Mercury News: San Jose anti-fraud expert, a former NVIDIA manager, charged with fraud
An anti-fraud expert who worked as a senior manager of privacy and security at Santa Clara computer chip titan NVIDIA has been charged with felony fraud, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office announced Friday.
Faranak Firozan, 47, of San Jose is alleged to have submitted more than 167 fraudulent healthcare claims totaling more than $100,000 to NVIDIA’s health plan.
Firozan regularly spoke as an expert on fraud prevention, the DA’s office said in a news release.
Many of the claims Firozan allegedly submitted to the NVIDIA health plan administered by Cigna between late 2020 and early 2024 were “entirely made up,” the DA’s office claimed.