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| | Trudy Maurer, Former CEO Of Implantium, And Co-Defendant Arraigned Today In San Diego On 24 Counts Of Workers' Compensation Insurance Fraud
By Lonce LaMon - October 29, 2015
Trudy Maurer, the former CEO of Implantium, a spinal implant company, was arraigned today in downtown San Diego along with her co-defendant, Tigran Shahsuvaryan, her former Implantium medical director. They were charged on a felony complaint with 24 counts of workers’ compensation related insurance fraud. She was convicted in Santa Clara County in 2013 on the same forms of offenses, but was charged by that county with 9 counts.
On October 18th 2013, Santa Clara County Judge Hector Ramon sentenced Maurer to six months in county jail and ordered her to pay a $50,000 fine to the California Department of Insurance Workers’ Compensation Fraud Fund. She had already paid $120,000 in restitution to the victims. The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office stated that upon completion of her jail sentence her felony convictions would be reduced to misdemeanors.
The Deputy District Attorney who prosecuted that Santa Clara County case, Katharina Wells, made the statement at that time that Maurer “inflated the value of spinal surgical implants by as much as tens of thousands of dollars”.
The San Diego District Attorney’s office charged her and her co-defendant in their present complaint dated April 21, 2015 with additional crimes “arising out of similar conduct in the operation of that business.” The codefendants were not arrested but were advised of the charges via a notify letter. The San Diego DA’s office stated today that after today’s arraignment Maurer and Shahsuvaryan would be booked and released on their own recognizance.
The special allegations are that the commission and attempted commission of the crimes alleged, the aggregate losses to the victims from all the charges arise from a common scheme and plan and exceed two hundred thousand dollars; that in the commission of the offenses, the Defendants took funds and property of another, the value exceeding $100,000; and that the Defendants committed two or more related felonies, a material element which is fraud and embezzlement, which involved a pattern of related felony conduct which involved the taking and resulted in the loss by another person and entity of more than one hundred thousand dollars but not more than five hundred thousand dollars.
According to Trudy Maurer’s Linked-In profile she is presently the CEO of Spine Network of California, based in the San Francisco Bay area. Her profile shows an ending date as CEO of Implantium LLC in San Francisco as June of 2014.
Trudy Maurer is being legally represented by attorney Rob Adkins of Winston and Strawn of San Francisco. Tigran Shahsuvaryan is being legally represented by the ubiquitous fraud defender, the infamous Benjamin Gluck from the “Bird firm” (Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg Rhow) based in Century City.
The date for the next court proceedings in this case is not known to this writer at this time.
lonce@adjustercom.com, journalist Lonce LaMon; copyright Lonce LaMon and adjustercom; all rights reserved.
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