mercurynews.com on January 13, 2012 reported that a Southern California doctor who participated in a sophisticated conspiracy to defraud three health clinics of Medicare funding, including one in Richmond, was sentenced Thursday to eight years and one month in prison. A doctor at the Richmond clinic also is awaiting sentencing in the case. A federal judge said Dr. Alexander Popov, 47, of Los Angeles, submitted more than $1 million in fraudulent Medicare billings and received more than $600,000 in payments on false claims made at clinics in Richmond, Sacramento and Carmichael. Most of the patients at the clinics were elderly and did not speak English, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. A jury convicted Popov on July 8.

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