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It’s a small brown court room, Department 74, with only four short rows of audience seats on either side of the center aisle where the Honorable Teresa Sanchez Gordon presides on the 7th floor at Stanley Mosk Superior Court in Downtown Los Angeles.

Earlier this month, on the first Tuesday, October 4th, Judge Teresa, as this writer has affectionately nicknamed her, took to the bench about 15 minutes after nine o’clock in the morning to begin her line up of cases. Frontline Medical vs. Marisa Schermbeck was sixth on the docket.

But before I introduce the representative attorneys here in Frontline Medical vs. Marisa Schermbeck, and their arguments, allow me to anticipate a couple of possible reader questions. Who is Frontline Medical? And who is Marisa Schermbeck?

Frontline Medical is a notorious Southern California workers’ compensation injury treatment facility, which is predominantly owned by a spinal surgeon, Munir Uwaydah, M.D. Dr. Uwaydah had his medical license revoked last October of 2010 by the California Medical Board, because of incidents of allowing physician assistants to initiate and perform surgeries without M.D. supervision, not keeping appropriate medical records, performing unnecessary surgeries, overprescribing of

Dr. Uwaydah had his medical license revoked last October of 2010 by the California Medical Board...

medications, and other miscellaneous infractions. The revocation of Uwaydah’s license was stayed pending a- three-year probation demanding a litany of requirements.

Dr. Uwaydah and Frontline Medical are under extensive investigation by the California Department of Insurance, the F.B.I, the C.I.A., the Secret Service, and other law enforcement agencies for massive workers’ compensation fraud. Dr. Uwaydah is also a “person of interest” in the murder case of his one time girlfriend, Juliana Redding, who was murdered on March 15th 2008 in Santa Monica, California.

Dr. Uwaydah fled California in late June of 2010 and eventually wound up in Lebanon after one key assistant, Kelly Soo Park, whom he has referred to as his “female James Bond” was arrested for the murder of Juliana Redding. It is documented out of her bank records that she received large six figure payments from Uwaydah both immediately before and after the murder.

Marisa Schermbeck was another key professional who served Uwaydah, and most likely the most powerful and longest term. She worked for Uwaydah for at least 10 years, and dates back to his residence and business activities in Ohio around the turn of the Millenium, during the time he fraudulently stole a CAT Scanner from General Electric Medical Systems Europe, a company headquartered in Paris. Schermbeck handled the majority of Uwaydah’s financial affairs and filed numerous questionable lawsuits on his behalf. She signed many known and alleged fraudulent documents. One person with connected experience to Schermbeck’s work for Uwaydah described her

One person with connected experience to Schermbeck’s work for Uwaydah described her as “a snake”...

as “a snake” and as being equal in corruption to Uwaydah.

Thus, sometime in approximately mid-2010, Uwaydah and Schermbeck had a falling out and parted ways, and Uwaydah as the principle of Frontline Medical filed a Summons and Complaint against her, her consulting company, and her husband Pete Nelson, one of Uwaydah’s former physician assistants, in November of 2010 in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The Complaint alleges that Schermbeck, her company, and her husband, committed Breach of Fiduciary Duty; Constructive Fraud, Conversion, Civil Theft, Unjust Enrichment, and Unfair Business Acts or Practices. Some pretty grave allegations. The specific allegations are that Schermbeck and Nelson charged their wedding, the college tuition of one of Nelson’s children, hotel and spa charges, jewelry, home furnishings and remodeling, medical care, and even food supplies for personal pets to Frontline’s credit cards without Frontline’s consent or authorization. Frontline alleges they paid for them.

The Complaint also alleges that Schermbeck and Nelson took $90,000 out of Frontline’s bank account to help pay for their house and put it on the books as a loan. It further alleges Schermbeck grossly underreported Peter Nelson’s income as a consultant from 2006 to 2009, which was just under $750,000. No 1099 forms were issued from 2006 to 2008, which Marisa was responsible for filing. But the one 1099 issued in 2009 was issued about $70,000 short and does not bear any social security number. Frontline alleges it lost tax deductions, and that this underreporting was done by Schermbeck to not only lower Nelson’s tax liabilities but also his child support required by law.

Wearing all black to fashionably top off her black robe, The Honorable Teresa Sanchez-Gordon appeared nicely groomed, which is usual for her, with her long shoulder-length dark brown hair parted in the middle framing her slender, well chiseled-face. Her eyes were subtly made up and her mouth was accentuated by light red lipstick. It was a delight to watch her in this court room of all men lawyers as they moved around in their traditional dark suits.

