One of Matthew Rifat’s character witnesses on Thursday, March 20th 2025, in the morning during Matthew's trial with the Office of Chief Trial Counsel of the California Bar Association, was Mike Saleh.

Matthew is under threat of losing his Bar card over his pleading guilty to one felony count of Penal Code section 549 in a plea bargain he made with the Riverside County District Attorney. This plea was made in exchange for the dismissal of all 72 counts of an Indictment filed against him in January of 2019.

The Indictment was for charges of workers’ compensation claims fraud and money laundering.

He was working as the owner of a contract bookkeeping service, Parkside Solutions, and also as a contract lawyer as the Law Offices of Matthew D. Rifat, for Dr. Munir Uwaydah. The medical practice that Dr. Uwaydah ran and fully controlled surreptitiously was Blue Oak Medical Group, based in the Southern California Inland Empire.

Blue Oak closed after it was raided in January of 2018. Matthew’s home, office, and airplane hanger were all searched at that time.

Matthew Rifat, as the respondent in this case against him by the California Bar Association, and acting as his own attorney in... Read More

Rocky Ventittelli is Matthew Rifat’s first character witness for Friday, March 21st 2025, starting shortly after 9:00 am.

This is the last day of Matthew’s trial with the California Bar... Read More