People pulled over for Los Angeles DUI often do absurd things – sometimes comically absurd. A breaking report out of Marion County, Florida illustrates just the lengths to which certain people will go to try to stay out of trouble. A 65-year-old grandmother, Elsie Wright O’Conner, got pulled over in…
An exclusive report issued last week by the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) about the efficacy of bans on texting-while-driving may have powerful implications for Los Angeles DUI policy. The HLDI study examined rates of accidents in Louisiana, Washington, Minnesota, and California both prior to and after the implementation of…
While celebrity Los Angeles DUI cases get the lion’s share of the headlines (for examples see: Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson, Chris Klien, etc), sports stars who drive DUI have been making the news a lot recently. The Baltimore Ravens’ Assistant Coach, Andy Moeller, is one of the latest…
Celebutante Paris Hilton’s 2006 Los Angeles DUI made headlines around the globe. The billionaire heiress was sentenced to 45 days behind bars for violating her probation, and she served her jail time on June 3, 2007 – just after she finished attending the MTV Movie Awards. Her subsequent release on…
Driving under the influence in Southern California is — in and of itself — an extremely dangerous and perhaps even deadly thing to do. But a Mill Valley man by the name of Scott Lindner has been arrested not only for Southern California DUI but also for allegedly assaulting a…
Mary Delgado, a former contestant on the TV show The Bachelor, was arrested in Tampa on August 12th for DUI, after police pulled her over for having a broken headlight. Southern California DUI blogs and celebrity gossip sites immediately went to work speculating on Delgado’s situation. The 42-year-old former cheerleader…
Last week, two former operators of a Miami Clinic pled guilty in Federal Court to multiple counts of submitting false claims, committing fraud, and paying kickbacks, prompting a wide ranging discussion among Southern California medical fraud policy wonks. Jose Nogueira and his brother Rolando Nogueira operated a clinic for AIDS…
Los Angeles medical fraud analysts are closely following a breaking story out of Tampa that may have broader implications for white collar crime prosecution. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office staged a raid on a local medical rehabilitation clinic on July 16th and arrested four people in conjunction with an alleged…
Blogs and local media outlets dedicated to covering breaking news about Southern California white collar crime have been lighting up over a huge Medicare scam bust sprung the Friday before last. CBS and the AP report that, on Friday July 16th, Federal authorities took down 94 people in conjunction with…
Last February, the Orange County DA’s office announced that a dozen individuals had been arrested for Southern California medical insurance fraud in conjunction with an elaborate undercover operation. The latest defendant to be sentenced was Florin Catinas, a 36-year-old chiropractor. After pleading guilty to a felony charge, Catinas received a…