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Los Angeles Strike Force Operations
Los Angeles Strike Force
The Los Angeles Strike Force is based the Central District of California—the nation’s most populous federal district and the district with the most Medicare spending. The Los Angeles Strike Force prosecutes a variety of health care fraud, kickback, money laundering, and other complex schemes, as well as prescription drug and opioid cases.
Where We Are
The Strike Force, operating in collaboration with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California and agency partners, has successfully prosecuted health care fraud schemes involving doctors and other medical professionals, hospices, home health, pharmacies, telemedicine, diagnostic testing, physical and occupational therapy, laboratories, opioids, prescription drugs, and medical devices, among others. The Strike Force also helps lead the Health Care Fraud Section’s Sober Homes Initiative, which focuses on health care fraud and kickback cases in the substance abuse treatment industry in Southern California and South Florida. The Strike Force has also prosecuted a variety of fraud schemes on COVID-19 relief programs, including the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan program and the Health Resources and Services Administration’s COVID-19 Uninsured Program.
Involvement
The Los Angeles Strike Force regularly participates in national and regional fraud enforcement actions, including the 2024 National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action; the 2023 National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action; the 2022 COVID-19 Enforcement Action; the 2021 National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action; the 2021 Sober Homes Initiative announcement; the 2020 National Health Care Fraud and Opioid Enforcement Action; and the 2019 Operation Brace Yourself Enforcement Action.
Recent Cases
Recent cases brought by the Los Angeles Strike Force include:
- United States v. Dinh (C.D. Cal.)
- United States v. Fichidzhyan, et al. (C.D. Cal.)
- United States v. Mahoney, et al. (C.D. Cal.)
- United States v. Mekail (C.D. Cal.)
- United States v. Suris, et al. (C.D. Cal.)