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IPCC Bastardizes Climate Science Reports

I read an editorial this morning by McClatchy CEO and president, Craig Forman about their well-earned designation as fake news distributors. He refuses to acknowledge, or understand, that his industry has been infiltrated by an army of left-wing advocates who have no regard for the tenets of journalism. Sure, he points to a handful of stories where they actually reported the truth, but that doesn’t make up for the bastardization of the news industry.

And that seems to be the general theme when it comes to liberals. They bastardize everything: news, marriage, sex, education, language, religion, politics, weather, economics; you name it they’ve bastardized it. They contaminate everything they touch.

So this brings us to another IPCC scam. Once again, we are told that the state of the planet is in dire straits due to man-made global warming. How many times have we heard this nonsense? How many times have they been wrong?

The Washington Times published an op-ed exposing another fraud this pseudo-governmental agency has foisted upon the world. Here is an excerpt:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate forecasts were wrong from their earliest reports in 1990. They were so inaccurate that they stopped calling them forecasts and made three “projections”: low, medium, and high. Since then, even their “low” scenario projections were wrong.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change created an illusion of certainty about their science, and therefore their forecasts. They let people think that they study all causes of climate change when they only look at human-caused change. That is impossible unless you know and understand total climate change and the mechanisms, and we don’t. It allowed them to ignore all non-human causes of change, including the Sun.

One of the reasons the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gets away with this is that almost no one reads the underlying science reports. Indeed, the “Final Government Draft” of the underlying science report, which appears on the IPCC Web site, even cautions the reader, “Do Not Cite, Quote or Distribute.”

So that's how they get away with it.

Hey, Craig Forman! If you want to repair your industries reputation, you can begin by exposing this corrupt organization called the IPCC.

Source:

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article220302195.html


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/15/why-un-climate-report-cannot-be-trusted/?fbclid=IwAR2XUuG139SoM5sd24byb6FxPQ8nN8zOVdhiRkwVeTU5ecZU12ZSRkpIKlY

Chris Anglin, A Wannabe Emperor in a Black Robe

Earlier this month, I published a blogpost about a scumbag Democrat who’s trying to pass himself off as a constitutional Republican, so as to split the vote in a judicial race in North Carolina. Chris Anglin is his name and every Republican voter should remember the depths of deceit this low-life is willing to go.


Mr. Anglin has published an op-ed in the Charlotte Observer in an attempt to convince the rest of us he’s not a liberal plant trying to skew an election for his comrade, Anita Earls. So let’s critique what he’s written:

This has been a dizzying decade for North Carolinians. Nearly every day we have witnessed attacks on the rule of law and the checks and balances of our democracy at both the federal and state level.

Our legislature has governed like the emperor with no clothes since gaining super majorities. The only check to its overreach has been an independent judiciary, so judicial elections have been a frequent and repeated target of power grabs.

First, N.C. lawmakers eliminated public financing for judicial races, widening the door for big money influence on the courts.

Then they made us the first state in 100 years to make judicial races partisan, including the state Supreme Court. They rigged the ballot order to favor their candidate and eliminated the primary election for this year.


The role of an independent judiciary is not to put a check on the General Assembly. They are to apply the laws that are passed by our elected representatives. An independent judiciary does not mean judges can do as they damn well please. Does this sound like a constitutional Republican to you? It doesn’t to me.


By the way, I applauded the defunding of judicial races. I don’t want my hard earned tax dollars aiding and abetting my political enemies. I also applauded the outing of judicial candidates. I want to know their political philosophy.  However, Mr. Anglin doesn't care what voters think.  He wants to put a check on our elected representatives.


They have openly expressed a desire to do away with judicial elections altogether and to give the legislature the power to control all judicial seats.

They passed six unneeded, misleading constitutional amendments that will harm voting rights, and strip power from the executive and judicial branches of government. There is nothing transparent, nor conservative about this. It’s just bad governing, putting party and power over the people.

Expressing a desire is not the same thing as doing. Don’t you just love the fact that he’s concerned about stripping power away from the executive and judicial branches when that’s exactly what Mr. Anglin wants to do to the legislative branch! What an astonishing lack of introspection.


As for these constitutional amendments, they have to be approved by the voters of North Carolina. I thought liberals - ahem - believed in democracy. Oh, and what is this blurb about voter rights? Does Mr. Anglin have a problem with voter I.D.? Why that’s not very constitutional Republican of him. Here is the last piece of nonsense written by this fraud.

