Posted on 04/28/2006 3:11:12 PM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 04/28/2006 3:20:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Rush Limbaugh's attorney has issued a statement announcing a settlement of the Florida prosecutor's investigation into alleged doctor shopping by Rush Limbaugh.
Details have been read by Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. Basically, the charge of doctor shopping is dismissed, with some conditions.
In response to media and other inquiries, Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, released the following statement today concerning a settlement agreement with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office to end the investigation of Mr. Limbaugh:
"I am pleased to announce that the State Attorney's Office and Mr. Limbaugh have reached an agreement whereby a single count charge of doctor shopping filed today by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months. As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years. This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.
"Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position. Accordingly, we filed today with the Court a plea of 'Not Guilty' to the charge filed by the State.
"As part of this agreement, Mr. Limbaugh also has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation. The agreement also provides that he must refrain from violating the law during this 18 months, must pay $30 per month for the cost of "supervision" and comply with other similar provisions of the agreement.
"Mr. Limbaugh had intended to remain in treatment. Thus, we believe the outcome for him personally will be much as if he had fought the charge and won."
The actions taken today are as follows:
-- The State Attorney has filed a single charge of doctor shopping with the Court. The charge is being held in abeyance under the terms of an agreement between the State and Mr. Limbaugh.
-- Mr. Limbaugh has filed a plea of "Not Guilty" with the Court.
The formal agreement between Mr. Limbaugh and the State Attorney will be filed with the Court on Monday. The terms of the agreement are substantively as follows:
-- Mr. Limbaugh will continue in treatment with the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years.
-- After Mr. Limbaugh completes an additional 18 months of treatment, the State Attorney has agreed to drop the charge.
-- Mr. Limbaugh has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation.
Hey, even better. ;>)
Exactly. LOL bttt
Mrs. Cline? A person who was attempting extortion? Right. Sure. She did not testimony... she gave a statement, an affidavit, after Rush refused to pay her and her lowlife husband $400,000. Her "testimony" was not cross-examined.
And you can somehow determine that Rush didn't "really need it"? How? What is your evidence that he was taking these pills for recreational uses?
Of course anyone needing narcotics for pain will end up needing a larger dose for relief, and of course one can all too easily get "addicted" through no fault of one's own. When I said Rush knew it was wrong, it's really like when I speed at 80 mph on the 405. I know it's wrong. I did it before and I'll do it again. I was guessing that the addiction was sort of "talking through" Rush and he got his prescriptions from each doctor while omitting to tell them he was getting the same med from the other docs. I love Rush; he means the world to me even though I've never met him.
I believe this kind of addiction should not be put through the legal system but should be helped medically, since it is, after all, iatrogenic. Rush was not out there in the alley scoring crack. I know the libs wanted to bring Rush down with this charge, and they loved doing it, even though when one of their own ends up like this, they are all but canonized for bravery.
When Rush announced his addiction on the air, I remember exactly where I was standing. I was getting dressed upstairs. I was absolutely astounded that he was admitting to being addicted to opiates all the time that he had been delivering Broadcast Excellence three hours a day. He must not have needed that half a brain he had tied up back there.
The main thing for me is that he got well and will continue to get help to make sure this never happens again to him. He is a national treasure and I do not want to lose him. Until that time, and I include the deafness revelation as well, I had taken Rush for granted every morning at 9. Never since. If I were granted the wish of having dinner with one person on this planet, I would choose Rush.
Yikes, really? How are they diagnosed if the pain is not there? Since the pain has not yet returned (and of course I pray it doesn't), should I just try to eat less fat and hope for the best, or go in and have it checked?
Never thought about gallstones. Thanks. It was not fun that day. (But the cat scan did not show a kidney stone so your dx piqued me.)
I believe he only tried the overnight or weekend chemical detox programs. He needed to not attract attention by leaving his show for the length of time a true rehabiliation takes. In that sense only, it's good that he was found out, because it may have saved his life. Embarrassing as h#ll for him, but worth it for him too, because once he told everyone, he did receive an outpouring of love and support, and that always helps someone recover.
"I know of a case where a prosecutor spent over a million dollars trying to convict someone and failed and that was for a six month period."
I'm gonna guess this cost PBC $300,000-500,000. Maybe more.
Libspeak. Rush is a blowhard and Conservative-lite. I'm not going to defend his addiction. However, to claim Rush is getting any special deal here is ludicrous, since the state of FL hardly ever persues this type of case.
I'll do mine in public. :)
Get your facts straight.
"Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position. Accordingly, we filed today with the Court a plea of 'Not Guilty' to the charge filed by the State." ~ Roy Black
To re-cap -- notice this "breaking news" from the Drive-by Media:
Headline in The Palm Beach Post: Rush Limbaugh arrested on prescription drug charges Associated Press Friday, April 28, 2006
First sentence in the article: Rush Limbaugh was arrested Friday on prescription drug charges, law enforcement officials said.
Last sentence in the article: Limbaugh has not been charged and maintains he's innocent. .."
The bottom line is shown in this thread and can be found in these posts (reply numbers at the end of each comment):
He copped a plea. Why? 19
No ... Copping a plea means you plead guilty to a lesser charge. His charge will be dropped, and he will have no record or conviction. That's a face saving thing for the prosecutor, as is paying court fees. 80
The prosecutor has been through months of bogus investigation, and spent lots of money on it. At this point he could go ahead and file charges, and lose, and bring more scorn down on himself. With this gambit he basically saves face and can say "hey, it didn't cost the taxpayer anything. Which is better than losing in a jury trial, which is where this dog was headed. ..." 189
You can be sure that the prosecutor had nothing. You don't let the big one get away, especially when you are a Democrat hack. 282
The Judge [Napolitano] was just on BOR [Bill O'Reilly] calling it a huge victory for Rush. He said it was a totally political persecution by an active Gore supporter. 617
This is a make it go away settlement. Companies do these all of the time even with the law 100% on their side. Sad but that's the way the legal system really works. To continue fighting this could cost Rush millions more added to what he's already spent as the DA has his personal taxpayer funded toy box with unlimited funding behind him. The left actually overplayed this one as now Rush doesn't have to worry about how the media is going to treat him. They're going to savage him so even if he won total vindication, the media would never give it to him. This is the DA throwing in the towel but trying to somehow justify that he was right. It is a loss for the left no matter how they try and spin it. 264
RUSH DID NOT COP A PLEA - HE ANSWERED A WARRANT - NOT GUILTY. How you can come up with he copped a plea by pleading guilty to a lesser charge I don't know. Please get your facts straight before saying Rush plead guilty to a lesser charge. Your statement is totally false. 610
"..If the prosecution had the goods, they would have went forward. Any other contention isn't logical. It's not just the Lib district, it's the entire MSM & Dem leadership that wants Rush gone. The prosecution has admitted they weren't going to win this. .. 683
"...No guarantees in life, but I wouldn't worry much about this. The only reason the State Attorney agreed to this is he knows he doesn't have a case. If he had a case he wouldn't accept this, he would want a trial. 779
".. the DA staged a political witch hunt at the taxpayer's expense, and is now trying to save face by getting Rush to pay for it. 795
"Appearing on the O'Reilly show, Judge Napolitano just called today's event a colossal victory for Rush." Once again da' Judge is wrong. It was a colossal defeat for the prosecutor!
965
"..Charges are merely charges... there is no requirement for a plea to be entered for them to be dismissed... either by the DA who brought them, the judge who hears them, or an appellate court who determines they have no merit. Limbaugh plead "Not Guilty" and will maintain that plea. He may, now that charges have been filed and a case opened, appeal the arrest and charges to a higher court. Those who "plea bargain" will plead guilty or no-contest to a lesser charge and are then required to allocate the facts in exchange for a lesser sentence. 1,006
Rush did not have a "handful of doctors"; he had THREE... two were partners in the clinic that was treating him for his back pain and both had access to his medical history and prescriptions each had written for him. The third was the California doctor who performed the surgery to place his cochlear implant. Rush took the prescriptions he received from all three doctors to the same pharmacy, hardly the act of a person intending to conceal his "multiple" prescriptions as the pharmacy would ALSO have a list of what they had filled for him. The prosecutor has subpoenaed the records of only that ONE pharmacy. In other words, they did not find another. ...... These are the facts of this "case". 1,007
Meanwhile, Sandy Berger gets a slap on the wrist (if that much), there is no investigation of Chuckie Schumer's aides obtaining Mr. Steele's credit report, the traitor Mary McCarthy who should have been arrested and have had her perp walk nationally televised evidently will not be charged with any crime, and there is evidently no serious investigation of the NSA leak. 247
The MSM basically ignored the Sandy Burger thing. Here you have a former high ranking United States National Security Advisor stealing classified documents and stuffing down his underwear. And the press ignores it. Contrast that with a radio talk show host and a prescription drug problem. Breaking news on all networks, other national stories bumped so the focus could be on Limbaugh. A very interesting study of priorities, I would say. 265
". I just saw on CNN that Limbaugh was arrested on drug charges."