Judge Teresa greeted the court room with a refined good-morning and started in. She is slender, attractive, and speaks clearly and articulately while her train of thought is well focused. To the lawyers who came up to the table and to the parties who

She is slender, attractive, and speaks clearly and articulately while her train of thought is well focused...

spoke over the speaker phone in cases one through five, she asked questions, listened attentively, set future court appearances, and made decisions with no doubts or demurs. She was deft and decisive. Without equivocation. Bing. Bang. Boom. Next case? Then came Frontline Medical vs. Marisa Schermbeck.

Ryan Saba, of Rosen & Saba in Beverly Hills, stepped forward to represent Marisa Schermbeck and her husband. Mitchell Kamin, of Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg (the Bird firm) in Century City, came to represent Uwaydah and Frontline, and a third lawyer, Mike Newhouse, of Newhouse & Seroussi, in Century City, came forward just in case an associated case filed in August 2011 was brought up in which Southbay Surgical and Spine Institute (a subsidiary of Frontline Medical) accuse Marisa Schermbeck together with Shelly Rosekelly of theft. Shelly is another former woman-agent of Uwaydah who is now, like Marisa, on the outs with Uwaydah.

Ryan Saba filed a motion to compel over four months ago demanding that Uwaydah present himself for deposition. Judge Teresa set a deadline of September 30th 2011, and quite predictably, Uwaydah did not present himself for deposition. She warned Uwaydah through his counsel several times that she would dismiss the case for his lack of cooperation in discovery if he did not present himself for deposition within the substantial time frame she allowed. She bent over backwards. Mitchell Kamin of the Bird Firm spoke first:

Mitchell Kamin: We don’t believe the matter should be dismissed for failure to prosecute. We’ve had obviously a difficult time in producing a witness on behalf of our client Frontline. Munir Uwaydah has been unable to leave Lebanon due to Lebanese Sharia Court, which we documented numerous times to the court. We also provided supplemental documents from the Sharia Court by a certified court translator and our view is that there are alternative means to obtain testimony.

We also did submit, your honor…. (a) supplemental filing including a declaration for counsel for Dr. Uwaydah’s soon to be ex-wife in Lebanon indicating that case is nearing completion. Boutros Doumet, the attorney in the case pending in the Sharia Court in the past two months, the parties including his client and Dr. Uwaydah, have engaged in settlement discussions. They’ve made significant progress and hope and believe the matter will be settled shortly, namely within 45 days.

Our hope would be rather than dismissing the case, to continue it for 60 days. If Dr. Uwaydah can be produced, he will be. If the Sharia court proceeding has ended alternatively, as we said in our filing, your honor, we would simply ask that any dismissal be without prejudice. Frontline should be left with the opportunity to reinitiate this case if and when Dr. Uwaydah becomes available for deposition under the circumstances here, which again are completely beyond our client’s control.

So, Kadri, Uwaydah’s Estonian wife living with his mother in Lebanon, is finally divorcing him. Many have wondered, and with good reason, when she would reach the end of her rope. But if Mitchell Kamin truly believes the circumstances of Uwaydah

But if Mitchell Kamin truly believes the circumstances of Uwaydah being straight-jacketed by the Sharia Court are beyond Uwaydah’s control, he is either deluded or else smoking some bad marijuana.

being straight-jacketed by the Sharia Court are beyond Uwaydah’s control, he is either deluded or else smoking some bad marijuana. Uwaydah has every means and opportunity to come to Los Angeles, California, to be deposed, but he has forced the Sharia Court through his own manipulations, to give that court no other choice but to demand the surrender of his passports. (If, indeed, they have been surrendered.) This is precisely what Uwaydah wanted. So he engineered it. In this manner while placing his wife in poverty which would put her at an extreme disadvantage in divorce settlement negotiations, he would have an excuse not to appear for his deposition.

Uwaydah is a master manipulator. He wanted nothing more that to manipulate a Los Angeles Superior Court judge and prey on his or her reasonable generosity to grant him an alternative means to obtain his testimony. He will never allow himself to be deposed.

He did it previously to the judge in his Prometheus (Uwaydah’s alter ego) vs. Khaled Ghandour suit in the Santa Monica branch of the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2008. In this case he manipulated the judge using his alleged open heart surgery to be allowed to provide his testimony through written declaration.

He even tried to manipulate Ryan Saba in this case into agreeing to fly to Beirut to take his deposition there, counting on the fact that Ryan would most likely not agree to such an outlandish proposition. However, I’m certain that if Ryan had agreed to such a far-fetched rendez-vous, Uwaydah would have thrown in another twist and stated that he had suddenly been called on business to the highest summit of the Himalayas, or something or other. He’d definitely come up with another detour.

