Posted on 12/20/2014 1:12:40 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Jeb Bush left the Florida governors office in January of 2007, after eight years of service. Three months later, he joined the board of a hospital company that had been pillaging government health programs and abusing patients, in Florida and around the country, for most of the years he sat in the governors office.
Apart from a very generous compensation package, why did Bush sign on with such a tarnished company? And will whatever explanation he now offers hold up under the microscope of a presidential campaign?
Tenet Healthcare Corp. is a national for-profit hospital company with a sordid history. In the middle 1990s, operating under a previous name, the company pled guilty to seven federal felonies, paid a record fine for health care fraud and kickbacks, and was placed under special government scrutiny for five years (in what is called a Corporate Integrity Agreement). That deal was arranged by Eric Holder, then U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and by Charles Ruff, representing the company and later to become President Bill Clintons White House counsel.
As soon as that five-year review ended, the same company, now operating as Tenet Healthcare, launched a program to increase profits by gouging Medicare. It took a while for everyone to catch on to the new schemes, but starting in 2002 and running on into 2007, the company faced allegations of fraud, Medicare false claims, patient abuse, overcharging federal health care programs, kickback violations, falsely inflating hospital charges, unnecessary heart operations, unnecessary patient deaths, and SEC violations. Again, the company bought its way out of these charges, paying around $1.7 billion to settle government investigations, government lawsuits, and private lawsuits. And the government signed Tenet up for another five years of special scrutiny, another Corporate Integrity Agreement.
Bush was a catch for Tenet.....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Exactly. Jeb had the never to declare himself pro life.
Is Jebbie still “pro-life”? I don’t think “pro-life” means the same to a Bushie as to real pro-lifers.
Outrageous scams in Florida. Voter fraud. Medicaid fraud. IRS refund fraud. Ripping off taxpayers bigtime.
One Floridian was able to pull off eye-popping financial scams mainly by lying about her marital status, bank accounts, and false claims business ownership....using the usual illegal ploys of multiple identities, stolen SS nos, and falsifying official US documents (a felony). And how much was ripped off in falsified EITC refunds?
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Under Jeb's watch, Florida became the epicenter of latino mortgage fraud and Medicare fraud.
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From at least Dec-2003 to Jan-2013, Lopez/Clas used the SSN for Nereida Valle to obtain almost $500,000 in federal housing, social security, food, cash, and medical benefits from HUD, SSA, USDA and HHS.
At the same time, she used the SSN for Gloria Lopes Clas to obtain mortgage loans and buy real estate in both Broward and Palm Beach Counties.
At various times, her husband, Gonzalez, assisted her in obtaining housing benefits.
As Gloria Clas, she sold two Broward properties for a profit of over $200,000. She also purchased over an acre of property in Loxahatchee on which she built an approximately 2,700 square foot residence.
After the residence was built, she received a $200,000 HELOC collateralized by the property, but defaulted on it owing over $150,000.
Valle-Clas, who formally changed her name from Nereida Valle to Gloria Nereida Valle-Clas in 2003, used approximately 12 aliases in perpetrating the scheme, most of which were variations on Nereida Valle and Gloria Lopes Clas.
SOURCE:http://www.justice.gov/usao/fls/PressReleases/140410-02.html
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FLORIDA TOPS MORTGAGE FRAUD LIST Florida Broker Sentenced to 42 Months for Mortgage Fraud Scheme----October 17, 2012
(Source: FBI) - Juan Carlos Rodriguez, 52, a real estate agent and mortgage broker from Weston, Florida, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra for his participation in a mortgage fraud scheme relating to properties in the Versailles development in Wellington, Florida.
Rodriguez pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and financial institution fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(h).
Over the last five years, more than 30 defendants have been prosecuted for mortgage fraud schemes in the Versailles neighborhood. Most recently, in addition to Rodriguez, eight other individuals have pled guilty and been sentenced in four related mortgage fraud schemes that were centered in Versailles:
According to court documents, the defendants used straw buyers to submit false documentation to various mortgage lenders substantially inflating the purchase price of the properties.
As part of the conspiracy, duplicate HUD-1 Settlement Statements were prepared. One set, listing the real price, was provided to the seller; another set, with the inflated price, was provided to the lender.
The fraudulent loan proceeds were then laundered through multiple accounts to conceal the source and distribution of the money and were ultimately used for the benefit of the defendants and their co-conspirators.
Investigative efforts of the FBI, coordinated with IRS-CID, U.S. Secret Service, Floridas Department of Financial Services and Office of Financial Regulation, FDLE, and the Palm Beach County Mortgage Fraud Task Force.
EXCERPT More at website of the United States Attorneys Office for the Southern District of Florida at www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls.
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US Dept of the Treasury Says Illegal Aliens Collecting Billions in Tax Credits According to the US Dept of Treasurys Inspector General, more than $4.2 billion in additional child credits were paid out in 2010 to illegal immigrants. In 2005, the payouts totaled $924 million.
This program allows low income earners to claim a $1,000 per child credit. $20 billion EITC is estimated to have been paid out to these cunning "impoverished" illegals.
Most of them are collecting over and over again-----using multiple identities---falsifying official apps---claiming children they do not have and/or falsely stating kids are back in their homelands. The IRS sent $45 Million (32,000 EITC refunds) to illegals at ONE address.
REFERENCE March 8, 2012 KENNER, La. -- Kenner police arrested illegal Marvin Baca who sold false W-2 forms to another illegal immigrant for $1,500. Baca sold fraudulent W-2 forms for $1,500 to other Hispanics here illegally.
Police said that on one of the forged W-2 forms had a SS no of a person living in Virginia. Police said illegal Hispanics purchase fictitious W-2 forms and file false tax returns with the government to receive EITC refunds. Baca was charged with one count of ID theft and two counts of forgery.
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