Lawyer Matthew Rifat, who did legal work for Dr. Munir Uwaydah from 2013 until 2018, and also owned a bookkeeping service that provided service for Uwaydah’s Blue Oak Medical Group and Frontline and Firstline, was indicted in January 2019 by the Riverside County District Attorney.  

His case went to trial in the Summer of 2022 and ended in a mistrial.   He was during these years charged with witness tampering when he took Dr. Uwaydah’s manager’s deposition.  He sued in federal court for violation of his civil rights.  On that case he won a $475,000 judgement.  He won judgements and got settlements from Blue Oak Medical when he sued them as well. 

He made a deal for all liens from Blue Oak Medical Group to be dismissed from Insurance Company of the West.  

Over more than six years he went through more than three million dollars of his own money, both in his direct defense and in his actions as a plaintiff as a means of defending himself and getting back some of his money.  Dr. Uwaydah gave him nothing in support of his defense: not one red cent.  Whereas, Munir Uwaydah has paid millions of dollars in defense costs of dozens of his lieutenants, cronies, and lackeys, or whatever they should be called, in order to manipulate their cases in a phony form of defense.  The... Read More

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