A DU collaborative investigation: Thelma Colbert, Shannon Ross and other deaths at DoJ

[bobthedrummer]

Without creating any controversy and within DU's rules let's begin this new collaborative investigation using George Oilwellian's archived thread that was started 4-26=2007 as a reference.

"The Motherlode-Down a dark hole in the US Attorney purge scandal"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x758013

[bryant69]

1. Yes this should be easy to investigate without controversy

I mean anybody who doubts the Bush Administration would kill a pair of US attorneys is probably a Freeper anyway.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[bonito]

2. Great idea k&r n/t

[bobthedrummer]

3. Another reference: IChing's archived thread from 4-16-2007

"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Sandbagged Novation LLC Prosecution"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2809066

[rosesaylavee]

4. Interesting.

Where do we start? Will you be the coordinator? Should we list it in the Research forum?

[bobthedrummer]

5. No, I merely started this thread-it will take on whatever form develops

from the posts contributed. The two archived references and all the hyperlinks are for those researchers that may want to add something of their own.

[panader0]

6. Holy shit!!! I didn't catch this the first time around.

This needs to come out! K&R

[Mme. Defarge]

7. Some corroboration ...

Links to articles in Dallas News:

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=no&p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_siteloc=&s_dispstring=Thelma%20Colbert&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Thelma%20Colbert)&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no

123.) SHANNON K. ROSS
Known as strong prosecutor
Author: JOE SIMNACHER Staff Writer
Publish Date: September 16, 2004
Word Count: 664
Document ID: 1052821A51C8311F

Over 18 years, Shannon K. Ross developed a national reputation as an authority on prosecuting organized crime, especially involving drug dealers.


She devoted the first decade of her career to handling cases for Dallas County, where she started as a misdemeanor trial prosecutor.


For the past two years, she was chief of the criminal division of the U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of Texas.


Ms. Ross, 44, died Monday at her Rowlett home. She had

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=list&p_topdoc=121

[bobthedrummer]

11. Tenet Healthcare Corp. is based in Dallas.

Tenet Healthcare Corp.
http://www.tenethealth.com/tenethealth/OurCompany

fair use cited

[bobthedrummer]

8. Fwiw, Novation LLC is owned by Tenet Healthcare Corporation

Tenet Healthcare Corporation just took on John Ellis Bush (yep, Jeb former Florida Gov) as a Director-and I am working through the many others connected to Tenet Healthcare during the 2000-2006 timeframe especially James A. Unruh.

[KoKo]

9. Novation and General Electric....Plus....Big Pharma...

"General Electric Faces Ruling as Novation Medicare Co-Conspirator"

The General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is defending its relationship with Novation, Inc. in a cartel to exclude Medical Supply Chain, Inc.

KANSAS CITY, MO (PRWEB) August 26, 2004 -- In final briefs submitted to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday, The General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is defending its relationship with Novation, Inc. in a cartel to exclude Medical Supply Chain, Inc. from entering the $1.3 Trillion dollar hospital supply industry which is in a desperate need to lower costs. On August 21st, the day following the final brief, the New York Times revealed that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) had issued criminal subpoenas in a broad inquiry into hospital supply purchases. The companies named in the NY Times article to receive a criminal subpoena with GE are Merck (NYSE:MRK), Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY), Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX), Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) and Genentech (NYSE:DNA); the G.E. Healthcare medical equipment unit of General Electric, all of which are members of the cartel Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) founded by GE’s CEO Jeffery Immelt and alleged by Medical Supply Chain, Inc. to have been formed for the purpose of artificially inflating hospital supply costs.

Medical Supply Chain, Inc.’s case against Novation’s investment banking partner, US Bancorp/Piper Jaffray (NYSE:USB)(NYSE:PJC) for participating in the hospital supply cost inflation scheme through antitrust prohibited practices involving Neoforma (NYSE:NEOF), Novation’s e-commerce subsidiary is also being heard by the same court and Medical Supply Chain, Inc.’s president Samuel Lipari expects a decision on his three year battle to reform healthcare purchasing from the Denver court before the antitrust subcommittee of the US Senate meets again to consider new regulations to protect Medicare and Medicaid funded hospital supply purchasing.

