A former Rutgers medical school professor and director at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has been accused of recording at least 26 women and three other people in various states of undress in a bathroom and breaking into his colleague’s offices to commit identity theft, among other charges in a sweeping 160-count indictment of alleged illegal activity over a two year span.

Dr. James Goydos, 58, a then-professor of surgery Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, was initially arrested in March 2018 and charged with having an unregistered and unlicensed assault rifle after police searched his East Brunswick home. At the time, Goydos was put on leave from Rutgers, where he specialized in melanoma treatment, and authorities declined to say what prompted the search.

The indictment against Goydos issued in December, however, revealed a wide range of charges involving accusations at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey offices in New Brunswick and elsewhere in Middlesex County dating to April 2016.

The charges include: invasion of privacy (more than 100 counts), official misconduct, burglary, computer theft, impersonation, wiretapping, falsely implicating another, coercion, hindering, possession of an assault rifle and possession of a prohibited device. He is next due in court in March.

Goydos is no longer employed at Rutgers, Peter McDonough Jr., a Rutgers spokesman, confirmed in an email this week. McDonough said that none of the allegations were related to patient care. Goydos earned a $437,500 while working at Rutgers, according to public records.

A message left at Goydos’s East Brunswick home was not returned and an attempt to reach him on social media was unsuccessful. His attorney did not return a message.

According to the 41-page indictment, Goydos entered offices of four people in the Cancer Institute of New Jersey during 2016 and stole information from their computers in a “scheme to defraud, or to obtain services, property, personal identifying information or money.” He then impersonated the employees to get “benefit for himself or another, or to injure or defraud another,” according to the indictment.

Additional official misconduct charges have been brought against him for using his status as a Rutgers employee to access the computers and information.

In 2017, Goydos is accused of filming or photographing, without their consent, 26 women and three others whose genders were not identified, obtaining images of them in various stages of undress, according to the indictment. Andrea Boulton, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, said the victims were not photographed or filmed in Goydos’s capacity as a physician, but in a bathroom at his workplace.

McDonough said the university immediately contacted the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office after learning of Goydos’s activities.

Goydos was indicted after a joint investigation from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Rutgers University Police Department, according to the prosecutor’s office.

His LinkedIn profile lists his job as the director of the Melanoma and Soft Tissue Oncology Program at RWJ, and indicates he started working at Rutgers in 1995. He also studied medicine at RWJ during the 1980s.

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