GOP Charged w/$375 Million In Health Care Fraud, Tea Partier

Jacques Roy, Charged With $375 Million In Health Care Fraud, Gave Money To Tea Party

If Texas physician Jacques Roy turns out to be guilty of charges he conspired to defraud Medicare and Medicaid of almost $375 million, we'll know where at least $1,650 of that money went: to a political action committee affiliated with the Tea Party Express, a group opposed to the health reform law that helped nab him.

Between August 2009 and January 2010, Roy wrote five checks to the Our Country Deserves Better PAC, associated with the Tea Party Express, according to Federal Election Commission records. Roy also gave $300 to the PAC for the Texas Medical Association, which opposed the health reforms enacted in March 2010 by President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress. Those contributions also are listed in FEC records.

The White House partially credits new anti-fraud measures from the health care reform law with the case announced yesterday.

Roy, who lives in Rockwall, Texas, gave the money during the most contentious months of the congressional debate over national health reform. His first donation was in August 2009, when Tea Party activists and other opponents of the legislation stormed congressional town hall meetings and captured the attention of the news media. The Tea Party Express organized a bus tour and a rally in Washington to protest the health reform bill in August 2009.

According to federal law enforcement agencies, Roy's financial support of Tea Party causes also took place in the middle of his nearly six-year campaign to bilk government health programs. Federal agents arrested Roy and six others Tuesday alleging they worked together to file $350 million in bogus claims to Medicare and another $24 million to Medicaid. Louise LaMarre, who shares a home and business address with Roy, donated $710 to the Republican National Committee in 2008 and 2009, records show. LaMarre was not charged in the fraud case.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/2 ... f=politics

I'm shocked, I tell you...Shocked! :VeryScared:

Thread Title: "GOP Charged w/$375 Million In Health Care Fraud, Tea Partier"

Hmmm, seems like others here were scolded for misleading titles like that.

Wouldn't a Doctor medical fraud scammer want Obamacare to pass, just one more angle to get the gov't money?

Throw the bum in jail and recover the money, good work. Maybe you will do better on your post titles next time LJ. How exactly is this private citizen doctor criminal an official representative of the GOP?

Grand Old Physician?

There were only so many characters allowed in the Subject line. If the Righties don't like my editing job, you obviously have me confused with someone who cares.

Will the Tea Party give the donations back?

LadyJazzer wrote: There were only so many characters allowed in the Subject line. If the Righties don't like my editing job, you obviously have me confused with someone who cares.

Wrong side of the bed? Joe's right, the GOP was not charged with anything.

No, but the guy who is charged with $375 million worth of fraud, who is donating to the Teabaggers IS... That's close enough...

Thanks for posting another example of Medicare fraud. Medicare needs to tighten things up.

Yes, it does... No one has disputed that. After the record of Republican Governor Rick Scott, whose Columbia HCA was charged with Medicare and Medicaid fraud and fined $1.7 Billion, it was pretty obvious.

LadyJazzer wrote: No, but the guy who is charged with $375 million worth of fraud, who is donating to the Teabaggers IS... That's close enough...

Democrats Charged in CEO's questionable campaign donations to Democratic National Committee!

LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday amid revelations of his company’s political proximity — and his own closeness — to the White House and Obama administration officials.

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Ahuja, who had never donated to Democrats before and has not since, gave the maximum allowable $30,400 contribution to the Democratic National Committee on the same day his lawyers were trying to arrange a meeting for him at the White House with top Obama technology adviser Aneesh Chopra and other officials.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/28/light ... z1nrXaRX00

Close enough.