About Medical Supply Chain
Medical Supply Chain, Inc. (MSCI) is a Health System service center providing supply chain resources and technology to the health system (hospital) and their trading partners. MSCI supports and complements the work and goals of the supply chain professional in their pursuit to strategically direct supply-chain activities and relationships. When this occurs real supply-chain value will find its way into healthcare and only then will the layers of cost and inefficiencies be removed. MSCI transforms health systems with empowerment to control their own supply chain costs.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/8/prweb152343.htm

[PATRICK]

10. Mob connections

What specific crime gangs- and their connections- had she prosecuted earlier. Names. Possible connections in Florida to Jeb or Abramoff might be an example of where you go from there. Connections to foreign drug cartels. These would supply the first layer of the conspiracy and the hit so that, if anything, it might appear revenge or connected to simple drug cases. The fact that nothing is breathed about this does not necessarily mean it is not being investigated, but if any of the possible direct enemies has a connection to Bushes or Bush buddies, you can bet nothing is being done.

Guilt by any association is not a bad start for the Bushistas.

[bobthedrummer]

12. Jeb became a Director at Tenet Healthcare recently...

I'm taking a real close look at Tenet.

[PATRICK]

15. it was noted in his early

days by people trying to protect him that Bush's fair haired boy was "naively" associating with mobsters and dangerous people. Poor, trusting Jeb. That un-sourced concern was never investigated in the media of course, but it was not that much a secret either.

[robinlynne]

13. don't know what I can do, but would be glad to help in some way. wouldn't mind

having this info go public....

[KoKo]

14. This from TPM post about Barry Schlozman has more detail..

from a commenter on a post:

http://www.pressrelease365.com/pr/government/federal/alberto-gonzales-novation-prosecution-1293.htm

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Sandbagged Novation LLC Prosecution

Kansas City, MO 04/16/07 - Novation LLC a hospital supplier in Irving, Texas admitted in a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals filing dated April 9th, 2007 that it was identified as a co-conspirator in a 2002 scheme to use US Bancorp’s trust division to prevent Medical Supply Chain from entering the market for hospital supplies by withholding escrow accounts and misusing the USA PATRIOT act as a pretext...

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.

In an April 18, 2005 affidavit, Medical Supply Chain founder Samuel Lipari complained about FBI misuse of USA PATRIOT Act surveillance powers. The affidavit described interception of electronic communications and searches by law enforcement officials being used to interfere with and obstruct Lipari’s civil prosecution of the Novation defendants in Medical Supply Chain, Inc., v. Novation LLC et al, US District Court for the W.D. of Missouri No. 05-0210-CV-W-ODS

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confirmed the existence of the program for warrantless surveillance, first reported in The New York Times, on December 19, 2005. However on January 25, 2006 Gonzales wrote that “there has not been a single verified abuse of any of the provisions” of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Samuel Lipari again complained on October 12, 2006 in the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit in St. Louis, Missouri that US District Attorney Bradley J. Schlozman failed to investigate evidence of public corruption brought to his office and permitted obstruction of justice to continue despite the injuries to Samuel Lipari, his family and associates.

On January 16, 2007 Attorney General Gonzales responded to criticism of his misuse of the USA PATRIOT Act by announcing John Wood would be taking Bradley Schlozman's place in Kansas City two days before he gave his previous testimony to Congress.

On March 22, 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales met in St. Louis with U.S. Attorneys Catherine L. Hanaway and Bradley J. Schlozman of Missouri districts to conduct an undisclosed discussion related to the conduct of US Attorney Bradley J. Schlozman.

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.

