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Doctor Extorts Family for Gambling Money15 November 2002KENTUCKY – As reported by the Kentucky Courier-Journal: "Stanley Lowenbraun, a former doctor who went bankrupt in the 1990s after gambling away more than $8 million at race tracks and casinos, was arrested last week and charged with extortion and terroristic threatening. He is accused of calling family members and saying a bookie would harm them unless they helped him come up with $26,000 he owed. "Lowenbraun's daughter, Jill Endicott, a lawyer, alleged in a complaint that her father told her a bookie would 'hit' her and other family members if he didn't get the money. "But he told law-enforcement officers after being arrested Nov. 7 that the threats were a hoax to get his ex-wife to give him $26,000 that he said was due him in a proposed bankruptcy settlement. "…`'This is a terrible tragedy that shows how gambling can lead rather normal people to do extraordinary things,' said Norm Jarvis, special agent in charge for the Louisville office of the Secret Service, which has been investigating Lowenbraun for alleged bankruptcy fraud. "…According to police records, Lowenbraun's ex-wife, Ethel Lowenbraun, who also is an attorney, transferred $17,000 to him after he allegedly began making the threats Oct. 28. Lowenbraun continued making calls to try to get the remaining $9,000, according to the records. "…Lowenbraun, a former oncologist, once grossed as much as $7 million a year but was forced to retire from practice when he was found to have multiple sclerosis in October 1998. "Gambling on borrowed money, in 1998 alone he lost $2 million at Caesars Atlantic City, $400,000 at the Hilton Las Vegas, $1.7 million at Rio and $1.42 million at Trump Taj Mahal…" |