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Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against nine defendants – seven of them dockworkers at the Port of Long Beach – who allowed
Mastermind Sara Victoria, 46, scoured the Long Beach strip clubs for women to recruit to provide sex acts for the dockworkers at the Long Beach Port (pictured).
A woman who owned businesses that provided sexual services as well as chiropractic and acupuncture treatments offered the dockworkers kickbacks or sex in exchange for submitting false claims.
Prosecutors say the scheme involved disguising payments for sexual services as chiropractic care and physical therapy that were covered by insurance, generally with no out-of-pocket expenses.