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She mixed a bottle of formula at the side of their shared bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the fitful kind of night that’s easily forgotten after a strong cup of coffee and a shy smile from a sleep-refreshed baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not what happened the next morning. When Lujan woke up, her son -- not yet 6 months old on Feb. 3, 2012 -- was cold. His lips, blue. His eyes, half open. She screamed to her mother to call 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hospital, Lujan stood in a room rocking her baby from side to side, sobbing. By then, Andrew Gallegos already was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police showed up at Lujan’s East Los Angeles home about a week later -- more than a dozen of them. They seized her medications. They handcuffed her and drove her to the police station, where a detective demanded answers: Why did her baby have toxic levels of pain medicine in his bloodstream?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the interview, it dawned on Lujan: The pain cream she had slathered on her knee had gotten into her son’s mouth, through the pistachio and bottle of formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10939806\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 629px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Lujan-paincream.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10939806\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Lujan-paincream.png\" alt=\"Photos of tubes of pain cream seized from Priscilla Lujan’s home were presented to an Orange County grand jury. Prosecutors alleged that businessman Kareem Ahmed helped formulate the toxic cream and was culpable in the death of Lujan’s infant son.\" width=\"629\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Lujan-paincream.png 629w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Lujan-paincream-400x272.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of tubes of pain cream seized from Priscilla Lujan’s home were presented to an Orange County grand jury. Prosecutors alleged that businessman Kareem Ahmed helped formulate the toxic cream and was culpable in the death of Lujan’s infant son. \u003ccite>(Orange County Superior Court)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, I killed my baby,” she told the detective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, the focus of the case shifted. The new target was Kareem Ahmed, a millionaire businessman who made his fortune selling medicated creams for patients like Lujan, who struggled with pain after an injury on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed eventually would be indicted for involuntary manslaughter in Andrew’s death and accused of a far more sweeping crime: paying more than $25 million in bribes to doctors, including Lujan’s, who prescribed the pain-relief creams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the people who combat fraud in California’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/chswc/Reports/2015/CHSWC_AnnualReport2015_4.pdf\">$24 billion\u003c/a> workers’ compensation system, the case exemplifies unchecked profiteering that jeopardizes injured workers’ health and lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is one of more than a dozen cases that, taken together, outline a medical landscape in which corruption masquerades as medical care for some of California’s injured workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of thousands of criminal court records by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows a system in which pay-to-play schemes trump patient care, particularly in unregulated treatments rejected by insurers and disputed in obscure courts throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors are beginning to turn the tide, pursuing charges against more than 80 medical professionals who’ve handled more than 100,000 injured-worker cases, most of them originating in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants include a physician assistant accused of “aggravated mayhem” after he operated on dozens of injured workers’ knees and shoulders, despite lacking surgical training. The outcomes often were disastrous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It still hurts today,” one worker testified in 2015, describing his unsuccessful 2010 shoulder surgery through an interpreter. “I can’t, you know, bend my arm, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the court records, Reveal analyzed data from more than a million workers’ compensation court cases, which show that over the last decade, workers have been swept into medical billing mills, prescribed unregulated medications and advised to undergo sometimes unneeded or high-risk surgery by doctors who were raking in bribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors estimate that the accused have burdened the system with more than $1 billion in demands for money intended to help injured workers get back on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases are being fought vigorously at every turn. Ahmed’s attorney secured an early victory, getting all but one count in his indictment thrown out; the prosecutor says she will refile the charges. Other attorneys defending the accused say the barrage of cases is a witch hunt that scares medical providers away from the system, limiting workers’ access to care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, the alleged schemes inject cynicism into a system in which workers already are at odds with insurers, which can save money when they deny care. They heap costs in the form of higher premiums on employers, who in turn raise prices for goods or services or stem hiring as they pay the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sgvtribune.com/business/20141022/california-ranks-highest-for-workers-compensation-costs\">highest workers’ compensation rates\u003c/a> in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers such as Tammy Martinez, though, pay the greatest price. The 56-year-old truck driver hurt her back pushing a 1-ton cart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers’ compensation attorney whom she relied on to help her navigate the system pleaded guilty in 2014 to being part of a criminal club: people taking bribes from hospital executive\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/ex-hospital-executive-in-kickback-scheme-looks-to-spread-the-blame/\"> Michael Drobot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drobot had\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1698182-drobot-plea.html\"> pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in early 2014 to paying at least $20 million in kickbacks to dozens of marketers, doctors and others who helped him fill the surgery suites at the now-defunct Pacific Hospital of Long Beach. Federal prosecutors linked the bribes to more than 4,400 risky spinal operations at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10939808\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Michael_Drobot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10939808\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Michael_Drobot.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Drobot, executive of the now-defunct Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, pleaded guilty in 2014 to paying at least $20 million in bribes to bring spinal surgeries to his hospital.\" width=\"200\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Drobot, executive of the now-defunct Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, pleaded guilty in 2014 to paying at least $20 million in bribes to bring spinal surgeries to his hospital. \u003ccite>(Pacific Hospital of Long Beach website via Archive.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martinez’s lawyer, Sean O’Keefe, recommended that she see a surgeon, who, she later would learn, also was accused of taking bribes from Drobot. O’Keefe’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2775949-US-v-OKeefe.html\" target=\"_blank\">guilty plea\u003c/a> singles out Martinez’s case as one spurred by illegal bribes and a conspiracy compelling her surgeon to perform a particularly complex -- and expensive -- operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came time for Martinez’s spinal surgery in October 2011, all did not go well. Doctors noted that after the procedure, her left foot grew pale and pulseless. Within weeks, her leg had to be amputated above the knee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she said, it’s been a difficult journey to learn to stand again and to discover that her young grandson was not, in fact, afraid of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost myself,” Martinez said. “I struggle every day to get the person I used to be back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across Southern California, Reveal found, companies employ intensive marketing to tap into a particularly vulnerable segment of the workforce. They blanket Spanish-language media with ads and target Latinos with calls to their homes. They suggest that filing a case could lead to a windfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Receive up to $4,000 per month,” proclaim Spanish-language signs, business cards and fliers posted across Southern California. One workers’ compensation attorney troubled by the ads called the number out of curiosity. After that, messages from a buzzing call center lit up his phone five times a day -- for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callers wanted to know “if I knew anyone who had been injured,” San Diego attorney John A. Don said, “if I could refer anyone to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Baker, director of the state Department of Industrial Relations, which administers workers’ compensation, initially responded to questions with a statement noting that other state authorities oversee medical providers and health fraud. But two weeks ago, she said her department had taken a closer look at unregulated medical care, and “we know there’s a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want workers to get appropriate care,” she said. “We don’t want overcare or undercare; either way is wrong. Delivery of care needs to be evidence-based, appropriate and quickly delivered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker said medical abuse is a symptom of a “deeper problem,” particularly in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, workers’ comp stands out as an easy target for scammers. While health care programs such as Medicare have developed an arsenal of weapons to ward off fraud, California state regulators have few tools at their disposal. For one thing, the state shares oversight with hundreds of insurers and self-insured employers, leaving no one clearly in charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors filing a growing parade of cases are exposing this leadership vacuum and how it allows operatives to bypass the most competent medical providers for the highest bidder. Workers who’ve been hurt on the job often are the last to find out that they have been exploited -- if they find out at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about a patient that has become a commodity,” said Don Marshall, chairman of the state’s Fraud Assessment Commission, which distributes funds to prosecutors who fight workers’ compensation fraud. “It’s become something to trade and sell on the open market for no other reason than to generate income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Nobody Cares’ About Workers’ Comp\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As investigators began to puzzle over the 2012 death of Andrew Gallegos, it did not take them long to realize they already had a window into the world of the man who ultimately would be charged in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kareem Ahmed was the owner of Landmark Medical Management. He is not a pharmacist. But prosecutors, in the continuing legal case against him related to Andrew’s death, would point out that he still delved into the science of mixing medications to formulate pain creams.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003cstrong>Listen to the full story\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/256830338\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ahmed’s goal, they allege, was not to make the most effective salve, but the most profitable one. Experts would testify that, if ingested, the opioid-infused cream was a “loaded gun” that could kill an adult. His firms billed insurers $400 to $1,700 per tube for creams sent to Priscilla Lujan, totaling $59,000, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An undercover recording made nearly four years before Ahmed’s indictment gives a wider view of the world of workers’ compensation medical executives. In that recording, Ahmed makes it clear that many of them are up to no good -- and no one is stopping them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businessman Cyrus Sorat secretly recorded the conversation. Also in the pain cream business, Sorat was working for federal prosecutors as part of an agreement to seek leniency in a separate workers’ compensation fraud case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the two men shared a leisurely lunch at an upscale restaurant in Ontario, California, Ahmed marveled over the scale of the exploits of others who, like him, made their millions off health care for injured workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One stood out, he said, for paying doctors up to $50,000 a month to perform invasive and risky back surgeries: Drobot, the Long Beach hospital executive who eventually would plead guilty to bribing the surgeons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How come nobody does anything to him, man?” Ahmed implores in the recording, pounding the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorat lowers his voice. “Let me tell you something. If you do Medicare -- the feds hang you,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I know, that’s why I never touch Medicare,” Ahmed says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when it comes to workers’ comp …,” Sorat continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody gives a fuck,” Ahmed finishes the sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody cares,” Sorat agrees. Ahmed laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men go on to discuss other workers’ compensation moguls. They cluck about a former chiropractor who they say had gotten a multimillion-dollar settlement from a large insurer. Sorat calls him “a criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, and then he gets money. He’s wanted in six different states,” Ahmed said. “But nobody did anything. … Nobody does shit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also talk about David Wayne Fish, a businessman who pleaded no contest in 2010 to taking money for patient referrals. He was accused of organizing dozens of lawyers and doctors to steer more than 4,000 cases to preferred medical providers and run up high bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fish’s sentence: probation, fines and an order to stop demanding the $60 million he was seeking from insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s … walking! What happened to him? Nothing,” Ahmed said. “Six fucking years of (investigation), thousands of hours, and he’s walking? … He’ll … make a $100 million in one year again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to workers’ comp …,” Sorat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed finished his sentence once again: “Yeah, nobody cares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Abuse Abounds In Specialized Courts\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a sunny Monday in November, the workers’ compensation court in Marina del Rey is swarming with activity. Lawyers weave down the halls from small courtroom to courtroom and gather in clusters. Others fervently broker deals on their cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 24 courts like this up and down the state. But the activity is particularly frenetic in Southern California, where the paperwork that fuels the court’s pace comes in by the virtual truckload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10939809\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 216px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/christine_baker.