How did Matthew Rifat get blinded to Frontline Medical and Firstline Health, predecessors to Blue Oak Medical, being steeped in the same kind of fraud—workers’ compensation claims fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy as Blue Oak?

He did legal work and also provided bookkeeping services for all three of these entities. 

He was indicted by the Riverside County District Attorney in January 2019, for workers’ compensation claims fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. 

This is a further look, a Part 2, into that question.

Why didn’t he know? 

Well, one could argue that he did know.  But this writer is going to begin with the assertion that he didn’t know.  This is based on some interaction with his character and the testimonies of his character witnesses in his California Bar Court trial of March 2025.  His character witnesses attributed to Matthew a superior character.  There were twelve of them.

Matthew Rifat appears to have studied only the defense side of the 2015 Los Angeles County District Attorney’s indictment case against Dr. Munir Uwaydah and the dozen or so other defendants which began in September of 2015.  In his final... Read More

It has tormented this writer for months as to why Matthew Rifat didn’t understand for years that Dr. Munir Uwaydah was a dangerous client. 

There were so many clues all around him, and by... Read More