I love Detroit, It ain't the Nicest city I have ever lived by but it ain't the worst either.
A problem that is not unique to a city like Detroit "Corruption", every since the days of former Mayor Coleman Young, the city has gone downhill; though it has its moments that make you think it will turn around.
Then you get Douchebags like these people, ripping off and raping anything and everyone in sight, yes it happens in other cities, but dammit if it does not make Detroit look worse.
Detroit Free Press
Detroit has become one of the nation's "new frontiers" for Medicare fraud with many scams run by operators fleeing a federal crackdown in Miami.
Authorities say operators use recruiters to target poor men on Detroit streets, at soup kitchens and in homeless shelters. They shuttle them in vans to clinics set up for the scams or run by licensed providers trying to bilk the system for bogus treatments or for care never rendered or needed. Operators take their Medicare information in exchange for $50 or more.
Detroit's unemployment rate makes it a particularly vulnerable target. Authorities have identified at least $120 million in fraudulent billings in metro Detroit.
The businesses investigated include physical therapy clinics, home health care agencies, medical equipment providers and podiatry offices. More regulation and prosecution is needed, some attorneys say.
"It's like banks without an alarm system," said David Haron, a Troy attorney who specializes in Medicare and Medicaid fraud, referring to the ease with which some medical businesses are established.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Medicare scams infect Detroit as recruiters use poor to steal millions
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Dozens charged with largest Medicare scam ever
Life in prison is to good for people like this.
I would like to see a more Harsh Punishment for people that Rape American Citizens of our tax dollars.
Foxnews
A vast network of Armenian gangsters and their associates used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of $163 million, the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the program's history, U.S. authorities said Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors in New York and elsewhere charged 73 people. Most of the defendants were captured during raids Wednesday morning in New York City and Los Angeles, but there also were arrests in New Mexico, Georgia and Ohio.
The scheme's scope and sophistication "puts the traditional Mafia to shame," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a Manhattan news conference. "They ran a veritable fraud franchise."
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Evidence Mounts That Afghan Elections Marred by Fraud
It is a nice thought , thinking that Afghanistan could handle a vote without Rampant fraud , But come on did you really expect it ?
And why the hell is America Partly to blame ?
an outcome that calls into question the U.S. and Afghan effort to build a legitimate government, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Calls into question ? No Shit ! Not by any of the U.S. Doing . Afghanistan is just not ready to throw off their Training wheels just yet , Maybe in 2 or 3 Hundred years from Now !
Foxnews
Results from last weekend’s parliamentary election in Afghanistan increasingly appear to be marred by fraud
, with a third of the provinces affected -- an outcome that calls into question the U.S. and Afghan effort to build a legitimate government, The New York Times reported Saturday.
The Election Complaints Commission said Thursday it received more than 3,000 complaints since last weekend’s election. Such complaints to provincial election commissions have included video clips showing ballot stuffing, heavily-armed election officials and strong-arming of and even the handcuffing and detention of election workers, the newspaper reported.
In some regions, election officials are suspected of carrying out the fraud, while in others the government employees did, witnesses reported to the newspaper. One video demonstrated election officials and a candidate's representatives bartering over the price of votes.
The increasing evidence of fraud and corruption of some candidates raised alarm about the effort to build a stable government that can draw the support of Afghans, the Obama administration and its NATO partners, the newspaper said.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
ACORN sliding toward bankruptcy?
To some, ACORN has itself to blame for its problems. “ACORN was not a group that politely sought redress … it was loud and brash and conveyed an attitude that the righteousness of its mission justified whatever tactics were expedient in the battle of The People vs. The Man,”
Uh , Exactly .
when your "Empowerment" overshadows being right , and leads to abuses that affect normal people , it becomes a major problem !
Voter fraud affects Everyone in the Unite States
The CSM
The indelible images of ACORN workers helping a faux pimp and prostitute set up a tax shelter for a brothel certainly played into the advocacy group’s slide toward bankruptcy, though its problems began long before last year’s scandal.
The New York Times is reporting that officials at the housing advocacy group will hold a teleconference this weekend to announce a bankruptcy filing. The group is reeling from a disbanding of at least 15 of its 30 state chapters in recent weeks, including the one in Maryland that served as the set for one of the most outrageous videos produced by conservative reporters James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, and led to government agencies like the Census Bureau severing ties to ACORN....
But a looming question now will be whether the Obama administration can save the organization. BigGovernment.com reports that the administration has quietly begun replacing payments to ACORN after a New York judge ruled that the Congressional de-funding of the organization was not constitutional.
Actually the way it was defunded is the problem , the money still could easily be taken from them with a simple re-wording of the reasons why !
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
British parliament to investigate illegal actives at East Anglia University and the Climate Research Unit
The British parliament will conduct hearings into the possible illegal and unethical activities at East Anglia University and the Climate Research Unit that were revealed in the leaked climategate emails.
I wonder if the hearing will whitewash the fraud like Penn State's probe into Dr. Mann's manipulation of climate data did.
From American Thinker
The potential criminality of the Climategate scandal is exactly the issue that is being investigated by authorities in Britain. The British Parliament has convened hearings to investigate East Anglia University and the Climate Research Unit to uncover unethical and illegal activities. As more information is revealed, the whole Climategate affair begins to take on the makings of a good mystery novel. Like any good mystery or crime plot, the web of involvement is widespread.[...]Read the whole thing. You'll be surprised to find out who some of the players are in the man made global warming scam.
The British investigation, headed up by Phil Willis, M.P., focuses on four areas: data manipulation, data suppression, violations of the Freedom of Information Act, and data integrity. Clearly, the recently uncovered e-mails will play a big role in this investigation. A new thread in this web has appeared recently concerning a separate investigation conducted by the European Law Enforcement Organization Cooperation (aka Europol). Investigators have found evidence of a complex carbon-trading scam on the European Climate Exchange. Just three short weeks ago, three British subjects were arrested in an apparent scam worth billions of dollars. Much of the criminal activity alleged involves tax evasion.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Hacker exposes climate change fraud
Three or four days ago someone hacked into the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit and exposed emails and documents which show exaggeration of data, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims, and even trying to destroy information.
The 1079 emails and 72 documents can be download from here or here.
Below I've posted a few quotes from some of the uncovered emails. You can visit Herald Sun for an extensive review of the emails.
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.
Mike,
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?
Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same?
Here are some speculations on correcting SSTs to partly explain the 1940s warming blip. If you look at the attached plot you will see that theland also shows the 1940s blip (as I’m sure you know).
So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global mean – but we’d still have to explain the land blip
Friday, October 9, 2009
Officials: Food Stamps Swapped for Booze, Viagra in Detroit
Only in Detroit ? Certainly not ! ,I'm sure that this has happened in a lot of other cities , I know it happens in El Paso TX !
But leave it to good old Detroit to make the national news with it !
Foxnews....
DETROIT — Viagra and pornography are not staples on the government's food stamp list. But authorities say a Detroit store supplied them during a series of illegal deals.
Federal prosecutors filed fraud charges this week against three people who worked at Jefferson's Liquor Palace.
The alleged scheme worked this way: Food stamp recipients would get cash from the store in exchange for swiping larger amounts off their electronic cards. The store would then be reimbursed by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
But in some transactions, the government the store provided informants Viagra, liquor and porn in exchange for swiping about $2,000 off food stamp cards.
The government says fraud at the store topped $130,000 over 2 1/2 years. The store is closed.
