The federal authorities announced on Monday that a man from San Fernando Valley acknowledged that he was guilty of Medicare’s fraud through about $ 16 million through a network of Hospice Shame and ignored the revenues to hide the plan.
Juan Carlos Esbaraza, 33, from Valley Village, admitted fraud in health care and money laundering in transactions that entered July 14, according to the US Department of Justice.
Esparza is one of many defendants accused in this plan, which Federal officials described as part of a broader effort to combat residence in the Los Angeles region.
According to the court documents, from July 2019 to January 2023, Esparza and the participating prosecutors of Petros Vesidshy and Carpes SARPYAN employed four fraudulent hospitals, where they strengthened Medicare for the end -of -life care services that were not necessary and not provided. Esparza has one of the facilities, called House of Angels Hospice, has helped control others through the use of foreign citizens listed in the list as symbolic owners.
Federal investigators said that the group used the identities of these foreign citizens to open bank accounts, secure real estate contracts, and register the phone numbers used in fraud. Medicare eventually paid nearly $ 16 million based on these fabricated claims.
In addition to the fraud in health care, it was claimed that Esparza and others, including the participating defendants, Susanna Harutian and Mieran Banusian, were laundered by riding them through various bank accounts and shell companies. Prosecutors said that Esparza used at least $ 90,000 in illegal revenues to buy a vehicle.
Investigators have regained the definitions, banking records and other documents at the House of Angels office and in residential properties linked to the process. Prosecutors said that the goal is to withhold the fundamentals and real operators behind hospitals.
Esparza is scheduled to be sentenced to October 6. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for each of the two charges. The federal judge will define the final sentence after considering the in place.
This last condemnation is part of a continuous federal campaign on the fraud related to analgesics.
According to the Ministry of Justice, he was already sentenced to 12 years in prison after approved defrauding health care, stealing identity and money laundering.
Panosyan, SARPYAN and Hartyunyan have entered both comet calls to the relevant charges and is scheduled to be judged later this year. Hartyunyan also faces a possible deportation.
The case is being prosecuted by trial lawyer Sarah Edwards, Alison L. McGueri and Michael Pashrak from the Criminal Department of the Ministry of Justice, with the assistant of American lawyer Tara B. Faviri The Asset Gallery. The FBI and the Office of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services for the Inspector General run the investigation.
In a statement, Acting Acting Prosecutor Matthew R. Gallow, Director of the FBI office of the FBI office in Los Angeles, Davis, and Deputy Inspector General of HHS-OIG for investigations, Christian J. Sharanak, to the administration’s commitment to abandon health care.