A Bitter Pill for Deval Patrick
Howie Carr, Boston Herald 2/7/14
Meet Nick Creighton, 25, of Rockland, and please, try not to hold that tattoo on his neck against him. If you could see the dice tattoo on his right wrist, I’m sure you’d realize we’re dealing with a future captain of industry.
Mr. Creighton is here this morning to dispel a myth — that all drug dealers and junkies use their EBT cards to buy and sell their wares.
Nick Creighton begs to differ. He is accused of using his MassHealth card to buy hundreds and hundreds of oxycodone pills.
A jailbird, Creighton was allegedly getting returns on our investment that law-abiding citizens can only dream of.
After lugging him last week outside a CVS, Weymouth police did the math. With his forged prescriptions from the South Shore Medical Center and his MassHealth card, they figured Creighton had obtained 224 30-milligram oxycodone pills.
Let’s go to the police report. “Creighton pays $3.65 for these fraudulent prescription and then the state is left to pay the balance. These pills have a street value of $30.00 per pill. The above prescriptions cost $7.30 out of pocket. The pills from these two prescriptions alone have a street value of $6,720 cash.”
Just a little “leakage,” right Gov. Patrick?
Creighton was arrested last week in Rockland. Weymouth Detective Mike Brennan wrote, “I located several blue latex gloves and two rubber arm ties. I asked Creighton about the ties and he stated that he was a ‘junkie.’”
An ex-con junkie with a MassHealth card.
Creighton used to live at home with his mom, which we know from a Weymouth police report filed in November 2012.
His mother, Susan Creighton, “contacted the station to report that CVS had contacted her home to say that Nick’s prescription for oxycodone was ready to be picked up. Mrs. Creighton knew that Nick did not have a valid prescription for oxycodone and confronted Nick about the call. Nick told his mother that someone must have used his identification to obtain a fraudulent prescription.”
Don’t you hate it when your own mom rats you out, especially after you got a tattoo for her on your right forearm? On the inside, the tat says “MOM.” On the outside there’s another one — “HATE.”
Of course, Deval would dismiss this as just another “anecdote.” On MSNBC this week, U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) was castigated by a host for daring to mention fraud and abuse in welfare programs.
“It’s become a right-wing meme,” hissed the moonbat host, Alex Wagner.
This is the woman John Sununu once told to put an Obama bumper sticker on her forehead.
Back to Creighton. He is charged with 18 crimes, including two counts of public assistance fraud. Who do you suppose he voted for president in 2012?
I only have one question left: Does anyone know what happened to Creighton’s EBT card?