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Complaint Review: Scott Curtis Redman - Oak Forest Illinois

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  • Scott Curtis Redman 5320 West 159th Street ste 301 Oak Forest, Illinois USA

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Warning! Scott C Redman (aka Scott Curtis Redman, Scottie Redman, Scott C Redman, PhD) is NOT a psychologist or any other kind licensed psycholherapist. He has been ordered by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to cease and desist the unlicensed practice of psychology. See link below to the June 2014 Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation disciplinary reports.
 
http://www.idfpr.com/forms/discpln/2014_06enf.pdf
 
Just scroll down to psychology in the PDF from the state site to read the report of the state order.
 
Mr. Redman has used fake license numbers and the license number of a real Illinois psychologist who resides in Delaware. He has been added to the Office of the Inspector General of The United States excluded provider list after earlier surrender of a counselor intern registration in Florida.
 
In Florida, it was found that Mr. submitted phony educational credentials and "fraudulent" school transcripts in applying for a counselor license. 
 
Here is the finding and the order from Florida state regulators:  http://ww2.doh.state.fl.us/DocServiceMngr/GetImage.aspx?documentid=MTQzMTE4MTQ=&enc=1
 
The finding of fraud reads as follows in Florida:
 
"SCOTT C. REDMAN, MHCI, has attempted to obtain a license, registration or certificate under this chapter by fraudulent misrepresentation. SCOTT C. REDMAN, MHI, submitted an Intern Registration Application to the Board of CSW, MFT and MHC on August 29, 2009, in which he listed a graduate degree from Kaplan University. In addition, he submitted a transcript from Kaplan University with an Orlando, Florida address. It has been discovered that the transcript submitted by SCOTT C. REDMAN, MHCI, was fraudulent as Kaplan University does not offer a Master of Arts Degree in Forensic Psychology."
 
If Mr. Redman or his proxies appear to deny any of this, follow the links above to the official state websites. He has claimed that the fraudster in Illinois is not the same man as the fraudster in Florida. Both, however, have the same first middle and last names, both have the same birthdate 6-5-79, both have used the same NPI number and photos on the web from his Illinois activities and his personal photos show that Mr. Redman of Florida and Mr. Redman of Illinois are one and the same person.
 
After selling his home and leaving the state of Florida in May 2011, Mr. Redman recommenced practice in Illinois, posing as an Illinois licensed psychologist, this time claiming a PhD from Walden University. There is no evidence that Mr. Redman earned this degree and considering his actions in Florida, there is every reason to suspect that he once again claimed a fictitious degree. In any case, Walden's program is not properly accredited for consideration for psychologist licensure in Illinois. An inconvient fact this con man overlooked when he selected a degree to perpetrate his fraud.
 
Mr. Redman subsequently engaged in an elaborate hoax, advertising on therapist finder websites, claiming years of experience treating a wide range of problems, including problems of adults and children. Someone also posted obviously fabricated positive reviews of on doctor rating sites. There were reviews that say that Dr. Redman has been a wonderful psychologis who has helped many people do not come from psychotherapy patients because privacy and confidentiality laws prevent patients from knowning about their therapists cases.
 
When his fraud surfaced after the the Illinois board action was reported, numerous advertising and ratings sites checked into the accusations and subsequently removed Mr. Redman from their listings. Mr. Redman or his proxies then posted on doctor rating sites, inane responses to evidence of his multiple frauds in two states. Perhaps when it became evident that Mr. Redman could not overcome the hard evidence that he is a con man and a fraud, he listed his practice as closed on his google page a few days prior to this review in Ripoff Report. All reviews of Mr. Redman are now disapparing from ratings sites.
 
Mr. Redman had also fraudulently obtained an NPI number (National Physicians' Identifier) from CMs/Health and Human Services, which does not check the validity of applications for NPI numbers.  Redman received his number in 2009. At some point he modified his NPI information to read that he is an Illinois Licensed Psychologist. He included a fictitious license number on his NPI page.  On September 4, 2014, as he was rapidly being exposed as a fraud for the second time during his fraudulent career, he changed his NPI information again, removing the phony license number and psychologist designation. He is now simply listed as a community health worker with no license. It's a meaningless designation tha does not qualify a provider for any independent professional health practice.
 
