U.S. Department
of Justice
Los Angeles Strike Force Operations
Los Angeles Strike Force
The Los Angeles Strike Force investigates and prosecutes a variety of complex health care fraud schemes involving fraudulent hospice, home health services, pharmacy and prescription drugs, telemedicine, and durable medical equipment providers; money laundering; as well as opioid diversion schemes relating to providers and pharmacies involved in unlawful dispensing and distribution of controlled substances. The Los Angeles Strike Force has also helped lead the Criminal Division’s Sober Homes Initiative focusing on criminal schemes in the substance abuse treatment industry, prosecuting owners and controllers of substance abuse treatment facilities and “body broker” patient recruiters. The Los Angeles Strike Force has also prosecuted a variety of fraud schemes aimed at federal relief programs enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including fraud schemes on the Small Business Administration’s PPP and EIDL programs. The Los Angeles Strike Force has brought cases involving the defrauding of Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE, among other federal health care programs.
Together with federal and state law enforcement partners, Los Angeles Strike Force prosecutors work to increase accountability in the health care industry by decreasing the presence of fraudulent providers, to combat the opioid crisis by identifying and dismantling opioid diversion schemes, and to decrease the abuse of vulnerable patients and the defrauding of health care programs in the substance abuse treatment industry.
See below for more information on some of the cases prosecuted by the Los Angeles Strike Force.
- United States v. Mahoney, et al.
- United States v. Doganyan, et al.
- United States v. Lee
- United States v. Weaver, et al.
- United States v. Thropay, et al.
- United States v. Suris, et al.