Matthew Rifat’s trial has gone on for four days.  It began on Tuesday, March 4^th 2025, and went through yesterday, Friday, March 7^th 2025.  It is still on-going. 

 It is planned at this time to continue on March 20^th and 21^st, Thursday and Friday; and is expected to end on that Friday, March 21^st.  Thus, there will be nearly a two-week break.

Matthew Rifat pleaded guilty in a plea deal with the Riverside County District Attorney on February 29, 2024 on one count of Penal Code Section 549.  He did this in exchange for getting the 70-plus counts of the Indictment of January 17^th 2019 dismissed.   These Indictment counts were for workers’ compensation claims fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering.

Matthew went to trial on that Indictment in the summer of 2022.  His trial resulted in a mistrial.   After defending himself for over six years, starting when his home, office, and airplane hanger were raided by investigators, his defense which included offensive-defense law suits, cumulated in approximately three million dollars in expenditures. 

Dr. Munir Uwaydah, whom he worked for with his vendor bookkeeping service and as a lawyer, never paid a dime for his... Read More

The following further facts were discovered by Matthew Rifat after the California Bar brought this case against him because he pled guilty to a felony. 

Because of this, the Bar is bringing... Read More