None of the other five defendants had their bails posted and are therefore all still incarcerated.

On October 8th, Sandra Orozco's bail was lowered from $969,000 to $200,000. She was the one handling the shell P.I. company called Oncall Investigation Services in the scam. She is the wife of Christian Ramirez, a former entry level claims adjuster who had been employed in the Santa Ana Tristar office on the Los Angeles County account.  Christian Ramirez along with his brother Hugo Ramirez and father Javier Ramirez, all former Tristar employees, are each still in custody with their respective bails set at 1.5 million dollars each.  Maria Ochoa, the wife of Javier Ramirez and the mother of Hugo and Christian Ramirez, is also still in custody, along with Dominique Boudreaux, the wife of Hugo Ramirez.

This family of six is not believed to have masterminded this plot to embezzle 1.5 million dollars out of the County of Los Angeles through their self-insured workers' compensation program administered by Tristar Risk Management.  An ongoing investigation is being conducted by the Department of Insurance and other law enforcement agencies to determine what persons or entities have masterminded this scheme. 

The ring leaders are not believed to be employees of Tristar, and may be individual owners of vendor companies or other individuals--perhaps employees of the County of Los Angeles.  It is strongly suspected that these outside individuals who developed and masterminded this scam have done and are doing the same type of embezzling from other insurance companies and third party administrators.

The present defendants who were employees of Tristar's workers' compensation claims department in Santa Ana on the LA County account had no prior criminal records--neither with their real names nor the stolen identities they used for their employment.  They all started in the mailroom one after the other, beginning in 2001.  Javier Ramirez was still a clerk at the time of his resignation in the Summer of 2009.  Christian and Hugo Ramirez were barely in trainee adjuster positions in 2009, as they had recently been claims assistants.  It is believed that they in no way had the sophistication, the knowledge, and the know-how to have masterminded such an elaborate plot.  They were also barely into their mid-twenties in age. 

The mastermind and king pin is believed to reside outside Tristar Risk Management and to still be at large.  It is believed by my source that this mastermind is pulling this scam with other insurance claims departments.  An ongoing investigation is continuous and search warrants are believed to have been issued.  It is believed the current defendants are being questioned and it is hoped they will turn state's evidence and inform on the real leaders of the crime. More arrests are anticipated, which could happen in days, or weeks, or months.  Law enforcement agencies will not reveal any further information at this time. 
 
Bottom line, what is strongly believed is that the six members of the Ramirez family presently in custody were merely low level pawns in this wider scheme of embezzlement which is cracking into the claims handling industry on a wider than imaginable geographic scale.