Apparently the ‘aid’ is not helping these countries anyway, since these people want to leave...
It’s more about hurting the people in power, not the poor. I bet corruption is rampant down there.
You don’t seriously think that “aid” in a third world hell hole filters down to the peasants anyway do you?
Makes sense and as my Brazilian friend sez,there all corrupt and the money goes into the leaders pockets not to the people.
Although if they get here they wont be required to work and who bought all those sneakers and jeans ?
Who fed these people and who is feeding them now ? If and hopefully when they get turned away what will the do for Jean,sneaker and food $$ ?
Personally I could care less if an AC130 took them all out in there tracks the moment they step foot on US soil
It's time we cut down or out foreign aid- especially to those countries who hate us. Its time to stop trying to support the world and take care of our own.
Subsidizing the Swiss and Cayman banking industries. How could that fail to improve living conditions. The presidentes of these poor countries use it to pay their chauffeurs, butlers, chefs, gardeners, chamber maids, pool boys, golf caddies and multiple mistresses, not to mention the hardworking body guards. Don’t you care that these poor people will suffer!/s
NICARAGUA SCAMS-—Feds arrest eight Miami suspects in Medicare probe linked to Nicaragua
(Medicare was billed from Nicaragua)
Miami Herald | November 19, 2014 | Jay Weaver / FR posted by Cincinatus’ Wife
As Medicare rackets go, authorities say, this one had no borders. Eleven people associated with a South Florida managed care company were charged Wednesday with fleecing Medicare for services provided to U.S. citizens while they were living in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, according to an indictment.
Coral Gables-based Florida Healthcare Plus filed false bills for retired Medicare beneficiaries who claimed to be living in the state but were being treated by foreign doctors while
they resided in the two Latin American countries. That is illegal under the federal taxpayer-funded program for senior citizens and the disabled, authorities said.
Eight of the defendants, including a physician, were arrested Wednesday. The remaining three offenders are in Nicaragua. The defendants are accused of defrauding Medicare and the parallel state Medicaid program for low-income people.
All together, the defendants raked in $25 million in the transnational fraud scheme between 2011 and 2014, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Morales said. The investigation, led by the FBI and Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, is believed to be the first of its kind in South Florida, the nations capital of healthcare fraud, and in the United States.
Unfortunately, scams that bilk our healthcare system do not stop at our borders, said George Piro, special agent in charge of the FBI in Miami. Providing Medicare services in foreign countries but billing as if they occurred in the United States is in-your-face fraud, said Derrick Jackson, special agent in charge of HHS-OIGs office in Florida. (Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
NICARAGUA SCAMS-—Feds arrest eight Miami suspects in Medicare probe linked to Nicaragua
(Medicare was billed from Nicaragua)
Miami Herald | November 19, 2014 | Jay Weaver / FR posted by Cincinatus’ Wife
As Medicare rackets go, authorities say, this one had no borders. Eleven people associated with a South Florida managed care company were charged Wednesday with fleecing Medicare for services provided to U.S. citizens while they were living in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, according to an indictment.
Coral Gables-based Florida Healthcare Plus filed false bills for retired Medicare beneficiaries who claimed to be living in the state but were being treated by foreign doctors while
they resided in the two Latin American countries. That is illegal under the federal taxpayer-funded program for senior citizens and the disabled, authorities said.
Eight of the defendants, including a physician, were arrested Wednesday. The remaining three offenders are in Nicaragua. The defendants are accused of defrauding Medicare and the parallel state Medicaid program for low-income people.
All together, the defendants raked in $25 million in the transnational fraud scheme between 2011 and 2014, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Morales said. The investigation, led by the FBI and Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, is believed to be the first of its kind in South Florida, the nations capital of healthcare fraud, and in the United States.
Unfortunately, scams that bilk our healthcare system do not stop at our borders, said George Piro, special agent in charge of the FBI in Miami. Providing Medicare services in foreign countries but billing as if they occurred in the United States is in-your-face fraud, said Derrick Jackson, special agent in charge of HHS-OIGs office in Florida. (Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...