The next witness in the Preliminary Hearing of the criminal workers’ compensation billing fraud case of the People vs. Sim Hoffman, M.D. and Thomas Heric, M.D. in Orange County Superior Court was Douglas Soto. Soto had been a sleep technician at Hoffman’s Better Sleeping Medical Center and Pacific Sleep in Buena Park and San Bernardino,... Read More
Evidence Shows Santillan Collected On Bogus Single Fiber Bills After His Testimony Stated He Stopped. Hoffman Defense Attorney Exposes More Of His Perjury
Yesterday, the cross-examination of Louis Santillan, the former bill collector-supervisor of Sim Hoffman, M.D., continued in the Orange County Superior Court, Westminster division. It was the fifth day of the Preliminary Hearing in the workers’ compensation billing fraud case of The People vs. Sim Hoffman, M.D. and Thomas Heric, M.D. Bill Fleming, defense counsel for... Read More
Louis Santillan Admits He Lied Under Oath. Continues On The Stand Confronted By Hoffman’s Lawyer.
On Friday, September 4th 2015, court proceedings did not take place in the preliminary hearing in The People vs. Sim Hoffman, M.D. and Thomas Heric, M.D. because Dr. Heric had fallen at home the night before, was admitted to the hospital in Santa Monica, and was therefore not able to get to court. However, today... Read More
Emails Reveal Santillan Gave Substantial Advice To Hoffman On How To Bill The Work Comp Payers. One Letter Betrays Blackmail.
On the third day of the preliminary hearing, September 3rd 2015, one of Sim Hoffman’s defense attorneys, Bill Fleming, opened court by questioning the witness, Louis Santillan, who was still on the stand. This was at Orange County Superior Court’s Westminster location in court room W-10 in the case of The People vs. Sim Hoffman, M.D.... Read More
Louis Santillan, Former Dr. Sim Hoffman Bill Collecting Supervisor, Continues Testimony In Westminster Branch of Orange County Superior Court On Day 2 Of Prelim Over Massive Workers’ Compensation Billing Fraud
It was September 2nd, Wednesday, and Louis Santillan, who worked for Dr. Hoffman from 2001 to 2007, was still on the stand in the late morning. Shaddi Kamiabipour asked Santillan if he was able to satisfy Beverly Mitchell in convincing her he had not inflated his commissions. But Santillan replied he was able to... Read More
Louis Santillan Takes The Stand In The People vs. Sim Hoffman, M.D. In Orange County
The same witness, Fernando Rodriguez, the Certified Interpreter who testified on Tuesday, September 1st, in this case of the People vs. Sim Hoffman, M.D. and Thomas Heric, M.D., returned to the stand as court opened yesterday morning in the Westminster Superior Court in Orange County, California. This was the second day of the Preliminary Hearing. It... Read More
Sim Hoffman, background, and his lawyer Bill Fleming, foreground, leave the preliminary hearing in Westminster on September 1, 2015. copyright Lonce Lamonte, all rights reserved
Preliminary Hearing for Sim Hoffman, M.D. workers’ comp billing fraud case, starts in Westminster with first witness on the stand
This morning at 8:30 am, the People vs. Sim Hoffman, M.D. and Thomas Heric, M.D. began proceedings in court room C-55 in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, California at 700 North Civic Center Drive. Before the case was even called, three rolling carts with three shelves each of at least eight huge three-ringed binders... Read More
Sim Hoffman, M.D. Case Of Workers’ Compensation Billing Fraud In Orange County Hangs On Coat Tails of Kareem Ahmed and Landmark Medical. Still No Ruling From Court Of Appeal.
As of yesterday morning, June 24th2014, there was still no answer from the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three in Orange County on the issues presented to that court in a Writ of Mandate ordered by the California Supreme Court on behalf of the defense in the case of The People versus Kareem Ahmed,... Read More
