Date: Monday, 11 November 2024
https://theduran.com/how-corrupt-america-is-at-the-top/
How Corrupt America Is at the Top
11 November 2024, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
Though I have previously provided much evidence of this, there always is lots more; and here the documents themselves will be providing some of that:
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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4983672-elon-musk-rick-scott-endorsement/
“Musk, RFK Jr., and other MAGA stars back Scott for leader [of the U.S. Senate]”
11 November 2024
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have joined other MAGA celebrities in calling on Republican senators to elect Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) as the next Senate majority leader.
Musk and Kennedy were just two of several prominent allies of President-elect Trump, including conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson and Vivek Ramaswamy, to back Scott in hopes of shaking up a race where Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) are viewed as the front-runners.
https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1855480247510032873
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
@RobertKennedyJr
Without Rick Scott, the entire Trump reform agenda wobbly.
12:18 AM · Nov 10, 2024
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott
On March 19, 1997, investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Department of Health and Human Services served search warrants at Columbia/HCA facilities in El Paso and on dozens of doctors with suspected ties to the company.[41] Eight days after the initial raid, Scott signed his last SEC report as a hospital executive. Four months later, the board of directors pressured him to resign as chairman and CEO.[42] He was succeeded by Thomas F. Frist Jr.[43] Scott was paid $9.88 million in a settlement, and left owning 10 million shares of stock then worth more than $350 million.[44][45][46] The directors had been warned in the company's annual public reports to stockholders that incentives Columbia/HCA offered doctors could run afoul of a federal anti-kickback law passed in order to limit or eliminate instances of conflicts of interest in Medicare and Medicaid.[43]
During Scott's 2000 deposition, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times.[47] In settlements reached in 2000 and 2002, Columbia/HCA pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and agreed to a $600+ million fine in what was at the time the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history. Columbia/HCA admitted systematically overcharging the government by claiming marketing costs as reimbursable, by striking illegal deals with home care agencies, and by filing false data about use of hospital space. It also admitted to fraudulently billing Medicare and other health programs by inflating the seriousness of diagnoses and to giving doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA. It filed false cost reports, fraudulently billed Medicare for home health care workers, and paid kickbacks in the sale of home health agencies and to doctors to refer patients. In addition, it gave doctors "loans" never intending to be repaid, free rent, free office furniture, and free drugs from hospital pharmacies.[48][8]
In late 2002, HCA agreed to pay the United States government $631 million, plus interest, and $17.5 million to state Medicaid agencies, in addition to $250 million paid up to that point to resolve outstanding Medicare expense claims.[49] In all, civil lawsuits cost HCA more than $2 billion to settle; at the time, this was the largest fraud settlement in U.S. history.[50][51]
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
