NARRATIVE A school supt was arrested in the fall of 2010 and charged with 17 counts of bribery, mail fraud and wire fraud. Authorities say that while serving as Toms River schools supt--the NJ school supt and a Maryland insurance broker--concocted a scheme to inflate school insurance charges and kick back part of the money to as bribes.
The two are accused of concealing more than $1 million in bribes from insurance brokers and other service providers.
The insurance company, Federal Hill Risk Management, served as the insurance broker for the school district since 1978. Court documents say the two men spent stolen money on home renovations, watches that cost tens of thousands of dollars, and other personal expenses. The supt also allegedly bought one girlfriend - who was also on the school district payroll - a car and other gifts, including money for the college tuition of one of her relatives, according to court papers.
A federal investigation of the insurance broker of Baltimore continues WRT bilking municipal and school insurance plans---he is under state indictment for allegedly bilking $2.6 million from Perth Amboy schools and more than $200,000 from the municipality, and was indicted by a federal grand jury.
The crooked broker's son-in-law and a business partner were charged with stealing $216,000 from Perth Amboy for a non-existent wellness program for city workers.
A NJ state grand jury issued an indictment in July charging the broker and two of Gartland’s companies, with a host of charges including money laundering, conspiracy, forgery and theft by deception.
Authorities said they bilked $2.6 million from the Perth Amboy schools over a six-year period. All defendants named in multiple indictments pleaded not guilty.
A third insurance man, of Bernardsville, pleaded guilty to theft by deception and false representation for a government contract in the same scheme targeting the school district.
The co-conspirator are alleged to have lied to the NJ school’s insurance carrier, Cigna----the insurance/educator cabal told Cigna Insurance Company that "the Toms River school board authorized" the insurance carrier to pay them fees on behalf of the school board from its medical claims bank account for health care related programs and services that never existed, authorities said.
That money, stolen from Nov 2003 to July 2009, went into kickback accounts controlled by the crooked insurance broker, the indictment alleges.
The biggest problem with ObamaTax (now that it's rewritten as such by John Roberts - there was no "care" in ObamaCareMandate, either) is not that it would become a problem "once the crooks get their filthy hands on it" but that, besides the crooks who already have their hands in every Big Government "program/entitlement/service/stimulus" etc., the biggest crook/thief/embezzler/beneficiary would be the Big Government and entitled bureaucracy itself.
The crooks already know very well that the Big Government is the place where one should look for money because that's really where the Big Money is:
From Tampa, six other cities targeted in Medicare fraud busts - TBO (Tampa Bay Online), by Kelli Kennedy and Pete Yost, 2012 May 02
It was the latest in a string of major arrests in the past two years as authorities have targeted fraud that's believed to cost the government between $60 billion and $90 billion each year. Stopping Medicare's budget from hemorrhaging that money will be key to paying for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. ..... < snip > ..... Today, hundreds of federal agents fanned out around the country, raiding businesses, seizing documents and charging 107 suspects in Miami, Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit, Chicago, Tampa, Fla., and Baton Rouge, La. The government suspended payment to 52 providers as part of the investigations. ..... < snip > ..... Among those arrested Wednesday were the owners of two community mental health centers in Baton Rouge, charged with billing $225 million in their scams. Hoor Naz Jafri and Roslyn Dogan allegedly recruited vulnerable patients, including elderly people, drug addicts and the mentally ill. Patient charts were doctored to show services that were billed to Medicare but often never given, according to an indictment. Authorities suspended their companies in May 2011, but the pair continued billing Medicare after purchasing another fraudulent company, according to the indictment. When feds shut down that company, the pair tried to sell their "beneficiaries" to other providers in an attempt to keep making money. ..... < snip > Federal authorities charged 107 doctors, nurses and social workers in Tampa and six other cities with Medicare fraud today in a nationwide crackdown on unrelated scams that allegedly billed the taxpayer-funded program of $452 million — the highest dollar amount in a single Medicare bust in U.S. history.
That's just one of many such Medicare and Medicaid frauds.
Of course, with so much more money and more Byzantine laws, mandates, rules and regulations under ObamaCareHealthInsuranceTaxMandate it would be even easier for crooks to "legally" make even more money (when nobody even knows if it's TAX or a MANDATE, the Feds and the defense lawyers would be able to treat it any way it suits them, to claim and/or decide the "guilt" or the "innocence" of the involved).
What a fine disgusting mess - politicians, government policy wonks, lawyers and bureaucrats' paradise!
People will steal 10’s of BILLIONS from Obamacare !