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Just this past Friday morning, December 11th 2015, the defendants in the Aspen Medical Resources case (this single company name is the simplified name for this case which includes numerous company names) met with their attorneys and the deputy district attorneys in the department of the Honorable John Conley, C-30, in Orange County Superior Court.

Defendants Abraham Khorshad, Jeffrey Campau, Landon Mirallegro, and Ryan McCracken all appeared in court timely. Kay Rackauckas, clad in a fine grey suit, was late and didn’t arrive until after 9:30 am. Kay represents Landon Mirallegro.

DDA Shaddi Kamiabipour waited while wearing a reddish brown leather jacket and black pants and top. DDA Debbie Jackson also waited patiently in a fine red dress and black sweater.

To kill time, Shaddi chatted in front of the jury seating area with the stealthily disingenuous Benjamin Gluck sporting his green tie, who in this case represents Abraham Khorshad. But Gluck has represented in other cases far more perfidious characters such as Dr. Munir Uwaydah. It was Gluck who four and a half years ago hired a publicist named Joann Geffen to approach this writer and falsely represent a so-called potential “interested investor and buyer” of the adjustercom publication.

However, the communicated interest was perniciously misrepresentative. This was discovered when Gluck’s email address appeared in the “copy to” line when it was meant to get sent as a blind copy. Fraudsters attempting to act surreptitiously always make mistakes and inevitably get caught. The truth was Gluck was acting as Uwaydah’s agent in attempting to negotiate a bribe by hiding behind Joann Geffen in order to shut down all adjustercom’s reporting about Uwaydah.

Uwaydah went so far as to file injunctions out of Beirut, Lebanon, demanding of the adjuster.com registrar to suspend the domain. Two stupid registrars did so, twice in a row, in total indifference and betrayal towards the U.S. Constitution’s first amendment. Those were Network Solutions and Dotster.

But this writer eventually figured out that Go Daddy will never honor a Middle-Eastern court order, and adjustercom.com luckily got registered with Go Daddy. Twenty-four hours after adjuster.com was suspended, the adjustercom publication sprang up at www.adjustercom.com.

Dr. Uwaydah raged with written violence in subsequent court orders, and ordered this writer to trial in Beirut through a Beirut judge most likely bribed. This writer refused to appear in Beirut for trial and most likely has been found guilty of criminal defamation in Lebanon. This can't be verified but it is suspected. Uwaydah was outsmarted and that’s what fueled his rage. And that’s why he’s so very dangerous.

Uwaydah is presently on the lam and eluding arrest for fraud in the "Criminal Organization Munir Uwaydah" case of downtown Los Angeles. He is believed to have taken refuge in the Ukraine, which has no extradition treaty with the U.S.A. His bail is $22,375,000.

Criminal defense attorney, Benjamin Gluck, of Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg Rhow (the Bird Firm) in Century City, leaves the Orange County Superior Court in his vehicle on Friday, December 11th 2015. photo by Lonce LaMon, all rights reserved

Mark this writer’s word, everyone. One day Benjamin Gluck will wind up in a prison cell next to one of his pernicious clients. Concurrently, in the downtown Los Angeles case of “Criminal Organization Munir Uwaydah”, Gluck represents Uwaydah’s right-hand-man, Paul Turley. We’ll see where that leads when that case proceeds forward in February 2016.

So, if Gluck can surreptitiously attempt to bribe a photojournalist who is also a publisher, that shows he does more than write brilliantly specious arguments of glorious sophistry to defend slimy doctors and other garden-variety fraudsters.

Shaddi told him as she and Gluck lollygagged standing around near the jury pool area, that she wants a trial date for this Aspen case. Gluck said “okay” very nonchalantly. He didn’t argue with her but seemed even a bit passive about it. He then changed the subject and talked about his “multiple act fraud count” obsession.

He won’t let go about this practice of prosecutors placing multiple acts of like kind into the same count. Benjamin Gluck is also the lead defense attorney in the Orange County Landmark case, representing Kareem Ahmed. That case is still stayed waiting for an answer from the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three in Santa Ana. Gluck went all the way to the California Supreme Court with his writ when the Fourth Appellate wouldn’t hear it, and he got the Supreme Court to rule that the Court of Appeal had to hear the case. Thus, it got sent back.

