Reply #43: Here's an interesting diary from James Risser/Dailykos [View All]

[Tuesday_Morning]

that ties some things together. It discusses Novation, Tenet, Lam and the dead attorneys in Texas. So many aspects...it's hard to know where to start but James ends with this:

With each of my forays into the US Attorney Scandal to date, this particular one is startling. With any luck, someone more able to write investigative pieces will see this diary and will hone it into something more comprehensible, and will tell the story better than what I have attempted.

This particular scandal overlaps Lam, Collins, the US Patriot Act, Health care issues, banking, fraud, antitrust violations, violations of Medicare, mysterious deaths, and throughout the entire filthy mess runs the web of the Bush Crime Family and its greed, its lust for power, and its complete and utter disregard for the law, the Constitution, and the American people.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/17/18120/2944

One part that really stood out for me:

On July 31, 2006 the London Times reported the existence of the US Department of Justice investigation of Novation’s conduct as a hospital group purchasing organization or "GPO" and quoted Professor Prakash Sethi, president of the International Center for Corporate Accountability at Baruch College in New York who stated "My most conservative estimates suggest that GPOs extract extra profits of $5 billion (£2.6 billion) to $6 billion which legitimately belong to their principal clients, the hospitals."

After Alberto Gonzales became Attorney General on February 3, 2005, the investigation of Novation was suppressed even though insider Novation executives came forward to the US Department of Justice with evidence of laundering hospital funds through the publicly traded electronic hospital supply marketplace Neoforma, Inc. that was then controlled by Novation, Volunteer Hospital Association (VHA), and University Health System Consortium (UHC) and is now owned by the electronic hospital supply marketplace GHX, LLC.<[/b>/div]