Same thing here on local news, 20 minutes later they told the real story, initial report was very misleading....... 359
If I remember correctly, the amount of pills worked out to be between 2 and 3 pills every 6 hours. Even Tylenol says to take 2 every 6 hours. He was addicted, and he admitted that on air and took steps to overcome that. But that is not what is being charged. And that is not what he was fighting the DA on. Even after illegally seizing confidential medical records, they had nothing on him. If they had, they would have charged it a long time ago. Their daily wet dream from noon to 3 is to take him off the air. They would have done it if they could have. 489
This is just the msm going after their worst nightmare; Rush Limbaugh. They can't stand him exposing them for the frauds that they are day after day and now is their chance to do a major league drive-by on him and they are foaming at the mouth. Bottom line is all it(the mssm demagoguing of Rush) will do is piss some of us off even more and we will continue to expose them for the journalistic frauds they are even more. 506
Quote: "Here's the distinction I make with Rush. The root cause of his addiction was his attempt (with doctor's help) to alleviate severe back pain. He wasn't snorting cocaine at parties or shooting up. He wasn't dealing. If I cut him any slack, it's because of his back pain because I suffer from some amount of back pain, myself, and it's very debilitating. At this point, I am not taking any prescriptions for it, only over-the-counter pain relievers." ~
I too suffer from the same kind of back pain as Rush, although mine is inoperable. I take the same medication as Rush, and I have to purposely, and physically restrain myself from taking more medication than prescribed. It would be very easy to step over that line, and be pain free all the time. I am dependent on this medication. That is much different than being addicted. I venture to say Rush's problem was closer to dependency than addiction. ...Rush will be in my Prayers tonight. He faces satan himself, being in that much pain, and not being able to get help for it. All of you a$$holes ...that are glad he's gone through this, remember that one day you'll have to answer. Your punishment might be the pain he endures everyday. Let's see how glib you are then. 616
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Reports Stating Rush Limbaugh Was Arrested Are Inaccurate; Press Conference at 8:00 pm
Yahoo! NEWS ^ | April 28, 2006 | Source: Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 04/28/2006 8:32:16 PM EDT by RonDog
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623526/posts
bttt
If it was a gallstone attack, you will most likely have more at some time or another.
If I were you, I would see my doctor while it is still at my leisure, rather than wait until another attack comes. If nothing else, it may save you from a more expensive "Emergency room" visit if it happens again, especially if it happens in the middle of the night.
As for diet change, your mileage may vary and past performance is no indication of future performance. In other words its a chance you take and because any fat you consume (and fats are necessary for the body to function properly) could potentially cause a stone to be lodged in the ducts even a lower fat diet can trigger a gallstone attack.
Do yourself a favor, get it checked. Think of the pain you felt. What if that severe pain you felt was only a "mild" gallstone attack relatively speaking?
P.S. Diagnosing can be done by a doctor with an ultra sound if the doctor feels the need after you discuss the problem.
Several of your examples; with this gambit he can basically save face and say, "hey it didn't cost the taxpayers anything which is better than losing in a jury trial which is where this dog was headed and others, you don't let the big one get away,
this is a make it go away settlement,
this is just the msm going after their worst nightmare Rush Limbaugh,
that show the light of truth I thought they deserved yet another look. Great job! Those on here who did not stick up for Rush unequivocally should take another look at the facts, or stop being so jealous, which ever applies. Rush Limbaugh remains the leader of the New Media and deserves our respect,IMHO.
Those of you cry babies who have never done three hours of live radio should try it some time and see just how easy it really is.
I see you like to take what people say out of context just like the Lame Stream Media does. I was answering someones question as to why Rush would have to pay $30,000, hence my statement. "Now if what I read on a posting is correct, Rush plead Nolo Contendere." (No Contest) I was letting the poster know, he would then be liable for costs.
Now how about you not being like the media and post the complete context of a persons statement.
Thank you!
Since most people (who weren't participants in it) are like me and don't have the time after the fact to wade through a thread that contains over a thousand posts, I nevertheless decided that - in this case - I would go ahead and do it and post the B.S. Repellant at the end where people who are interested in the facts of this case would have easy access to the bottom line. bttt
You helped spread false information, I point it out, and now you're trying to blame it on me???
You had no excuse for going with the word of an ignorant poster over the statement from the horses mouth. IT IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS THREAD, after all. All you had to do was scroll to the top of the page and read what Rush's attorney said he pled to, yourself: "Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position. Accordingly, we filed today with the Court a plea of 'Not Guilty' to the charge filed by the State." ~ Roy Black
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