ATTORNEY, ACCOUNTANT, AND TWO ADMINISTRATORS SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR REVENUE AND TAX CHARGES IN $154 MILLION MEDICAL INSURANCE FRAUD SCHEME

ATTORNEY, ACCOUNTANT, AND TWO ADMINISTRATORS SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR REVENUE AND TAX CHARGES IN $154 MILLION MEDICAL INSURANCE FRAUD SCHEME
* Additional felony fraud counts for the defendants will be tried at a later date

SANTA ANA – An attorney, accountant, and two administrators were sentenced to prison today for violating revenue and tax codes for their roles in the largest medical fraud prosecution in the nation for recruiting over thousands of healthy patients to undergo unnecessary and dangerous surgeries to fraudulently bill medical insurance companies. This trial involved the failure to file tax returns and under-reporting income to state tax authorities. The court bifurcated the case due to its size and volume and additional fraud charges remain pending a pre-trial hearing for those counts is scheduled for Jan. 3, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. in Department C-41, Central Justice Center, Santa Ana.

Roy Chester Dickson, 64, Yorba Linda, Unity’s attorney, was sentenced to two years and eight months in state prison and $41,629 restitution. He was found guilty by a jury Nov. 26, 2012, of two felony counts of filing a false personal tax return and faces a maximum sentence of three years and eight months in state prison for these counts. Dickson faces 101 additional felony counts which include two counts of conspiracy, eight counts of capping or paying for referrals, 30 counts of grand theft, 30 counts of insurance fraud, 30 counts of making false and fraudulent claims, one count of money laundering, and white collar sentencing enhancements for taking over $2.5 million on the fraud counts.

Andrew Robert Harnen, 58, Rosemead, Unity’s accountant, was sentenced to five years and four months in state prison and $904,780 restitution. He was found guilty by a jury Nov. 26, 2012, of three felony counts of filing a false tax return and six counts of failing to file tax returns. He faces a maximum sentence of eight years and four months in state prison for these counts. Harnen faces 101 additional felony counts which include two counts of conspiracy, eight counts of capping or paying for referrals, 30 counts of grand theft, 30 counts of insurance fraud, 30 counts of making false and fraudulent claims, one count of filing a false tax return, and white collar sentencing enhancements for taking over $2.5 million on the fraud counts.

Dee Francis, 63, a Unity administrator, was sentenced to six years in state prison and $905,507 restitution. She was found guilty by a jury Nov. 26, 2012, of one felony count of filing a false tax return and six counts of failing to file tax returns. He faces a maximum sentence of seven years in state prison for these counts. Francis faces 102 additional felony counts which include two counts of conspiracy, eight counts of capping or paying for referrals, 30 counts of grand theft, 30 counts of insurance fraud, 30 counts of making false and fraudulent claims, one count of filing a false tax return, two counts of failing to file tax returns, and white collar sentencing enhancements for taking over $2.5 million on the fraud counts.

Rosalinda Rodriguez Landon, 66, a Unity administrator, was sentenced to five years and four months in state prison and $1,104,496 restitution. She was found guilty by a jury Nov. 26, 2012, of six felony counts of filing false tax returns and faces a maximum sentence of six years and four months in state prison for these counts. Landon faces 101 additional felony counts which include two counts of conspiracy, eight counts of capping or paying for referrals, 30 counts of grand theft, 30 counts of insurance fraud, 30 counts of making false and fraudulent claims.