On June 28th 2019, the straw man for Dr. Munir Uwaydah, Paul Turley, D.C., testified in Los Angeles Superior Court, in court room 106, the court of the honorable Larry Fidler. * Turley testified that Dr. Uwaydah told him that he’d spent 4.5 million dollars on defense attorneys for the members of his clan in... Read More
Matthew Rifat, less than a year ago, declared himself insolvent. His first trial in Riverside, just over a year ago, ended in a hung jury.
Matthew Rifat, who is a lawyer, worked for Dr. Munir Uwaydah. I think it’s safe to say that. Rifat was indicted in January of 2019 by the Riverside County District Attorney for workers’ compensation billing fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. The other three defendants were Dr. Uwaydah, who is still presently on the lam in... Read More
Marilyn Flynn, ex-USC dean embroiled in corruption with L.A. county supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, gets three years’ probation.
Marilyn Flynn, the former dean of the school of social work at USC, was sentenced to three years of probation and 18 months of home arrest today. Her sentencing hearing was in downtown LA at the criminal court house, Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. She was also ordered to pay $150,000. One of her... Read More
Orange County District Attorney drops charges against Dr. Jeffrey Catanzarite and Southland Spine
On July 6th, Thursday, 2023, all charges were dropped by the Orange County DA’s office against four individuals from Southland Spine. Chiropractor Dr. Jeffrey Scott Catanzarite, age 63, Dr. Max Humberto Matos, a medical doctor, age 83, and marketing professionals Ronald Lee Martin, age 72, and Veronica Martin, age 67, had their charges for workers’... Read More
Fari Rezai has his case dismissed “in the interests of justice” just weeks after his death by suicide. Jon Woods serves his full four-year-sentence in just 10 months.
Both defendants were in the same “Justicia Legal” action from 2017. At the demurrer hearing for applicants’ attorney, Fari Rezai, on June 23rd, Friday, in Orange County Superior Court, Fari Rezai’s attorney, Jeffrey Isaacs, asked the court to dismiss Fari’s case “in the interests of justice, pursuant to Penal Code Section 1385.” Isaacs wrote to... Read More
Mark Ridley-Thomas denied new trial by judge who won’t acquit him of all public corruption charges. Ridley-Thomas is loved by many who packed the court room in L.A. like happened to applicants’ attorney Jon Woods in Orange County.
On Friday, a federal court judge in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer, denied Mark Ridley-Thomas’s motion to dismiss his guilty verdict that came forth from a jury in late March 2023. Ridley-Thomas’s defense had moved for a dismissal or else to be granted a new trial. But the court upheld the conviction... Read More
Jon Woods, former applicants’ attorney who was found guilty by an Orange County jury last August 1st 2022, then received a four-year sentence, has been released from prison.
Jon Woods, a former applicants’ attorney who was issued a guilty verdict by an Orange County jury on 37 counts of workers’ compensation claims related fraud on August 1st 2022, was released from prison this week. He could have been released Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, June 5th, 6th, or 7th. This writer doesn’t know the... Read More
Workers’ compensation applicants’ attorney, Fari Rezai, of Irvine, a defendant in the “Justicia Legal” case in Orange County, has committed suicide.
Workers’ compensation claims applicants’ attorney, Fari Rezai, from Irvine, California, was charged with workers’ compensation claims fraud along with nine other applicants’ attorneys, in late May of 2017, by the Orange County District Attorney. His case was still pending as of today, on a second complaint that was filed in January of 2022, which was... Read More
