Kareem Ahmed Requests Change In Conditions To His Five Million Dollar Cash Bail. Two Orange County Indictments Amended And Refiled While 15 Defendants Rearraigned. By Lonce LaMon - December 5, 2014
At the end of court proceedings on the morning of November 21st 2014, in Orange County Superior Court room C-45, Benjamin Gluck, defense counsel for defendant Kareem Ahmed, Barack Obama’s million-dollar-donor now accused of 100 million dollars in insurance fraud, made a request to the court for a change to his client’s bail conditions. Judge Thomas Goethals asked to be reminded if it was indeed true that Kareem Ahmed had posted five million dollars in cash bail. Deputy District Attorney, Shaddi Kamiabipour, confirmed that that was correct. Indeed.
Five million dollars in cash bail.
Benjamin Gluck told the court that his client would like to go to Washington, D.C. His bail conditions have been as such that Ahmed can only travel within the state of California. Thus, The Honorable Thomas Goethals told Gluck to submit a request to the People and explain.
“Based on what I’ve heard, so far,” Goethals said, “I would sign them.”
Shaddi Kamiabipour stood before the bench in a vibrant purple suit and a pair of brown boots. Kareem Ahmed sat in his usual spot in the center aisle at the end of the 4th row nearest the door. Ahmed is asking for permission to travel within the continental U.S. rather than only within the state of California. Ahmed has been like a bird with its wings clipped by being confined since his arrest to travel only within California. He has prided himself vaingloriously and spoken with vociferous self-importance about his political influence in Sacramento and Washington D.C.
The two original indictments which were filed on June 17th 2014 against the 15 defendants in this Landmark Medical Management mass-manufactured, compound-medication case, have been amended. The new amended indictments were refiled in November in response to judicially sustained demurrers filed by the defense.
Kareem Ahmed is accused of doling out over 25 million dollars in bribes while he and his co-defendants scammed the workers’ compensation claims insurance payers in California out of over 100 million dollars with prescriptions of compound-cream pain killers.
The defense argued on November 7th in court about the vagueness and lack of specificity in many of the counts of the indictments.
“Your honor,” Benjamin Gluck professed, “We have the right to know what counts we’re going to trial on…”
Many of the demurrers were sustained by the court.
“I would encourage the prosecution to conscientiously consider the points made,” the judge said on November 7th. “The practical points made have some validity. It would behoove everybody to focus in factually. I’d like to go to trial on this case before I retire.”
Judge Goethals did not sustain the demurrer on the count which is for Involuntary Manslaughter. “I don’t think it’s demurrable,” he said. “So, that is my ruling on the demurrers.”
A two week deadline was imposed for filing the Amended Indictment. Shaddi Kamiabipour met the deadline and filed it before November 21st.
On November 21st, half of the defendants were arraigned on the Amended Indictment, and today, December 5th, the other half of the defendants were scheduled to be arraigned.
All the defendants are believed to have again pled not-guilty.
Lonce LaMon, journalist, lonce@adjustercom.com
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