Kareem Ahmed, left background, and Yvette Charbonnay, right foreground, both Landmark defendants, appear in court shortly after the indictment in 2014. Photo copyright Lonce Lamonte, all rights reserved.
Defense Grills Investigator Robbins Over Contradictions In Testimony In Landmark Medical Case In Orange County.
By the afternoon of Monday, September 23rd 2019, DA Investigator Christopher Robbins was back on the witness stand. He had been on the stand the week prior, but stepped off to allow Detective Eddie Ascencio of the California Department of Insurance to testify. Now he was back with his short brown and grey hair. Attorney... Read More
Detective Eddie Ascencio of California DOI Takes The Stand In Landmark Medical Case in Orange County. He Investigated Landmark for Upcoding, Double Billing, and Kickbacks to Doctors.
Shaddi Kamiabipour, the Orange County prosecutor in this Landmark Medical Management workers’ compensation fraud case, is wearing a light green and white print top with bell sleeves. She’s been wearing bell sleeves lately even with her jackets. It’s becoming her signature style. She stands at the far left end of the attorneys’ table on Monday,... Read More
Former Vice-President Of Landmark, Bruce Curnick, Testifies To His Concern Over 72-Hour Dispensing Looking Like A Kickback. Tells How He Filed A Report Of Fraud Against Landmark Medical Management.
Bruce Curnick, former vice-president of Landmark Medical Management, and now a defendant in the Orange County case who has taken a plea bargain, spoke about kickbacks towards the end of his testimony on July 25th 2019 in Orange County Superior Court. Bruce resigned from Landmark in July of 2012. He asserted that he came up... Read More
Bruce Curnick, Former Landmark Medical Vice President, Testifies For The Prosecution In Kastigar-Type Hearing. Defense Rides Prosecution’s Rear End Over Allegedly Tainted Electronic Documents.
On July 23, 2019, Bruce Curnick, who was once vice president of Landmark Medical Management, testified for the prosecution in this still on-going Kastigar- type hearing in Orange County Superior Court. The sobriquet “Kastigar-type” comes from a 1972 Supreme Court Case called Kastigar v. United States that ruled on the issue of whether the government’s... Read More
Jon Woods’ Trial Still Firm For January 6, 2020. Judge Donahue In Orange County Superior Court Wants To Get The Motions Out Of The Way on December 10th 2019.
This morning in Orange County Superior Court, in courtroom C-40 of the Honorable Patrick Donahue on the 10th floor, applicants’ attorney Jon Woods appeared in a fine black suit with his attorney, Richard Wynn, who sported a tie of tiny checks of vibrant colors. They both looked good, handsome and well dressed, like their usual... Read More
Sim Hoffman, M.D. exits Orange County Superior Court as he looks at his cell phone. 2019. Photo by Lonce Lamonte, all rights reserved.
At Long Last Sim Hoffman, M.D. Trial Finally Set For February 28th 2020. Trial readiness conference set for February 7th 2020.
Yesterday morning, September 4th 2019, Sim Hoffman, M.D. and his attorney, Bill Fleming, appeared along with the prosecution in court room C-45 of Orange County Superior Court. Specially appearing for Shaddi Kamiabipour was deputy district attorney Vincent Marinaccio. This case was originally scheduled to be heard Friday, September 6th, but it was moved up on... Read More
Kareem Ahmed, the CEO of Landmark, moves in high gear from the Orange County court house on February 28th 2018. photo copyright Lonce Lamonte
Prosecution In Landmark Medical Fraud Case In Orange County Gets Into Further Hot Water With Discovery Failures
The Landmark Medical Management workers’ compensation fraud case, of over 200 million dollars in alleged fraud, will continue in Orange County Superior Court on September 16th 2019. There will be four consecutive days of a continuing “Kastigar-type” hearing. These proceedings will involve sifting out any attorney-client privileged documents or testimonies from permitted evidence in accordance... Read More
Munir Uwaydah, June 2010, copyright Lonce Lamonte
Prosecution Pushes Problem Of Conflict Of Interest In Criminal Organization Munir Uwaydah Case In Downtown L.A. Kelly Soo Park Comes To Court With An Injured Arm.
Kelly Soo Park is wearing slip-on canvas-casual black shoes with casual black and white pants as she sits on the bench against the wall. She’s seated out in the hallway near Department 106 on the ninth floor of downtown LA’s Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. She’s next to her attorney, Mark Kassabian, with his... Read More