North Carolinians have a chance to get off this dizzying ride. They can stand up for an independent judiciary and the checks and balances of our democracy by defeating all six unneeded, misleading Amendments, and by electing lawmakers and judges who will fight for the rule of law, not undermine it. I’m confident they will make the right choices.

And if we don't, I'm sure Mr. Anglin and his liberal buddies will find an activist judge to rule these amendments unconstitutional.  We've been down this road before.  This guy isn't fooling anyone.

Mr. Anglin is a fraud.  He doesn’t believe in the rule of law, democracy or a representative republic. Does he not understand that lawmakers make the laws? The only people who can undermine the laws are judicial activist. This guy doesn’t have a concept of how our system of government works. He referred to our elected representatives as emperors without clothes. First of all,there can only be one emperor and if Chris Anglin gets his way, that emperor will wear a black robe.


Source:


https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article215757220.html

https://costonscomplaint.blogspot.com/2018/07/nc-democrats-sleaze-up-judicial.html?m=0

Federal Government Pimp Ball of 2017

Welcome to the Federal Government Pimp Ball of 2017!  All you taxpaying bitches get yo asses in back of of line and let your pimp daddies through.  That’s right.  No one wants to hear your black eyed, pathetic wailing and moaning about waste, fraud and cronyism.  As Bill Clinton said, “You might want to put some ice on that.”   Now shut your mouths and let your mac daddies take their rightful places in the front of the bus.

Speaking of mac daddy!  Here comes Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae!  These two so-called GSO’s are players through and through.  How can anyone forget how these two rolled the American people in one of the biggest scams in world history.  Not only did they create a housing bubble that crashed and burned; they ended up owning or guaranteeing over 60% of all mortgages in the United States..  Now that’s a player!

But these two pimp masters aren’t through.  Now they’re financing single-family rental homes to big Wall Street financial firms and smaller, yet politically connected, businesses that specialize in landlord properties.

So all you taxpaying bitches had better get out there and make that money because your mac daddy government needs to sugar it’s teats.

Source:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/government-backed-mortgage-lenders-are-the-definition-of-too-big-to-fail-too-bad-we-need-them-more-than-ever/2015/10/15/781d3926-72bb-11e5-8248-98e0f5a2e830_story.html?utm_term=.cd9198c9cc26

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/business/dealbook/freddie-mac-fannie-mae-rental-market.html

Food Stamp Fraud Committed by Children and the Dead

Sometimes you come across a story that is so outrageous that you can’t believe it’s true.  I’m not talking about this Donald Trump golden showers nonsense.  I’m talking about scams that are so brazen that you can’t help but laugh. 

It seems like every big caper comes at the expense of the taxpayer.  The latest involves stores owned by children and the dead.  Here is an excerpt from the Free Beacon.

We found that 3,394 authorized SNAP retailers (retailers) used Social Security Numbers (SSN) that matched SSNs of deceased people,” the inspector general said. “Additionally, 193 retailers listed owners who were not at least 18 years of age. While FNS did have some controls to edit or verify SNAP retail owner information, these controls were not adequate to ensure owner information accuracy.”

Between October 2013 and June 2015, the inspector general identified 3,394 stores owned by 1,819 people who were using SSNs listed on the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File.

“These 3,394 retailers redeemed about $2.6 billion in SNAP benefits,” the inspector general said. The 193 businesses that reported child owners redeemed $41 million in food stamps.

“Without accurate retail owner data such as birth dates and SSNs, [the Food and Nutrition Service] FNS has little assurance that retailers are who they say they are,” the inspector general said. “This could leave the program open to abuse by disqualified individuals and others wishing to hide their identity for possible fraudulent purposes.”

“If indeed some of these retailers are wholly owned by deceased persons or persons under the age of 18, this situation could leave FNS with little recourse other than disqualification in the event that adverse action needs to be taken against a particular retailer,” the inspector general added

I remember the Weinberg Medicaid scandal in the late 1980’s.  This family owned a couple of clinics where they engineered a $16 million theft.  It was the biggest case of fraud in the 22 year history of Medicaid.

The Weinbergs should have had children registered as owners.  You can’t prosecute minors.

