A dockworker at the Port of Long Beach has pleaded guilty to fraudulently billing his union’s health care plan for sexual services.
Defendant Cameron Rahm pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
Rahm is one of nine defendants—seven of whom were dockworkers at the Port of Long Beach—charged by federal prosecutors in September in a conspiracy to submit more than $2.1 million in fraudulent claims to their labor union’s health insurance plan for sexual services or physical therapy that never was provided.
According to his plea agreement, Rahm obtained sexual services from women employed at three businesses in the San Pedro and Wilmington areas of Los Angeles that offered patients chiropractic services and acupuncture treatments, in addition to sexual services.
Rahm authorized the conspiracy’s leader, Sara Victoria, to submit false claims to Rahm’s health plan run by his union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Association. The ILWU-PMA benefit plan provided coverage for chiropractic services and generally covered all of the cost with no deductible and without requiring plan members receiving the services to contribute any copay amount or incur any other out-of-pocket costs.
From January 2017 to April 2021, Rahm authorized Victoria to submit false claims to the union’s health benefit plan under the name of his wife, who was a plan beneficiary. Rahm’s false and fraudulent claims that Victoria submitted to the...
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