Obama cabinet official describes 'unusual' request from Menendez

The Enquirer ^ | October 03, 2017 | Andrew Seidman

[ptsal]

***snip***So [Kathleen] Sebelius thought it was strange when then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid summoned her to his Capitol Hill office in August 2012 to meet with Sen. Robert Menendez over what she understood to be a Medicare billing dispute involving a Florida doctor.

“I think it’s the only time I was asked to discuss a practice involving a billing issue” involving the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Sebelius testified in federal court here Tuesday. It was also unusual, she said, for Reid, “to ask me to come to a meeting involving another member of Congress.”

[ptsal]

...rarer than a hen's tooth or an unredacted copy of Hillary's emails.... "current" coverage of the corruption trial of SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ (Democrat-New Jersey).

So Sebelius thought it was strange when then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid summoned her to his Capitol Hill office in August 2012 to meet with Sen. Robert Menendez over what she understood to be a Medicare billing dispute involving a Florida doctor.

“I think it’s the only time I was asked to discuss a practice involving a billing issue” involving the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Sebelius testified in federal court here Tuesday. It was also unusual, she said, for Reid, “to ask me to come to a meeting involving another member of Congress.”

Under cross-examination, Sebelius said she couldn’t recall whether Melgen’s name came up during the meeting. But she testified the discussion involved the policy that was “triggered” by Melgen’s case.

Sebelius testified that she thought Menendez “wanted me to do something differently than my staff had previously done.”

[oldtech]

Send them all to jail & later some judge can sort it all out.

[Gay State Conservative]

“Unusual” as in absolutely illegal and totally corrupt perhaps?

[DoodleDawg]

The story seems to indicate that nothing came out of the meeting. The requested policy wasn’t changed and since Meglen had already appealed his case then she couldn’t change it anyway. But it does show that Menendez was trying to get a favorable outcome for Meglen and it sure wasn’t out of the goodness of his heart or just a Senator acting on behalf of a constituent.

[ptsal]

It is amazing how far I have to dig to find timely coverage.

Democrat crimes and trials get zero coverage.

[Alberta's Child]

Corruption of public officials in New Jersey isn’t even newsworthy anymore.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Unusual” as in absolutely illegal and totally corrupt perhaps?

Aren't you suspicious this morning?

No, they were merely discussing a "matter." Completely innocent.

[Gay State Conservative]

No, they were merely discussing a "matter." Completely innocent.

I've discussed many,many "matters" in my life and have yet to find myself in Federal (or state) court.

[Fresh Wind]

“Unusual” as in absolutely illegal and totally corrupt perhaps?

There's nothing unusual about corruption, unfortunately.

[DaxtonBrown]

May eid indictments coming. A lot I can’t tell Freepers, but lots more in the pipes.

[DaxtonBrown]

Many Reid indictments coming. A lot I can’t tell Freepers, but lots more in the pipes.

(sorry, my glasses are broken this morning)

[Liz]

OBAMA NAMED MENENDEZ HIS POINT MAN FOR AMNESTY
THE AMNESTY PROTECTION RACKET BEGINS HERE

NOTE: The Senate Immigration "Reform" Bill Protected Crooked Latino
Public Officials in US positions from prosecution for wrongdoing in elective and appointive office.

DC Gala--Ntl Assoc of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials
L-R--Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)--now under indictment;
Dr Salomon Melgen, VOXXI Chman (now incarcerated);
Rep Nancy Pelosi (D-CAL); San Francisco
J. Sanchez, US Under Secy of Commerce for Intl Trade,
Emilio Sanchez, Pres/CEO of VOXXI.
(Photo/Voxxi---Melgen's ethnic solidarity web site)

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POLITICO revealed that Menendez's co-defendant, Dr Melgen, assiduously courted President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, but that Melgen was unhappy with the return on his campaign donation "investments."

After meeting briefly with Obama at a 2010 fundraiser that Dr Melgen paid $30,400 to co-host, the eye doctor complained that “Obama didn’t even give him the time of day,” according to a source who travels in the same Miami political circles as Melgen.

The source said Melgen also expressed frustration that he couldn’t take his concerns about his questionable Medicare billing practices directly to Obama’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius.

“He was ranting about HHS and Sebelius not understanding and not wanting to listen to him and not giving him a hearing,” said the source, who did not want to be identified WRT revealing the contents of private conversations.

Dr Melgen and friend.

[Fresh Wind]

I’d settle for just one. Not holding my breath, though.

[Liz]

Is Medicare the Democrats' slush fund?

Ex-Democratic Leader Harry Reid, who retired last year, was just fingered.....colluding to get Sen Menendez off the prosecutorial hook; conspiring to derail a federal Medicare probe of Menendez's pal, eye doctor Melgen (currently in jail).

Harry loves that Medicare money. Here's how Harry handed Democrats $4.3 billion tax dollars.......by attaching it to a Medicare bill.....flaunted as getting then-Louisiana Sen Mary Landrieu's yes vote on Obamacare. (Yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity).

The payoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare.

BACKSTORY In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Reid needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage.

In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars. Obama complied--- Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare---but $4.3 went to Landrieu not the $200,000 she had bargained for.

<><> Was Landrieu the baglady for buying other Democrats' yes votes? <><>

THE LANDRIEU PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE Landrieu sold her aye vote for a "price." Landrieu was bought off in what Forbes Magazine dubbed "The 'Louisiana Purchase" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu.

FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a greenback bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion attached to a Medicare bill: more than twenty times the assigned amount.

MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml

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[DoodleDawg]

It is amazing how far I have to dig to find timely coverage.

Amazing, but not all that surprising. Now if it had been a Republican senator...

[Vehmgericht]

Why is there no mention of Melendez’s philanthropic work on behalf of underage girls?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Matter” was a sly reference to former Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting Comey call the Clinton investigation a “matter” instead of a criminal investigation. He claims that led to his decision to make his now-famous statement about the results of that investigation.

[Gay State Conservative]

“Matter” was a sly reference to former Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting Comey call the Clinton investigation a “matter”...

Yup,I got that.I clearly recall that story.My response was just as sly...perhaps so sly that the real message wasn't apparent.

And BTW...ten bucks says that she didn't request that but,rather,*ordered* it.Are we on?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...not touching that bet!