DNC Memo: Romney's Involvement in Damon Corporation's Medicare Fraud

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http://www.democrats.org/news/press/dnc_memo_romneys_involvement_in_damon_corporations_medicare_fraud

Just as troubling as Damon Corporation’s criminal misdeeds are Mitt Romney’s conflicting stories about what he knew about Damon’s fraudulent activities and whether he acted to stop them.

During his 2002 run for governor, Romney told reporters that, while sitting on the board of Damon Corporation, he “blew the whistle” and “put in place a program to stop [the fraud] immediately.” His story was backed up by his spokesman Eric Ferhnstrom, who said that Romney “acted to uncover the fraud at Damon.” [Boston Globe, 10/25/02; Associated Press, 10/10/02]

Despite making these claims repeatedly, Romney was unable to provide any proof that he took any action to put a stop to Damon’s fraud. In fact, court records show that Damon’s fraudulent activities persisted until Corning Inc. put a stop to them and even then-U.S. Attorney Donald Stern said that there was no proof that Romney did anything to alert investigators of the company’s illegal actions.

After Romney’s claims to have been a whistle-blower were proven false, he backtracked on his story, saying that his firm had hired a law firm to look into suspicious activities, but had never notified federal investigators of their findings. And in 2007, his campaign aides went a step further by insisting that reporters mischaracterized his claim to have blown the whistle on Damon’s fraud in the first place.

[SharonAnn]

1. Well Rick Scott and the Frist family defrauded Medicare and Medicaid by billions of $ and

they got elected and re-elected.

Rick Scott was forced out of HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) and the Frist family bought it.

The Feds settled with HCA for more than $1.2 BILLION fine for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. The fraud was the practices developed by Rick Scott and then continued by the Frist's.

Double billing. Overcharging. Billing for services that were not performed. etc., etc.

It's a long laundry list of planned and deliberate fraud.

But Florida elected Rick Scott governor. Guess all the Medicare seniors in Florida thought that it was great to money stolen from their Medicare so that it was not available to provide Medicare services to the seniors.

Go figure!

[Ian62]

2. Romney killer

Romney was an active board member whilst the fraud was going on. If he can't oversee Damon effectively (or actively allowed the fraud to go on) how's he gonna effectively oversee the government?

Romney was known as the King of Pork in Boston. Raised Mass ratings for pork by 9 places during his term.

Interesting stuff out today from OpenSecrets on K street.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/01/lobbyists-hauled-in-millions-for-romney.html

[Ian62]

3. Romney's record as Governor

You prob got this somewhere on here but good graphic on Romney's record

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/07/29/Massachusetts_economic_performance_during_Romneys_term_as_governor/

[Ian62]

4. Romney paying so called "supporters" to attend Fl events - taken off the unemployment lists it seems

Nicked off a GOP site

Worth getting someone on the ground to check it out - sure he will do it in other States as well.