Bosses at a U.K. rehab centre attended by Amy Winehouse and Jonathan Rhys Meyers have been fined $57,000 (£38,000) for treating patients without obtaining a proper licence.
District Judge Cooper criticised the owners of the Causeway Retreat for being "scandalously negligent, if not downright misleading and fraudulent" in a ruling at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court, England on Friday (19Nov10).
Managers of the private hospital on Osea Island in Essex, England pleaded guilty to two charges of carrying on a medical service that was unregistered with the Care Quality Commission.
The judge ordered them to pay $12,000 (£8,000) in fines and $45,000 (£30,000) in costs.
Experts at the clinic, which closed in May (10), treated clients including Winehouse and Rhys Meyers for alleged addiction problems.
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