Dr. Uwaydah manufactures situations that will prevent him from ever being deposed. The last thing he wants is to be self-examined. That’s because he is evil, and the evil are always terrified of being looked into. Uwaydah wants to avoid a cross-examination at all costs. He has to maintain his cover-up.

The fact that he manipulates and gets these attorneys to make such mendacious arguments on his behalf is not only a travesty of justice but it makes fools of his lawyers. That’s why Uwaydah goes through lawyers faster than he goes through his mistresses. Lawyers are human, and like the majority of humans, they have moral integrity—contrary to all the bad lawyer jokes. Any lawyer can only stand being made a fool of in court for so long. A string of Uwaydah lawyers in the past decade finally one by one came to a point when they refused to further represent Uwaydah. The knees of the Bird firm will clearly buckle next.

Ryan Saba: Your honor, this is a well documented motion to compel. This court found that Frontline was required to produce Dr. Uwaydah. This court had warned defendants on more than six occasions of which we’ve attached the transcripts that this case will be dismissed today if he doesn’t appear for the deposition by September 30th. He did not appear for the deposition by September 30th. They want to blame this Sharia Court order. This court has made clear no more declarations from other people. You only ordered Court orders. Here they come again on the last minute with another declaration.

Let’s not lose focus why Dr. Uwaydah is not appearing for the deposition. The reason why Dr. Uwaydah isn’t here is because he’s a fugitive from the F.B.I., C.I.A., the Department of Homeland Security, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Santa Monica Police Department. He’s wanted for Fraud. He’s wanted for Murder. He fled the county as soon as the murder happened. That’s why he’s in Lebanon. It’s a non-extradition country. Nonetheless…

At this point Judge Teresa stopped him. She said he was making some serious representations here and that she wanted him to back them up. Ryan said absolutely, and that he’d made it clear in all of his filings. She then asked him to put it on the record and he asked back what she would like specifically.

This writer was surprised that Judge Teresa would ask this question. It’s well known that the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security and the Los Angeles and Santa Monica Police Departments are looking for Uwaydah and want him for questioning. Also, the United States Secret Service is looking for him. I saw a Secret Service agent at one of Kelly Soo Park’s court hearings in the Downtown Los Angeles Criminal Court House just a few months ago and I heard his name but thought it best not to publish it.

It is well known that all these agencies are heavily embroiled in an ongoing investigation of Uwaydah and Frontline Medical, and specific information of facts with names attached to them are impossible to get presently because of the confidentiality and secrecy demanded by these departments. Witnesses have all been required not to speak to the Media.

One detail that Ryan Saba missed slightly was with his statement that Uwaydah fled the country as soon as the murder happened; actually, he fled the country as soon as Kelly Soo Park was arrested, which was in June of 2010. That was more than two years after the murder, which happened on March 15th 2008. Thus, Uwaydah hung around Southern California doing his fraud thing for over two years post murder thinking he and Kelly Soo had really gotten away with it.

However, one informant communicated to adjustercom.com that Uwaydah had lost substantial weight and had dark bags under his eyes during the few months before Kelly Soo’s arrest. Clearly he was worried. And why did it take over two years for the Santa Monica Police to make the arrest? They aren’t telling, but one can assume it’s because Kelly Soo Park had absolutely no prior record and her DNA was not in the database. So, how did they get her DNA and match it to the DNA found at the murder scene? Authorities won’t say at this point because of the ongoing investigation.

Ryan Saba: Dr. Uwaydah is a person of interest from specifically the FBI for two particular crimes. He’s a person of interest because he is engaged in a multi-level fraudulent organization in which the FBI believe that he has defrauded citizens of the State of California and Insurance Companies from the State of California of millions of dollars through workers’ compensation fraud, with false surgical centers, with false pharmacies, and false patient care.

In addition, his girlfriend, Juliana Redding, was murdered. His is a person of interest in the Santa Monica Police Department for participating and organizing and hiring somebody to commit that murder. As soon as the police began that investigation after the murder, Dr. Uwaydah fled the United States and went to a non-extradition country of Lebanon. These are facts, your honor.

Again, Ryan Saba missed that one point when stating Uwaydah fled the U.S. right after the murder when the investigation began, because actually Uwaydah fled over two years later right after the arrest of Kelly Soo Park. However, Ryan got everything else right when he delivered his speech to the court room with true fire in his belly. He was the quintessential fine orator. He did not stumble; he did not grope for words. The sentences flowed out of him like lava from a volcano with natural energy and emotion.

