Mira Zeffren was the president of the Kyffin Pharmacy at 6000 Woodman Avenue, Van Nuys, CA, 91401, but she’s now out of that business and facing indictment for money laundering.<\/p>\n
Mira Zeffren is known in Orthodox life in Los Angeles for the amount of (tzedaka<\/em>) charity she gives. Her religious community has largely rallied around her in her time of need. People are angry that she was arrested at her son’s wedding a few weeks ago when she was never a flight risk. She’s widely regarded as a good-hearted woman who helped a lot of people when she could but made a few bad choices that have landed her in this trouble.<\/p>\n Those who lent her money during her difficulties and are unlikely to get paid back are not so thrilled with her.<\/p>\n Mira has surrendered her pharmacy license and Kyffin Pharmacy is no more<\/a>. More<\/a> More<\/a><\/p>\n The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has indicted Mira Zeffren for conspiracy to subscribing to a false income tax return.<\/a><\/p>\n Here’s the Jan. 25 Failed Messiah report on her arrest<\/a> at a haredi wedding<\/a>. I added this<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jane emails me about an earlier and less accurate version of my blog post:<\/p>\n \nI am a member of the Hancock Park Orthodox Community and am quite outraged by what I have read and know personally about Mira Zeffren. You posted yesterday that there was going to be a hearing to review Mira Zeffren’s pharmacy license for her company, Kyffin. I’m surprised that you didn’t follow this to read that the Kyffin license was “surrendered” and that 2 of her pharmacists has their licenses revoked and that Kyffin is no longer in business! Please see the attached in which it points out that Mira\/Kyffin over-billed Medi-Cal by almost $8,000,000 as part of a billing scam.<\/p>\n Why am I particularly upset about this? Well – Mira came to us as she did to other Orthodox members of the Hancock Park community and begged us to lend her money to keep Kyffin going while she was in the process of selling it. She promised us that after she sold it she would repay our loan. Well, that hasn’t happened and I’m sure it will never happen because she [sold] Kyffin Pharmacy… Now that Mira has been indicted for tax fraud, I’m even more certain that she will never repay our loan.<\/p>\n Where is this going to lead? I’m afraid nothing good will come of it as the government will probably start putting the pieces of the puzzle together and figure out all of Mira’s different criminal escapades. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n