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10939809 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/christine_baker.jpg\" alt=\"Christine Baker, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, says her department has taken a closer look at unregulated medical care, and “we know there’s a problem.”\" width=\"216\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Baker, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, says her department has taken a closer look at unregulated medical care, and 'we know there’s a problem.' \u003ccite>(California Department of Industrial Relations)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These courts spend the bulk of their time settling liens -- claims for payments that medical and other service providers file against insurers or self-insured employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lien system was created to protect the injured worker. It guarantees that even if insurers deny medical care, workers will have a medical professional to whom they can turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the system also throws its doors open to providers excluded from insurers’ networks of preferred professionals. It allows thousands of unregulated entities to bill for any treatment, whiz-bang device, pain cream or DNA test. The only limit is the providers’ willingness to roll the dice on how much money they’ll rake in at workers’ comp courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lien system thrives in California -- more than in any other state. One national insurance executive \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/chswc/Meetings/2010/CHSWC_MeetingMinutesJune2010.pdf\">estimated in 2010\u003c/a> that his company does one-fifth of its business in California -- but deals with more than four-fifths of its liens there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That volume creates “a very thick forest for thieves and scoundrels to hide out in,” said Lachlan Taylor, a former special counsel to the Department of Industrial Relations who analyzed the lien system in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His work informed a 2012 law that cut down on liens with a new $150 fee required to demand payment in workers’ compensation courts. It also gave insurers new powers to deny money to providers that aren’t approved to treat injured workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet claims for unapproved care still are cropping up, said Baker, the Department of Industrial Relations’ chief. And the number of liens filed last year is even higher than it was when Taylor initially concluded that the system “rewards bad behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker said her department has begun reviewing the medical providers who currently file the largest number of liens. The result: “We do note that many are (criminally) indicted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shifting array of schemes is difficult for government authorities to track, much less for workers such as Denise Rivera. Her medical care providers amassed bills -- or liens -- amounting to $95,000. Yet the knee she sought help with continues to ache, swell and give out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She injured it while working at a center for severely disabled children, a nursing assistant job she loved. She worked the night shift, feeding children, turning them when they slept and getting them ready for the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you came in, (the kids) had a smile for you,” said Rivera, who lives in Riverside County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after Thanksgiving in 2011, she slipped and fell while giving a child a shower. Rivera said she immediately felt paralyzed by leg and back pain. Her company’s doctor said she needed knee surgery, but her employer’s insurance company denied the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera saw a commercial on TV for legal help with a work-injury case, called the number and got connected to California Injury Lawyer Inc. The Corona-based company sent people to her house to take her information and referred her to a Riverside clinic, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teena Barton is familiar with this kind of advertising through her work as a special investigator in San Diego for the ICW Group Insurance Cos., a workers’ compensation insurance firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton said marketers and advertisers are invasive, often pressuring workers to refer friends and co-workers, who get cold calls at home. She said workers often are pressured into filing work injury claims and put on a lengthy course of medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is once you’re on that wave, that wave’s going to take you,” Barton said. “That’s what the system is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Multiple Medical Procedures\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe people who asked Denise Rivera, 54, to sign papers advised her to report to a Riverside clinic, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clinic packed her schedule with appointments. Clinic staff gave her what looked like a school lunch menu, with the names of doctors and companies she was expected to see three times per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera cobbled together the gas money or borrowed family members’ cars to make her appointments. She sat in the clinic’s jammed waiting room for hours at a time and watched medical staff wheel in suitcases full of devices to treat workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she received MRIs, acupuncture, shockwave therapy and treatments with a device that seemed like a jackhammer thumping her knee. At one point, clinic staff sent her home with an electrical pain treatment device, but they forgot to include the electrode pads needed to make it work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pain creams that “seemed like Bengay,” according to Rivera, arrived in the mail. For those creams alone, records show that Kareem Ahmed’s company billed $17,102. Ahmed is the pain-cream executive who was charged in baby Andrew Gallegos’ death. The pharmacist who made 145,000 tubes of cream for his company got $35 to $72 per tube, public records say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records in Rivera’s case show the total bill sent by providers to the insurer for her care: $95,257. She had never seen that total, and it shocked her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No way,” she said, then added: “None of the treatments they’ve given me has helped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said she did not work for four years while waiting for her workers’ compensation case to be resolved. Penniless, she set up her bedroom in her mother’s garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She ultimately got a settlement in the case to compensate her for a permanent disability. The amount was $32,500 -- about what she would have made in one year at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Going After ‘The Godfather’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nRiverside County prosecutors now allege that Rivera walked into a clinic, with eight affiliate sites, that ran a $122 million scam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They filed charges in July 2014 against attorney Cary Abramowitz and chiropractor Peyman Heidary. Prosecutors say in court records that Heidary is nicknamed “The Godfather” for masterminding the profit-centered medical network that Rivera encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidary is accused of controlling medical treatment at the clinics, even though he’s not a doctor, which is a crime in California. Prosecutors say he also illegally owned and controlled law offices, even though he’s not a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors claim that workers came into the network via “cappers” -- people paid to recruit patients -- who got referrals from English- and Spanish-language 800 numbers. At Heidary’s direction, clerical staff allegedly padded the cases with additional supposedly injured body parts, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2755573-Peyman-Heidary-RIF1409778-TRO-186-11-Dec.html\"> court records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the $122 million Heidary’s group sought, one document from prosecutors indicates that it had collected $18 million from insurers as of April 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said the allegations were bad news for her, given that she trusted the legal and medical professionals to fight for her best interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me angry,” she said. “I kind of want to cry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidary has pleaded not guilty. His attorney, Michael Khouri, said the case lacks legal and factual merit and has ruined Heidary’s reputation. All the care, he said, was medically necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When told about Rivera’s plight, Khouri said he’s not moved by the case of one worker disappointed with her care, given that patients “die in the best hospitals … all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ compensation court records show that Heidary’s clinic dropped claims in May for payment in Rivera’s case. Attorneys involved in the case say the bills were resolved in a confidential settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workers Struggle Physically and Legally\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nState and federal prosecutors have filed cases against more than 80 people for medical scams victimizing injured workers since 2010. The cases are moving forward in courthouses from Fresno to San Diego and are shaping up to be vigorous fights, with defendants battling every step of the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parallel civil lawsuits also have emerged. They tend to pit insurers against medical providers in disputes over money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But little is being done in any of the legal venues for injured workers who’ve been victimized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10939811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10939811\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Brown’s doctor advised him to undergo back surgery in 2011 at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, at the height of the cash-for-surgery scam. The operation did not go well, and he now relies on a caretaker to help him each day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Brown’s doctor advised him to undergo back surgery in 2011 at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, at the height of the cash-for-surgery scam. The operation did not go well, and he now relies on a caretaker to help him each day. \u003ccite>(Annie Tritt for Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many, such as Denise Rivera, sign away their rights to future medical treatment in workers’ compensation cases. Others move forward with their lives, debilitated by medical care that left them worse off and unaware of the dynamics that shaped medical decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That latter group includes Roger Brown, 59.