Man Pleads Guilty to Impersonating Doctor
From Times Staff Reports
An man imprisoned four times over two decades for posing as a physician pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court Wednesday to doing it again.
Gerald Barnes, 70, faces up to eight years in prison under a plea agreement. Barnes, trained as a pharmacist, was arrested in 2000 while working as a contract physician at a North Hollywood medical clinic.
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