Limbaugh linked to painkillers.

Palm Beach Post ^ | Friday, October 3, 2003 | By John Pacenti and Mary McLachlin

[EggsAckley]

With all of the strange news this week, my brain can't seem to retrieve any of the names of celebrities (and there are many) who have been "exposed" by the National Enquirer over the years.

Many of these are victims of complete lies and have won major lawsuits against the magazine. Just wish I could think of who they are.

Is it possible that this is just such an "exposee?"

[Blood of Tyrants]

I am a conservative and I believe that dangling light sentences in front of criminals encourages them to lie through their teeth to the point that they will willingly send an innocent person to jail.

[technomage]

Is it possible that this is just such an "exposee?"

Not in the normal sense as the prosecutors down there have already confirmed that their is an investigation and Rush's name has come up.

Now it is quite possible that that this maid has dreamed up the story to cover her, or her husbands, drug using ass and with the help of the NE they got their story out.

Could be one hell of a law suit coming NE's way on this one if the allegations are false.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Informants are used all the time, most are criminals and many are even paid for their efforts."

If a prosecutor has to,he will use a dealer they have turned,as a witness. They prefer to have corroboration,from more upstanding members of the community,but,sometimes they don't have any choice. And they do get convictions based on the testimony of the dealers.

" Late last year, Shohat escorted them to Palm Beach County prosecutor James Martz."

If Rush has been consorting with this couple,in the past year,he may well have shown up on surveillance video or interacted with an undercover cop.Anyone who thinks this will be a walk in the park for Rush,should check out the Florida Statutes on narcotics possession, Section 893. If the prosecutors have any solid evidence on Rush,the pressure to prosecute him,will be enormous. Jeb Bush's daughter,Noelle, was jailed for trying to pass a fake Xanax prescription,which is not a narcotic.

[redbaiter]

Call me naive but I don't believe a word of it. Crooks in a jam trying to rat out a conservative doesn't 'rise to the level of' credible evidence.

[tbpiper]

They said they sold him 11,900 tablets over six months in 2001

That's about 65 pills per day for 6 months or 33.5 per day if he stretched the stash for a full year. The math on this doesn't seem plausible.

[Rutles4Ever]

They said they sold him 11,900 tablets over six months in 2001. Many exchanges of drugs and money took place at a Denny's restaurant parking lot on Belvedere Road, they alleged.

Two things:

1. These two better get HARD TIME for dealing drugs.

2. The only way they would not get thrown in prison is if they were acting as informants for the authorities -- which begs the question, since when does the FBI offer 'immunity' or whatever to nab someone at a lower rung on the food chain?

This stinks to high heaven.

[Edit35]

"He tried to kick his habit again at a New York hospital to no avail, she said, and piled up drug bills of $80,000."

This whole thing supposedly started in May 2002, according to the housekeeper, when Limbaugh asked her for a few pills.

IT SHOULD be relatively easy to check her dates, since he is on the radio every day except vacations, on when Limbaugh supposedly went into a New York hospital.

From what I know, a hospital detox stay lasts three weeks, not just a day or two.

"In 2002, Wilma Cline said, a Palm Beach attorney showed up on her doorstep, gave her a check for $100,000 and made her sign a promissory note, but said the "loan" would never be collected. Four months later, in November, the attorney gave her a check for $100,000 and told her not to give Limbaugh any more pills."

Why would this attorney tell her not to give Limbaugh any more pills, if by this account, the attorney was allegedly representing Limbaugh.

[MrLeRoy]

I pray that Rush can get over the horrible addiction of drugs.

I hope that the same legal penalties that would be applied to any of the 'little people' who illegally acquired painkillers---the penalties Rush vigorously applauds---be applied to him in full measure.

[.cnI redruM]

65/day. That tends to destroy the human liver. On the other hand, Ted Kennedy's continued existence suggests that the human liver may not be an organ requisite for continued longevity.

[Renfield]

I know what the answer is!!! They were homeopathic ocycodones!!!!

[xkaydet65]

A question: Do these people. the Clines, comment on where they were able to obtain thousands of these pills? were I a prosecutor the answer to that qustion would be more meaningful than who bought the pills. It seems odd that what is said to have begun with "buddy can you spare a pill?" quickly morphs into a major drug trafficking operation. I have some extra vikes from a dental procedure. I might give a couple to a neighbor who needed a painkiller on the spot, but I doubt the neighbor would expect me to be able to keep up or increase the supply. Why would Limbaugh feel these people could supply him?

[Yo-Yo]

They said they sold him 11,900 tablets over six months in 2001. Many exchanges of drugs and money took place at a Denny's restaurant parking lot on Belvedere Road, they alleged.

Hmmm. Let's say that you were indeed Rush's housekeeper and you were indeed selling him almost 12,000 pills. You tell him "no, I won't bring them to your house the next time I'm over there to clean, instead you must meet me at a Denny's parking lot." Sounds a tad fishy to me.

I think that perhaps Rush was buying some drugs from them, but this Cline couple is trying to cover up just how large of an operation they actually ran.

[Edit35]

"Unless the story is false I don't see what difference it makes who was behind the probe."

It makes all the difference in the world. Let's say, for example, that some DNC slime operative WAS behind this, and convinced this housekeeper (for $100,000 paid by the Natl. Inquirer) to embellish her story.

I still want to know the motive of the Palm Beach Co. prosecutor: Is he or she a partisan Democrat, or Republican for that matter.

Did they REALLY have probable cause to investigate. Let's face it, ANYONE can be investigated if a prosecutor is willing to accept even the most bogus of claims by snitches.

After that, it is impossible to disprove a negative.

HEADLINE: RUSH INVESTIGATED FOR DRUGS: So when did you stop abusing drugs, Rush, (when it was never proved in the first place.)

[Yo-Yo]

Why would this attorney tell her not to give Limbaugh any more pills, if by this account, the attorney was allegedly representing Limbaugh.

Marta was doing an intervention?

[Dante3]

Didn't Carol Burnette win a lawsuit against one of the tabloids as well as Condit's wife?

I do recall one story in a tabloid (not the Enquirer)which claimed that several of our senators are aliens.

[Merovingian]

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

[Edit35]

"Why would this attorney tell her not to give Limbaugh any more pills, if by this account, the attorney was allegedly representing Limbaugh."

""Marta was doing an intervention?"" -- you surmise

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Could be.

But I just don't see Marta getting involved in sending an attorney to pay $100,000 (thereby providing a paper trail).

Time will tell, I suppose.

[Yo-Yo]

Weekly World News?

[steve50]

From what I know, a hospital detox stay lasts three weeks, not just a day or two.


There are versions of treatment that are overnight now. They sedate you and give you some drug.