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    ARMEN KAZARIAN CHARGED AS VOR OF MIRZOYAN TERDJANIAN

    LA Late News
    http://news.lalate.com/2010/10/14/armen-kazarian-charged-as-vor-of-mirzoyan-terdjanian/
    Oct 14 2010
    GLENDALE

    Glendale's Armen Kazarian, has been arrested, charged with being
    the Vor (aka Pzo or Qerop) of Mirzoyan-Terdjanian Organization,
    a Armenian-American organized crime ring. Kazarian is accused of
    being the mastermind of the largest Armenian-American crime ring in
    the U.S. ever; 44 alleged members and associates were indicted today
    for actions against 118 medical clinics in 25 states for which they
    submitted $100 fake claims to Medicare. "The alleged $100 million
    Medicare fraud scheme identified today is the largest, single Medicare
    fraud ever charged" said Preet Bharar, the lead Attorney General on
    the case.

    The alleged scheme was elaborate, comprehensive, and didn't use normal
    clinics. Rather, the charged defendants allegedly set up 118 phantom
    clinics in which they ran a "fraud franchise" said Bharar. "In terms
    of profitability, geographic scope, and sheer ambition, the elaborate
    health care scam we charge today highlights the emerging and serious
    threat of international organized crime. ... As charged, they stole
    taxpayer dollars earmarked for the elderly and infirm and got away
    with it, until now. Today's indictments send a strong message to these
    groups that we will use every tool and resource at our disposal to
    stop them in their tracks."

    It's particularly hard to count how many of the residents were from
    Southern California. There were fifteen in Glendale and Burbank,
    another four from Glendale. The reported Glendale residents charged
    are Pogos Satamyan, 31, Andranik Satamyan, 20, Grisha Sayadyan, 59,
    and Allen Sayadyan, 30. There are three from Van Nuys charged. Burbank
    residents charged are Karen Markosian, 37, Artur Yepiskoposyan, 31, and
    Herayer Baghoumian, 54, also face fraud-related charges. The following
    Glendale defendants were also charged in a New York indictment - Armen
    Kazarian, 46; Davit Mirzoyan, 34; Jacob Pogosian, 35; Karen Simonian,
    33; Vartan Boyzadzhyan, 38; Gourgen Mirimanian, 46; Armen Grigorian,
    39; and Anna Termartirosyan, 35.

    Edward Tarver, the United States Attorney for the Southern District
    of Georgia, said of the New York case that it "illustrate that health
    care fraud is a national problem and that a national response from law
    enforcement is necessary. The charges announced today also provide
    additional evidence of the efforts by international organized crime
    to defraud the Medicare system."

    Bill Lewis, the FBI's Los Angeles Criminal Division's Special Agent in
    Charge, said of today's indictment "Because we arrested many people
    in the communities of Glendale, Burbank and Van Nuys, I want to be
    sure we are not too quick any particular community, city or ethnic
    group as organized crime." . This is the first time a Vor has ever
    been charged and arrested for federal racketeering crimes.

    "And even though it was a very lavish fraudulent scheme, it's amazing
    how they were able to maintain a low overhead. They actually did an
    awful lot of their operations out of a very small office over an
    auto-body shop on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn. And one woman,




    From: A. Papazian
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