Lock Them Up –
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 – A task force crackdown on insurance fraud in the sober living home industry resulted in criminal charges against five doctors, two executives and four others accused in a scheme to recruit patients for risky opioid-blocking surgery, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced Wednesday. The physicians charged in the case are: — Dr. David Michael Scarpino, 53, of Huntington Beach, who faces one count of conspiring in aiding and abetting the unauthorized practice of medicine and 19 counts of insurance fraud, with sentencing enhancement allegations of aggravated white collar crime exceeding $100,000…
