on her.

It is further alleged that the defendant, on December 13, 2005, met with another female job seeker at the Kew Motor Inn, located at 139-01 Grand Central Parkway in Kew Gardens Hills in Queens. Unbeknownst to the defendant, the woman was an undercover police officer posing as a potential employee who said she had received his telephone number from the employment agency. During the interview, it is alleged that the defendant requested the undercover agent to go into the bathroom and remove her clothes so that he could obtain a pap smear. The undercover made an excuse and left the motel room. Later that day she again met with the defendant who allegedly offered her $25 to masturbate him.

The investigation was conducted by Detective Rafael Astacio, of the New York City Police Department’s Queens Vice Enforcement Division, under the supervision of Captain Michael E. Ameri and Sergeant Rodger O’Gara, and the overall supervision of Chief James P. O’Neill, and by Detective Salvatore Molino, of the NYPD’s Queens Special Victims Squad, under the supervision of Lieutenant Arthur Hall.

Assistant District Attorney Oscar W. Ruiz, Deputy Bureau Chief of the District Attorney’s Special Proceedings Bureau, together with Assistant District Attorneys Jennifer Michael and Susan Kim, is prosecuting the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorney Anthony M. Communiello, Bureau Chief, and the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Investigations Peter A. Crusco and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Investigations Linda M. Cantoni.

It should be noted that a criminal complaint is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.