You  must follow the links I provided to see that I am being 100% truthful about the state regulatory board orders from Illinois and Florida. You must search the OIG site using his name to find the excluded provider decision.
 
I am posting this because Mr. Redman is erasing his electronic trail, and the ratings sites that previously had the information about his fraud are removing all reviews. Since he isn't a real therapist, psychologist.  Given Scott Curtis Redman's history of getting caught in Florida and simply moving to another state to resume his fraud, and given the considerable lengths Mr. Scott C Redman went to in order to conceal his fraud and continue his illegal practice, it is not unreasonable to assume that he may simply move to yet another state and try to start all over with his con game, with most of the electronic trail erased.  By posting this review, I hope that any prospective "patients" will in future be able to read and follow links I provided to check on Mr. Redman's con game should he resume. You should know, as well that he blames all of this on former colleagues out to get him or mistaken identity. Follow the links.

Finally, there is a real and apparently legitimate Scott C Redman in Lake Havasu, Utah.  He is a real, legitimate Occupational Therapist. That man has a different birthday, personal history and occupation.  An occupational theraist is not at all the same as a psychotherapist, psychotherapy counselor, social worker or Marriage/family counselor. The problem of fraud involves Scott Curtis Redman, (dob x-x-79).

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Update: Scott Redman Arrestted

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POSTED: Saturday, July 18, 2015

Conman Scott C Redman has finally been arrested by police in Illinois.  The Chicago Tribune has the story and talks with one of his victims.

chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/news/ct-sta-oak-lawn-therapist-update-st-0603-20150603-story.html

 

As the Chicago story reveals, the first time Scott Redman pulled is con down in Florida, his own mother reported him to authorities.

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Update on Status of Scott Redman Case

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POSTED: Friday, March 06, 2015

From the January 2015, Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Disciplinary Reports:

Scott Redman, Dolton – (unlicensed) assessed a $10,000 civil penalty for unlicensed practice as a clinical psychologist. 

idfpr.com/Forms/DISCPLN/2015_01enf.pdf

 

 

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Above report corroborated by healthgrades

AUTHOR: Concernerest - ()

POSTED: Friday, September 19, 2014

The healthcare provider review website, healthgrades, has modified the official listing for Scott C Redman since I filed the report above. Health Grades posts sanction information received directly from the state regulatory boards involved. Healthgrades has now posted state sanction actions against Scott C (Curtis) Redman from the states of Illinois and Florida. They have included a link to the Florida order. The reports at healthgrades independently further corroborate my previous report of Scott C Redman's fraudulent activity. Moreover, healthgrades identifies the Scott C Redman sanctioned for fraud in Florida as one and the same person as Scott C Redman sanctioned in Illinois.

http://www.healthgrades.com/provider/scott-redman-3w5np/background-check

Mr. Redman has a history of denial and obfuscation when confronted with the evidence. Since my previous rippoff report was filed, he removed a myspace account with photos of himself in Florida, showing that he is the same Scott Redman pictured in promotional material for his fraudulent practice in Illinois. Perhaps he erroneously believes that there are no time-stamped screen shots of those pages or server records at that social media website.

If Mr. Redman attempts to resume practice elsewhere, do not be confused by smooth talk and double talk. You can see in the Florida report that when the state itself confronted him with hard evidence of his fraud, Mr. Redman denied his fraud, which was as plain as the nose on his face. He ultimately surrendered his fraudulently obtained license in a deal that avoided additonal charges. That's all in the State of Florida report online.

It is as yet unknown to me whether the State of Illinois will indict and criminally prosecute Mr. Redman for his fraudulent activities here, but that seems an option that would remain available to the state.

I would not feel compelled to post these reports if I could be confident that Mr. Redman would not resume his fraud, but his history of fraud and his persistence in fraud since 2009, even after getting caught redhanded by the authorities, raises the liklihood that Mr. Redman will resume his fraudulent representation of himself as a mental health clinician of some kind.

 

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