On Friday, in Riverside County Superior Court, in Department 43, in the People vs. Matthew Rifat, the trial ended in a mistrial. Rifat is an attorney who is one of the regulars who worked for Dr. Munir Uwaydah’s Blue Oak Medical Group in Southern California. So, the result was a hung jury. The jury deadlocked... Read More
Prosecutor Vince Marinaccio gives his final rebuttal argument in Sim Hoffman, M.D. trial. Tells the jury that well after Louis Santillan left, Dr. Hoffman had a new prescription that contained single fiber EMGs.
Vincent Marinaccio, the prosecutor, is wearing a yellow tie. This is his rebuttal closing argument. The day is the afternoon of March 1st 2022. The prosecution gets to make a rebuttal argument because they have the burden of proof. Vincent Marinaccio: I agree that he’s (Louis is) a thief and a total crook, and a... Read More
Bill Fleming, left, with his client, Sim Hoffman, leave the preliminary hearing on September 2, 2015.
Sim Hoffman defense counsel, Bill Fleming, finishes closing argument. Finally. He never lets up on Louis Santillan being a pathological liar.
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