Source:

 http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/19/nyregion/tv-ends-flight-of-biggest-medicaid-thief.html

http://freebeacon.com/issues/dead-people-doled-2-6-billion-worth-food-stamps/

Global Warming Grafters Wound Respected Institutions

This man-made global warming scam will go down as one of the biggest frauds perpetuated in world history.  No one will come away clean in this scandal.  Institutions will be discredited as nothing more than grafters looking for an easy buck from government agencies that have an agenda.  Science will be the biggest casualty of them all.

However, there are a few who have the integrity to stand up to the global warming bullies.

  “A 2008 survey by two German scientists, Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch, found that a significant number of scientists were skeptical of the ability of existing global climate models to accurately predict global temperatures, precipitation, sea-level changes, or extreme weather events even over a decade; they were far more skeptical as the time horizon increased.”

Other mainstream news sources besides the National Review have also been courageous enough to speak out against the global warming propaganda – even the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece in 2015 challenging the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) pseudoscience being promulgated by global warming proponents.

 And, of course, there are the more than 31,000 American scientists (to date) who have signed a petition challenging the climate change narrative and 9,029 of them hold PhDs in their respective fields. But hey, Al Gore and his cronies have also ignored that inconvenient truth, as well.

Many of those scientists who signed the petition were likely encouraged to speak out in favor of the truth after retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist John L. Casey revealed that solar cycles are largely responsible for warming periods on Earth – not human activity

I find this laughable.  I remember making the same arguments around 2004 and I’m by no means a scientist.  One can only shake his head at the destruction these grafters have wrought upon the world.

Source:

http://yournewswire.com/tens-of-thousands-of-scientists-declare-climate-change-a-hoax/

Duke University's Epic $200 Million Fraud Lawsuit

Duke University is in big trouble.  A whistleblower exposed a culture of academic corruption.  The federal suit accuses researchers William Foster and Erin Potts-Kants of fabricating data and falsifying reports as a means to collect grant money from various government agencies.  This investigation began when Potts-Kants pled guilty to embezzlement.

Then Potts-Kant’s troubles got worse. Duke officials took a closer look at her work and didn’t like what they saw. Fifteen of her papers, mostly dealing with pulmonary biology, have now been retracted, with many notices citing “unreliable” data. Several others have been modified with either partial retractions, expressions of concern, or corrections. And last month, a U.S. district court unsealed a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former colleague of Potts-Kant. It accuses the researcher, her former supervisor, and the university of including fraudulent data in applications and reports involving more than 60 grants worth some $200 million. If successful, the suit—brought under the federal False Claims Act (FCA)—could force Duke to return to the government up to three times the amount of any ill-gotten funds, and produce a multimillion-dollar payout to the whistleblower.

 This is just the tip of the iceberg.  Can you imagine how many government grants have financed fraudulent papers propelling this man-made global warming nonsense?  However, if you believe public universities will pay for their malfeasance, think again.

Relatively few of these cases have targeted research universities (see box, below); many allege fraud in health care or military programs. But that's changing. The FCA "is increasingly being used to target alleged fraud in a diverse array of industries, including research and academia," says attorney Suzanne Jaffe Bloom of Winston & Strawn LLP in New York City. Although recent court rulings suggest public universities may have some protection from qui tam suits because they are government entities, private institutions do not. Eleven private universities, including Duke, are among the top 25 recipients of federal funding for academic science over the past decade.

It’s good to be the government. 

Source:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/09/03/two-hundred-million-dollar-scientific-grant-fraud-case/

http://retractionwatch.com/2016/06/06/another-paper-by-duke-pair-with-12-retractions-is-flagged/

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/whistleblower-sues-duke-claims-doctored-data-helped-win-200-million-grants

http://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/19112726351.pdf

IRS Commissioner Confesses Agency Aids and Abets Illegal Aliens

It’s that time of year when American workers bend over and grab their ankles so the federal molesters can rape their wallets.  Say goodbye to the meager savings that you scrimped throughout the year because the D.C. wastrels can’t spend money fast enough on graft and greed.  It’s also that time of year when Americans discover the nefarious activities of federally sanctioned predators that have stolen the identities of their fellow citizens and taxpayer largess.  Rest assured, no invasion will go punished.