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His back hurt badly after he was rear-ended in a car, but he still could work as a private investigator for a Riverside County law firm. He went fishing nearly every weekend and looked forward to annual deep-sea expeditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s doctor advised him to undergo back surgery in January 2011 at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, where, Brown recalled, “he just felt the care was better.” That was at the height of the cash-for-surgery scam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surgery did not go well. During the first attempt to drill screws into Brown’s spine, the doctor drove special hardware 9 millimeters into his spinal cord. Even heavily medicated, the pain was unbearable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would have taken my own life if I could have,” Brown said. “It was excruciating pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He underwent a second surgery to fix the problem but emerged unable to drive or even work. Brown relies on a caretaker to help him each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor who advised Brown to undergo the surgery in Long Beach has been accused of taking kickbacks from Michael Drobot, the executive who pleaded guilty to bribing doctors to operate at his hospital. Another surgeon who assisted in the case faces the same accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was so disgusted by the care that he sued for malpractice in April 2012. He didn’t get far before he decided to drop the case. As for the civil bribery accusations against his doctors, “I never heard anything like that,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Brown had known about the illegal profiteering allegations over his medical care, it’s not clear that it would have gotten him anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers who’ve sustained medical harm under workers’ comp have little recourse, according to Irvine attorney Kevin Liebeck, partly because there is so little money in it for patients or lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers are reluctant to take medical malpractice cases due to caps on payouts in place since the 1970s, said Liebeck, a partner in a firm that takes such cases. Attorneys who want to help workers also are unlikely to go after a doctor for fraud because doctors’ liability insurance usually does not cover fraudulent care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most lawyers, he said, know that means they’ll be left struggling to get money from a doctor who can easily hide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you do stuff that is beyond the pale … and make a lot of money on it, even if you get caught and get a lot of grief, you will ultimately get out ahead,” Liebeck said. “Crime does pay for a lot of this stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cases Move Forward for High-profile Defendants\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhether coming out ahead is the case for some of the high-profile defendants in workers’ compensation fraud cases remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drobot, the Long Beach hospital executive, faces sentencing in June for paying bribes to pack his surgery suites with workers. He also pleaded guilty to bribing former state Sen. Ronald Calderon, who is fighting accusations in a separate case for delaying legislation that cut into the astronomical profit Drobot and others made on\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/medical-firm-profited-on-pain-in-alleged-spine-surgery-hardware-scam/\"> spinal surgery hardware\u003c/a>. Drobot declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyrus Sorat, the pain-cream businessman who made the audio recording of his friend Kareem Ahmed, went to prison in 2013 following his stint as a confidential witness for prosecutors. The judge who sentenced Sorat described his undercover work as active and significant, saying it would be valuable in multiple cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he faced a possible sentence of up to 6½ years, Sorat ultimately served two years in federal prison in California for mail fraud. He pleaded guilty to selling worthless billing rights to a third-party firm for pain creams that never were delivered to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorat now faces new insurance fraud charges, also over his pain cream business. He has pleaded not guilty in the case, and his attorney did not return calls seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed is fighting the case prosecutors filed against him in 2014. His attorney, Benjamin Gluck, said their early success in throwing out most of Ahmed’s indictment speaks “loudly about the quality of the allegations and, needless to say, we emphatically dispute them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gluck noted that the undercover tapes obtained by Reveal contain no incriminating statements by Ahmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From what Ahmed told Sorat in their freewheeling conversation in 2010, criminal charges were not a fate he expected. Ahmed confided then that he had a plan for his millions. He wanted to build a children’s hospital in San Bernardino County -- a Cedars-Sinai for kids. But, he lamented, “nobody believes me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed faces another legal challenge. Priscilla Lujan filed a civil lawsuit against Ahmed and her doctor in 2013. Lujan declined to be interviewed for this article, but a transcript in Ahmed’s criminal case details the hours of Andrew’s death and all that her encounter with Ahmed’s company cost her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After losing her baby, she testified, Ahmed’s companies kept sending the pain cream to her home and billing insurers for them -- $33,000 in all. She threw the boxes in her garage. She also lost custody of her older son. Child welfare officials declared her home unsafe, she said, because they believed she fed the toxic cream to her baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Contact the reporter at cjewett@cironline and follow her on Twitter \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/by_cjewett\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>@By_Jewett.\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police showed up at Lujan’s East Los Angeles home about a week later -- more than a dozen of them. They seized her medications. They handcuffed her and drove her to the police station, where a detective demanded answers: Why did her baby have toxic levels of pain medicine in his bloodstream?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the interview, it dawned on Lujan: The pain cream she had slathered on her knee had gotten into her son’s mouth, through the pistachio and bottle of formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10939806\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 629px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Lujan-paincream.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10939806\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Lujan-paincream.png\" alt=\"Photos of tubes of pain cream seized from Priscilla Lujan’s home were presented to an Orange County grand jury. Prosecutors alleged that businessman Kareem Ahmed helped formulate the toxic cream and was culpable in the death of Lujan’s infant son.\" width=\"629\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Lujan-paincream.png 629w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Lujan-paincream-400x272.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of tubes of pain cream seized from Priscilla Lujan’s home were presented to an Orange County grand jury. Prosecutors alleged that businessman Kareem Ahmed helped formulate the toxic cream and was culpable in the death of Lujan’s infant son. \u003ccite>(Orange County Superior Court)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, I killed my baby,” she told the detective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, the focus of the case shifted. The new target was Kareem Ahmed, a millionaire businessman who made his fortune selling medicated creams for patients like Lujan, who struggled with pain after an injury on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed eventually would be indicted for involuntary manslaughter in Andrew’s death and accused of a far more sweeping crime: paying more than $25 million in bribes to doctors, including Lujan’s, who prescribed the pain-relief creams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the people who combat fraud in California’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/chswc/Reports/2015/CHSWC_AnnualReport2015_4.pdf\">$24 billion\u003c/a> workers’ compensation system, the case exemplifies unchecked profiteering that jeopardizes injured workers’ health and lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is one of more than a dozen cases that, taken together, outline a medical landscape in which corruption masquerades as medical care for some of California’s injured workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of thousands of criminal court records by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows a system in which pay-to-play schemes trump patient care, particularly in unregulated treatments rejected by insurers and disputed in obscure courts throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors are beginning to turn the tide, pursuing charges against more than 80 medical professionals who’ve handled more than 100,000 injured-worker cases, most of them originating in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants include a physician assistant accused of “aggravated mayhem” after he operated on dozens of injured workers’ knees and shoulders, despite lacking surgical training. The outcomes often were disastrous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It still hurts today,” one worker testified in 2015, describing his unsuccessful 2010 shoulder surgery through an interpreter. “I can’t, you know, bend my arm, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the court records, Reveal analyzed data from more than a million workers’ compensation court cases, which show that over the last decade, workers have been swept into medical billing mills, prescribed unregulated medications and advised to undergo sometimes unneeded or high-risk surgery by doctors who were raking in bribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors estimate that the accused have burdened the system with more than $1 billion in demands for money intended to help injured workers get back on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases are being fought vigorously at every turn. Ahmed’s attorney secured an early victory, getting all but one count in his indictment thrown out; the prosecutor says she will refile the charges. Other attorneys defending the accused say the barrage of cases is a witch hunt that scares medical providers away from the system, limiting workers’ access to care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken together, the alleged schemes inject cynicism into a system in which workers already are at odds with insurers, which can save money when they deny care. They heap costs in the form of higher premiums on employers, who in turn raise prices for goods or services or stem hiring as they pay the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sgvtribune.com/business/20141022/california-ranks-highest-for-workers-compensation-costs\">highest workers’ compensation rates\u003c/a> in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers such as Tammy Martinez, though, pay the greatest price. The 56-year-old truck driver hurt her back pushing a 1-ton cart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers’ compensation attorney whom she relied on to help her navigate the system pleaded guilty in 2014 to being part of a criminal club: people taking bribes from hospital executive\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/ex-hospital-executive-in-kickback-scheme-looks-to-spread-the-blame/\"> Michael Drobot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drobot had\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1698182-drobot-plea.html\"> pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in early 2014 to paying at least $20 million in kickbacks to dozens of marketers, doctors and others who helped him fill the surgery suites at the now-defunct Pacific Hospital of Long Beach. Federal prosecutors linked the bribes to more than 4,400 risky spinal operations at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10939808\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Michael_Drobot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10939808\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Michael_Drobot.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Drobot, executive of the now-defunct Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, pleaded guilty in 2014 to paying at least $20 million in bribes to bring spinal surgeries to his hospital.\" width=\"200\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Drobot, executive of the now-defunct Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, pleaded guilty in 2014 to paying at least $20 million in bribes to bring spinal surgeries to his hospital. \u003ccite>(Pacific Hospital of Long Beach website via Archive.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martinez’s lawyer, Sean O’Keefe, recommended that she see a surgeon, who, she later would learn, also was accused of taking bribes from Drobot. O’Keefe’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2775949-US-v-OKeefe.html\" target=\"_blank\">guilty plea\u003c/a> singles out Martinez’s case as one spurred by illegal bribes and a conspiracy compelling her surgeon to perform a particularly complex -- and expensive -- operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came time for Martinez’s spinal surgery in October 2011, all did not go well. Doctors noted that after the procedure, her left foot grew pale and pulseless. Within weeks, her leg had to be amputated above the knee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she said, it’s been a difficult journey to learn to stand again and to discover that her young grandson was not, in fact, afraid of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lost myself,” Martinez said. “I struggle every day to get the person I used to be back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across Southern California, Reveal found, companies employ intensive marketing to tap into a particularly vulnerable segment of the workforce. They blanket Spanish-language media with ads and target Latinos with calls to their homes. They suggest that filing a case could lead to a windfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Receive up to $4,000 per month,” proclaim Spanish-language signs, business cards and fliers posted across Southern California. One workers’ compensation attorney troubled by the ads called the number out of curiosity. After that, messages from a buzzing call center lit up his phone five times a day -- for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callers wanted to know “if I knew anyone who had been injured,” San Diego attorney John A. Don said, “if I could refer anyone to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Baker, director of the state Department of Industrial Relations, which administers workers’ compensation, initially responded to questions with a statement noting that other state authorities oversee medical providers and health fraud. But two weeks ago, she said her department had taken a closer look at unregulated medical care, and “we know there’s a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want workers to get appropriate care,” she said. “We don’t want overcare or undercare; either way is wrong. Delivery of care needs to be evidence-based, appropriate and quickly delivered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker said medical abuse is a symptom of a “deeper problem,” particularly in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, workers’ comp stands out as an easy target for scammers. While health care programs such as Medicare have developed an arsenal of weapons to ward off fraud, California state regulators have few tools at their disposal. For one thing, the state shares oversight with hundreds of insurers and self-insured employers, leaving no one clearly in charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors filing a growing parade of cases are exposing this leadership vacuum and how it allows operatives to bypass the most competent medical providers for the highest bidder. Workers who’ve been hurt on the job often are the last to find out that they have been exploited -- if they find out at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about a patient that has become a commodity,” said Don Marshall, chairman of the state’s Fraud Assessment Commission, which distributes funds to prosecutors who fight workers’ compensation fraud. “It’s become something to trade and sell on the open market for no other reason than to generate income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Nobody Cares’ About Workers’ Comp\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As investigators began to puzzle over the 2012 death of Andrew Gallegos, it did not take them long to realize they already had a window into the world of the man who ultimately would be charged in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kareem Ahmed was the owner of Landmark Medical Management. He is not a pharmacist. But prosecutors, in the continuing legal case against him related to Andrew’s death, would point out that he still delved into the science of mixing medications to formulate pain creams.