Criminal cases precede civil settlesments, not the other way around. Or are you saying they offered a 1.3B settlement to the government to go away? There was also disagreement at the board over whether to pay or fight the charges, obviously they felt they had no choice but to pay but that alone is not evidence against Scott. No finger prints on this one from him, case dismissed.
BTW, in case you do not already know, Scott was forced out by the BOD early in the investigation over the objections of one of the original partners: Richard Raintree. Some managers of HCA did go to jail I believe but seems to me the government would have been happy to have been able to lock scott up too but could not overcome the fact they had no proof on him. Oh I know, the FBI did a poor job right as probably Reno interceded on his behalf.
Many times the government allows fines in lieu of criminal cases. Happens all the time, because they get the punishment they are looking for and don’t spend the time, money and effort required for a criminal conviction. The simple fact that no one was indicted, does not mean no criminal activity took place. I would argue that the 1.3 BILLION dollar fine is proof positive of criminal activity. Then you’ve got the fact that he won’t release his deposition. Why would that be?
This man made 300+ million dollars while running a company that was defrauding medicare, and paid the largest fine in history. It’s really that simple.
You will learn a lot more about the facts in this case from the DNC as they run their commercials leading up to the election.
Scott will get killed over the deposition thing, its’ the only thing that could prove that he a least claimed to be completely innocent and was willing to risk perjury charges to say it. But he won’t release his deposition. Because when you take the fifth under oath, people KNOW you are hiding something.