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California surgeon charged in $52M sober living fraud

| July 4, 2020 12:03 AM

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Beverly Hills, California, surgeon and his girlfriend have pleaded not guilty to taking part in a $52 million insurance fraud scheme that involved recruiting patients at Southern California sober living homes to undergo unnecessary surgeries and other procedures, prosecutors said Friday.

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