AG takes Grandville psychiatrist files

GRANDVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) - Special agents from the Michigan Attorney General's office took a computer and files from the Grandville office of a psychiatrist.

The Attorney General's Lansing office told 24 Hour News 8 that there are no charges yet in the case.

The AG's office said they could not say what they were looking for or how it might affect any patients because the investigation is still ongoing.

There have been no complaints and no disciplinary action of any kind against her by the state since she gained her license in 1983.

It doesn't appear investigators visited Dr. Nan Alt's other offices in Holland and White Cloud on Wednesday.

Patient Rachel Sutton said that she wants to stay with her doctor -- as long as there aren't any issues with the law.

"As long as there's no legal action against her, I will continue to go there," said Sutton. "But if there is any legal action against her then I don't want to continue to go with her."

Dr. Nan Alt's office at 4565 Wilson Ave. SW was closed Wednesday afternoon and evening.

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Nan Alt is listed as the president of "Clinical Psychiatric Medicine, P.C.," which is run out of the Grandville office.  

Alt and several members of her family were indicted by federal prosecutors in 1993, 24 Hour News 8 learned. The government accused them of tax fraud, part of a long running battle between the Alts and the IRS.  

Court records show the case against her was later dismissed after a plea deal by other family members.
 
Alt told a federal court in 1999 that her company employed four of her relatives, but she couldn't say what they did, who owned stock in the company or even what her role in the company is. Because she refused to answer questions in a deposition and by a judge, a federal bankruptcy judge at that time ruled she could not file for bankruptcy as a way to help clean up her debt, which included more than $250,000 owed to the IRS.