Ex-doctor pleads not guilty to bilking immigrants

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Thursday, February 23, 2006

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By The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO -- An unlicensed doctor pleaded not guilty Wednesday to bilking hundreds of immigrants by allegedly performing fake medical exams and injecting them with a saline solution he claimed was a vaccine.

Stephen Brian Turner is accused of taking $247,000 from 1,417 victims, most of whom thought they were receiving legitimate immigration checkups.

Turner, 51, entered the plea in San Francisco Superior Court to more than 100 felony charges, including practicing medicine without a license, mishandling blood samples and grand theft.

Prosecutors said he surrendered his California medical license in 1998, but continued seeing patients until late last year.

Turner is being on $1.45 million bail and scheduled to appear in court again on March 16.

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