Defense counsel Bill Fleming just kept on going. When he said he was long winded, he wasn’t kidding. He went on and on. He knew the intimate details of every lie told by Hoffman’s former collector Louis Santillan. It was still the late morning of March 1, 2022. Bill Fleming: Now, it’s clear that the... Read More
Bill Fleming, left, with his client, Sim Hoffman, leave the preliminary hearing on September 2, 2015.
Dr. Sim Hoffman’s defense counsel continues to go on about Louis Santillan’s lies. Says Santillan is responsible for all the fraud.
Bill Fleming in his closing argument went on with his soliloquy about lying and truth. One who tells the truth, he explained, always tells the same story because that person knows what happened. But liars, when they’re making it up, can’t keep track of their story. Louis Santillan, Bill said, testified on the stand that... Read More
Bill Fleming, left, with his client, Sim Hoffman, leave the preliminary hearing on September 2, 2015.
Defense lawyer Bill Fleming in Sim Hoffman, M.D. trial delivers closing argument. His pounds his point that Louis Santillan is a liar.
Defense attorney Bill Fleming stood at the podium before the jury in his charcoal grey suit. He is slender and tall. He looked relaxed, handsome, and with his hair torked up on the sides at the crown of his head as he always has it combed. It is March 1, 2022. He began by thanking... Read More
Closing arguments take place in the Sim Hoffman, M.D. fraud trial in Orange County. The prosecution goes first.
It was time for the prosecution to give closing arguments. So, Vincent Marinaccio stepped up behind the podium facing the jury. He wore a yellow tie. It was the morning of February 28, Monday, 2022. Vince Marinaccio: You’ve sat here and you’ve heard the evidence. We’re going to hear a lot about Louis Santillan and... Read More
Jon Woods’ new trial about to get underway. Jury selection expected to start next week.
The new trial for defendant Jon Woods, workers’ compensation applicants’ attorney, should get underway with jury selection next week in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana. It will be held in court room C-40 of the honorable Patrick Donahue, the same court room where his last trial was held. It’s been over three years’... Read More
CEO Kareem Ahmed in the court room in 2014
All Charges To Be Dropped Against All Remaining Defendants In Orange County Landmark Case
Tomorrow, Friday, May 27th 2022, another hearing on the Landmark case will be held in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, in court room C-35 of the honorable Sheila Hanson. The Orange County District Attorney will ask the judge to dismiss all the charges against all the remaining defendants in this so-called Landmark case. ... Read More
Dr. Hoffman leaves court on November 17th 2021
Sim Hoffman M.D. Trial – Deposition taken in 2010 from civil case indicates Hoffman was involved in sleep center.
The court room opened at 9 am to its blue and white cloth flecked audience seats, its short wooden swing doors leading into the court well, and its amber bankers’ lamps on the long attorneys’ table as well as on the judge’s bench. It was January 26th 2022. Court room C-45 in Orange County has... Read More
Sim Hoffman, M.D. Trial — Interpreter whose license was used for billing testifies he didn’t do the interpretations.
Michael Zarrabi, who set up Dr. Hoffman’s Better Sleeping medical center around 2008, testified at the preliminary hearing on September 11th and 18th 2015. He testified that he warned Dr. Hoffman that the billing amounts were too high. When asked by prosecutor Shaddi Kamiabipour how he determined what sleep tests to give the patients, he... Read More
