Prosecutors allege the defendants billed Medicare and other government programs for services that were unnecessary or never provided, including enrolling patients who were not terminally ill in hospice to maximize reimbursements. Officials said the cases are part of a push to crack down on fraud in publicly funded health programs, which investigators say account for significant financial losses across the system.
I mean, ok. If the fraud is real, then go after the perpetrators. Sure. It’s beyond stupid to only target blue states, though. Fraud happens in red states, too, I guarantee it.
Florida, but when he did the medicare fraud he was Governor. So the brilliant minds in Florida decided that even after it came out that he was party to the biggest medicare fraud in history, he deserved to be senator after his 8 glorious years of Governorship.
Edit: I was mistaken, see BarneyPiccolo’s comment below.
Nope, back up, time for clarification. Rick Scott was NOT governor when he did his record-setting Medicare fraud. That came much earlier, in the 90s, when he was CEO of a Florida hospital chain. They committed the biggest case of Medicare fraud in history, and when he was deposed, he pled the Fifth something like 175 times.
Somehow they managed to convince the court to blame the corporation for the crime, and the corporation was punished with a massive fine, the largest in Medicare history, which still stand, as far as I know.
For his part, Rick Scott walked away with a sizeable fine, but he got to keep most of his stolen fortune. He was fired from his company, but he found that his particular skills set was transferrable to conservative politics.
So technically, it was the company for which he was responsible for all day to day operations, including profitability, that was convicted of the crime, but not the person who actually did it?
I still always refer to him as Convicted Criminal Senator Rick Scott. He really really hates that, and whines about it all the time. But he just whines all the time anyway, so who cares?
As for being elected, remember that Florida’s elections have been fully rigged for several election cycles. They allow a few Dems to hold Congressional seats because they have to. In the past few years, DeSatan has been removing duly elected Democrats from any positions they have, and replacing them with his own hand-picked people. He’s done it to a couple of prosecutors, a sheriff, a police captain, and he’s gone after a few others who have so far managed to evade him.
I mean, ok. If the fraud is real, then go after the perpetrators. Sure. It’s beyond stupid to only target blue states, though. Fraud happens in red states, too, I guarantee it.
Rick Scott is the senator of… Which state was it again?
Florida,
but when he did the medicare fraud he was Governor. So the brilliant minds in Florida decided that even after it came out that he was party to the biggest medicare fraud in history, he deserved to be senator after his 8 glorious years of Governorship.Edit: I was mistaken, see BarneyPiccolo’s comment below.
Nope, back up, time for clarification. Rick Scott was NOT governor when he did his record-setting Medicare fraud. That came much earlier, in the 90s, when he was CEO of a Florida hospital chain. They committed the biggest case of Medicare fraud in history, and when he was deposed, he pled the Fifth something like 175 times.
Somehow they managed to convince the court to blame the corporation for the crime, and the corporation was punished with a massive fine, the largest in Medicare history, which still stand, as far as I know.
For his part, Rick Scott walked away with a sizeable fine, but he got to keep most of his stolen fortune. He was fired from his company, but he found that his particular skills set was transferrable to conservative politics.
So technically, it was the company for which he was responsible for all day to day operations, including profitability, that was convicted of the crime, but not the person who actually did it?
I still always refer to him as Convicted Criminal Senator Rick Scott. He really really hates that, and whines about it all the time. But he just whines all the time anyway, so who cares?
As for being elected, remember that Florida’s elections have been fully rigged for several election cycles. They allow a few Dems to hold Congressional seats because they have to. In the past few years, DeSatan has been removing duly elected Democrats from any positions they have, and replacing them with his own hand-picked people. He’s done it to a couple of prosecutors, a sheriff, a police captain, and he’s gone after a few others who have so far managed to evade him.