Apologies about the video quality! Source: CBS News via Ken Arica

Read on for more details! Source: Justice.gov

As usual, the disclaimer as per from Justice.gov: an indictment is merely an accusation, and defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

The people arrested for VRS Fraud worked for 7 different companies:

1. Viable Communications (Rockville, MD)
2. Master Communications (Las Vegas, NV)
3. KL Communications (Phoenix, AZ)
4. Mascom (Austin, TX)
5. Deaf and Hard-ofHearing Interpreting Services (DHIS) (New York & New Jersey)
6. Innovative Communication Services for the Deaf (ICSD) (Miami Lakes, FL)
7. Deaf Studio 29 (Huntington Beach, CA)

The 26 people who were arrested [edit: and/or subpoenaed] are:

1. Viable Owner and CEO, John Yeh, 62 (Potomac, MD)
2. Viable COO Joseph Yeh, 64 (Potomac, MD)
3. Viable Assistant Vice President Anthony Mowl, 25 (Rockville, MD)
4. Viable Human Relations Director Donald Tropp, 25 (Rockville, MD)
5. Master Communications, KL Communications, Mascom Owner Kim E. Hawkins, 46 (Las Vegas, NV)
6. Master Communications employee, KL Communications owner/employee Larry Berke, 62 (Phoenix, AZ)
7. KL Communications employee Dary Berke (Phoenix, AZ)
8. KL Communications & Master Communications employee Lisa Goetz, 43 (Phoenix, AZ)
9. Mascom Marketing and Advertising Director David Simmons, 43 (Austin, TX)
10. DHIS Owner Irma Azrelyant, 47 (Basking Ridge, NJ)
11. DHIS Co-owner Joshua Finkle, 41 (New York)
12. DHIS Video Interpreter Natan Zfati, 31 (Brooklyn, NY)
13. DHIS Bookkeeper Oksana Strusa, 35 (Jersey City, NJ)
14. DHIS Video Interpreter Alfia Iskandarova, 29 (Brooklyn, NY)
15. DHIS Video Interpreter Hennadii Holovin, 36 (Philadelphia, PA)
16. ICSD Owner Yosbel Buscaron, 25 (Hialeah, FL)
17. ICSD Co-owner Lazaro Fernandez, 35 (Hialeah, FL)
18. ICSD Call Center Manager Wanda Hutchinson, 35 (Pembroke Pines, FL)
19. ICSD Call Center Manager Jessica Bacallo, 23 (Miami, FL)
20. ICSD Marketing Manager Kathleen Valle, 23 (Miami, FL)
21. Viable Contractor Benjamin Pena, 34 (Scottsdale, AZ) [Paid by Viable CEO John Yeh]
22. Viable Contractor Robert Z. Rubeck, 34 (Surprise, AZ) [Paid by Viable CEO John Yeh]
23. Viable Contractor Tamara Frankel, 28 (Surprise, AZ) [Paid by Viable CEO John Yeh]
24. Marc Velasquez Verson, 56 (Oswego, OR)
25. Ellen Thompson, 43 (Oswego, OR)
26. Doris Martinez, 51 (Oswego, OR)

Hopefully this will not have much of a negative fallout on the VRS industry!