In an April 18, 2005 affidavit, Medical Supply Chain founder Samuel Lipari complained about FBI misuse of USA PATRIOT Act surveillance powers. The affidavit described interception of electronic communications and searches by law enforcement officials being used to interfere with and obstruct Lipari’s civil prosecution of the Novation defendants in Medical Supply Chain, Inc., v. Novation LLC et al, US District Court for the W.D. of Missouri No. 05-0210-CV-W-ODS

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confirmed the existence of the program for warrantless surveillance, first reported in The New York Times, on December 19, 2005. However on January 25, 2006 Gonzales wrote that “there has not been a single verified abuse of any of the provisions” of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Samuel Lipari again complained on October 12, 2006 in the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit in St. Louis, Missouri that US District Attorney Bradley J. Schlozman failed to investigate evidence of public corruption brought to his office and permitted obstruction of justice to continue despite the injuries to Samuel Lipari, his family and associates.

On January 16, 2007 Attorney General Gonzales responded to criticism of his misuse of the USA PATRIOT Act by announcing John Wood would be taking Bradley Schlozman's place in Kansas City two days before he gave his previous testimony to Congress.

On March 22, 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales met in St. Louis with U.S. Attorneys Catherine L. Hanaway and Bradley J. Schlozman of Missouri districts to conduct an undisclosed discussion related to the conduct of US Attorney Bradley J. Schlozman.

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.

In an April 18, 2005 affidavit, Medical Supply Chain founder Samuel Lipari complained about FBI misuse of USA PATRIOT Act surveillance powers. The affidavit described interception of electronic communications and searches by law enforcement officials being used to interfere with and obstruct Lipari’s civil prosecution of the Novation defendants in Medical Supply Chain, Inc., v. Novation LLC et al, US District Court for the W.D. of Missouri No. 05-0210-CV-W-ODS

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confirmed the existence of the program for warrantless surveillance, first reported in The New York Times, on December 19, 2005. However on January 25, 2006 Gonzales wrote that “there has not been a single verified abuse of any of the provisions” of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Samuel Lipari again complained on October 12, 2006 in the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit in St. Louis, Missouri that US District Attorney Bradley J. Schlozman failed to investigate evidence of public corruption brought to his office and permitted obstruction of justice to continue despite the injuries to Samuel Lipari, his family and associates.

On January 16, 2007 Attorney General Gonzales responded to criticism of his misuse of the USA PATRIOT Act by announcing John Wood would be taking Bradley Schlozman's place in Kansas City two days before he gave his previous testimony to Congress.

On March 22, 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales met in St. Louis with U.S. Attorneys Catherine L. Hanaway and Bradley J. Schlozman of Missouri districts to conduct an undisclosed discussion related to the conduct of US Attorney Bradley J. Schlozman.

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.

In an April 18, 2005 affidavit, Medical Supply Chain founder Samuel Lipari complained about FBI misuse of USA PATRIOT Act surveillance powers. The affidavit described interception of electronic communications and searches by law enforcement officials being used to interfere with and obstruct Lipari’s civil prosecution of the Novation defendants in Medical Supply Chain, Inc., v. Novation LLC et al, US District Court for the W.D. of Missouri No. 05-0210-CV-W-ODS

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confirmed the existence of the program for warrantless surveillance, first reported in The New York Times, on December 19, 2005. However on January 25, 2006 Gonzales wrote that “there has not been a single verified abuse of any of the provisions” of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Samuel Lipari again complained on October 12, 2006 in the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit in St. Louis, Missouri that US District Attorney Bradley J. Schlozman failed to investigate evidence of public corruption brought to his office and permitted obstruction of justice to continue despite the injuries to Samuel Lipari, his family and associates.

On January 16, 2007 Attorney General Gonzales responded to criticism of his misuse of the USA PATRIOT Act by announcing John Wood would be taking Bradley Schlozman's place in Kansas City two days before he gave his previous testimony to Congress.

On March 22, 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales met in St. Louis with U.S. Attorneys Catherine L. Hanaway and Bradley J. Schlozman of Missouri districts to conduct an undisclosed discussion related to the conduct of US Attorney Bradley J. Schlozman...


Posted by: Holy Guacamole!
Date: April 24, 2007 07:59 AM

[glitch]

16. Good God, "dirty" isn't strong enough. "filthy" "rancid" "putrescent"

are words that start to approach describing what these people are. What's that word for an odor so foul people vomit when they smell it? I know there is one, but I can't think of it. Any help?

