Accused Billed for Fake COVID Tests, Misappropriated Film Funds, and Laundered Money

Federal agents in South Carolina have arrested a former Los Angeles film producer accused of running a $12 million fraud scheme that prosecutors say relied on fake COVID-19 testing charges, false invoices, and the misuse of film production funds, according to a Department of Justice press release.

David Raymond Brown, 39, a onetime Sherman Oaks resident now living in West Columbia, was taken into custody Friday on a 21-count indictment returned Aug. 20 by a Los Angeles federal grand jury. He faces nine counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of money laundering, and two counts of aggravated identity theft.

Brown’s credits include serving as a producer on filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice and the Jenna Ort

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