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Re:	Undone White Collar – A Memoir. My Story of Desire, Corruption, & Redemption

From criminal psychologist for the United States government to notorious headlining white collar criminal; from  respected therapist and professor turned trendy nightclub owner; and ultimately from licensed stockbroker to federal prisoner,  Undone White Collar - A Memoir of Desire, Corruption, & Redemption chronicles the coming undone of my heavily starched white collar after meeting with success.

I expose my public and private lives portraying my glorified rise and brutal plunge, and the ominous facets which accompany all our accomplished goals and dreams. There is a dark side to succes I discovered

Memoirs and nonfiction written by psychologists’ have long been of interest to students and adults of many markets for the imparting of personal information which readers can identify with. Such books prove invaluable in helping ordinary people bear witness to the fact all of us can accomplish extraordinary feats.

On a personal level the public finds stories of white collar crime, justice, addiction, and redemption equally of interest. Nonfiction concerning struggles and the fight for justice, which we all identify with at some level, stirs readers to strive to overcome the obstacles amidst their own circumstances. On a wider reaching scale, Enron, Martha Stewart, WorldCom, and Tyco have created intrigue regarding the nods and winks of corporate scandals and true white collar crime. James Comey, the United States Attorney who orchestrated the indictment of Martha Stewart, also coordinated my 16 count indictment, 14 counts of which were dropped. No other memoir outlines the personal and emotional aspects of desire and the portentous aspects of success. After meeting with success beyond my wildest dreams, I become a stranger to myself and come undone as result of disenchantment, corruption, and addiction.

My cup had runneth over and I felt dirty and shameful from the disarray.

During my litany of appearances on television, newspapers, and in public, people sit enthralled as I describe sitting face to face for nearly a decade conducting psychological evaluations and psychotherapy with many of the USA’s most violent and heinous criminals, including notorious death row inmates. Additionally I have stumbled upon scores of revelations while sitting with conventional people struggling with ordinary problems in my office as a therapist. I have discovered equally valuable insight about the human spirit during my tenure as a nightclub owner, an ignominious federal inmate, and a disgraced Christian son.

Professionally, I have been a psychologist with the Virginia Department of Corrections; a Chief Psychologist with Correctional Medical Services; a therapist at The Richmond Health and Wellness Center; an adjunct professor at J. Sergeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Virginia; and a licensed stockbroker for a New York Stock Exchange member-firm. I also owned the popular and fashionable nightclub Shotz in Richmond’s historic entertainment district Shockoe Bottom. I have presented numerous seminars on behalf of the Virginia Department of Corrections and the Richmond Health and Wellness in many areas of psychology.

When people were singing songs of joy and peace during Christmas 1998, the FBI and Secret Service knocked on my door handing me a search warrant. Five months later I was arrested at my restaurant by the Secret Service and subsequently indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Richmond on 16 counts of money laundering, bank fraud, and wire fraud in 1999. On December 6, 1999 I plead guilty to one count of money laundering and one court of bank fraud in front of James R. Spencer, United States District Judge who was appointed by Ronald Regan in 1986. I was handed a 33 month sentence. I served the customary 85% of this sentence totaling 29 months, 24 of which at Allenwood Pennsylvania, the same ‘Club Fed’ which G. Gordon Liddy served his penance after the Nixon Watergate fiasco.

I later became a tabloid target coming under the scrutiny of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2005. Their investigation exonerated me, however I plead guilty in a local provincial court to a litany of offences under mysterious circumstances in Ontario Canada and served 16 months in Correctional Services Canada.

Finally, contrary to other books egregiously and fraudulently claiming to be nonfiction, this is a nonfiction book based on fact. Fortunately and unfortunately, each page of this book is true easily supported by documentary evidence. The extraordinary and unique circumstances I have experienced render no necessity to demonstrate a blatant disregard for the truth for literary or creative purposes. Unfortunately, not an hour of any given day passes which I am desirous of tearing out several pages of my life.

When 10 year old Charity Powers disappeared from a downtown Richmond, Virginia bowling alley in 1990 later turning up in a shallow grave in Everett Mueller’s backyard, it was Brian Atkinson who conducted Mueller’s psychological evaluation the day he received the death penalty in a Virginia courtroom. While a psychologist with the Virginia Department of Corrections at Powhatan Reception and Classification Center in State Farm, Virginia Brian conducted thousands of psychological evaluations on many of Virginia’s most violent and mentally ill criminals, including many notorious death row inmates. He also provided psychological services to the Virginia State Penitentiary, Powhatan Correctional Center, Deep Meadow Correctional Center, and Baskerville Field Unit. After several years at the Department of Correction’s Reception Center, Brian accepted a position as Chief Psychologist with Correctional Medical Services at Greensville Correctional Center’s maximum security mental heath unit. Brian testified in court regularity regarding competency and the administration of psychological services to mentally ill inmates. During his near decade tenure as a psychologist, Brian also established a private practice as a therapist at The Richmond Health and Wellness Centre with Dr. Vernon Sylvest, author of ‘Who Gets Sick and Why?’, and Dr. Sandra McClanahan. As a psychologist he worked closely with psychiatrist Dr. Graenum Schiff Contributing Editor of DSM-III. Brian was also an adjunct professor of psychology at J. Sergeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond. Following his career as a psychologist Brian acquired and operated Shotz, a wildly popular and fashionable but shady nightclub in downtown Richmond’s historic entertainment Shockoe Bottom district. It was during Brian’s operating of Shotz that he attained both his general securities and investment advisor licenses and was employed with H.J. Meyers & Co., Inc. an Investment Banking firm in downtown Richmond, eventually gaining employment with Josepthal & Co. a New York Stock Exchange member-firm Brian was the founder of the now defunct Magellan Brokerage Firm in Richmond, Virginia and the Canadian Institute for Stress and Anxiety in Kingston, Ontario. Brian Atkinson earned a B.A. (Sociology) degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario Canada, a M.A (Counseling) degree from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and a Ph.D. (Psychology) degree from American Pacific University in Honolulu, Hawaii. Brian was investigated by the both the FBI and Secret Service and was indicted by a federal grand jury of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He pled guilty to one count of money laundering and one count of bank fraud on September 1, 1999 and also agreed to plead guilty to a charge of credit card fraud, for which he had never been charged, arrested, arraigned, or indicted on. On December 6, 1999 amidst shocking scandal and corruption and against his lawyer’s advice, Brian against the advice of his attorney took the witness stand presenting an emotional testimony, and as a result was granted a downward departure in the federal sentencing guidelines for his acceptance of responsibility. United States District Court Judge James R. Spencer a Harvard graduate and a Ronald Regan appointed federal judge presided over and granted Brian the 2 point downward departure in his sentencing guidelines, sparing Brian  from significant more prison time, handing down a sentence of  33 months. Brian served the standard 85% of his 33 month sentence at the white collar resort LSCI- Allenwood in White Deer, Pennsylvania, the same institution which held G. Gordon Liddy of the Nixon Watergate fiasco. Brian later plead guilty in Kingston, Ontario to a litany of offences including several fraud charges and received a 24 month sentence and served 16 months in the Correctional Service of Canada.