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	<title>Los Angeles Legal News &#187; Los Angeles</title>
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		<title>L.a. Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 20 In Health Care Fraud Cases Involving Durable Medical Equipment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cases Involve More Than $26 Million in Fraudulent Medicare Claims
Twenty defendants, most of them residing in the Los Angeles area, have been charged in seven separate cases with participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in over $26 million in fraudulent bills to the Medicare program.

Federal and state authorities arrested seven of the defendants this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man Who Abused Young Girl Sentenced To 25 Years In Federal Prison For Producing Child Pornography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Prison Sentence to Run Consecutively to 16-Year State Prison Term
An Ecuadorian citizen who lived in Los Angeles was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography, a sentence that will run consecutively to a 16-year term the defendant received in state court for sexually abusing a young girl.

Freddy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inland Empire Woman Sentenced To Prison For Embezzling Money From Homeless Shelter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Fontana woman has been sentenced to one year in federal prison after pleading guilty in a scheme in which she embezzled nearly a quarter million dollars from a Los Angeles non-profit that provides shelter to homeless women and children.
Barbara Alvarado, 32, was sentenced Monday afternoon by United States District Judge Christina A. Snyder in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Racketeering Indictment Charges 88 Members Of Notorious Northeast Los Angeles Street Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five Members Of Avenues Street Gang Charged In Murder Of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy
RICO Case alleges Mexican Mafia-led Attempts to Reorganize Avenues after 2008 Federal Indictment Dismantled Gang’s Lucrative Drew Street Clique

Eighty-eight members and associates of the Avenues street gang in northeast Los Angeles have been named in a wide-ranging federal racketeering indictment unsealed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Union Boss Agrees To Plead Guilty In Scheme To Defraud Non-profit Formed By Another Union Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former president of Service Employees International Union, Local 660, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in a scheme that defrauded a non-profit organization formed by another labor leader through the use of bogus consulting contracts.
In a plea agreement filed this afternoon in United States District Court in Los Angeles, Alejandro Stephens, 65, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Involved In International Sex Trafficking Ring Sentenced To Lengthy Prison Terms For Forcing Guatemalan Girls And Women To Work As Prostitutes In Los Angeles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five people related to an extended Guatemalan family were sentenced to federal prison late yesterday, all receiving multi-decade sentences for their roles in an international sex trafficking ring that lured young Guatemalan women and girls into the Los Angeles area and forced them into prostitution.
“In this disturbing case, the defendants lured young, uneducated and impoverished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Armenian Diplomat, Beverly Hills Attorney Are Among Five Charged In Scheme To Allow Illegal Immigrants To Stay In United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former Armenian Consul in Los Angeles and a Beverly Hills immigration attorney are among five people arrested last night and this morning on federal criminal charges that allege they obtained and sold to illegal aliens documents called “letters of refusal,” which allowed those illegal aliens to avoid deportation.
Issued by embassies and consulates, a letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>42 Defendants Indicted In $4.6 Million Medi-Cal Fraud Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal and State authorities this morning arrested 20 defendants accused of being part of ring that defrauded Medi-Cal out of nearly $4.6 million by using unlicensed individuals to provide in-home care to scores of disabled patients, many of them children with cerebral palsy or developmental disabilities.
The 20 defendants arrested this morning are among 42 defendants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigation Targeting Varrio Hawaiian Gardens Gang And Associates Is Largest Gang Case In U.S. History With Nearly 200 Defendants Named In Federal Indictments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the nation&#8217;s largest-ever gang investigation and prosecution, a law enforcement task force this morning arrested an additional 11 defendants named in federal charges that are linked to the Hawaiian Gardens gang that was previously the subject of a sweeping racketeering indictment. The 11 defendants arrested today are among 24 people named in a federal [...]]]></description>
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