What Americans are finding out is the federal government has more regard for illegal aliens than conservatives.  The oprichnikis at the IRS have no problems harassing and intimidating Tea Party activists, but when it comes to a protected class of invaders, this agency will go out of its way to accommodate the Golden Horde even if it means aiding and abetting fraudulent behavior.  Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind) extracted the following confession from IRS Commissioner Koskinen.

"What we learned is that ... the IRS continues to process tax returns with false W-2 information and issue refunds as if they were routine tax returns, and say that's not really our job," Coats said. "We also learned the IRS ignores notifications from the Social Security Administration that a name does not match a Social Security number, and you use your own system to determine whether a number is valid."

Asked to explain those practices, Koskinen replied, "What happens in these situations is someone is using a Social Security number to get a job, but they're filing their tax return with their [taxpayer identification number]." What that means, he said, is that "they are undocumented aliens … . They're paying taxes. It's in everybody's interest to have them pay the taxes they owe."

As long as the information is being used only to fraudulently obtain jobs, Koskinen said, rather than to claim false tax returns, the agency has an interest in helping them. "The question is whether the Social Security number they're using to get the job has been stolen. It's not the normal identity theft situation," he said.

Are you F***ing kidding me?!  How can anyone doubt this federal government has turned on the American people?

Source:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/irs-chief-agency-encourages-illegal-immigrant-theft-of-ssns-to-file-tax-returns/article/2588288

Illegal Aliens Defraud American Taxpayers of $750 Million in Obamacare

Fox News has confirmed what most Americans already knew: illegal aliens are scamming American taxpayers.  This time the vehicle is Obamacare.

The report, produced by Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, examined Affordable Care Act tax credits meant to defray the cost of insurance premiums. It found that as of June 2015, “the Administration awarded approximately $750 million in tax credits on behalf of individuals who were later determined to be ineligible because they failed to verify their citizenship, status as a national, or legal presence.”

The review found the credits went to more than 500,000 people – who are illegal immigrants or whose legal status was unclear due to insufficient records.

Isn’t fraud considered a felony?  Isn’t this crime worthy of deportation, or is that too many to round up?

Source:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/08/senate-report-illegal-immigrants-benefited-from-up-to-750m-in-obamacare-subsidies.html

Feds Charge Business Owner for Reporting Illegal Alien

The politics of illegal aliens is truly astonishing.  These people sneak into our country, steal identities from American citizens, take our jobs and then act with a sense of entitlement that is something to behold.  Worse, when they get caught, the federal government defends the invader and prosecutes American citizens who file criminal complaints against them.  The following is a case that happened in Roxboro, North Carolina.

Miriam Martinez Solais, 28, came to the United States from Mexico illegally eight years ago, seeking a job that could help provide security for the daughter she left behind.

Solais’ troubles began after she complained to state labor officials that her boss, Giovanni Scotti D’Abbusco, cheated her out of thousands of dollars in wages she should have earned working in the kitchen of his restaurant, Vesuvio’s. What happened next has sparked battles being fought in three separate court cases.

After Solais complained, D’Abbusco had her investigated. The investigator he hired soon discovered Solais had provided fraudulent identification to the restaurant when seeking employment. The investigator alerted Roxboro police.

Police arrested Solais on two counts of identity theft and more than 20 counts of obtaining property – her paychecks – under false pretenses. The U.S. Department of Labor, in turn, filed a complaint against D’Abbusco, saying he illegally retaliated against Solais after she complained about her paycheck.

So anyone who reports an illegal alien can be charged with illegal retaliation?  This country is upside down.  The only people who are operating in the shadows are American citizens.

Source: 

 http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article52991680.html#storylink=cpy

Obama Recruits Doctors to Lecture Patients about Global Warming

Is there anywhere an American can go without being confronted by White House propaganda?  King Obama isn’t satisfied shoving his agenda down our throats with executive orders and bureaucratic mandates and regulations.  No, he wants doctors to lecture us on the finer points of global warming while they finger our prostate.

 

The Daily Caller reported the following:

Americans trust their doctors, so the White House wants these medical professionals to be a mouthpiece for President Obama’s global warming agenda.

“We also need doctors, nurses and citizens, like all of you”President Obama said in a taped speech presented to medical professionals gathered at the White House, “to get to work to raise awareness and organize folks for real change.”

The Obama administration has been hard at work trying to draw a link between global warming and public health issues. The summit included the U.S. Surgeon General, top administration officials, and public health experts from around the country telling doctors, nurses and other conference goers how to talk about global warming with their patients.

