Were you or a close family member or friend recently arrested and charged with Los Angeles healthcare fraud? If so, you are not alone. According to recently released government statistics – thanks to the Obama administration’s efforts, federal healthcare fraud prosecutions spiked more than 85% in 2011 over 2010. The…
Last Tuesday, a jury convicted Pastor Christopher Iruke in a multimillion dollar Los Angeles healthcare fraud case. Iruke, an employee, and Iruke’s wife were nailed on charges of healthcare fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud for devising and carrying out a scam that bilked Medicare for $14 million. A story…
Hopefully we won’t be reading about Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus going through the gauntlet of the Pasadena DUI process any time soon. We need at least some of our young fresh-faced celebrities to stay sober and clean and act as responsible role models. But young celebs like Cyrus and…
Newsflash: the Southern California Medicare fraud crackdown is real. The Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, FBI, and other organizations are taking dead aim at fraud rings. They want to punish schemers and sending a warning to would-be white collar criminals in Los Angeles: consequences can be…
Brace yourself for a slew of high profile Southern California medicare fraud arrests. According to a July 10 article in Los Angeles Times, “Medicare Anti-fraud Detection System Launched,” federal officials have set up a powerful new predictive modeling system to identify Medicare fraud and punish syndicates and individuals who bill…
Pro football fans were dealt another setback last week – more Long Beach DUI bad news. The NFL has been shellacked this year: possible season ending/shortening labor strikes; concerns about players’ long-term brain health; multiple DUI arrests at both the NFL and college level. Steelers’ wide receiver Hines Ward added…
If you or someone you care about has recently been arrested or indicted for Southern California Medicare fraud, you have company. As this blog regularly reports, government investigators are cracking down, big time, on entitlement fraud across the country. One of the biggest news stories on this front came out…
Ask anyone in law enforcement how to end the problem of Long Beach DUI, and they will tell you that we need better enforcement, more measurement of the problem, better education and tools for law enforcement, drivers, road engineers and policymakers. These are good points. And if we did indeed…
A quiet but disturbing Los Angeles Medicare fraud case resolved last Monday, when 45-year-old Petros Odachyan was sentenced to 51 months in prison in a Los Angeles Federal Court pursuant to charges that his company, RL Medical Supply, defrauded Medicare out of $600,000 (after billing the program for more than…
After U.S. lawmakers pressured Apple, the tech company has banned an app called “Buzzed” which revealed the locations of Long Beach DUI checkpoints (and checkpoints elsewhere) that police had not previously publicized. Apple also changed its online store guidelines to come into compliance with this new policy: “Apps which contain…