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003cstrong>Listen to the full story\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/256830338&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/256830338'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ahmed’s goal, they allege, was not to make the most effective salve, but the most profitable one. Experts would testify that, if ingested, the opioid-infused cream was a “loaded gun” that could kill an adult. His firms billed insurers $400 to $1,700 per tube for creams sent to Priscilla Lujan, totaling $59,000, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An undercover recording made nearly four years before Ahmed’s indictment gives a wider view of the world of workers’ compensation medical executives. In that recording, Ahmed makes it clear that many of them are up to no good -- and no one is stopping them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businessman Cyrus Sorat secretly recorded the conversation. Also in the pain cream business, Sorat was working for federal prosecutors as part of an agreement to seek leniency in a separate workers’ compensation fraud case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the two men shared a leisurely lunch at an upscale restaurant in Ontario, California, Ahmed marveled over the scale of the exploits of others who, like him, made their millions off health care for injured workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One stood out, he said, for paying doctors up to $50,000 a month to perform invasive and risky back surgeries: Drobot, the Long Beach hospital executive who eventually would plead guilty to bribing the surgeons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How come nobody does anything to him, man?” Ahmed implores in the recording, pounding the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorat lowers his voice. “Let me tell you something. If you do Medicare -- the feds hang you,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, I know, that’s why I never touch Medicare,” Ahmed says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But when it comes to workers’ comp …,” Sorat continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody gives a fuck,” Ahmed finishes the sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody cares,” Sorat agrees. Ahmed laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men go on to discuss other workers’ compensation moguls. They cluck about a former chiropractor who they say had gotten a multimillion-dollar settlement from a large insurer. Sorat calls him “a criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, and then he gets money. He’s wanted in six different states,” Ahmed said. “But nobody did anything. … Nobody does shit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also talk about David Wayne Fish, a businessman who pleaded no contest in 2010 to taking money for patient referrals. He was accused of organizing dozens of lawyers and doctors to steer more than 4,000 cases to preferred medical providers and run up high bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fish’s sentence: probation, fines and an order to stop demanding the $60 million he was seeking from insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s … walking! What happened to him? Nothing,” Ahmed said. “Six fucking years of (investigation), thousands of hours, and he’s walking? … He’ll … make a $100 million in one year again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to workers’ comp …,” Sorat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed finished his sentence once again: “Yeah, nobody cares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Abuse Abounds In Specialized Courts\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a sunny Monday in November, the workers’ compensation court in Marina del Rey is swarming with activity. Lawyers weave down the halls from small courtroom to courtroom and gather in clusters. Others fervently broker deals on their cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 24 courts like this up and down the state. But the activity is particularly frenetic in Southern California, where the paperwork that fuels the court’s pace comes in by the virtual truckload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10939809\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 216px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/christine_baker.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10939809 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/christine_baker.jpg\" alt=\"Christine Baker, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, says her department has taken a closer look at unregulated medical care, and “we know there’s a problem.”\" width=\"216\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Baker, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, says her department has taken a closer look at unregulated medical care, and 'we know there’s a problem.' \u003ccite>(California Department of Industrial Relations)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These courts spend the bulk of their time settling liens -- claims for payments that medical and other service providers file against insurers or self-insured employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lien system was created to protect the injured worker. It guarantees that even if insurers deny medical care, workers will have a medical professional to whom they can turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the system also throws its doors open to providers excluded from insurers’ networks of preferred professionals. It allows thousands of unregulated entities to bill for any treatment, whiz-bang device, pain cream or DNA test. The only limit is the providers’ willingness to roll the dice on how much money they’ll rake in at workers’ comp courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lien system thrives in California -- more than in any other state. One national insurance executive \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/chswc/Meetings/2010/CHSWC_MeetingMinutesJune2010.pdf\">estimated in 2010\u003c/a> that his company does one-fifth of its business in California -- but deals with more than four-fifths of its liens there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That volume creates “a very thick forest for thieves and scoundrels to hide out in,” said Lachlan Taylor, a former special counsel to the Department of Industrial Relations who analyzed the lien system in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His work informed a 2012 law that cut down on liens with a new $150 fee required to demand payment in workers’ compensation courts. It also gave insurers new powers to deny money to providers that aren’t approved to treat injured workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet claims for unapproved care still are cropping up, said Baker, the Department of Industrial Relations’ chief. And the number of liens filed last year is even higher than it was when Taylor initially concluded that the system “rewards bad behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker said her department has begun reviewing the medical providers who currently file the largest number of liens. The result: “We do note that many are (criminally) indicted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shifting array of schemes is difficult for government authorities to track, much less for workers such as Denise Rivera. Her medical care providers amassed bills -- or liens -- amounting to $95,000. Yet the knee she sought help with continues to ache, swell and give out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She injured it while working at a center for severely disabled children, a nursing assistant job she loved. She worked the night shift, feeding children, turning them when they slept and getting them ready for the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you came in, (the kids) had a smile for you,” said Rivera, who lives in Riverside County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after Thanksgiving in 2011, she slipped and fell while giving a child a shower. Rivera said she immediately felt paralyzed by leg and back pain. Her company’s doctor said she needed knee surgery, but her employer’s insurance company denied the request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera saw a commercial on TV for legal help with a work-injury case, called the number and got connected to California Injury Lawyer Inc. The Corona-based company sent people to her house to take her information and referred her to a Riverside clinic, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teena Barton is familiar with this kind of advertising through her work as a special investigator in San Diego for the ICW Group Insurance Cos., a workers’ compensation insurance firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barton said marketers and advertisers are invasive, often pressuring workers to refer friends and co-workers, who get cold calls at home. She said workers often are pressured into filing work injury claims and put on a lengthy course of medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is once you’re on that wave, that wave’s going to take you,” Barton said. “That’s what the system is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Multiple Medical Procedures\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe people who asked Denise Rivera, 54, to sign papers advised her to report to a Riverside clinic, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clinic packed her schedule with appointments. Clinic staff gave her what looked like a school lunch menu, with the names of doctors and companies she was expected to see three times per week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera cobbled together the gas money or borrowed family members’ cars to make her appointments. She sat in the clinic’s jammed waiting room for hours at a time and watched medical staff wheel in suitcases full of devices to treat workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she received MRIs, acupuncture, shockwave therapy and treatments with a device that seemed like a jackhammer thumping her knee. At one point, clinic staff sent her home with an electrical pain treatment device, but they forgot to include the electrode pads needed to make it work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pain creams that “seemed like Bengay,” according to Rivera, arrived in the mail. For those creams alone, records show that Kareem Ahmed’s company billed $17,102. Ahmed is the pain-cream executive who was charged in baby Andrew Gallegos’ death. The pharmacist who made 145,000 tubes of cream for his company got $35 to $72 per tube, public records say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records in Rivera’s case show the total bill sent by providers to the insurer for her care: $95,257. She had never seen that total, and it shocked her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No way,” she said, then added: “None of the treatments they’ve given me has helped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said she did not work for four years while waiting for her workers’ compensation case to be resolved. Penniless, she set up her bedroom in her mother’s garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She ultimately got a settlement in the case to compensate her for a permanent disability. The amount was $32,500 -- about what she would have made in one year at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Going After ‘The Godfather’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nRiverside County prosecutors now allege that Rivera walked into a clinic, with eight affiliate sites, that ran a $122 million scam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They filed charges in July 2014 against attorney Cary Abramowitz and chiropractor Peyman Heidary. Prosecutors say in court records that Heidary is nicknamed “The Godfather” for masterminding the profit-centered medical network that Rivera encountered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidary is accused of controlling medical treatment at the clinics, even though he’s not a doctor, which is a crime in California. Prosecutors say he also illegally owned and controlled law offices, even though he’s not a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors claim that workers came into the network via “cappers” -- people paid to recruit patients -- who got referrals from English- and Spanish-language 800 numbers. At Heidary’s direction, clerical staff allegedly padded the cases with additional supposedly injured body parts, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2755573-Peyman-Heidary-RIF1409778-TRO-186-11-Dec.html\"> court records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the $122 million Heidary’s group sought, one document from prosecutors indicates that it had collected $18 million from insurers as of April 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said the allegations were bad news for her, given that she trusted the legal and medical professionals to fight for her best interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me angry,” she said. “I kind of want to cry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidary has pleaded not guilty. His attorney, Michael Khouri, said the case lacks legal and factual merit and has ruined Heidary’s reputation. All the care, he said, was medically necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When told about Rivera’s plight, Khouri said he’s not moved by the case of one worker disappointed with her care, given that patients “die in the best hospitals … all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ compensation court records show that Heidary’s clinic dropped claims in May for payment in Rivera’s case. Attorneys involved in the case say the bills were resolved in a confidential settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workers Struggle Physically and Legally\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nState and federal prosecutors have filed cases against more than 80 people for medical scams victimizing injured workers since 2010. The cases are moving forward in courthouses from Fresno to San Diego and are shaping up to be vigorous fights, with defendants battling every step of the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parallel civil lawsuits also have emerged. They tend to pit insurers against medical providers in disputes over money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But little is being done in any of the legal venues for injured workers who’ve been victimized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10939811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10939811\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Brown’s doctor advised him to undergo back surgery in 2011 at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, at the height of the cash-for-surgery scam. The operation did not go well, and he now relies on a caretaker to help him each day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Roger-Brown-56-web-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Brown’s doctor advised him to undergo back surgery in 2011 at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, at the height of the cash-for-surgery scam. The operation did not go well, and he now relies on a caretaker to help him each day. \u003ccite>(Annie Tritt for Reveal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many, such as Denise Rivera, sign away their rights to future medical treatment in workers’ compensation cases. Others move forward with their lives, debilitated by medical care that left them worse off and unaware of the dynamics that shaped medical decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That latter group includes Roger Brown, 59.