The central message: doctors should warn their patients that global warming could make their health worse.

The last thing I want to hear is someone lecturing me about this fraud while I’m being invaded. 

Source:

http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/25/the-white-house-wants-your-doctor-to-teach-you-about-global-warming/#ixzz3eH8huivd

Government Contractor Pleads Guilty to Not Having a Minority Vagina

Have you ever wondered why it takes so long and cost so much to implement and complete a government funded infrastructure project?  Contractors not only deal with the hassle of overcoming mountains of bureaucratic red tape, corrupt politicians and lawsuits by environmental groups, they also have to comply with political correctness.

A Monroe, NC business owner pleaded guilty to conspiracy and money laundering charges to federal prosecutors because his company wasn’t a minority owned business.  And as you can expect, a company that builds roads needs government contracts.  Boggs Paving Company submitted the lowest bid, but the owner didn’t have a vagina or the right skin color.  Now, he’s going to jail.

According to the federal indictment, Boggs and his co-defendants conspired to get federal and state contracts by claiming a minority-owned small business would do part of the work. Under state contracting rules, 15 percent of work on such projects must be completed by minority or female-owned companies.

Prosecutors say millions in payments to a bank account in the name of Styx Cuthbertson Trucking were later funneled back to Boggs Paving. To aid the fraud, magnetic decals for Cuthbertson covered the Boggs logo on trucks at the construction sites.

The Monroe expressway project was not included in the federal indictment, but records obtained by AP show that Monroe Bypass Constructors included Styx Cuthbertson Trucking on the 2011 list of minority contractors it submitted as part of its winning bid.

Charbonneau said Cuthbertson was removed from the state-approved list of minority contractors on the project.

“As with all major construction projects, NCDOT publicly advertised this project and awarded this project to the lowest bidder,” Charbonneau said. “It was not awarded through fraud.”

  

If you’re a white male business owner, you’d better have an understanding that your kind is persona non grata.  However, you could pull a Bruce Jenner and become a woman or an inverse Michael Jackson by darkening your skin and perming your hair.  I hear this transformation is becoming all the rave.

Source:

http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2015/05/28/charlotte-toll-road-moves-ahead-contractor-guilty-fraud/28119309/

Global Alarming: Liberals with Doctorate Degrees

Are liberals capable of honesty?  The scam de jour is a fabricated survey by a gay activist with a PH.D.  The American Spectator reported the following:

Two aspiring political scientists exposed a widely referenced study, which maintained that homosexuals discussing gay marriage with citizens proved “capable of producing a cascade of opinion change,” as a total fraud.

Berkeley grad student Joshua Kalla and Stanford professor David Broockman, eager to add to the project with their own study, discovered that the survey firm identified in “When Contact Changes Minds: An Experiment on Transmission of Support for Gay Equality” maintained “no familiarity with the project,” “never had an employee with the name of the staffer” believed as assisting the research, and “denied having the capabilities” to conduct such an endeavor.

The debunking unleashed myriad reactions, none as gleeful as the ones that greeted the initial study late last year.

“Perhaps he meticulously planned the whole thing with malice aforethought,” Duke sociologist Kieran Healy speculates about Michael LaCour, the gay UCLA Ph.D. accused of fabricating data. Widener University law professor John Culhane, lashing out at how he imagines conservatives will spin the news, argues at Politico.com that proof of the concoction merely “tells us… that the gay canvasser study should be tried again; properly, this time. Not that gay canvassers have no effect.”

Doesn’t this sound familiar?  One of the biggest scams perpetuated on the world is another survey that touts 97% consensus on man-made global warming.  Forbes reported the following:

Global warming alarmists and their allies in the liberal media have been caught doctoring the results of a widely cited paper asserting there is a 97-percent scientific consensus regarding human-caused global warming. After taking a closer look at the paper, investigative journalists report the authors’ claims of a 97-pecent consensus relied on the authors misclassifying the papers of some of the world’s most prominent global warming skeptics. At the same time, the authors deliberately presented a meaningless survey question so they could twist the responses to fit their own preconceived global warming alarmism.

The only thing I’m alarmed about is a liberal with a doctorate degree. 

