The Landmark case, which is a criminal workers’ compensation fraud case, is in the Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana still hanging in the balance on the verge of a preliminary hearing for three of the defendants connected with Landmark Medical Management. On Friday morning, March 13th 2020, the hearing for the Landmark defendants... Read More
Kareem Ahmed, left background, and Yvette Charbonnay, right foreground, both Landmark defendants, appear in court shortly after the indictment in 2014. Photo copyright Lonce Lamonte, all rights reserved.
Defense Grills Investigator Robbins Over Contradictions In Testimony In Landmark Medical Case In Orange County.
By the afternoon of Monday, September 23rd 2019, DA Investigator Christopher Robbins was back on the witness stand. He had been on the stand the week prior, but stepped off to allow Detective Eddie Ascencio of the California Department of Insurance to testify. Now he was back with his short brown and grey hair. Attorney... Read More
Detective Eddie Ascencio of California DOI Takes The Stand In Landmark Medical Case in Orange County. He Investigated Landmark for Upcoding, Double Billing, and Kickbacks to Doctors.
Shaddi Kamiabipour, the Orange County prosecutor in this Landmark Medical Management workers’ compensation fraud case, is wearing a light green and white print top with bell sleeves. She’s been wearing bell sleeves lately even with her jackets. It’s becoming her signature style. She stands at the far left end of the attorneys’ table on Monday,... Read More
Former Vice-President Of Landmark, Bruce Curnick, Testifies To His Concern Over 72-Hour Dispensing Looking Like A Kickback. Tells How He Filed A Report Of Fraud Against Landmark Medical Management.
Bruce Curnick, former vice-president of Landmark Medical Management, and now a defendant in the Orange County case who has taken a plea bargain, spoke about kickbacks towards the end of his testimony on July 25th 2019 in Orange County Superior Court. Bruce resigned from Landmark in July of 2012. He asserted that he came up... Read More
Bruce Curnick, Former Landmark Medical Vice President, Testifies For The Prosecution In Kastigar-Type Hearing. Defense Rides Prosecution’s Rear End Over Allegedly Tainted Electronic Documents.
On July 23, 2019, Bruce Curnick, who was once vice president of Landmark Medical Management, testified for the prosecution in this still on-going Kastigar- type hearing in Orange County Superior Court. The sobriquet “Kastigar-type” comes from a 1972 Supreme Court Case called Kastigar v. United States that ruled on the issue of whether the government’s... Read More
Kareem Ahmed, the CEO of Landmark, moves in high gear from the Orange County court house on February 28th 2018. photo copyright Lonce Lamonte
Prosecution In Landmark Medical Fraud Case In Orange County Gets Into Further Hot Water With Discovery Failures
The Landmark Medical Management workers’ compensation fraud case, of over 200 million dollars in alleged fraud, will continue in Orange County Superior Court on September 16th 2019. There will be four consecutive days of a continuing “Kastigar-type” hearing. These proceedings will involve sifting out any attorney-client privileged documents or testimonies from permitted evidence in accordance... Read More
Bruck Curnick, Former Vice President Of Landmark Medical, Pleads Guilty To One Count Of Conspiracy To Commit Fraud On Friday In Orange County Superior Court
Bruce Curnick, who was the vice president of marketing and sales for Landmark Medical Management in Ontario, California, pleaded guilty Friday morning, July 12th, in a plea deal with deputy district attorney Shaddi Kamiabipour of the Orange County DA’s office. Curnick, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy from the original indictment which was... Read More
Shaddi Kamiabipour, Lead Prosecutor In Landmark Case, Agrees To Dismiss June 2014 Indictment With Remaining Defendant, Bruce Curnick
On Thursday, February 14th 2019, which was St. Valentine’s Day, the case which has become known as the Landmark case had further proceedings in Orange County Superior Court in court room C-41 of the Honorable Sheila Hanson. After a ruling by Judge Hanson on February 8th, Friday, which stated the prosecution, led by senior deputy district... Read More
