LONG BEACH — A Temple City woman accused of stealing millions of dollars from a 74-year-old Long Beach woman who had a stroke and hired her as a caretaker remained at large Saturday, as Long Beach police asked the public for help in catching her.
Li Ching Liu, 54, of Temple City, who also goes by the name Susan Liu, allegedly “withdrew large amounts of cash” from the victim’s bank accounts and even arranged the sale of a Westminster strip mall the victim once owned and relied upon for monthly income, according to the Long Beach Police Department.
The victim had amassed a personal fortune from investments in commercial real estate, until she had a stroke in February January 2002, police said.
She hired Liu to help her with daily activities, but the caretaker isolated the woman from her family, friends and business contacts and then allegedly started draining her bank accounts.
Authorities said she laundered some $4 million dollars and purchased jewelry, a Porsche SUV and a home in Temple City.
Liu’s husband and son were convicted of financial elder abuse last year, but authorities have never been able to find Liu, police said.
Investigators believe Liu may be hiding in the Los Angeles area, where she may be enrolled in a nursing school or providing care to other seniors.
Liu is Chinese, 5 feet 4 inches and about 150 pounds. Police believe she has a gambling habit and frequents several casinos including Pechanga, Harrah’s, the Bicycle Club and Pala.<NO1><NO>

LOS ANGELES — A Diamond Bar man must repay $1.38 million and spend five years on probation for failing to pay workers’ compensation insurance for employees at his nurse staffing agency.
Joseph Baiden, 57, will also have to pay the California Department of Insurance $110,000 to cover the cost of the investigation, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said in a written statement.
Prosecutors say Baiden underreported the number of employees who worked for his company, Los Angeles-based Nurse Connections, Inc., leading to reduced workers’ compensation payments.
He pleaded guilty to insurance fraud after the scheme was uncovered.
Judge David Horowitz sentenced Baiden on Friday. The judge ordered Baiden to be electronically monitored for the first three months of his probation. He also suspended a five-year prison sentence.
The fraud occurred between 2001 and 2007.
The investigation into Baiden began in September, 2008 after authorities received a tip.
Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said Baiden appeared to be living a “lavish lifestyle” with proceeds from the fraud.
Government officials seized three homes that belonged to him in Diamond Bar. They are in the 2700 block of Wagon Train Lane, the 2200 block of Rusty Pump Road and the 800 block of Sunset Place.
Officials also seized a vacant residential lot on Derringer Lane in Diamond Bar and a home on Pala Mesa Drive in Pomona.
The total value of the properties is estimated at $4 million.

A Pasadena man who runs an Orange County medical clinic has agreed to plead guilty to five counts of health insurance fraud, authorities said.
Dr. Glen Justice, 65, filed the plea agreement Wednesday in federal court in Los Angeles, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeannie Joseph said.
He stands accused of billing Medicare, as well as other private and publicly funded health insurance companies, for $400,000 to $1 million worth of injectable cancer drugs he never administered, Joseph said. He is also charged with overbilling for drugs he did actually give to patients.
As a doctor, the prosecutor said, Justice had a duty to both his patients and the health insurance companies he did business with.
“For both of those reasons, he was in a position of trust,” he said.
The alleged wrongdoing took place between 2004 and October of 2009 at the Pacific Coast Hematology/Oncology Medical Group in Fountain Valley, which Justice owns and operates, U.S. Department of Justice officials said in a written statement.
Justice was arrested in late 2009 and appeared to be continuing the scheme, officials said, even though staff members at his clinic had raised concerns about his billing practices and authorities had carried out a search warrant at his office in November of 2006.
Justice is due back in federal court for arraignment May 3, Joseph said. After that, a sentencing hearing will be scheduled.
Once convicted, she added, it will be up to the California Medical Board to determine if the conviction will affect Justice’s license to practice medicine.
He faces a maximum sentence of 50 years in federal prison, fines of up to $1.25 million and may be ordered to pay up to $1 million in restitution, according to court documents.
“No pun intended,” Joseph said, “we look forward to justice being served.”