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Who is this "Seemsa Vermin" person? nt (Original Post)
Atticus
Sep 2020
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elleng
(130,903 posts)1. Been around for a long time (as you know.)
During her tenure as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the HHS Inspector General concluded that she spent more than $5 million in federal contracts on politically connected contractors and violated federal contracting rules.[3] More than $3.5 million of taxpayer funds were spent on consultants to promote Verma's public profile.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seema_Verma
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)2. POS spent $6 million of taxpayer money on consultants hired to promote her "personal brand"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/column-seema-verma-awful-medicare-183605349.html
Seema Verma, our awful Medicare boss, spent lavishly to burnish her public image
Michael Hiltzik
September 11, 2020
As the federal official in charge of Medicare and Medicaid, Seema Verma has made it her business to undermine those important public programs at almost every turn.
Those efforts, it's now clear, didn't come cheap: A report issued Thursday by Democrats on four congressional committees documents how Verma spent nearly $6 million of taxpayer funds on "handpicked" private consultants hired for work that included "boosting her public profile and personal brand."
The consultants' work included soliciting puff pieces about Verma from glossy magazines and placing obviously ghostwritten op-ed bearing her byline with major news organizations, including the Washington Post.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)3. Ok, but I think my name for her was more appropriate. nt
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)4. She is a vermin.
JI7
(89,249 posts)5. piece of shit brought in by Pence