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His back hurt badly after he was rear-ended in a car, but he still could work as a private investigator for a Riverside County law firm. He went fishing nearly every weekend and looked forward to annual deep-sea expeditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s doctor advised him to undergo back surgery in January 2011 at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, where, Brown recalled, “he just felt the care was better.” That was at the height of the cash-for-surgery scam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surgery did not go well. During the first attempt to drill screws into Brown’s spine, the doctor drove special hardware 9 millimeters into his spinal cord. Even heavily medicated, the pain was unbearable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would have taken my own life if I could have,” Brown said. “It was excruciating pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He underwent a second surgery to fix the problem but emerged unable to drive or even work. Brown relies on a caretaker to help him each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctor who advised Brown to undergo the surgery in Long Beach has been accused of taking kickbacks from Michael Drobot, the executive who pleaded guilty to bribing doctors to operate at his hospital. Another surgeon who assisted in the case faces the same accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was so disgusted by the care that he sued for malpractice in April 2012. He didn’t get far before he decided to drop the case. As for the civil bribery accusations against his doctors, “I never heard anything like that,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if Brown had known about the illegal profiteering allegations over his medical care, it’s not clear that it would have gotten him anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers who’ve sustained medical harm under workers’ comp have little recourse, according to Irvine attorney Kevin Liebeck, partly because there is so little money in it for patients or lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers are reluctant to take medical malpractice cases due to caps on payouts in place since the 1970s, said Liebeck, a partner in a firm that takes such cases. Attorneys who want to help workers also are unlikely to go after a doctor for fraud because doctors’ liability insurance usually does not cover fraudulent care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most lawyers, he said, know that means they’ll be left struggling to get money from a doctor who can easily hide it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you do stuff that is beyond the pale … and make a lot of money on it, even if you get caught and get a lot of grief, you will ultimately get out ahead,” Liebeck said. “Crime does pay for a lot of this stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cases Move Forward for High-profile Defendants\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhether coming out ahead is the case for some of the high-profile defendants in workers’ compensation fraud cases remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drobot, the Long Beach hospital executive, faces sentencing in June for paying bribes to pack his surgery suites with workers. He also pleaded guilty to bribing former state Sen. Ronald Calderon, who is fighting accusations in a separate case for delaying legislation that cut into the astronomical profit Drobot and others made on\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/medical-firm-profited-on-pain-in-alleged-spine-surgery-hardware-scam/\"> spinal surgery hardware\u003c/a>. Drobot declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyrus Sorat, the pain-cream businessman who made the audio recording of his friend Kareem Ahmed, went to prison in 2013 following his stint as a confidential witness for prosecutors. The judge who sentenced Sorat described his undercover work as active and significant, saying it would be valuable in multiple cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he faced a possible sentence of up to 6½ years, Sorat ultimately served two years in federal prison in California for mail fraud. He pleaded guilty to selling worthless billing rights to a third-party firm for pain creams that never were delivered to workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorat now faces new insurance fraud charges, also over his pain cream business. He has pleaded not guilty in the case, and his attorney did not return calls seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed is fighting the case prosecutors filed against him in 2014. His attorney, Benjamin Gluck, said their early success in throwing out most of Ahmed’s indictment speaks “loudly about the quality of the allegations and, needless to say, we emphatically dispute them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gluck noted that the undercover tapes obtained by Reveal contain no incriminating statements by Ahmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From what Ahmed told Sorat in their freewheeling conversation in 2010, criminal charges were not a fate he expected. Ahmed confided then that he had a plan for his millions. He wanted to build a children’s hospital in San Bernardino County -- a Cedars-Sinai for kids. But, he lamented, “nobody believes me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed faces another legal challenge. Priscilla Lujan filed a civil lawsuit against Ahmed and her doctor in 2013. Lujan declined to be interviewed for this article, but a transcript in Ahmed’s criminal case details the hours of Andrew’s death and all that her encounter with Ahmed’s company cost her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After losing her baby, she testified, Ahmed’s companies kept sending the pain cream to her home and billing insurers for them -- $33,000 in all. She threw the boxes in her garage. She also lost custody of her older son. Child welfare officials declared her home unsafe, she said, because they believed she fed the toxic cream to her baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Usually, when journalists try to get into a prison to talk to inmates, we’re lucky if we’re able to get a few minutes for an interview with a “model prisoner.” But \u003ca href=\"https://backbonemediaorg.wordpress.com/about/noel-schwerin-bio/\">Noel Schwerin\u003c/a> talked her way into spending seven years filming inside Soledad prison, with unprecedented access to both inmates and prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwerin’s documentary, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.idealworldfilm.org/#new-page-3\">In An Ideal World\u003c/a>,\" brings us an intimate portrait from inside inmates’ cells, meetings between the warden and prisoners, and the halls of the prison, even during lockdowns. Its first national broadcast debuts Tuesday, April 26, on the public television show \u003ca href=\"http://worldchannel.org/programs/america-reframed/\">\"America Reframed.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwerin says getting access was all about building trust with both inmates and prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Soledad is an old-school prison. It’s not used to the kind of coverage and attention that a place like San Quentin gets. Nobody goes inside, nobody listens to these people,” Schwerin says. “I think people on both sides of the prison bars are pretty marginalized, so having their voice really carefully listened to, they really appreciated that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/260434809\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/index.jsp?pgmid=21234\">film focuses\u003c/a> on three main characters: \u003cstrong>John Piccirillo\u003c/strong>, a leader for the white prisoners, who ends up participating in a mixed-race workshop on violence prevention; \u003cstrong>Sam Lewis\u003c/strong>, an African-American inmate who forges an unexpected friendship with Piccirillo; and \u003cstrong>Ben Curry\u003c/strong>, the warden, who’s surprisingly candid in his reflections on working in the prison system for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s impossible to spend time at a prison without getting an incredible sense of the enormous humanity behind bars,” says Schwerin. “That was a big part of what I was interested in. 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It was a way of bringing people past the fear and the stereotypes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10937573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10937573 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PrisonersWorkshop-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates including Sam Lewis (second from left) participate in an alternatives to violence workshop at Soledad Prison.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PrisonersWorkshop-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PrisonersWorkshop-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PrisonersWorkshop.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PrisonersWorkshop-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/PrisonersWorkshop-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates, including Sam Lewis, (second from left) participate in an alternatives to violence workshop at Soledad Prison. \u003ccite>(Photo: Alison Raaum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwerin says she didn't encounter many obstacles as a white woman filming in the prison, despite the fact that the setting was so male-dominated and racially charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Particularly with the lifers, there’s a deep respect for women, maybe older women like me,” says Schwerin. “Women tend to be the last ones to leave them, their mothers, sisters, daughters, when everybody else falls away over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they were impressed that I could get in and keep coming in. I wasn’t just disappearing, I really wanted to know what they had to say, and what was not being said. There’s a deep respect for women who want to listen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenges of filming inside, says Schwerin, were more mundane: not being able to schedule interviews in advance or control the lighting for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwerin began filming soon after a U.S. \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/2005/02/racial-segregation-in-prison-may-be-curbed/\">Supreme Court settlement\u003c/a> in 2005 ordered California to stop housing prisoners in \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93336656\">racially segregated cells.\u003c/a> The film shows how resistant both prison staff and inmates were to housing inmates of different races together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/162981039\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as you walk into prison, you’re struck by the unapologetic display of power,” says Schwerin. \"So how do you maintain power like that? In prison, it’s done along racial lines. We can all agree that separate is not equal, but when it’s been part of an institutional culture for 40 years, it’s become a tool of survival. It’s more complicated than ‘these are the good guys, these are the bad guys.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s broadcast marks the film’s national debut, but Schwerin has shown the film at festivals and community screenings attended by both former prisoners and prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has allowed for some remarkable conversations. One of the lieutenants in the film brought his family to a screening. They wanted to see what it looked like inside, because he’d been working there for 40 years. Within 10 minutes of watching the film, the entire family was crying,” recalls Schwerin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had family members who said, ‘I wish I’d seen your film before my husband came home. 