60 Minutes On Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime
The crime of Medicare fraud is bigger than the drug business in total volume.
The crime of Medicare fraud is bigger than the drug business in total volume.
Michel De Jesus Huarte, a 40-year-old Cuban-American, hadn't simply avoided arrest. He had hatched a plan to steal millions more from Medicare by forming at least 29 other shell companies - paper-only firms with no real operations. Each time, he would keep his name out of any corporate records. Other people - some paid by Huarte, some whose identities had been stolen - would be listed in incorporation papers. The shells functioned as a vital tool to hide the Medicare deceit - and not only for Huarte. Hundreds of others have used the veil of corporate secrecy to help steal hundreds of millions of dollars from one of the nation's largest social service programs, a Reuters investigation has found.
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Coulter is generally useless, but she gets this one right, except of course for her war-mongering criticism of Paul's foreign policy.
Pretty decent interview recorded yesterday. Runs 4 minutes.