[bobthedrummer]

31. glitch, you could help if you're still in Seattle-what is the latest about McKay

and is there any news about the Wales murder? What happened to the person of interest that failed the lie detector test about removable gun barrels etc?

[bobthedrummer]

32. robinlynne, if you're still in LA maybe you could research the DoJ stuff in Guam

and the Northern Marianas that former acting USA Frederick Black brought up and which the Inspector General of the DoJ issued a Special Report about last June. Here's a link to that Special Report. Jack Abramoff had many LA connections.

http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/s0606a/index.htm

[Marie26]

17. There was a thread about this

earlier today. Was it evaporated? I was going to try to read it through at another time. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x843263

[bobthedrummer]

18. That thread was removed, The other two reference threads

are archived and that is why I started this thread-something is terribly wrong about all of this, Marie26.

That is what I meant by not causing "controversy"-whatever the reason was for removing that thread there are several others that we can all use to follow-up on these profoundly disturbing questions.

[L. Coyote]

21. That was the Greatest Thread with 76 recs in half a day. Vanished.??

I have a copy of it. It is restarted herein and also here:

BOTH Chief US Attorney and Senior US Prosecuting Attorney found DEAD in their homes.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x849449

[bobthedrummer]

22. Yep, and I was contributing to it as well. Getting the truth out is what's important.

[L. Coyote]

27. Now, another thread, with 68 recs, locked. Moving on with the investigation to

US Attorney Firing: Voter Fraud, Medicare Fraud, WHICH IS IT ???
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x853813

[bobthedrummer]

19. There are some members of US Bancorp's Board and Committees

whose political affiliations are well known to be far to the right.

US Bancorp Board and Committee page
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=117565&p=irol-govcommcomp#bio

Novation LLC Director James A Unruh is also on the Board of a venture capital company Alerion Capital Group LLC, his son, Jeffery was with Oracle prior to joining this private equity group.
The Alerion Team
http://www.alerion.com/team.html

Mr Brian D. Miller, Inspector General of the GSA took Oracle to court and got back what at the time was the largest settlement ever. Paul McNulty of DoJ made the announcement!
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/October/06_odag_689.html

That is the same Brian D. Miller that testified at the Lurita Alexis Doan GSA hearing before the House Oversight Committee where it was established for a fact that political meetings from the WH were held on GSA property-and a whole lot more. Here's a link to a video of that memorable hearing.
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1224

[bobthedrummer]

20. Another puzzling death in the DoJ was the horrible fate of Jonathan Luna

It is still unresolved even though Senator Grassley and others have looked into the mishandling of it. I wasn't aware of it until I reviewed some of the links in the referenced threads.

Ethan Brown has followed this case for years and his work on it "Criminal Intent" was published by Mensvogue.com.

"Criminal Intent" by Ethan Brown
http://www.mensvogue.com/business/articles/2007/04/jonathan_luna?currentPage=1

fair use cited

[bobthedrummer]

23. DoJ's Thomas Crane Wales shooting death of October 11th 2001

is still unsolved.

There are other unsolved law enforcement related cases like the missing (since 2005) DA from Pennsylvania Ray Gricar and the Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Ann Levy murder.

These are all different from the rulings in the deaths of Thelma Colbert and Shannon Ross yet something is horribly wrong about all of these cases.

I'm still looking at the Boards and Executives of all these companies and private equity groups. Carol Lam and other DoJ employees were prosecuting Tenet Healthcare-many citizens had brought forth their stories and a group setup a website called Welcome to the Tenet Shareholder Committee.

A page from June 1, 2006 is numbing to review in the context of what we know about the criminals and the corruption of the administration of George W. Bush et al Jeb just became a Director at Tenet etc.

Here's that page from The Tenet Shareholder Committee.org
"After Enron: Tenet?"
http://www.tenetshareholdercommittee.org/After_Enron_Tenet_.b.25.htm

[bobthedrummer]

24. Thanks flyarm, Tenet Healthcare was formed from National Medical Enterprises/NME.

Tenet Healthcare agreed to a $900,000,000 False Claims Act settlement in June 2006.
One of the people at DoJ making that announcement was Debra Yang.