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"content": "\u003cp>All eyes fell on San Bernardino after 14 people were gunned down in a terrorist attack more than four months ago. Media flocked in from across the globe. Mourners filled a baseball stadium. Elected leaders expressed their sorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were white and black, Latino and Asian, immigrants and American-born,” said President Obama in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwmmeMPpaA\">address to the nation \u003c/a>on Dec. 6. “And all of them were part of our American family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the attack there’s been much less attention given to 17 other people who have been slain on the streets of San Bernardino in the first three months of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s more than double the number of people murdered in San Bernardino in the first three months of 2015. It’s a torrid pace for a city of just over 200,000 people, and one that could make 2016 one of the bloodiest years in recent memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/259317120\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The names of the victims may not be as well-known as those murdered by Islamic extremists on Dec. 2. But most were killed in a similar manner, gunned down, in many cases by unknown assailants who are still on the loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When about 75 people gathered to pray on the lawn of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in San Bernardino and recite the names of those murdered so far this year, the death toll was up to 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SBmurdermap-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of San Bernardino 2016 homicide map. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930476\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SBmurdermap.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SBmurdermap-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of San Bernardino 2016 homicide map. \u003ccite>(San Bernardino Police Dept.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the latest was Jason Spears, a 12-year-old boy cut down in a drive-by shooting outside a Circle K market. A 14-year-old cousin was wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was able to play in my front yard and on my street when I was a kid, and my kids don’t have that opportunity now,” says Keesha McGee, who was among those who attended the interfaith vigil and march sponsored by \u003ca href=\"http://www.icucpico.org/\">Inland Congregations United for Change\u003c/a>. “So I would like to give them that opportunity, so that's the reason why I'm here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Bernardino can feel a bit like a shellshocked community these days. And not just because of the bloodshed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is still struggling to emerge from bankruptcy. That’s why streetlights go dim at night, why parks go unmowed and why cops take private donations to help pay for new equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the terrorist attack that killed 14 people, there was a sense of unity. \"San Bernardino Strong\" became the adopted slogan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927861\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10927861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Advertisement for an April 15th fundraiser sponsored by the Inland Empire 66ers minor league baseball team. The city adopted the San Bernardino Strong slogan in the aftermath of the deadly terrorist mass shooting in December\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advertisement for an April 15 fundraiser sponsored by the Inland Empire 66ers minor league baseball team. The city adopted the San Bernardino Strong slogan in the aftermath of the deadly terrorist mass shooting in December \u003ccite>(Inland Empire 66ers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/04/authorities-release-names-of-the-14-people-killed-in-san-bernardino-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Dec. 2\u003c/a> came that was a terrible thing, but the community came together and it wasn't people fighting the police,” says state Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, who represents San Bernardino. She worries that resolve is slipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was thanking (the police) for what they did, so that there was no more death, no more carnage,” says Brown. “So I'd love to see us get back to that. I’m so sad about all this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's always the factors of poverty and lack of opportunity for people,” says Sergio Luna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luna is organizing a series of citywide anti-violence events in coordination with Inland Congregations United for Change. Luna says ICUC plans to sponsor regular rallies and community meetings revolving around the issue of street violence, gang intervention and the city’s response -- or lack of response, as Luna sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that we are (just) focused on the suppression piece,” says Luna. “That having more police will make us feel safer. When in reality they are just the first responders when something happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Norman Copeland of St. Paul A.M.E Church in San Bernardino speaks to residents gathered for a peace vigil and march.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930473\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland-1180x829.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland-960x675.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Norman Copeland of St. Paul A.M.E Church in San Bernardino speaks to residents gathered for a peace vigil and march. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Luna wants the city to adopt a more holistic approach. He points to \u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktongov.com/government/departments/manager/vpCeasefire.html\">Operation Ceasefire \u003c/a>programs in the cities of Richmond and Stockton that supporters say have helped curb violence with more than just policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're talking about buying shotgun-proof vests for our police department,” says Luna. “How would that have saved the 12-year-old that just got killed? Or would it maybe be better for us to actually work with individuals involved in the violence to begin with?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"iAf4KIT8C8h9HPbQYOcblYsuxuOGQ9hK\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years ago under a different mayor and administration, San Bernardino launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlc.org/documents/Utility%20Navigation/About%20NLC/Awards/City%20Showcase%202011/showcase-operation-phoenix-san-bernardino-ca-dec11.pdf\">Operation Phoenix\u003c/a>. It offered an array of programs to help draw kids away from gangs and other trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters also approved Measure Z, a sales tax designed to help pay for those programs. Revenue was primarily used to hire more cops and to beef up street patrols and community outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the launch of Operation Phoenix the number of homicides dropped significantly in San Bernardino. Then the housing market imploded. The local economy went down with it. In 2011 the city filed for bankruptcy protection. Operation Phoenix was grounded. All city departments were slashed to the bone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went from having 350 cops to where we’re down to like 220, 230 right now,” says San Bernardino police Lt Rich Lawhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure Z is still generating millions in revenue each year. Virtually every dime now is going to the cops, around $7 million in the last fiscal year alone. But the city is still spending less on policing now than it was 10 years ago -- about $17 million less than in fiscal year 2009-10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10927866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands-800x520.jpg\" alt=\"About 100 people recently marched from one house of worship to the next in San Bernardino to call for an end to a rash of gun violence across the city. \" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands-800x520.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands-400x260.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands-1180x766.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands-960x624.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 100 people recently marched from one house of worship to the next in San Bernardino to call for an end to a rash of gun violence across the city. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The thing that has taken the biggest hit is our proactive resources,” explains Lawhead. “We don't have a whole bunch of officers going out trying to make inroads with the community. I used to have 16 officers assigned to that, now I have four. Officers not just rolling out on 911 calls but actually trying to catch trouble before it gets out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the floors of the state Assembly and Senate last month, San Bernardino’s chief of police and other first responders were honored for their courage on the day of last year’s mass shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s a bipartisan effort in Congress to help cities like San Bernardino recoup the cost of major emergencies like the December terrorist attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been little tangible offered in the way of state or federal funding to beef up day-to-day policing in San Bernardino or expand diversion programs for at-risk youth. Assemblywoman Brown does say a state public safety committee will soon meet to discuss crime and public safety in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927868\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10927868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica-800x520.jpg\" alt=\"Rev Bronica Martin Taylor (center), at a recent peace march and vigil in San Bernardino, is calling on the city to do more to address a spike in street violence. \" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica-800x520.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica-400x260.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica-1180x768.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica-960x625.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Bronica Martin Taylor (center), at a recent peace march and vigil in San Bernardino, is calling on the city to do more to address a spike in street violence. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To put a laser focus on what is happening here, and then we can look at what resources we might be able to get in our budget this year,” says Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t just keep meeting to meet. Let’s do what we need to do in order to make the change,” adds the Rev. Bronica Martin Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor heads the citizen oversight committee that offers recommendations for how San Bernardino’s Measure Z tax revenue should be spent. But given the city’s shaky finances, it’s been tough to convince city leaders to divert some of that money away from a resources and cash-strapped police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to continue to fund our police department,” insists Taylor. “But how do we fund intervention and prevention programs as well? How are our city leaders going to come together for those programs to be provided? That is the question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bernardino City Council did agree last year to increase the police budget by around $50 million over the next five years and bring staffing back to pre-bankruptcy levels. But even with that go-ahead, Lawhead says, it remains a challenge to retain officers and recruit qualified new officers to the struggling city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But December’s horrific terrorist attack did at least spur a local effort to aid the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month the San Bernardino Police Foundation formed an alliance with area businesses with the aim of raising some $300,000 to purchase new weaponry and protective vests.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>All eyes fell on San Bernardino after 14 people were gunned down in a terrorist attack more than four months ago. Media flocked in from across the globe. Mourners filled a baseball stadium. Elected leaders expressed their sorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were white and black, Latino and Asian, immigrants and American-born,” said President Obama in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwmmeMPpaA\">address to the nation \u003c/a>on Dec. 6. “And all of them were part of our American family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the attack there’s been much less attention given to 17 other people who have been slain on the streets of San Bernardino in the first three months of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s more than double the number of people murdered in San Bernardino in the first three months of 2015. It’s a torrid pace for a city of just over 200,000 people, and one that could make 2016 one of the bloodiest years in recent memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/259317120&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/259317120'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The names of the victims may not be as well-known as those murdered by Islamic extremists on Dec. 2. But most were killed in a similar manner, gunned down, in many cases by unknown assailants who are still on the loose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When about 75 people gathered to pray on the lawn of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in San Bernardino and recite the names of those murdered so far this year, the death toll was up to 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SBmurdermap-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of San Bernardino 2016 homicide map. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930476\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SBmurdermap.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SBmurdermap-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of San Bernardino 2016 homicide map. \u003ccite>(San Bernardino Police Dept.