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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/feds_accuse_texas_doctor_in_largest_medicare_fraud.php?ref=fpnewsfeedA Texas doctor was accused Tuesday in the largest Medicare fraud case in US history, with federal prosecutors charging him with scamming the government with $375 million in phony billings.
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r2715seattle
Tea Partier!!!
From Open Secrets:
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)His "career" is just beginning.
sakabatou
(42,204 posts)Uh, your bottom half makes no sense (the Roy thing).
skypilot
(8,854 posts)...I think it's to show that the doctor was a contributing member of the Tea Party.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)but it shows a bunch of contributions by the "good" doctor to the tea party.
What a shock. A guy who makes a ton of money STEALING from the government, does not then want to have to pay taxes on his STOLEN money.
sakabatou
(42,204 posts)Sancho
(9,072 posts)he probably has the same memory as Rick Scott...
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)instead hollering that it was all about benefit cuts
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Do we then blame the program for the criminal's behavior?
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)And saying there is something wrong with it because some hypocritical, lying, criminal piece of shit scammed it is like the Republican attacks on "Welfare Queens"...
There is always going to be some scammer out there. The point is to keep it to a minimum, not to kill the goddamn program over it.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Maine-ah
(9,902 posts)bilked medicaid (Mainecare) for a shit load too. Robert Nutting received over $1m in over payments from the program (his pharmacy) and never paid it back. His pharmacy went bankrupt in 2003.
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/business-sent_1_2-millionstatement_2010-11-17.html
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)He should establish residency in Florida and run for Governor.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)I hope we can recover some of that money. Probably have to auction off he crappy taste ver priced crap for pennies on the dollar.
ArtiChoke
(61 posts)...how the right uses Medicare fraud as though it's the poor bilking the system and yet the biggest crooks are always some touch-hole provider?
lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)And he laughed all the way to the bank.
He used part of it to finance his campaign for Governor.
He wouldn't have been elected otherwide.
mopinko
(70,388 posts)can't they do anything right??