Indictment — No. 2:22-cr-00154 (Dkt. 1, C.D. Cal.)

Summary

A grand jury Indictment filed April 19, 2022 as Document 1 in United States v. Imran Shams and Lourdes Navarro, aka "Lulu," No. 2:22-cr-00154-SB, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. It charges conspiracy to commit health care fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1349, conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay illegal remuneration for referrals under 18 U.S.C. § 371, false statements to secure health care payments, and conspiracy to commit money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h), with criminal forfeiture. The indictment alleges the defendants owned and operated Matias' Clinical Laboratory, Inc., dba Health Care Providers Laboratory, and describes Medicare coverage of COVID-19 and respiratory pathogen panel tests after May 2020. It recites that defendant Shams was convicted of Medicaid fraud in 1990 and excluded by HHS-OIG from federal health care programs.

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