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the latest was Jason Spears, a 12-year-old boy cut down in a drive-by shooting outside a Circle K market. A 14-year-old cousin was wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was able to play in my front yard and on my street when I was a kid, and my kids don’t have that opportunity now,” says Keesha McGee, who was among those who attended the interfaith vigil and march sponsored by \u003ca href=\"http://www.icucpico.org/\">Inland Congregations United for Change\u003c/a>. “So I would like to give them that opportunity, so that's the reason why I'm here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Bernardino can feel a bit like a shellshocked community these days. And not just because of the bloodshed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is still struggling to emerge from bankruptcy. That’s why streetlights go dim at night, why parks go unmowed and why cops take private donations to help pay for new equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the terrorist attack that killed 14 people, there was a sense of unity. \"San Bernardino Strong\" became the adopted slogan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927861\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10927861\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Advertisement for an April 15th fundraiser sponsored by the Inland Empire 66ers minor league baseball team. The city adopted the San Bernardino Strong slogan in the aftermath of the deadly terrorist mass shooting in December\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-SB-strong-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advertisement for an April 15 fundraiser sponsored by the Inland Empire 66ers minor league baseball team. The city adopted the San Bernardino Strong slogan in the aftermath of the deadly terrorist mass shooting in December \u003ccite>(Inland Empire 66ers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/04/authorities-release-names-of-the-14-people-killed-in-san-bernardino-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Dec. 2\u003c/a> came that was a terrible thing, but the community came together and it wasn't people fighting the police,” says state Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, who represents San Bernardino. She worries that resolve is slipping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was thanking (the police) for what they did, so that there was no more death, no more carnage,” says Brown. “So I'd love to see us get back to that. I’m so sad about all this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's always the factors of poverty and lack of opportunity for people,” says Sergio Luna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luna is organizing a series of citywide anti-violence events in coordination with Inland Congregations United for Change. Luna says ICUC plans to sponsor regular rallies and community meetings revolving around the issue of street violence, gang intervention and the city’s response -- or lack of response, as Luna sees it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that we are (just) focused on the suppression piece,” says Luna. “That having more police will make us feel safer. When in reality they are just the first responders when something happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10930473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Norman Copeland of St. Paul A.M.E Church in San Bernardino speaks to residents gathered for a peace vigil and march.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10930473\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland-1180x829.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RevCopeland-960x675.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Norman Copeland of St. Paul A.M.E Church in San Bernardino speaks to residents gathered for a peace vigil and march. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Luna wants the city to adopt a more holistic approach. He points to \u003ca href=\"http://www.stocktongov.com/government/departments/manager/vpCeasefire.html\">Operation Ceasefire \u003c/a>programs in the cities of Richmond and Stockton that supporters say have helped curb violence with more than just policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're talking about buying shotgun-proof vests for our police department,” says Luna. “How would that have saved the 12-year-old that just got killed? Or would it maybe be better for us to actually work with individuals involved in the violence to begin with?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten years ago under a different mayor and administration, San Bernardino launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlc.org/documents/Utility%20Navigation/About%20NLC/Awards/City%20Showcase%202011/showcase-operation-phoenix-san-bernardino-ca-dec11.pdf\">Operation Phoenix\u003c/a>. It offered an array of programs to help draw kids away from gangs and other trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters also approved Measure Z, a sales tax designed to help pay for those programs. Revenue was primarily used to hire more cops and to beef up street patrols and community outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the launch of Operation Phoenix the number of homicides dropped significantly in San Bernardino. Then the housing market imploded. The local economy went down with it. In 2011 the city filed for bankruptcy protection. Operation Phoenix was grounded. All city departments were slashed to the bone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went from having 350 cops to where we’re down to like 220, 230 right now,” says San Bernardino police Lt Rich Lawhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure Z is still generating millions in revenue each year. Virtually every dime now is going to the cops, around $7 million in the last fiscal year alone. But the city is still spending less on policing now than it was 10 years ago -- about $17 million less than in fiscal year 2009-10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10927866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands-800x520.jpg\" alt=\"About 100 people recently marched from one house of worship to the next in San Bernardino to call for an end to a rash of gun violence across the city. \" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands-800x520.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands-400x260.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands-1180x766.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-hands-960x624.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 100 people recently marched from one house of worship to the next in San Bernardino to call for an end to a rash of gun violence across the city. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The thing that has taken the biggest hit is our proactive resources,” explains Lawhead. “We don't have a whole bunch of officers going out trying to make inroads with the community. I used to have 16 officers assigned to that, now I have four. Officers not just rolling out on 911 calls but actually trying to catch trouble before it gets out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the floors of the state Assembly and Senate last month, San Bernardino’s chief of police and other first responders were honored for their courage on the day of last year’s mass shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s a bipartisan effort in Congress to help cities like San Bernardino recoup the cost of major emergencies like the December terrorist attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s been little tangible offered in the way of state or federal funding to beef up day-to-day policing in San Bernardino or expand diversion programs for at-risk youth. Assemblywoman Brown does say a state public safety committee will soon meet to discuss crime and public safety in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927868\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10927868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica-800x520.jpg\" alt=\"Rev Bronica Martin Taylor (center), at a recent peace march and vigil in San Bernardino, is calling on the city to do more to address a spike in street violence. \" width=\"800\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica-800x520.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica-400x260.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica-1180x768.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SB-Bronica-960x625.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Bronica Martin Taylor (center), at a recent peace march and vigil in San Bernardino, is calling on the city to do more to address a spike in street violence. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To put a laser focus on what is happening here, and then we can look at what resources we might be able to get in our budget this year,” says Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t just keep meeting to meet. Let’s do what we need to do in order to make the change,” adds the Rev. Bronica Martin Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor heads the citizen oversight committee that offers recommendations for how San Bernardino’s Measure Z tax revenue should be spent. But given the city’s shaky finances, it’s been tough to convince city leaders to divert some of that money away from a resources and cash-strapped police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to continue to fund our police department,” insists Taylor. “But how do we fund intervention and prevention programs as well? How are our city leaders going to come together for those programs to be provided? That is the question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bernardino City Council did agree last year to increase the police budget by around $50 million over the next five years and bring staffing back to pre-bankruptcy levels. But even with that go-ahead, Lawhead says, it remains a challenge to retain officers and recruit qualified new officers to the struggling city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But December’s horrific terrorist attack did at least spur a local effort to aid the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department released the names on Friday of a sergeant and an officer who fired a total of seven .40-caliber rounds at a homeless man in the Mission District last week, mortally wounding him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Some witnesses\u003c/a> and the officers have said Luis Gongora charged police with a kitchen knife after they contacted him the morning of April 7, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Police Department\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\" target=\"_blank\">Other witnesses\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/12/witness-san-francisco-police-shooting-homeless-man-luis-gongora\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters\u003c/a> that Gongora was not holding a knife or did not run toward the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A department spokesman identified Sgt. 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Nate Steger is a 17-year-veteran of the department, according to a statement from Police Chief Greg Suhr on the seniority of officers involved in the shooting from earlier this week, and has spent much of his career assigned to the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Michael Mellone has a combined 13 years of experience in law enforcement, transferring to SFPD four years ago, according to Suhr's statements Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/article/sfpd-officer-saves-mans-life-naloxone-kit\" target=\"_blank\">first SFPD officer\u003c/a> to administer a nasal dose of Naloxone to a man overdosing on opioids last year near 16th and Capp streets, in the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFPD/status/637380534448996352\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellone may have transferred from Antioch Police Department; a Detective Michael Mellone is named in a 2011 federal lawsuit against Antioch and six of its police officers alleging excessive force, unlawful search and seizure, assault, battery, false arrest and other civil claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit claims Mellone and other Antioch detectives served a search warrant in the early morning Jan. 13, 2011 at the Pittsburg home of Edrick Harvey, having trailed her son Alvin Harvey there the night before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"N7KJRpOshwZXqWJbBXccL8X6OlQ5uX5w\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleged the officers \"tackled, handcuffed, and electrocuted Plaintiff Edrick Harvey with an electronic control device, presumably a Taser. The defendant officers then manhandled [Angel Smith], wrenched her arm, choked her, slammed her to the ground, handcuffed her, and electrocuted her with an electronic control device, presumably a Taser.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch settled the case in 2014, and paid a $135,000 settlement to Smith and another of Harvey's children who was present during the search. Harvey died before the lawsuit's settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Antioch Police Department did not immediately respond to inquiries late Friday evening, nor did attorneys in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellone had undergone CIT training, according to statements from Suhr, but it's unclear whether that was in San Francisco or before he transferred to the department. Suhr said at a Police Commission meeting Wednesday night that the CIT trained officer involved in the shooting was the one who can be seen firing a shotgun with \"less lethal\" beanbag rounds in surveillance video published by \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no lawsuits naming Sgt. 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The articles describe a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/THE-BADGE-The-day-has-just-gone-from-zero-to-60-2560479.php\" target=\"_blank\">tense chase\u003c/a> through the Mission District that ended in a search and traffic citation and the work of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/THE-BADGE-Valencia-Gardens-is-safer-thanks-to-2579760.php\" target=\"_blank\">beat cops\u003c/a> in Valencia Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Mellone may have transferred from Antioch Police Department; a Detective Michael Mellone is named in a 2011 federal lawsuit against Antioch and six of its police officers alleging excessive force, unlawful search and seizure, assault, battery, false arrest and other civil claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit claims Mellone and other Antioch detectives served a search warrant in the early morning Jan. 13, 2011 at the Pittsburg home of Edrick Harvey, having trailed her son Alvin Harvey there the night before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleged the officers \"tackled, handcuffed, and electrocuted Plaintiff Edrick Harvey with an electronic control device, presumably a Taser. The defendant officers then manhandled [Angel Smith], wrenched her arm, choked her, slammed her to the ground, handcuffed her, and electrocuted her with an electronic control device, presumably a Taser.