Reporters have called it “one of the largest single crackdowns on organized crime in L.A. County history” — on August 6th, local authorizes from multiple agencies cracked down on the Los Angeles drug crime trade created by the Mexican Mafia prison gang. The raid collected almost $20 million in methamphetamines…
Do you face Los Angeles drug charges, such as illegal possession, distribution, or conspiracy? If so, you can probably relate to the plights of two female reality starts: Tulisa Contostavlos (former X Factor judge) and Jenelle Evans, (star of the reality show, Teen Mom). Tulisa — who won fame as…
Most Los Angeles lewd conduct cases are “drama-filled,” but odds are that your scary legal situation has gotten nowhere near as much press as Kaitlyn Hunt’s has. The 19-year-old Florida cheerleader has been jailed (again), after having sex with her 14-year-old girlfriend. Authorities first arrested Hunt back in February and…
As someone recently arrested for Los Angeles lewd conduct, you’re probably aware of what’s been happening with Anthony Weiner, an ex-Congressman and current candidate in the upcoming New York City Mayoral election. Weiner, who’s married to former Hillary Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, resigned from Congress in 2011, in the wake…
What makes a Los Angeles Medicare fraud story newsworthy? • Is it the sheer amount of fraud involved? • Is it the number of people allegedly harmed by deception? • Is it the stress that the case puts both on the Medicare system and on the court system? • Is…
You just got a Burbank DUI. Maybe it was your first. Perhaps it was your second. Hopefully (fingers crossed) it wasn’t your third or fourth. But odds are, you’re at least still in the single digits. What happens if someone gets 16 DUIs within a lifetime? What should the appropriate…
Medicare fraud cases in Southern California (and elsewhere) can start to sound pretty similar to one another, especially if you report on these crimes month after month, year after year, as we’ve done on this blog. But every once in a while, a riveting, different kind of story bursts through…
As your blood alcohol concentration goes up, your likelihood of DUI in Long Beach increases. But what are the record BAC levels? If you’ve had any alcohol education, you’re probably familiar with the general classifications. If your BAC is over 0.08%, you’re considered DUI under Long Beach law, and you…
The annals of Los Angeles healthcare fraud are filled with astonishing tales. As an expose in Los Angeles Weekly recently described in vivid detail, con artists, tricksters and “good doctors turned to bad” have engaged in diverse shenanigans to pilfer funds from the federal government’s coffers. But few schemes hold…
A federal jury just convicted 49-year-old Godwin Onyeabor and two confederates of scheming to defraud Medicare in Los Angeles to the tune of $1.5 million. Onyeabor, who had been working for a San Bernardino company, Fendih Medical Supply Inc., paid kickbacks to another doctor and healthcare professional to write fake…