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Applicants’ attorney Jon Woods wins on appeal to dismiss 33 counts out of a 37-count conviction.

Lonce Lamonte | March 25, 2025

Jon Woods was charged with workers’ compensation claims fraud in 2017 along with several other applicants’ attorneys by the Orange County District Attorney. He was tried in 2019 and got a mistrial on April 17, 2019. He was tried again in July of 2022 after a long delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic; he then got a conviction by that jury on 37 counts of conspiracy and insurance fraud related charges on August 1st 2022.

Jon went to jail and then to Wasco State Prison for a total of ten months. He received a four-year sentence from Judge Patrick Donahue in the Santa Ana Superior Court. He was released early due to many credits including work credits. He worked in the jail’s kitchen. He was happy to be working, he said, during a conversation with this writer while in the Santa Ana central men’s jail. It helped him to pass the time.

Now, on March 18^th 2025, he received a ruling from the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three in Santa Ana. He got 33 counts, which were counts 5 through 37, overturned by this appeals court. Now only counts 1 through 4 remain.

Count 1 is for conspiracy. Woods conspired with Carlos Arguello to refer workers’ compensation clients for compensation in violation of Labor Code section 3215 and... Read More

Matthew Rifat’s trial starts up again tomorrow, March 20th 2025, Thursday, at 9:00 am

Lonce Lamonte | March 19, 2025

The trial picks up again tomorrow morning after being in recess since March 7^th, Friday, 2025. But what happened to open the case on Tuesday, March 4^th?

Here’s some... Read More

Matthew Rifat spends four days on trial, so far, with the California Bar to defend his law license

Lonce Lamonte | March 8th, 2025

Matthew Rifat’s trial has gone on for four days. It began on Tuesday, March 4th 2025, and went through yesterday, Friday, March 7th 2025. It is still on-going. It is planned at this time to continue on March 20th and 21st, Thursday and Friday; and is expected to end on that Friday, March 21st. Thus,... Read More

Other lawyers have committed the same actions as Matthew Rifat and were not alleged to have committed a crime

Lonce Lamonte | March 2nd, 2025

The following further facts were discovered by Matthew Rifat after the California Bar brought this case against him because he pled guilty to a felony. Because of this, the Bar is bringing their proceedings against him to determine if his crime was one of moral turpitude. This is all because the Indictment against him from... Read More

Matthew Rifat working on stipulations of fact and exhibits for his upcoming trial with the California Bar Court on March 4, 2025

Lonce Lamonte | March 1st, 2025

Matthew Rifat’s trial with the California Bar Court is coming up on Tuesday, March 4th 2025. He is to start out working on stipulations of fact and exhibits. The Court has indicated that it is not interested in anything other than what Matthew did know and when he knew about any misconduct at Blue Oak... Read More

Attorney Matthew Rifat, who worked as a vendor bookkeeping service for Dr. Uwaydah’s Blue Oak Medical Group, fights to keep his California Bar license.

Lonce Lamonte | February 19th, 2025

Matthew Rifat’s Bar trial is set for March 4th 2025. The trial Judge has asked the parties to file briefs or motions on scope. The Bar prosecution, within the Office of Chief Trial Counsel, has stated they will present the same case to the Bar Court as was the case dismissed almost a year ago... Read More

California State Bar Trial for attorney Matthew Rifat scheduled to start on March 4, 2025. Rifat pled guilty to “reckless disregard” for whether Blue Oak Medical intended to commit insurance fraud.

Lonce Lamonte | February 16th, 2025

Attorney Matthew Rifat’s trial with the California State Bar Court is still scheduled to begin on March 4, 2025, Tuesday. There was a conference with the new judge, Phong Wang, on this case last Thursday, February 13th 2025. This is the third judge since these California Bar discipline proceedings began for Rifat. The Bar does... Read More

Matthew Rifat awarded $475,000 by the federal court in the southern district in California for violation of his civil rights by the Riverside County District Attorney

Lonce Lamonte | February 4th, 2025

Matthew Rifat, who had been under prosecution from the Riverside County District Attorney for workers’ compensation claims fraud and money laundering since January of 2019, and up until February 29th 2024, has won a $475,000 award from the Federal U.S. District Court of the Southern District of California. The award was given on January 14,... Read More

Matthew Rifat working on stipulations of fact and exhibits for his upcoming trial with the California Bar Court on March 4, 2025

Attorney Matthew Rifat, who worked as a vendor bookkeeping service for Dr. Uwaydah’s Blue Oak Medical Group, fights to keep his California Bar license.