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch settled the case in 2014, and paid a $135,000 settlement to Smith and another of Harvey's children who was present during the search. Harvey died before the lawsuit's settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Antioch Police Department did not immediately respond to inquiries late Friday evening, nor did attorneys in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mellone had undergone CIT training, according to statements from Suhr, but it's unclear whether that was in San Francisco or before he transferred to the department. Suhr said at a Police Commission meeting Wednesday night that the CIT trained officer involved in the shooting was the one who can be seen firing a shotgun with \"less lethal\" beanbag rounds in surveillance video published by \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no lawsuits naming Sgt. Nate Steger as a defendant in either federal or state jurisdictions covering San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's a member of \u003ca href=\"http://bluecourage.com/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Courage\u003c/a>, a law enforcement leadership and peer support organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steger began his law enforcement career with the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., according to his Blue Courage profile. In San Francisco, he's served as an internal affairs investigator, patrol officer and in SFPD's plainclothes division. He's also worked in the department's training division and is a state-certified police instructor. He's also been a field training officer for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steger is mentioned in two 2007 San Francisco Chronicle articles in which reporters spent substantial time with SFPD officers. The articles describe a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/THE-BADGE-The-day-has-just-gone-from-zero-to-60-2560479.php\" target=\"_blank\">tense chase\u003c/a> through the Mission District that ended in a search and traffic citation and the work of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/THE-BADGE-Valencia-Gardens-is-safer-thanks-to-2579760.php\" target=\"_blank\">beat cops\u003c/a> in Valencia Gardens.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A three-judge state appeals panel has thrown out a Los Angeles court's ruling that California teacher tenure and seniority laws violate the rights of low-income and minority students in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-teacher-lawsuit-20140611-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">2014 Vergara v. 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Because the messages the officers are getting, as we saw from Mario Woods, if they create the imminent danger, they can shoot. They may not go to jail for homicide for that. But they should be responsible for their conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> was shot and killed by five SFPD officers on Dec. 2, 2015. Multiple bystanders captured \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">cellphone video\u003c/a> of the shooting, which prompted a redrafting of department use-of-force policies still in the works and a federal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Justice review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said the officers' tactics in the Gongora shooting would be reviewed, as they are with every officer-involved shooting. That's the purview of a Firearms Discharge Review Board made up of SFPD deputy chiefs that meets quarterly. Despite repeated questions, Suhr did not say whether officers would be disciplined for a failure to step back and possibly diffuse a potentially violent encounter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will look at the tactics involved in this and we will make adjustments, always, to see if we could do it better,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accountability is different from adjustments to tactics,\" Mission resident Gerard Koskovich said. \"Accountability is officers are disciplined.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department continued to release \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">pieces or interpretations of witness statements\u003c/a> Wednesday, including two from members of the San Francisco Department of Public Health homeless outreach team who initially called 911 to report a \"male waving a large kitchen knife,\" according to computer-assisted dispatch records presented at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The HOT team workers describe Mr. Gongora as appearing in an altered mental state, either mentally or chemically induced, and they saw he was in possession of a large knife,\" Suhr said. \"One HOT team member described his actions as swinging indiscriminately as he walked down the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos took issue with the witness statements the department presented at Wednesday's meeting and last week, at a press conference called by the head of SFPD's investigations bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10929420\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10929420\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10929420\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Pieces or interpretations of witness statements displayed at a Wednesday, April 14 town hall meeting on the fatal police shooting of Luis Gongora the week before.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19123_IMG_4986.JPG-alt_422.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pieces or interpretations of witness statements displayed at a Wednesday, April 14 town hall meeting on the fatal police shooting of Luis Gongora the week before. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You have an ongoing investigation, supposedly to find out what happened in this incident, and yet you’ve had a number of press conferences where you are already prejudging what happened in this case,\" Campos said to Suhr. \"How can you say that you’re having an independent investigation, when you are already saying, 'This is what we believe happened?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn’t say what I believe happened,\" Suhr said. \"I’ve given the facts that came from interviews, simply.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the singular quotes provided from presumably longer witness statements left many attending the town hall meeting with a sense that homicide investigators were attempting to present only statements that justified the officers' use of deadly force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You did not state there have been contradictory statements from witnesses,\" Koskovich said, noting that news reporters have talked to and published accounts from several witnesses who said Gongora did not have a knife in his hand, and he never moved toward the officers. \"Some say that the officers engaged in actions that were inappropriate. 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You didn’t say any of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police commissioners had similar questions for the chief at a meeting Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve seen just on news reports that there are individuals who give a different version of the facts,\" Commission President Suzy Loftus said. \"That leaves folks feeling like one version of the facts is being presented.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other commissioners asked why the officers would approach Gongora so quickly, in apparent violation of department policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just heard shouting, just shouting,\" commissioner Petra DeJesus said of the surveillance video. \"I did not hear anything that would indicate de-escalation or anything that would put time and space.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said officers for their entire careers have been trained to move toward and engage a threat, and changing the mentality will take time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That said, the conversation has been robust and has been robust here and has been at all the stations,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The 22 seconds between the first command a San Francisco police officer gave to Luis Gongora and the final gunshot that killed him show a clear violation of current SFPD policies, accountability advocates and Mission District residents told department brass and police commissioners at a series of meetings Wednesday over the first fatal police shooting in the city this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aspects of the shooting remain obscured -- anything Gongora was doing, for example, is outside the frame of surveillance video published by \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate last week\u003c/a>. But the brisk approach of officers toward a man who allegedly had a knife, was in an altered mental state and wasn't a threat to anyone else has drawn attention toward years-old SFPD policies that officers should essentially foster \"time and distance\" in those circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve been talking time and distance and de-escalation -- that’s pretty much all I’ve been talking about all of 2016,\" Police Chief Greg Suhr said Wednesday. \"So there’ll be a lot of questions about tactics on why that didn’t happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr first issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/259504904/SFPD-Bulletin-Response-to-Mental-Health-Calls-With-Armed-Suspects\" target=\"_blank\">department bulletin\u003c/a> in June 2013 that mandates officers \"observe, maintain a safe distance, and attempt to stabilize the scene\" when there is no reason to believe \"the person suffering an apparent mental crisis is a threat to \u003cem>any other person including an officer\" \u003c/em>(italicized by SFPD). The bulletin has been reissued several times and remains in effect. It references \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/27701-DB%2014-015%3B%20Permissible%20Circumstances%20to%20Discharge%20Firearm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pieces\u003c/a> of SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/25605-DGO%205.02%20revised%20031611.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">use-of-firearms general order\u003c/a>, which says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Any officer may not discharge a firearm at a person who presents a danger only to him or herself, and there is no reasonable cause to believe that the person poses an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or any other person.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"They are held responsible if they are the ones that create the imminent danger,\" retired ACLU attorney John Crew told SFPD leadership, including Suhr, at a town hall meeting on the shooting Wednesday afternoon. \"If their actions are rash and overly aggressive, your policies hold them accountable for causing a chain of events that cause an avoidable death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is the professional conduct of the department,\" Crew said, noting the 3-year-old policy. \"I beg of you to speak out about it and to enforce it. Because the messages the officers are getting, as we saw from Mario Woods, if they create the imminent danger, they can shoot. They may not go to jail for homicide for that. But they should be responsible for their conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> was shot and killed by five SFPD officers on Dec. 2, 2015. Multiple bystanders captured \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">cellphone video\u003c/a> of the shooting, which prompted a redrafting of department use-of-force policies still in the works and a federal \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Justice review\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said the officers' tactics in the Gongora shooting would be reviewed, as they are with every officer-involved shooting. That's the purview of a Firearms Discharge Review Board made up of SFPD deputy chiefs that meets quarterly. 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"content": "\u003cp>UC Berkeley has agreed to a $4.75 million settlement with the family of Ted Agu, a Cal football player who died after an extreme team workout in February 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued Thursday, the university also said it has agreed to improve its monitoring of the health of student athletes, including those who, like Agu, have been diagnosed with sickle cell trait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university is glad to have reached a resolution with the Agu family, as it has been a difficult process for everyone involved,” Dan Mogulof, a UC Berkeley spokesman, said in the statement. “Now UC Berkeley can continue to focus its energies on enhancing the safety and well-being of student-athletes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal also agreed to maintain a memorial to Agu in the Golden Bears’ football locker room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agu’s parents \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/05/family-sues-uc-regents-over-death-of-cal-football-player-ted-agu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed a wrongful death lawsuit\u003c/a> against the university in August 2014, alleging “reckless and negligent behavior” by the staff toward an athlete \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/14/ted-agu-cal-football-player-death-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">known to have sickle cell trait\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Yerrid, one of the attorneys for Emilia and Ambrose Agu, of Bakersfield, also issued a brief statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Justice for the Agu family will benefit the future welfare of student athletes for years to come,” Yerrid said. “On behalf of the family, we are pleased that Cal has accepted responsibility, monetarily acknowledged the enormity of the loss suffered and taken critically important reforms aimed at preventing these tragedies from occurring to others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal admitted liability for Agu’s death in January. That was about the same time that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/UC-admits-liability-in-2014-death-of-Cal-football-6794170.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the San Francisco Chronicle disclosed\u003c/a> that confidential depositions from Agu’s teammates and others raised questions about the response of coaches and trainers to Agu’s collapse during a Feb. 7, 2014, workout near Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle said the depositions “also detailed allegations that campus officials did not provide the Alameda County coroner’s office with all police and medical records after Agu died, including some that indicated he had sickle cell trait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/documents/SCD%20factsheet_Sickle%20Cell%20Trait.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sickle cell trait\u003c/a>, a blood condition related to sickle cell disease, is found in about 8 percent of African-Americans. Those who have the condition may be at risk for sudden death under extreme exertion.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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