Fraud Los Angeles County

They are people with little who are left with less. Destitute and disabled, they are swept off skid row by poverty profiteers who offer a seemingly heaven-sent answer to the hell of homelessness: Good food and a fine roof in exchange for any government money they may be receiving. But many have learned that there is a heavy hidden price.

A federal judge Monday sentenced a Canyon Country man to 4 1/2 years in prison for tax fraud, shoddy aircraft repairs and endangering the lives of military and civilian fliers by selling bogus aircraft parts. Aman Khan, 46, also was banned from dealing in aircraft parts in the future, ordered to serve three years probation and pay $698,905 in fines to reimburse the government and civilian firms. U.S. District Court Judge David V.

Residents were warned Thursday about a man who poses as a Federal Express deliveryman and collects cash from customers for worthless C.O.D. packages. William Renick, 51, has been convicted of grand theft, petty theft and burglary, and is now wanted for a parole violation, said George Fawrup of the California Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation. Renick apparently has been running his scam for five months, Fawrup said.

A man who mixed satanic rituals with bogus faith healing was convicted Monday of robbing, raping and sexually assaulting members of four families. Juan Cardenas, also known as Oswaldo Cardonas, was found guilty on three counts of digital penetration, one count of committing lewd acts with a child under the age of 14 and seven counts of committing unlawful sex acts by fraud and fear. On Aug.

The owner of a Valencia pharmaceutical supply company was sentenced to nearly four years in prison and ordered to repay $5 million after defrauding Medi-Cal out of $7.2 million, the third largest such case in the agency's history, the state attorney general's office said Friday. Roy Pacia, 51, owner and president of Bruce Pharmacal Inc., was sentenced Thursday by Superior Court Judge Clarence A. Stromwall on two felony counts of defrauding the state's Medi-Cal program through phony billings.

A Woodland Hills man charged with swindling fellow Friars Club members out of at least $500,000 surrendered to authorities Friday and pleaded not guilty to eight counts of grand theft, a prosecutor said. Joel Burakoff, a 56-year-old former member of the prominent Beverly Hills social club's board of directors, is accused of enticing wealthy members to put money into Univest Home Loan Inc.

A judge issued an arrest warrant Thursday for a prominent former Lancaster electrical contractor convicted of payroll fraud in 1991 after new allegations that he also defrauded several hundred employees of more than $640,000 in pension contributions. Concluding an 18-month investigation, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office has accused James H. Paxin, 40, owner of the now-defunct Paxin Electric Inc., of violating the terms of his 1991 probation because of the alleged pension fraud.

In the midst of a financial crisis that is forcing the layoff of thousands of health workers, Los Angeles County is investigating whether some doctors who are paid to work full time at county hospitals are shortchanging taxpayers by moonlighting excessively at private practices and other jobs, according to county officials and documents obtained by The Times.

A Simi Valley man who had avoided arrest for two months after being indicted for allegedly conning a woman into signing over her home in a Sherman Oaks hotel has been arrested by U. S. postal inspectors, authorities said. Bernard Gross, 47, was arrested Wednesday in Pasadena, where he had gone to complain to postal authorities about their efforts to track him down, said Mike Qualls, a spokesman for the Los Angeles district attorney's office. Gross was indicted Oct.

The president of a Valencia postal supplies company was ordered Monday to pay $6,550 in fines and court costs and perform 150 hours of community service for fleecing businesses nationwide in a billing scam. Daniel Lynch, 45, of Canyon Country, pleaded no contest to three counts of illegally soliciting orders. Authorities say he sent merchandise to companies that never ordered the goods, then billed them for it.