The owner of a now-shuttered healthcare business-management-services company and three others were arrested on Wednesday, July 19, on a federal indictment alleging they defrauded lenders and investors out of millions of dollars via false claims that the owner’s struggling business was booming.
Tammy Le, 48, of San Clemente, the former owner and CEO of CareAccess MSO, a Cerritos-based company that purported to help physician groups manage their business affairs, was arrested without incident, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Also arrested were: Macy Zia, 50, of Fullerton, a former senior accounting manager at CareAccess; Galen Clark, 31, of Simi Valley, a former CareAccess information-technology manager; and Chris Ruiz, 52, of Pasadena, the owner of Auxilium Health Network, an Arcadia-based independent physician association.
All four are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Le, Zia and Ruiz are charged with six counts of wire fraud. Clark, accused of joining the conspiracy in November 2020, is charged with three counts of wire fraud. Le also is charged with one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of money laundering.
According to an indictment, from January 2020 to July 2021 the defendants conspired to fraudulently obtain money from their victims by falsely representing the scope of CareAccess’ business and its anticipated revenue. One company was duped into loaning money to CareAccess while the other company was deceived into...
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