This case is being prosecuted by the San Bernardino District Attorney´s office.

Two lawyers, Michael de la Garza, and Antony Gluck, are charged with what is estimated to be approximately 14.5 million dollars in workers´ compensation fraud.  This scheme targeted Spanish speakers, as many fraud schemes before it.  Spanish speakers, especially Spanish-only speakers, generally don’t know the system and get most easily exploited.  They get sucked into scams because of their lack of familiarity and knowledge of the way things work.   

It involved a Call Center in Mexico, just like the one run by Carlos Arguello and Edgar Gonzales back eight years ago and earlier when they were charged in the Orange County District Attorney case of 2017.  Carlos Arguello was charged in a federal case along with that Orange County state case.  He went to federal prison.  Edgar Gonzales got his case dismissed after a long battle. 

From the Call Center south of the border, agents taking calls received contact from potential claimants and sent agents to their places of residence to get paperwork signed.  They sold this paperwork and the bodies behind it to the attorneys.  This is the business model that was perpetrated by and seemingly invented by Carlos Arguello. 

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His name is Scott Norris Johnson, 61, of Carmichael, California. He is a Sacramento-based attorney and filer of over 2,000 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for Northern California since the... Read More