[Fledermaus]

OCTOBER 3--Meet Louis Beshara and his wife, Gloria Rodriguez. The Florida couple are at the heart of the drug scandal now enveloping radio superstar Rush Limbaugh. Investigators allege that the duo illegally sold hundreds of thousands of prescription painkillers from a Palm Beach-area pharmacy they owned. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's search warrant affidavit, Beshara provided Hydrocodone, the powerful and addictive painkiller, to middlemen drug dealers like Joseph Coppola who then resold the pills to users. It has been reported that Limbaugh scored some of the Beshara pills via Wilma Cline, a former maid at the radio star's West Palm Beach mansion. Beshara and Rodriguez, who each face two felony drug trafficking charges, are free on bail, though Beshara is under house arrest. (8 pages)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/beshara1.html

[MHGinTN]

This may seem like a strange question, but was Cline the person who Rush mentioned was in charge of his specific diet that aided him in losing so much weight? I was under the impression that he had a special cook who prepared all his meals. Surely she would have noticed an addiction problem if there had been one. [Incidentally, for those wanting to connect narcotics to Rush's hearing loss, look up gentimicin, a very important antibiotic ... it causes deafness also.]