“Militant element” Within Occupy: Indicted NJ Dr. Roberto Rivera Was Fired For Stalking

Legal Insurrection has all the particulars on Roberto Rivera’s arrest and indictment:

A NJ doctor has been indicted on charges in relation to the storage of bomb-making materials and illegal weapons in his home. More via » NJ Doctor With Occupy Wall Street Ties Indicted on Explosives Related Charge – Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.

This below is from Ridgewood-GlenRock Patch in November 2012. You just can’t trust dating sites, I guess. But along with that, sure this guy profiles like a nut. But was he violent? He stalked a nurse with a bicycle. Okay….

The comments from his live-in suggest there was a “militant element” within Occupy of which she was aware – but he wasn’t part of it. Still, that’s more proof of a militant element within Occupy than I’ve ever seen as regards one within any Tea Party group.

Rivera joined the staff of St. Vincent’s Medical Center in 1991 as an attending physician, and spent 15 years there before his employment was terminated over allegations that he stalked a nurse who worked with him in the Department of Community Medicine, court records show.

Rivera and the nurse, whose name Patch is withholding, had developed a “deep friendship,” and the doctor took to extremes to stay in contact with her after she tried to end the relationship, such as following her home on a bicycle, the nurse alleged.

Rivera left his wife and rented an apartment in the same Brooklyn neighborhood in which the nurse lived, according to the court records. He would follow her to work and leave notes on her desk, she claimed.

Roberto Rivera sued St. Vincent’s hospital in 2007 after the hospital terminated him when he did not submit to a psychiatric evaluation in the wake of stalking allegations by a nurse.

The woman with whom Rivera was staying in Ridgewood, 55-year-old Shannon Mulligan, told NorthJersey.com that the doctor was a “passionate intellectual” whom she met on a dating website.

Mulligan told NorthJersey.com that Rivera was non-violent and did not agree with “any militant element” inside the Occupy movement.

That description may seem at odds with the alleged bomb-making chemicals, assault rifles and other weapons police say they found in Rivera’s home during the raid.

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