Another argument Ryan Saba could have made, which he didn’t, is that Munir Uwaydah would never have appeared anyway for his deposition even if the murder had never occurred and he were not being investigated for fraud. Even if the FBI, CIA, Secret Service and all other law enforcement agencies were to roll out the red carpet and tell him he’s been exonerated from all suspicion on everything from murder to fraud, Uwaydah would still not allow himself to be deposed. He would make excuse after excuse just like he has for the past ten years in numerous and sundry civil and bankruptcy cases.

I’ve gone back and reread Prometheus (Uwaydah’s alter ego) vs. Ghandour (2006) and General Electric Medical Systems vs. Prometheus (2002). Plus,

It’s the same pattern and practice by Uwaydah in every case of delay tactics and dicking with and frustrating the discovery process...

Uwaydah’s 2003 bankruptcy case. All these court cases occurred before the murder in 2008 and the onset of the California workers’ compensation fraud investigation. It’s the same pattern and practice by Uwaydah in every case of delay tactics and dicking with and frustrating the discovery process.

Uwaydah tormented the Ohio Federal District Court and the Ohio Sixth Circuit Appeals Court in the General Electric Medical Systems vs. Prometheus case in 2002 and over the next few years by making endless excuses or else by just ignoring the discovery process all together. He never gave his deposition. The courts found him liable for fraud for stealing a one million dollar scanner from General Electric Medical Systems and wrote clearly and unequivocally in the court records that Uwaydah committed fraud. The District Court finally imposed sanctions against him after he ran them ragged for over two years by thumbing his nose at the discovery process.

Uwaydah simply does not want to be questioned and self-examined ever, therefore his pattern into the future will never change from his past. This writer can virtually guarantee to any attorney or judge anywhere that it will be a rainy day in Hell before Uwaydah will sit for his deposition. He will drive every judge into confusion and despair with his endless charades.

Uwaydah is a major control freak, and he demands to have total control over his women. If a woman asks too many questions, for example, and does not obey his every command, he punishes her by cutting off her resources and reducing her to poverty.

When one of his mistresses was eight months pregnant with his son in 2007, he evicted her from a home he was providing for her in Marina Del Rey, cut off all her money and resources, and left her out on the street destitute. He did this because the mistress asked too many questions, such as why Uwaydah wouldn’t sleep with her at night and why they couldn’t get married as he had promised.

The truth was that Uwaydah had been lying for months to the mistress by making her believe he was a single man who was unmarried, when in fact he was married to Kadri Valjaaots Uwaydah who was living with his mother in Lebanon while he also had a common-law wife living in another property in Marina Del Rey. This was the wife Uwaydah was sleeping with at night when he was in Los Angeles while the pregnant mistress complained that he would never stay with her.

So, since she complained too much that she couldn’t be with him, Uwaydah cut her off. Left her destitute. Then a year later, when Uwaydah found out that his common-law wife, Julia Kaueffler, was talking to the mistress about getting their children together, he took away her cell phone, car, money, and evicted her from the house she lived in. That

At that time, Julia Kaueffler had young two-year-old twin children with Uwaydah. But, Uwaydah reduced her to poverty just so he could gain all power and control...

house in Marina Del Rey was owned by Paul Turley, one of Uwaydah’s partners in Frontline Medical, so Uwaydah got Paul Turley to do the eviction. At that time, Julia Kaueffler had young two-year-old twin children with Uwaydah. But, Uwaydah reduced her to poverty just so he could gain all power and control. This is what he does to maintain control. He uses money.

Henceforth, this is what he’s most likely doing to his present wife, soon-to-be-ex-wife, Kadri, now in Lebanon—based on his past pattern and practice. He likely cut off all of her resources so he can control her. And now Kadri likely has to take extreme measures and put herself at the mercy of the Sharia court by begging them to keep Uwaydah’s passports so he can’t flit off to some foreign land and leave her and their children in a state of penury. Uwaydah would certainly do it because he’s done it in the past to two other mothers of his children. He demands all power and control.

So, this Sharia Court matter with the surrender of his passports (if it’s indeed true that his passports are surrendered) is all a situation of Uwaydah’s own making. He’s carefully crafted it. Because he could easily give his wife reasonable support for her and their children and then there would be no reason to imprison his passports. Sharia law merely requires that a man support his wife and children. If the Sharia Court saw that Uwaydah was doing that, they would have no reason to hold him hostage within the borders of Lebanon. They would have no justification for it.