Federal Investigation Into Medicare Fraud Snares Corona Man

LOS ANGELES, CA — A Corona man is among multiple defendants charged as part of widespread federal investigations into alleged healthcare fraud, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday.

In total, six cases were brought forward, including United States v. Shachar, et al., which charged Abraham Shin, 66, of Corona, along with two other defendants, in a 16-count indictment alleging they conspired to defraud Medicare out of approximately $27 million.

Shin was arrested on June 18 and arraigned in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. He is scheduled to go to trial on August 11 and is free on bond.

The charges in the indictment are conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, healthcare fraud, aggravated identity theft, monetary transaction in criminally derived property over $10,000, and violations of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute.

According to the indictment, from February 2021 to March 2026, Oren David Shachar, 59, of Van Nuys — who owned and operated at least four hospice care companies — conspired with marketers Shin, and Jeannie Choi, 57, of Torrance.

As part of the alleged fraudulent operation, claims for hospice services were submitted to Medicare that were medically unnecessary because the beneficiaries were not terminally ill, or the services were not provided because the beneficiaries were already dead, according to the indictment.

Shachar’s Medicare claims were also non-payable because he paid illegal kickbacks to marketers to procure hospice beneficiaries and paid beneficiaries to remain enrolled in his hospices, according to the indictment.

Shachar's hospice care companies that he used to submit the fraudulent claims included the Valley Glen-based Gentle Touch Hospice Care Inc., the Montclair-based Oxford Hospice Care Inc., the Encino-based Art of Hospice Inc., and the Glendale-based Holly Trinity Hospice.

In 2025, Shin and Choi sold living and deceased patients’ personal identifying information to Shachar to assist him in perpetuating the alleged fraud, according to the indictment.

If convicted of all charges, the defendants will face decades in federal prison.