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10 Orange County lawyers charged with workers comp fraud, a felony

how fucked are they?
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  06/23/17
naw mostly spics and Persians
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  06/23/17
what's the deal with that? are jews too crafty to get caugh...
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What did they do exactly, the article isn't clear
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(Guy with an 8th grade reading level)
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can u explain it for me
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  06/23/17
Not a single Goy white in there -- SHOCKING
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  06/23/17
so those attorneys made like $20M+ each and another 10 walke...
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180
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  06/23/17
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Date: June 23rd, 2017 1:47 AM
Author: Pontificating effete keepsake machete nibblets
Subject: how fucked are they?

http://www.ocregister.com/2017/06/05/10-attorneys-and-others-charged-by-o-c-district-attorneys-office-in-what-it-calls-a-massive-workers-comp-scheme/

The Orange County District Attorney’s Office filed felony fraud charges against 10 attorneys and 6 others Monday in what prosecutors say is a massive workers’ compensation-referral scheme with more than 33,000 patients and an estimated $300 million-plus in insurance payouts received.

DA Tony Rackauckas said the charges were the start of an investigation by his office and the California Department of Insurance, which scrutinizes the role medical providers played in an alleged fraud ring that targeted mostly Spanish-speaking communities.

“This type of fraud factory drives up the prices of workers’ compensation insurance and drives businesses out of California,” Rackauckas said Monday, June 5.

Prosecutors allege that at the center of the ring were businesses run by Carlos Arguello III, 35, of Tustin and Edgar Gonzalez, 50, of Anaheim.

In 2005, Arguello formed an advertising company, Centro Legal Internacional, which Rackauckas accused of setting up illegal contracts with 20 to 30 attorneys who focused on workers’ compensation and personal injury.

The attorneys allegedly agreed to contract with companies owned by Arguello and Gonzalez, in return for employees, known as cappers, delivering the attorneys a minimum number of clients per month.

Attorneys are allowed to advertise, the district attorney explained, but the use of cappers to directly recruit for lawyers or medical providers is against the law.

Prosecutors allege that the cappers distributed a variety of fliers and business cards in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods and at swap meets offering “free consultations” for those who believed they had suffered workplace injuries.

Those who called the listed toll-free numbers reached a call center in El Salvador.

Within 48 hours, cappers sent recruiters out to the prospective patients’ homes to have them sign legal papers, without any contact or input from the actual attorneys, prosecutors said.

Rackauckas said the cappers forwarded the legal forms to the attorneys and to participating medical providers. The attorneys also allowed the cappers to submit documents the attorneys had not actually prepared or looked over to insurers, the district attorney added.

The attorneys paid the cappers monthly fees for the recruitment efforts, prosecutors alleged, while the attorneys received a percentage of the settlements from the insurance companies.

It isn’t clear how much of the $300 million insurers ended up paying out to those accused of being linked to the alleged scheme went toward the treatment of illegitimate workplace injuries, Rackauckas acknowledged.

But because the use of cappers would be illegal, all of the insurance payouts would be considered part of a fraud ring, Rackauckas said.

“There are some who were legitimate patients who would respond to these fliers,” Rackauckas said.

No medical providers were charged Monday. But investigators are looking into the possibility that some may have paid for patients recruited by the cappers.

Rackauckas accused those charged Monday of exploiting people in the Hispanic community and “using them like ATM machines.”

Insurers suspicious of seemingly cut-and-paste paperwork reached out to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, which teamed up with a California Department of Insurance fraud unit for a three-year investigation.

The 16 charged on Monday face a variety of felonies, including conspiring to refer clients for compensation, referring patients with reckless disregard for the commission of fraud and insurance fraud.

If convicted, Arguello faces up to 29 years and eight months in prison, Gonzalez up to 20 years and eight months.The various attorneys face seven years to nearly 26 years in prison.

The alleged cappers charged on Monday are Boris Mikhayovich Dadiomov, 31, of San Diego; Soraida Veronica Castro, 42, Imperial Beach; Tania Arguello-Plasencia, 31, Tustin; and Dulce Gallegos, 30, San Ysidro.

The attorneys charged Monday were: Jon Woods, 56, of Cypress; Payman Zargari, 49, Sherman Oaks; John Jansen, 49, Santa Ana; Fari Rezai, 39, Irvine; Lionel Eduardo Giron, 49, Pomona; Dennis Ralph Fusi, 73, Lakewood; Jorge Humberto Reyes, 39, Los Angeles; Rony M Barsoum, 43, Los Angeles; Robert Irving Slater, 67, Encino; and Robin Jacobs, 52, Sherman Oaks.

The defendants could not be reached for comment or declined to talk with a reporter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3655689&forum_id=2#33622931)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 9:58 AM
Author: provocative bonkers tattoo



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 10:02 AM
Author: Plum godawful center

A real worldwide coalition of scammers here:

The alleged cappers charged on Monday are Boris Mikhayovich Dadiomov, 31, of San Diego; Soraida Veronica Castro, 42, Imperial Beach; Tania Arguello-Plasencia, 31, Tustin; and Dulce Gallegos, 30, San Ysidro.

The attorneys charged Monday were: Jon Woods, 56, of Cypress; Payman Zargari, 49, Sherman Oaks; John Jansen, 49, Santa Ana; Fari Rezai, 39, Irvine; Lionel Eduardo Giron, 49, Pomona; Dennis Ralph Fusi, 73, Lakewood; Jorge Humberto Reyes, 39, Los Angeles; Rony M Barsoum, 43, Los Angeles; Robert Irving Slater, 67, Encino; and Robin Jacobs, 52, Sherman Oaks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3655689&forum_id=2#33624096)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 11:00 AM
Author: light aggressive reading party

naw mostly spics and Persians

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3655689&forum_id=2#33624491)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 11:34 AM
Author: provocative bonkers tattoo

what's the deal with that? are jews too crafty to get caught doing something like this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3655689&forum_id=2#33624731)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 6:49 PM
Author: Pontificating effete keepsake machete nibblets

Yeah basically. Jews run large corporations that seem very legit but aren't.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3655689&forum_id=2#33627885)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 6:49 PM
Author: Pontificating effete keepsake machete nibblets



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 6:49 PM
Author: Vermilion galvanic box office

What did they do exactly, the article isn't clear

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3655689&forum_id=2#33627886)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 7:02 PM
Author: Pontificating effete keepsake machete nibblets

(Guy with an 8th grade reading level)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3655689&forum_id=2#33627970)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 11:41 PM
Author: Vermilion galvanic box office

can u explain it for me

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Date: June 23rd, 2017 7:06 PM
Author: Pea-brained Jew Kitchen

Not a single Goy white in there -- SHOCKING

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3655689&forum_id=2#33627988)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 11:51 PM
Author: Domesticated halford

so those attorneys made like $20M+ each and another 10 walked with no criminal charges...yeah they knew it was serious shit and well worth it. that's retirement money for 36 months in club fed. hidden earning interest overseas.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3655689&forum_id=2#33629953)



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Date: June 24th, 2017 12:17 AM
Author: Pontificating effete keepsake machete nibblets

180

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Date: June 23rd, 2017 11:52 PM
Author: Silver Theater

Briefly read the above and nothing struck me as terribly wrong except for the attorneys allowing these guys to file legal paperwork

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3655689&forum_id=2#33629961)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 11:57 PM
Author: provocative bonkers tattoo

solicitation by non-lawyers is supposedly a big deal in CA. same with insurance fraud

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3655689&forum_id=2#33629979)