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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:26 AM
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So will Rush serve "HARD" time (second-degree misdemeanor)?
Edited on Tue Jun-27-06 11:32 AM by npincus
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/06/27/ap2843450.html

Rush Limbaugh could see a deal with prosecutors in a long-running prescription fraud case collapse after authorities found a bottle of Viagra in his bag at Palm Beach International Airport. The prescription was not in his name.

Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at the airport after returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. Customs officials found the Viagra in his luggage but his name was not on the prescription, said Paul Miller, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Miller said the alleged violation could be a second-degree misdemeanor. The sheriff's office was investigating and will soon turn the case over to the state attorney's office, which had no immediate comment Tuesday.

Under the deal reached last month with prosecutors, Limbaugh was not to be arrested for any infraction for 18 months in exchange for authorities deferring a charge of "doctor shopping." Prosecutors had alleged the conservative talk-show host illegally deceived multiple physicians to receive overlapping painkiller prescriptions.

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Minnesota_Lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:30 AM
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1. I think there is a STIFF PENALty for abusing Viagra.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:36 AM
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7. Hey! Don't be so HARD ON him. After all, he's only human...
...and can pull a BONER from time to time.
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:31 AM
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2. Here's what I find amusing -
Rush was embarrassed to use Viagra. He wanted to keep it a secret and had a prescription filled in his physician's name, then tried to take it out of the country. With the trouble he'd already been in, the guy was just plain stupid to do such a thing, knowing it was illegal to be in possession of another person's prescription. Of course Rush will expect special treatment because he's a media personality and boo hoo hoo.....

I think he should be locked up just for being a dumbass.
:eyes:
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:42 AM
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10. He is an addict plain and simple

This is what he was CAUGHT doing, just imagine what he has gotten away with ...
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TheDebbieDee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:59 AM
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13. You know, I never thought of things that way........
Jiminy Christmas, Goclark! You're even more cynical than I am.....now that's saying something!
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:18 PM
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21. That's his lawyer's story...
.. but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's not the whole truth. I hope they test those pills.
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:32 AM
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3. yep. he;ll be going to the pokey now.
gonna learn to play drop the soap.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:32 AM
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4. That would be 'Soft' time
in the circumstances:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:33 AM
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5. No more Mr. Softy, for you Rush in the Big House.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:36 AM
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6. and he broke probation...
clearly someone who so openly ignores and disrepects the law
should be brought to justice.
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:37 AM
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8. Or will rush serve time hard?
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plcdude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:41 AM
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9. I think
he has violated his terms under the agreement he was allowed to make on the previous accusations. He was in possession of someone else's prescription drug. The doctor and Rush have some explaining to do because this is an illegal act. Now if that doctor was accompanying him on the trip he may have some wiggle room but of course we could make that a real scandal as well. But if not, then we are talking illegal possession of a prescription drug. Same song different verse.
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:42 AM
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11. Well let's see
Florida Statute: 893.13(8)(a)4. 3rd Write a prescription for a controlled substance for a patient, other person, or an animal if the sole purpose of writing the prescription is a monetary benefit for the practitioner.

Looks like he got his doc to break the law too.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 11:44 AM
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12. Did the bottle say viagra or did the pills?
Cuz blue is the color of his true love in the large dose tablet

gem of a picture from AMERICAblog



He had purchased an awful lot of the stuff, as we recall. Is his probation officer sure it has all been accounted for? My granddad liked his hooch. He kept bottles all over the place. Grandma never could get them all rounded up. Rush is ever so much more resourceful than my granddad.
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:02 PM
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14. Didn't one report say Viagra and other pills? Maybe other pills
were contained in the bottle along with Viagra. Were all pills tested?

I keep telling my wife that those daily/weekly dosage containers that she has in her purse are illegal, since she has removed the pills from their prescription bottles.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:10 PM
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18. I heard the pills were this guy's


Majority Leader John Boehner
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:45 PM
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24. Well, he IS under some stress lately
Poor, poor bastard. Maybe Livin Large Bob will tip him off about natural alternatives ;)
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:04 PM
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15. any other American would
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timber84 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:07 PM
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16. If he takes too many he'll have a STROKE!
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:13 PM
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A stroke? You mean he has something a stroke will take advantage of?!
:wow:
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:42 PM
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23. Hmmm.. maybe we can slip Cheney's doc a couple of bucks...
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:09 PM
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17. Didn't he break the terms of his plea deal? n/t
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:13 PM
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19. Roy Black is his attorney. and
Mr. Black is skilled defending criminals and mobsters; he is the epitome of a consiglierre.


Rush keeps some good company for someone that bashes the legal profession all the time.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:16 PM
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20. The plea deal was that he could not break ANY law for the next 18 months
felony or not. And his willingness to carry a deceptively-labed perscription after being charged with doctor shopping shows that his rehab is not working at worst and contempt for the law at best. Even Nicole Bush got full-time rehab!

:headbang:
rocknation
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-27-06 12:20 PM
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22. They oughta throw the book at Limpwad and put his corpulent ass in Gitmo.
:kick:
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