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| | G & G Interpreting Services Owners And Four Other Defendants To Be Arraigned Today In Downtown Los Angeles
By Lonce LaMon - January 15, 2016
The two owners of the former G&G Interpreting Services based in Sherman Oaks, California, Francisco Javier Gomez, Jr, aged 32, and his sister, Angela Rehmann, aged 38, were scheduled to be arraigned today in Department 30 of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Downtown Los Angeles. Along with them four other defendants were scheduled to be arraigned: Gloria Sandoval, Crystal Garcia, Cynthia Gomez, and Arnulfo Reyes. Three other defendants had their court appearances sooner: Melissa Navarro on January 13th 2016, Amber Anguiano on January 12th 2016, and Jamilett Ortega also on January 12th 2016.
Seven out of the nine defendants are family related.
All of the defendants were released from custody between December 20th and December 29th 2015. All were released on Bond with the exception of Amber Anguiano and Jamilett Ortega who were released on their own recognizance. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office recommended that bail be set at $400,000 for each one of the nine defendants. Deputy District Attorney Angela Brunson of the Healthcare Fraud Division is prosecuting this case.
During the time period from approximately 2007 to 2013, G & G Interpreting Services which became American Liberty Interpreting in August of 2012, billed more than $80,000,000 in invoices to insurance carriers and self-insured entities for mostly workers’ compensation patients. Approximately $24,000,000 of these invoices were deemed to be fraudulent by investigators. That makes about 35% of the total invoices analyzed as fraudulent.
Several defendants are accused of creating fake invoices for interpreting services provided by an employee who was in state prison when she was supposedly providing her interpreting services. The amount of those billings for her services came to more than $422,000. She still remains in state prison.
The fraudulent invoices overall were created on patients who did not need or use interpreters and at clinics that were staffed by doctors fluent in the Spanish language.
This case continues to be under investigation by the California Department of Insurance. The Head Deputy of the Health Care Fraud Division with the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office, Jennifer Snyder, spearheaded the investigation on this case.
One of the defendants, Amber Anguiano, was also arrested on July 19, 2014 in Santa Clarita, brought to the Newhall Station, and booked with a $5,000 bail amount. It can be assumed this arrest was on an unrelated charge. She was released that same day.
lonce@adjustercom.com; Lonce LaMon, journalist; all rights reserved, copyright adjustercom and Lonce LaMon.
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