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More insurance fraud, more Viets, different profession

Dozens of body shop people, four of whom are Vietnamese-American, are carted off to jail on charges of insurance are, announced the Orange County DA’s office here, just two days after they announced the prosecution of doctors and a lawyer. … Continue reading

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Viet lawyer, chiropractors charged with insurance fraud

A number of Vietnamese-American professionals have been charged in Orange County (Calif.) with insurance fraud, according to an OCDA press release here. Among the Viets charged are two chiropractors, a lawyer, and a septuagenarian paralegal who works for him. The … Continue reading

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Viet fights Viet, gives him heart attack

A Vietnamese-American man is in jail for fighting with another Vietnamese-American man and giving him a heart attack. The victim Be Van Nguyen, 67, is recovering from angioplasty surgery and is out of the hospital. Long Thanh Huynh, 49 (pictured), … Continue reading

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Viet sweat shop owners fined almost $173,000 back wages

A Vietnamese-American couple who used an elaborate false timecard system to avoid paying overtime to workers at their garment shop has been fined almost $173,000 in back wages, and the federal judge who imposed that fine even said the number … Continue reading

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Viet teens arrested after police chase

(Photo by the Register) The Bolsavik actually saw this with his own eyes Thursday night: The small dark-colored car was zipping east on Bolsa Avenue, chased by a half-dozen patrol vehicles with flashing lights on, and then the car turned … Continue reading

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OC Viet teen charged in murder of Viet woman

A 19-year-old Viet female is being prosecuted on murder and gang charges following a Westminster robbery where she and her accomplice yanked the purse of a woman they were talking to and dragged her along their car causing her death, … Continue reading

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Mississippi ‘pill mill’ prosecution falling apart

The pharmacist in the well-publicized Mississippi supposed “pill mill” case was acquitted on 43 counts while another 11 counts resulted in a mistrial, with the jury unable to agree on a verdict, reports the Biloxi-Gulfport Sun Herald here. The case … Continue reading

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Viet man ‘punctured’ another Viet’s testicles: Month-end special

Two Vietnamese men were arrested in the Florida Keys after a Super Bowl party fight in which one man grabbed the other’s testicles, “puncturing them with his fingers,” says the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office here. The fight occurred late at … Continue reading

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