Gluck has this thing he’s all sideways about that multiple acts cannot be clumped into the same count. All the fraudster defense attorneys are hoping he will win on this, because if he does, it's possible only one fraudulent billing will fit as a result of a ruling into one single count. Then thousands of counts would have to go into one indictment or information in order to lasso all the fraudulent billings, and no judge would ever try a case with thousands of counts. Every case would get thrown out if it came to thousands of counts getting written into one complaint. This would then make prosecuting billing fraud a nightmare.

There’s more, but not to digress. These Aspen defendants, who provided durable medical equipment to workers’ compensation patients, egregiously overbilled on a hot-cold orthopedic therapy machine when they billed for a hot-compress machine, and a cold-compress machine, making it look like they provided two machines. Thus, they double billed. They also rented out these combination hot-cold machines for weeks on end, creating rental billings in the ten thousand dollar or higher range, when the machines themselves only were valued at a couple hundred to a few hundred dollars per machine.

Since late 2013, the Aspen-related companies have been in receivership. This receivership was insisted upon by the prosecution in order to preserve the assets for restitution to the claims-payer victims. Some of the victim insurance companies are CNA, Hartford, The Travelers, State Farm, and State Compensation Insurance Fund. Now the Aspen-related companies in Orange County have declined by $425,226.00 over the past two years. This pervasive precipice into the red is of major concern to the prosecution whose interest is in preserving sufficient restitution money.

Kay Rackauckas, above left, is shown leaving the Los Angeles downtown criminal courthouse on February 8th 2011 with her then client, Kelly Soo Park. Kay displays ethics and scruples in her actions as a lawyer. Not too long after this photo was taken, Kay withdrew as Kelly Soo Park's counsel when she received a $100,000 check from one of Dr. Uwaydah's companies in payment for Kelly Soo's defense for the murder of aspiring actress and model Juliana Redding. Kay never explained precisely why she withdrew as Park's counsel over the $100,000 payment from a Uwaydah company--at least she did not to this writer. photo by Lonce LaMon, all rights reserved.

In a recent prosecution motion, filed on August 21st 2015, deputy district attorney, Debra Jackson, wrote, “As argued previously, obviously, a business steeped in fraud is more profitable than one lawfully operated. Common sense dictates that when you overbill, your profits will be higher and when you are indicted for fraud, people of good reputation will not do business with you. Consequently, the businesses have not generated the amount of income to support themselves.”

Now the main Aspen-related office building, called the Abrexis building, which stands at 685 North Shepard Street, Anaheim, California, has through agreement by all the parties, been sold. In the most recent document filed on December 4th 2015, a stipulated order, it states, “SPC California Investments, LLC, has agreed to purchase the Property for the sum of $1,995,150.00 for all cash. The net proceeds of sale after payment of all liens of record, taxes and associated costs of sale, are estimated at $325,689.46 and shall be paid by escrow directly to the Receiver by Escrow, along with a full and complete accounting of the sale transactions."

Since November 15th 2013, Jeffrey Campau and Landen Mirallegro have been receiving salaries of $12,000 a month each from one of the Aspen-related entities—Elite Diagnostics. Abraham Khorshad has been paid $50,000 a month from Beverly Hills Integrated Surgical. What’s wrong with this picture? Ninety percent of honest people do not even earn $12,000 a month. Let alone $50,000!

The prosecution is arguing to cease all payments of salaries and to liquidate all the companies and have the proceeds put into an interest bearing trust account in order to be reserved for restitution and fines. The defense is arguing to dissolve the receivership and allow the substantial real estate holdings to stand as equity for the estimated 7 to 8 million dollars claimed as owed back to them by the workers' compensation payers. .

Judge John Conley stated in open court after he and the attorneys came out after a long session in his chambers, “Both sides have agreed to postpone to February 19th (2016). Trial is imminent!”