This May 18, 2011 photo shows Alfred Sapse at his Las Vegas home. The unlicensed physician was sentenced, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 in Las Vegas to 17 1/2 years in federal prison for heading a stem cell ...

An 84-year-old Las Vegas man was arrested on fraud charges Thursday after federal authorities accused him of duping patients and investors with claims that he was a retired physician who had developed ...

Dr. Alfred Sapse calls his ideas "controversial." That's one way of putting it. Other scientists call them quackery. Sapse claims to know about a revolutionary technique of using stem-cell transplants ...

A Las Vegas man who misrepresented himself as a retired physician convinced more than 100 chronically ill patients to undergo experimental stem cell implant procedures that he claimed could cure ...

July 15, 2010, LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man who purports to be a retired physician and allegedly caused over 100 chronically ill patients to undergo experimental stem cell implant procedures and ...

Federal prosecutors paint a picture of 85-year-old Alfred Sapse solely as a fraud. Yet documents show that this frail, stooped individual who speaks with a thick Eastern European accent does have a ...

An unlicensed physician who conned 134 chronically ill patients over the last four years into undergoing experimental stem cell procedures he claimed could cure diseases like multiple sclerosis and ...

A Las Vegas doctor has been implanting stem cells harvested from placentas into patients with multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and other diseases in violation of federal law, according to a ...

It was an exciting opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a promising pharmaceutical company. Or so Carole Aronin thought. "The project involved treating children with HIV for depression in ...