Yesterday, Friday, April 12^th 2024, Judge Charles Koosed in Department 54 in Riverside County Superior Court sentenced defendant Peyman Heidary to 54 years and 8 months in state prison and imposed a fine of more than 23 million dollars.  Restitution for the victims will be finalized on August 23^rd 2024.

This sentencing had been continued from April 1^st to the 5^th then to the 12^th for one reason or another.  

This case of fraud for workers’ compensation claims overbilling and billing for services never rendered was prosecuted by lead prosecutor Matthew Murray and deputy district attorney Kristen Allison. 

On January 18^th 2024, in the afternoon after the jury put forth a verdict of guilty against Peyman Heidary on 69 felony counts, prosecutor Matt Murray asked Judge Koosed to remand the defendant, Heidary, to jail.  Murray said that by his calculation, Peyman Heidary was looking at many decades in prison, more than 50, possibly more than 60. 

This writer immediately thought the statement was customary prosecution grandiosity.  But, as it turns out, it certainly wasn’t. 

Then prosecutor Matthew Murray said Peyman Heidary... Read More

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