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/June/06_civ_406.html

Time for me to get some sleep, maybe someone else can work on this for a few hours.

[bobthedrummer]

25. The Alice S. Fisher DoJ connection.

Alice S. Fisher was indoctrinated and programed like all loyal Bushies long before she was inserted into the DoJ via a recess appointment. She was put in charge of the Jack Abramoff criminal investigation even though she lacked the experience needed-but she has that one necessary requirement, she is a programmed, proven, vetted loyal Bushie.

Alice was a former lobbyist for the largest healthcare group, HCA, prior to her Decider's appointment. Alice was mentored by others and she passed through all the gatekeepers with ease.
She is ok with torture as long as it isn't called torture, she is ok with taking part in confiscating the pluder of other corrupted folks and loyally giving it to her Decider's chosen ones in the arbitrary non-linear chain of command.

Alice was put into positions of authority to prosecute those that had fallen out of favor with her Decider, and she is very good and loyal in doing that, it is highly rewarding work. She is really nothing more than another enforcer for a mob that thinks outside the box.

The majority of people that had performed their tasks and made careers as well as they could without the advantage of being loyal Bushies and true believers in whatever belief system loyal Bushies share at any given moment continually get purged, even loyal Bushies get that when they wake up and speak out-thus breaking the evil bonds of loyalty to their Decider.

That's my editorial this morning, here are some facts to consider and expand on.

Alice S. Fisher profile from SourceWatch (dated but valuable-most of her loyal Bushie career assignments become much clearer as well as the politicized professional and social networks)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alice_S._Fisher

Alice got appointed to co-chair the National Procurement Fraud Task Force, along with loyal Bushie Paul McNulty-this is another example of consolidation of a politicized crime family as people that did their jobs like the IG of loyal Bushie Lurita Alexis Doan's GSA, Brian Miller did as noted upthread yet he was slated to be purged.

National Procurement Fraud Task Force PR
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/npftf/

Gee, the False Statement Acts $900,000,000 agreement of Tenet Healthcare announced by loyal Bushie Debra Wang was like Procurement Fraud only civil, not criminal in the corrupted DoJ-and Alice was a lobbyist for Tenet's competitor HCA.

Not to mention the DoD contactors and mercenaries-owned by the giants like GE, which is involved in the Lipari case against Novation LLC.

What a tangled web.

Finally, the backlog of cases and a chronology against Tenet have been noted by the good people at The Tenet Shareholder Committee.org, and the title of their page fits so well

"After Enron: Tenet?"
http://www.tenetshareholdercommittee.org/After_Enron_Tenet_.b.25.htm (Medicaid and Medicare, people harmed, dying and victimized yet told they must pay for that-that's healthcare to a culture of death like the loyal Bushies).

Add what you have to this thread and others. Share it and pass it around-demand accountibility and prosecution.

fair use cited

[bobthedrummer]

28. Hospital Corporation of America Wikipedia page-Alice S. Fisher's

career was helped by her friendship with Senator Frist, (as noted in the Source Watch profile) she was a lobbyist for HCA prior to being a recess appointed DoJ employee.

Hospital Corporation of America (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_Corporation_of_America

[L. Coyote]

35. FOLLOW THE MONEY in every investigation = Lobbyists & $$$ BILLIONS

FOLLOW THE MONEY in every investigation = Lobbyists & $$$ BILLIONS

http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/index.asp

In addition to campaign contributions to elected officials and candidates, ... organizations spend billions ...
We've got totals spent on lobbying, beginning in 1998, for everyone from AAI Corp. to Zurich Financial.

======== Top Spenders, 1998-2006

#1 - US Chamber of Commerce - $317,164,680
#2 - American Medical Assn - $156,375,500
#3 - General Electric - $137,770,000
#4 - American Hospital Assn - $129,114,026

========= Top Sectors, 1998-2006

#1 - Finance, Insurance & Real Estate - $2,558,205,882
#2 - Health - $2,298,865,053

YES, 2.3 BILLION!!

