LOS ANGELES – The owner of a now-shuttered health care business management services company and three other people were arrested today on a nine-count federal grand jury 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 Inc., a Cerritos-based company that purported to help primary care physician groups manage their business affairs, was arrested without incident this morning.
Also arrested today 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 (IPA).
All four defendants are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Le, Zia and Ruiz are charged with six counts of wire fraud. Clark, who allegedly joined 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.
Le and Zia are expected to make their initial appearances this afternoon in United States District Court in Santa Ana. Clark and Ruiz are scheduled to make their initial court appearances this afternoon in federal court in downtown Los Angeles.
According to an indictment...
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