Source:

 http://spectator.org/articles/62810/what-faked-gay-marriage-study-says-about-academia-and-media

   

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/05/30/global-warming-alarmists-caught-doctoring-97-percent-consensus-claims/

N.C. Audit Uncovers Medicaid Abuse

As you can expect, a North Carolina state auditor found abuse, nepotism and possible fraud in the Department of Health and Human Services.  Medicaid, once again, is the program where suspect activity has taken place.  Carolina Journal reported the following:

The audit placed much of the blame for the mayhem in OMMISS on now-retired director Angeline Sligh, the subject of a 2013 audit detailing $237,500 in overpayments. 

According to the audit, Sligh chose temporary staffing agencies outside of normal channels, paying them $598,673 for commissions that exceeded the rates charged by the state-operated temporary staffing service. Employees collected $234,724 in unjustified overtime, and ineligible employees received $26,026 for holiday pay.

In all, 5,841 hours of overtime were recorded by temp workers “without documented justification,” the audit said. Undocumented overtime was a problem cited in past audits. 

Those employees “could not provide reasonable explanations” to justify the overtime, according to the audit. Some cited making copies or name tags, answering phones, and “lots and lots of typing” for their overtime. 

By going to an outside temp agency, Sligh was not constrained by state rules limiting temporary employees to 12 months of service. Some temp workers stayed with the agency for years.

The audit said Sligh’s “abuse of her authority through the hiring process caused these excessive costs.”

According to the audit, Sligh hired 15 people connected to her, including her daughter, ex-husband, and ex-husband’s wife. Six were members of her church, and one was a son of a fellow church member. Also hired under Sligh’s watch were a neighbor’s daughter, her hairdresser’s sister, and two ex-colleagues at St. Augustine’s University.

The audit said agency paid 12 temporary employees $807,741 “more than their qualifications justified,” according to the Office of State Human Resources. In numerous instances Sligh overruled the temp agency’s determination of appropriate pay scales and directed them to beef up the amounts.

As examples from July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2014, the audit noted, one manager was paid $89.39 per hour, 78 percent more than appropriate, and $244,420 more than justified. A business analyst should have received $33.57 per hour but got $70, a 109 percent increase, resulting in $199,183 in excessive payments. A second business analyst should have been paid $23.31 per hour, received $36, and collected $60,404 more than justified. A health insurance claims consultant collected $74 hourly, or 73 percent above a justifiable level, for $103,484 more overall. 

The audit said Sligh improperly received 2,120 hours of compensatory time to which she was not entitled. The comp time allowed Sligh to save her sick time and vacation days, potentially inflating her retirement benefits that are calculated partially on those accumulated days. Wos denied the comp time bumped up Sligh’s retirement pay.

The audit admonished DHHS Chief Information Officer Joe Cooper, Sligh’s supervisor, who signed off on the comp time even though he was informed by department HR officials that Sligh was not entitled to the perk.

Meanwhile, democrats are throwing temper tantrums because republicans refused to expand this money pit agency without reforming it.  Go figure.

Source:

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=12047

Jonathan Gruber Suspected of "Phantom Billing"

Jonathan Gruber, the acclaimed Obamacare architect and suspect grafter, is under investigation for “phantom billing.”  It just keeps getting better and better.  Breitbart.com reported the following:

On Monday Darcie Johnston, head of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, told Breitbart News that Gruber may have a “phantom billing” problem.

 “Jonathan Gruber has failed to provide any evidence that the $80,000 he’s been paid by the state of Vermont for 800 hours of work he claimed was performed by unidentified research assistants was actually performed, or that these research assistants even exist and were paid,” Johnston told Breitbart News.

 “There’s a term in health care for the practice of billing for services not provided. It’s called ‘phantom billing,’ and when doctors or health care providers do this, they face criminal charges.”

Johnston’s comment expands the potential number of legal problems which Gruber may face in connection with his lucrative consulting business, from which he earned an estimated $5 million over the past four years in federal and state contracts.

On Friday, white collar criminal defense attorney Brady Toensing told Breitbart News, “if [an] investigation uncovers sufficient evidence that Gruber padded his bills, he could be charged by the state with contract fraud or by the feds with mail or wire fraud.”

Will an Obama crony get jail time for fraud?  I doubt it.  Too bad, they don’t go after all the green energy grafters that have raided the U.S. treasury.

