Indictment — No. 2:22-cr-00154 (Dkt. 87, C.D. Cal.)

Summary

A First Superseding Indictment filed April 13, 2023 as Document 87 in United States v. 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 and wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1349, health care fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1347, conspiracy to commit money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h) and false statements under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(3), with criminal forfeiture. The indictment alleges that the defendant and Imran Shams owned and operated Matias' Clinical Laboratory, Inc., dba Health Care Providers Laboratory. It describes Medicare coverage of COVID-19 and respiratory pathogen tests and the HRSA COVID-19 Uninsured Program, and recites Shams's 1990 Medicaid fraud conviction and exclusion by HHS-OIG.

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