The unsinkable Michael Brown
Brown Hand Center doc accused of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on his yacht in new suit
The Harris County District Court has itself another doozy of a case from everybody's favorite disgraced doctor Michael Brown.
A former chief of staff at the Brown Medical Center — the good hand doctor's lucrative chain of carpal-tunnel surgery offices — claims Brown cut his salary for not participating in a hodgepodge of illicit activity.
As first uncovered by hand doc expert Craig Malisow, buried at the center of the suit is a particularly disturbing incident in which Brown "sexually assaulted an unconscious woman on his boat in the presence of others." (Brown's interest in photographing young women on his yachts has been documented in past court cases.)
The plaintiff Ray von Proctor says that two of Brown's employees produced statements detailing the boat scene. With a lawsuit pending concerning the doctor's alleged sexually-charged choking attack on a British Airways flight, Brown staffers discussed the possibility of offering the two boat witness employees hush money, according to this new lawsuit.
Von Proctor claims he was punished by Brown for not participating in a hodgepodge of illicit activity.
Von Proctor says he refused to take part . . . just like he says he refused to obtain prescription drugs for Brown, cut off payments to the doctor's estranged wife or hide large cash transactions that violated the terms of divorce and bankruptcy proceedings.
Von Proctor claims that Brown made him pay for this integrity. His suit charges that Brown retaliated by demoting von Proctor from chief of staff to a director of personal asset management — a post with half the salary of his prior position.
On the identity theft front, von Proctor says he was listed without permission as president of a company used to purchased an $8 million Florida mansion (another divorce proceeding violation). He also claims his personal information was stolen to secure the doctor a $600,000 line of credit, a scheme masterminded by the nefariously-named Brown Medical Center executive Charles Cave.
Brown's attorney Robert Hantman tells the Houston Press that the allegations are all "part of von Proctor's imagination and fantasy" . . . the delusions of an angry employee "living vicariously through the doctor."
