BRIEFLY MAN SENTENCED FOR MEDI-CAL FRAUD.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. - A Glendale man involved in Medi-Cal fraud and an extortion ring was sentenced Monday to nearly three years in prison and ordered to pay $2 million in restitution to the government. Hovsep Keshishian, 37, pleaded guilty in federal court in Los Angeles last December to conspiracy charges and health care fraud for his roles in separate schemes. U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins sentenced Keshishian to 33 months in prison and ordered him to pay back the $2 million he made by defrauding Medi-Cal as one of the operators of Drug Center Pharmacy in Panorama City in 1998 and 1999. - City News Service Gascon Gascon inhabitant of Gascony, France; people noted for their bragging. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 1049] See : Boastfulness endorsed by Latino officers The association representing Latino Los Angeles police officers will today endorse LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Cmdr. George Gascon for the job of chief of police. ``George, we feel, is the best qualified. It just so happens he's Latino,'' said Detective Art Placencia, president of the Latin American Law Enforcement Association, or La Ley, which had been pushing elected officials to consider Latino candidates as part of the search to replace ousted chief Bernard Parks. - Daily News 2 dead, 1 injured in Pacoima crash PACOIMA - Two people were killed in a two-car collision in Pacoima, police said Monday. The crash happened at 11 p.m. Sunday, when a Ford Explorer
The Ford Explorer is a mid-size sport utility vehicle sold in North America and built by the Ford Motor Company since 1990. struck a 1985 Oldsmobile near the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). and Osborne Street, LAPD Officer Ed Funes said. The driver of the Oldsmobile, 58-year-old Julian Lopez of Pacoima, died at the scene. The passenger of the Explorer, Juanita Godinez, 22, of Pacoima was also killed. An unidentified 19-year-old man who was driving the Explorer was airlifted to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center (also known as County USC) is an 800-bed teaching hospital located in East Los Angeles in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. for treatment. - Daily News Priest, 75, seized on sexual charge LOS ANGELES - A fugitive priest accused of sexually assaulting a 12- year-old altar boy in the 1970s during a face-to-face confession in a Wisconsin church was arrested Monday in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , officials said. John Patrick
John Patrick (May 17, 1905 – November 7, 1995) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Feeney, 75, was arrested about 6:40 a.m. without incident at his Los Angeles apartment, said Sgt. Kathy Voyer of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. . A criminal complaint in Wisconsin's Outagamie County charges Feeney with three felony counts for alleged sexual assault in 1978 with the 12-year-old boy in the church confessional and the later attempted sexual assault of the same boy and his 14-year-old brother at their home. - Associated Press Woman collects over strip-search The Los Angeles County Claims Board voted unanimously Monday to recommend approval of a $150,000 settlement for a woman who was arrested and unlawfully strip-searched twice after a Democratic National Convention protest in 2000. According to the Claims Board, Tracey Rosenberg of San Francisco went to the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division on Aug. 16, 2000, to protest alleged police abuse arising from the Rampart scandal and was arrested for interfering with the business of a public entity. After she was booked at Twin Towers Correctional Facility The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex erected in Los Angeles, California to house inmates of the Los Angeles County Courts. It is the world’s largest jail. , she was strip-searched. The next day a judge ordered her release but she was returned to Twin Towers where she was strip-searched again before being released from custody Aug. 18. - Daily News L.A. lawyer quits practice in state LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles attorney charged with embezzling $130,000 from a cancer victim who hired him to represent her in a medical malpractice Improper, unskilled, or negligent treatment of a patient by a physician, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, or other health care professional. case resigned Monday from the State Bar. Leonard Michael Samuels, 55, tendered his resignation after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs issued interim orders assuming jurisdiction over his law practice and ordered the State Bar to take possession of all client files and financial records at his South Figueroa Street office, according to the State Bar. - City News Service |
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