[bobthedrummer]

29. triplicate post,self delete (never had that happen here before)

[bobthedrummer]

30. self delete/

[bobthedrummer]

26. kick

[loudsue]

33. This needs to stay at the top.

It's too late for another rec.

:kick::kick::kick:

[bobthedrummer]

34. Will AGAG attempt to lie and prevaricate tomorrow?

And if he does and leaves the hearing to continue his "work for the WH" what should we actually do, not could, what should we do?

We sent a message last November. Many of the new majority leaders are ignoring it.

What should, not could, what should we do?

[bobthedrummer]

38. He's doing just that-so far.

[L. Coyote]

36. X-POST: TENET Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) ENDS investigations by DoJ and US Attorneys

L. Coyote Wed May-09-07 07:57 PM
51. Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) ENDS investigations by DoJ and US Attorneys
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x853813#857409

Tenet enters corporate integrity agreement
Dallas Business Journal - September 28, 2006

Tenet Healthcare Corp. has entered into a corporate integrity agreement as part of its settlement in June with the Department of Justice. ....

[Kurovski]

37. Kick

[bobthedrummer]

39. House Judiciary Committee hearing kick

[L. Coyote]

40. Timeline FINDING: Sampson e-mail re Lam and excluding Alvarado/Tenet

EXTRACT from: L. Coyote Thu May-10-07 12:42 PM
69. FIRINGS TIMELINE and HHS Seeks to Knock Out TENET's Alvarado Hospital
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=853813&mesg_id=862205

Tenet was facing, on May 10, a (quoting Kyle Sampson's May 11 e-mail) "real problem we have right now with Carol Lam"
=================
May 10, 2006
HHS Seeks to Knock Out San Diego Hospital
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/whitecollarcrime_blog/...

The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services is seeking the ultimate punishment against a San Diego hospital by seeking to bar it from participating in federal healthcare programs, most importantly Medicare and Medicaid.............

=======================
Office of Inspector General
For Immediate Release Washington, D.C. 20201
May 17, 2006

Tenet Agrees to Divest Alvarado Hospital

Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson announced today that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Tenet Healthcare Corporation reached an agreement concerning Tenet’s divestiture of Alvarado Hospital Medical Center (Alvarado). This agreement resolves OIG’s possible exclusion of Alvarado from participation in Medicare and all other Federal health care programs.

On May 8, 2006, OIG notified Tenet that OIG intended to propose to exclude Alvarado ........

================================
TIMELINE:
.....
May 5, 2006 - CIA director Porter Goss resigns unexpectedly.
May 10, 2006 - Lam notifies DoJ she planned to serve search warrants on Kyle Foggo, who resigned two days earlier as No. 3 official at the CIA.
May 10, 2006 - HHS Seeks to Knock Out San Diego Hospital
May 11, 2006 - Kyle Sampson e-mails deputy White House counsel William Kelley, re "the real problem we have right now with Carol Lam ....
May 11, 2006 - LA Times reports Cunningham probe expanded to include CA Republican, then-House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis.
May 12, 2006 - FBI agents seizes records from Foggo's CIA offices and his suburban Vienna, Va.
May 17, 2006 - Tenet Healthcare Agrees to Divest Alvarado Hospital.
....

[bobthedrummer]

41. Kick

[bobthedrummer]

42. Start your weekend investigating these tangled webs, add to the info.

[MSC2007]

43. Excellent review !!!

Great work DU posters!!!

[bobthedrummer]

44. I took a look at your profile-welcome to DU, MSC2007!

Add whatever you can whenever you can.

:hi:

[AnnieBW]

45. Jonathan Luna - US AG for Baltimore

Was investigating a prostitution ring in the Baltimore/Washington area when he was murdered.

http://www.yardbird.com/luna_sex_scandal_threatens_bush_GOP.htm Read about halfway down.

[bobthedrummer]

46. Thank you AnnieBW. Also see post 20 for more on Jonathan Luna.

[AnnieBW]

47. That's what I get

For not reading the whole thread. :D

[bobthedrummer]

48. kick for the other investigations that are proceeding, finally.