Proceedings on January 27th, Wednesday, continued in the late morning. It is the Preliminary Hearing for Dr. Munir Uwaydah manager Leticia Lemus.  Sergeant Tim McCrillis is still on the witness stand.  Leticia Lemus’s attorney, George Shohet, is cross examining McCrillis.  The court room is department 106 of the honorable Larry Paul Fidler in downtown Los... Read More

Sergeant Tim McCrillis is back on the witness stand.  Leticia Lemus’s defense attorney, George Shohet, is questioning him. It’s January 27th 2021 in downtown L.A. on the ninth floor of Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center.  It’s Leticia Lemus’s preliminary hearing in the Criminal Organization Munir Uwaydah case.  The court room is Department 106 of... Read More

Dayan Mathai, the lead prosecutor, asked the witness, Sergeant McCrillis, more about the prescription formularies and if Marisa Schermbeck said the doctors’ signatures were signed to those formularies.  She told him yes, the doctors’ signatures were signed or forged on the formularies.   Most often, Dr. Johnson’s signature was forged.  And Marisa said she witnessed the... Read More

In downtown Los Angeles, the Preliminary Hearing for Dr. Uwaydah manager, Leticia Lemus, continued in the afternoon of January 26th 2021. Witness Sergeant McCrillis testified further that Marisa Schermbeck, who proffered to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office in 2017 when she was granted immunity for her testimony, told him Dr. Uwaydah’s entire objective was... Read More

Sergeant Tim McCrillis, lead investigator for the Criminal Organization Munir Uwaydah case in downtown Los Angeles, took to the witness stand once again after the recall of witness Jane Ngo in the preliminary hearing for Dr. Uwaydah manager, Leticia Lemus.  The date was January 26th 2021. Clean cut Tim McCrillis, who has been lead investigator... Read More

Farm labor company owners and siblings Elias Perez, 40, of Greenfield, and Alejandra Perez, 37, of Soledad, were arraigned on over 20 felony counts of insurance and tax fraud after allegedly underreporting payroll by over $17 million resulting in a loss of over $1.42 million to their insurance companies. The California Department of Insurance discovered... Read More

Ahmad Zaki Noori, 41, of Sacramento, was arraigned yesterday on two felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud after allegedly misrepresenting symptoms following a work-related injury in order to receive $21,000 in undeserved benefits. On July 16, 2019, Noori, while working as a welder, sustained a head injury and contusions on multiple parts of his... Read More

Marion Piggee, Jr., 68, of Los Angeles, was arraigned on seven counts of insurance fraud after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance revealed he was allegedly underreporting employee payroll by nearly $6 million in order to fraudulently reduce his business’s workers’ compensation insurance premium by over $1 million. On November 28, 2016, the... Read More