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January 2008 ISSUE
We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!
A Passel of the F-Word in OC Politics, more popular than in Rap "Music"
December
22,
2007
The F-word in Orange
County politics seems to be more popular than ever
before. More
popular than the F-word used in Rap Music or the
F-Word used in the recent mortgage meltdown.
In the article titled Fraud Seen as Driver
in Wave of Foreclosures published in the December
21 issue of the Wall Street Journal, Michael Corkery
asserts that “skyrocketing foreclosures are a
testament to how easy it was to borrow money from
mortgage lenders in recent years”. He describes
how criminals obtained some $6.8 million from Bear Stearns
Cos., “including a $1.8 million mortgage to
Calvin Wright”, a phone technician who told “the
investment banker he and his wife earned more than
$50,000 a month”.
In Orange County, there is Treasurer-Tax
Collector Chriss
Street, who nearly
tripled the county's stake in controversial
securities, other local governments avoid, bringing
back memories of the recent county bankruptcy.
We recall that a few months back,
Nick Berardino,
General Manager of the Orange County Employee’s
Association called for a non-partisan effort
to Recall
Street.
That was followed by Supervisor Moorlach’s,-
Street’s long-time friend- request for
Street to step down, or be stripped of investment
authority. The DA recently issued subpoenas specifically asking if the Board of Supervisors was asked to approve any of the
spending, perhaps looking into how Street and the
facilities department skirted
state and county bidding rules by splitting Street's
remodel job into dozens of small jobs.
Then there is the sexual
harassment lawsuit against supervisor Chris
Norby. A
state appellate court recently overturned a jury's
finding, but ordered a new trial to determine how much
in damages the alleged victim should get for being
wrongfully terminated. "While we do not
condone Norby's improper behavior, Mokler
failed to present sufficient evidence of acts
'sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the
conditions of her employment and create an abusive
working environment," the justices wrote.
Weeks earlier, however, Norby was providing
uncalled for advice to Sheriff
Mike Carona:
“The
federal criminal indictment against Sheriff Michael Carona
has placed a cloud over Orange County’s largest
department. Only the Sheriff can lift this cloud by
resigning his position and allowing the Board of
Supervisors to appoint new leadership. So far he is
seeking vindication through the looming trial, but the
judicial process may take many months and will, at the
very least, reveal serious issues in the
department’s leadership.”
Even earlier, the Orange County Board of
Supervisors had settled on a “no-confidence vote”,
calling for an oversight board to reign in on the
Sheriff. "Specifically, what the Sheriff and Sheriff's command staff objected
to was the tact and the direction Supervisor Moorlach was taking to move his proposal
forward…. based on what was said during the
discussion in May, it appears that Supervisor Moorlach's original proposal for law
enforcement oversight was created in secret, with
little discussion or participation from members of the
Board and the law enforcement officials his proposal
would effect”, reads an
entry in the
OC
Sheriff’s blog
Just this week, The County of Orange paid $7
million to the federal government to settle
allegations that
the county’s Health Care Agency
(OCHCA)
submitted false bills to Medicare for mental health
and drug addiction services from 1990 to 1999.
According to the settlement, the OCHCA
improperly billed Medicare for psychiatric
evaluations that were not performed by doctors,
clinical psychologists or licensed clinical social
workers, engaged
in a billing practice where brief office visits were
described as more lengthy, intensive office visits in
order to receive higher compensation.
Still incredulous, we decided to prove that the
OCHCA’s
actions were an isolated instance.
To our surprise, this seems to be a daily
occurrence as documented in the website Medicare’s
Most Wanted.
Here are just a few of the entries we found,
without really trying:
·
December 10. 2007-
Arthur
Pilavyan,
of Altadena,
CA, gets 10 year prison sentence & was ordered to
pay $7 million in restitution to the federal health
care program.
·
Monday, December 17, 2007
- Dr.
Jose Joaquin Rodriguez has been arrested by law
enforcement investigators with the attorney general's
Medicaid fraud control unit in Miami.
·
Monday, December 10, 2007 - New
Jersey Hospital to Pay US $7.5 Million to Resolve
Medicare Fraud Allegations.
·
Friday, December 7, 2007 - Christian
Onwuegbusi,
56, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday
for stealing more than $900,000 from the Medicare
program.
As if all this was not enough, Phillip Greer, a Lawyer
to key Orange County Republicans was disciplined by
state bar, according to an article
published December 21, 2007 in the Los
Angeles
Times. According
to the article, “Greer, who advised a county
official to set up a secret fund later ruled illegal,
had twice been ordered to take ethics classes. Janet
Nguyen was barely losing the February election for
county supervisor…. she did what many Orange County
Republicans do when they need election law advice. She
hired Philip Greer”
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