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HHS nominee Sylvia Burwell entangled in MetLife lawsuit - Signature is on ‘misstatements’
Washington Times ^ | 4/15/14 | Jim McElhatton

Posted on 04/16/2014 2:38:27 AM PDT by Libloather

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Obama’s nominee to lead the country’s health care overhaul, remains entangled in a lawsuit brought by shareholders of MetLife accusing her of misleading investors as a director of one of the country’s biggest insurance companies.

The federal lawsuit, filed in New York, says the company used a Social Security death index to stop making payments when beneficiaries died, but the company wasn’t as diligent about using the database to track deaths of its policyholders, which triggers payouts, the lawsuit said.

Last year, a judge refused to toss a federal lawsuit against the company, including claims against Ms. Burwell and other directors, ruling that they “were board members and signed various financial statements and registration statements that contained the alleged misstatements.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burwell; lawsuit; metlife; obamacare
She's gonna be a real hoot.
1 posted on 04/16/2014 2:38:27 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

When will someone expose the Harvard school of socialism? Almost all of this admin’s thieves and reprobates went to Hahvard.


2 posted on 04/16/2014 3:03:18 AM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: Libloather

Another Clintonista with Vince Foster’s blood on her hands.


3 posted on 04/16/2014 3:04:09 AM PDT by meatloaf (Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
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To: meatloaf

Is there NO ONE that odumbo selects that does NOT have “blood on his/her hands”?

People such as Burwell do not in the lime light without having a dark past or some sort.


4 posted on 04/16/2014 3:30:25 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Libloather

Miss Leading should be her legal name.


5 posted on 04/16/2014 5:19:32 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: meatloaf

Another Clintonista with Vince Foster’s blood on her hands.


Obama’s administration has been the reclamation center of the first black president’s crew.


6 posted on 04/16/2014 5:21:41 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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Burwell strikes me as the consumate apparatchick.


7 posted on 04/16/2014 11:21:41 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (Sure would be nice if the same articles weren't posted multiple times)
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