Matthew Rifat’s trial with the California Bar Trial Court has been continued from January 6th 2025 to whenever. No new date yet. Did his guilty admission plea to PC section 549 involve moral turpitude?
Matthew Rifat’s trial with the California Bar Trial Court will now not happen on January 6th 2025. It has now been continued forward to an undecided date, at this time. He also was scheduled for temporary suspension of his Bar license but now it’s been delayed until November 22nd. That’s in just a few days. ... Read More
Attorney Matthew Rifat set for trial with the California Bar on Monday, January 6th 2025. Hopefully, it coincides with the end of the line for the workers’ compensation claims fraud career of Dr. Munir Uwaydah.
It would be a happy ending if Dr. Uwaydah would just get stuck down some rabbit hole in Lebanon with all the bombing going on around him. Leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas have been killed; hundreds of civilians are being killed. And most likely Dr. Munir Uwaydah is there in Beirut hiding as best he... Read More
Sam Solakyan argued in his appeal that honest services mail fraud does not involve a doctor-patient relationship. Any honest services charges, he argued, have to involve tangible harm.
But his arguments didn’t fly… Solakyan had his appeal answered at the very end of September 2024 by the 7th federal Circuit court. His jury trial happened in 2021. Clearly, he was found guilty by the jury on 12 counts and that’s obviously why he appealed. He was charged with conspiracy and honest services mail... Read More
Sam Solakyan lost on his appeal. What were the appeals judges’ arguments and opinions?
Judge Gabriel Sanchez wrote the Opinion from the 9th Circuit federal court of appeal on September 30th 2024, just within this past month. And this ruling affirmed the conviction of Sam Solakyan. Solakyan’s conviction for 12 counts of fraud related to workers’ compensation claims kick-backs and cross referrals within his coterie of doctors, practitioners,... Read More
David Wayne Fish can’t learn a new game. After being convicted twice dating back to 1995, Fish navigates another $100 million workers’ compensation claims fraud ring.
David Wayne Fish was banned for life from the California workers’ compensation system after being twice convicted of workers’ compensation claims fraud. But he allegedly can’t figure out a new job that isn’t a scam of selling patients, giving kick-backs one way or the other, and that includes percentages from the medical services under... Read More
Sam Solakyan’s guilty verdict for honest services mail fraud and health care fraud affirmed by 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Sam Solakyan operated as an ostensible CEO and owner under different company names: Global Holdings, Empire Radiology, Vital Imaging, Empire Radiology and others. He was indicted in a federal case on September 25th 2018. His case was heard in the United States District Court of the Southern District of California. He was released from custody... Read More
Caroline Ellison, former girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, and former executive of Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research hedge fund, gets sentenced to two years in prison by federal judge on September 24th.
Yesterday, Tuesday, September 24th 2024, a New York Manhattan U.S. District Federal judge sentenced former cryptocurrency executive Caroline Ellison to two years in prison and ordered her to forfeit 11.2 billion dollars. Caroline Ellison agreed to a plea deal in December of 2022. She became the prosecution’s star witness. She had worked for FTX, of... Read More
What are the specific charges against Hazel Ortega?
Hazel Ortega had a second complaint filed against her on July 24, 2024. It was filed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney. She is a vocational counselor who works to return injured workers back to work after an injury when the worker cannot return to his-her usual and customary position as a result of... Read More
