Man Convicted Of Stealing Records At Los Angeles Hospital
In medical criminal related news, a man identified as James Allen Wilson has been convicted of stealing patient records while working at Cedars Sinai Medical Center to four years and eight months in prison. He was convicted after pleading guilty of stealing patient information in order to defraud insurance companies for $354,000. There is simply no defense for that kind of behaviour. I hope for his sake he has a good attorney.
In an insurance scam Wilson used information from twelve patients that were Los Angeles Unified School District employees that had filed compensation claims. In the scam, he billed insurance companies for treatment that was never provided to the twelve patients for over $1.3 million dollars.
According to Deputy District Attorney Wendy Derzaph of the Heathcare Fraud Division, Wilson made $354,000 in the scam. Derzaph stated that Wilson pleaded guilty to one count of identity theft, insurance fraud, grand theft and two counts of failure to file income tax returns for the years 2005 and 2007. By the way if you require a good Los Angeles criminal defense attorney then may I suggest Mr. Ramiro Luis. he is one of the better criminal defense attorney you will find in L.A.
Superior Court Judge Samuel Mayerson who presided over the case and sentenced Wilson to four years and eight months, also ordered that he pay $345,000 in restitution to the Los Angeles school district that paid for treatment not provided for employees.