Source:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/26/jonathan-gruber-faces-questions-about-phantom-billing-and-tax-reporting/

Climate Change Grafters Push for More Regulations

Barack Obama’s cadre of totalitarians and political grafters has released a dire climate change report.  It’s all doom and gloom. The world is going to hell in a hand basket, because Americans are a bunch of selfish, energy loving people who enjoy toilet paper, indoor plumbing, central air, and the ability to drive a car to work.

Obama’s leading henchman is paving the way for a Venezuelan-esque economy:

Podesta told reporters during a briefing at the White House that President Obama is committed to moving forward with controversial Clean Air Act regulations to cut carbon dioxide emissions for all new coal and gas-fired power plants. 

Republicans have branded the president's climate plan as a "war on coal" and have sponsored legislation to roll back planned Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas standards they arguer the Clean Air Act. All I would say is that those have zero percent chance of working. We're committed t will harm the nation's economy. 

"They'll find various ways, particularly in the House, to try to stop us from using the authority we have undeo moving forward with those rules," Podesta said. 

The report also comes as the administration delays a decision on the controversial Canada-to-Texas Keystone pipeline. Environmentalists oppose it, but Republicans and some Democrats are pressuring the administration to approve it. 

The climate report looked at regional and state-level effects of global warming, compared with recent reports from the United Nations that lumped all of North America together. A draft of the report was released in January 2013, but this version has been reviewed by more scientists, the National Academy of Science and 13 government agencies and had public comment.

Every principle involved in this report has a vested interest in passing this fraud and it has nothing to do with global warming.  These scoundrels have been fleecing the American taxpayers far too long.

Source:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/06/administration-issues-dire-climate-change-warnings-amid-regulatory-push/

Project Veritas:Obamacare Navigators Caught on Tape

Dead Patients and Illegal Aliens Scam Medicare

We already know how inefficient and wasteful the federal government is.  Here is another stat to emphasize the amount of known fraud that persists through Medicare:

Medicare paid $23 million for dead patients in 2011 and $29 million for drug benefits for illegal immigrants from 2009 to 2011, according to a report Thursday from the Health and Human Services inspector general.

The investigators said Medicare has safeguards to try to stop payments to dead patients, but it still ended up sending out the $23 million anyway.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) — the same agency that is struggling to fix the broken Obamacare website — acknowledged the problems and said it will try to take steps to fix them.

And these central planners want to take over the whole health care system?  God forbid.

Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/31/medicare-paid-millions-dead-patients-illegals/#ixzz2jRhaiEsu

North Carolina's DHHS Plagued With Medicaid Corruption

North Carolina’s Medicaid system is a mess.  Mismanagement, fraud and abuse plague this system.  As usual, the Carolina Journal is in the forefront on reporting this disaster:

In all, $580,758 in overtime compensation was paid, mostly to manager- and executive-level personnel in the Medicaid Management Information System from April 1, 2008, to July 31, 2012, without being sent through required procedural channels, the audit found.

The audit did not name the employees involved. That is a “longstanding practice,” Auditor’s Office spokesman Bill Holmes said. “It will be up to the governor and legislature to make any decisions about reimbursement or discipline.”

Neither the governor’s office nor the state Department of Health and Human Services would identify the others who collected the improperly paid overtime. Nor would they say whether reimbursement might be sought or disciplinary action taken.

Information from DHHS said that the audit was done to ensure proper procedures and processes are being followed rather than focusing on individuals. State law precludes release of any information regarding disciplinary action or reimbursement, according to the department information.

Managers generally are exempt from collecting overtime in state government. Exceptions can be approved for well-documented special and emergency circumstances, for which precise details and timelines are supposed to be spelled out.

“We found that Office of State Personnel verbally approved an exception but did not document the terms of the exceptions. We also found inadequate controls and reviews within the Department of Health and Human Services’ manual processing of overtime pay that led to overpayments and other leave and payroll errors,” state Auditor Beth Wood wrote in the preface to the audit report.

It is the second audit in two weeks that Wood’s department has released condemning DHHS operations.

Where is the Charlotte Observer when it comes to reporting this criminal activity?  Oh, that’s right.  They’re too busy kissing the Democratic Party and Obama’s ass.

Source:  http://www.carolinajournal.com/articles/display_story.html?id=9907

Obama Failed E-Verify?

Barack Obama is ineligible to work in the United States; yet eligible to be president.  Is it any wonder this man refuses to enforce our immigration laws.

Source:  What Bubba Knows