rehappen facility to deal with anger management issues. his rep released a statement saying blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, healthier vantage point. an insider tells e! news he keeps self-medicating with weed and alcohol and it gets him in trouble. joanne, as somebody who self-medicates with weed and alcohol do you feel sympathy for chris brown? the struggle is real. this is a move by his publicist or manager definitely. how dare you? for anyone who is struggling and has substance abuse issues and you are seeking help, i am proud of you. that s wonderful. things are not looking up for him. my thing is, is there such thing as anger management? i don t know. i just don t know! use your words.
money. reporter: what did she do with the $5 given to her by the drug rehab center? she bought drugs. we was going just to get the money to buy weed. my whole thing was like, y all was paying us to get high. reporter: the day after our interview, the state charged iluno and three of his employees at g.b. medical with grand sheft in connection with more than 2,000 phony bills for rehab dating back to 2009. he s pled not guilty. records show your tax dollars still paid him. even after he was arrested and out on bail. iluno s attorney blamed the billing practices on counselors and employees who were not well supervised. the attorney says iluno was a certified counselor himself who was allowed to bill medicaid. despite that, the clinic voluntarily shut down july 1st. without explanation. cnn and the center for
it took an audit for me to know how deep it was. how deep of fraud was going on there. reporter: other whistle blowers came forward and claimed that so cal was committing drug medi-cal fraud by labeling teens with fake addictions. riverside county officials told us they didn t have an easy way to prove so cal was making up addictions. but the county pulled the clinic s funding anyway because so many of its clients were dropping out. that forced so cal to shut down. but the other clinic in los angeles county accused of similar practices remains open. just last year a county report on pomona alcohol and drug recovery center found significant and serious deficiencies in the program. the operator of both clinics is a man named tim ajindu who told the county his business is a pillar in our community.
reporter: ferdman pled guilty to organized crime and was sentenced to seven years in a texas prison. he served just one year. was let out early for good behavior. and ended up in california. even though felons are barred from running drug medi-cal centers, ferdman soon opened a rehappen clinic called able family support. taxpayer funded drug rehab has been easy money for alexander ferdman. despite his organized crime conviction in texas, his california drug medi-cal contract is now worth about $2 million a year. his salary? $180,000. even after a 2011 review by los angeles county found evidence of what it considers to be fraudulent practices at his business, ferdman was allowed to expand. drew griffin with cnn. how you doing? i d like to ask you some questions about your business if i could. i really don t have time right now. reporter: you can explain how
because for the last 11 years he s been on a list of people banned from billing medicaid. convicted of student loan fraud. george oluno should never have been allowed to even open this clinic called g.b. medical. i m asking you a few questions, sir, about the drug rehab business. i want to ask you about you seem to be at the center of fraud allegations here. no, no, no, no. reporter: have you been faking signatures on to sheets of paper and billing the state for the money? guess what else? oluno is facing felony criminal charges for ripping off the state. allegedly getting paid by taxpayers to rehab drug abusers who weren t even there. excuse me, sir. how can you bill the state for clients that don t exist? mr. oluno? mr. oluno? just one second, sir? we never saw oluno again.