Corrupt Minnesota business owner dies in Montana warbird crash

[jmowreader]

https://theanswerhawaii.com/news/national/founder-of-minnesota-based-precision-lens-dies-when-vintage-airplane-crashes-in/6f5f571cf5d76021b49d1cb7b0066b97

Paul Ehlen, cofounder of Bloomington, Minnesota-based medical products company Precision Lens, died at 8:07 am Tuesday, June 27, when the World War II-vintage Curtiss P-40E aircraft he was piloting lost power and crashed at Ravalli County Airport, Hamilton, MT, during his takeoff on his way back to Minnesota.

Okay...plane made in the 1940s, elderly aviator at the controls, stuff happens, right? Well...now it gets interesting.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/court-enters-487-million-judgment-against-precision-lens-and-owner-paul-ehlen-paying

Precision Lens sells, as you probably guessed, products for eye surgery. They were caught by the feds for making kickbacks, in the form of expensive travel and entertainment, to ophthalmic surgeons to induce them to use Precision Lens products in cataract surgeries billed to Medicare. They maintained a fund Precision Lens used to pay for this travel. The government found that Precision Lens' conduct caused 64,575 false Medicare claims to be filed, resulting in $43,694,641.71 damage to Medicare. The result was that Precision Lens and Ehlen were ordered to pay $487,048,705.13.

I checked Ehlen's OpenSecrets page...lots of money flowing to Republicans, including $5600 to Trump.

Me being a suspicious individual I can't help but think this crash isn't what it seems.

[The Magistrate]

1. Shame About The Plane, Sir

[MontanaMama]

2. Interesting.

I’ve been following this crash…Hamilton’s airport doesn’t have air traffic control or a tower. My 18 year old kiddo flies in and out of there for touch and go practice. The plane crashed on Stock Farm property…a ritzy private mountain playground for the very wealthy.

[UpInArms]

3. Another good thing for the day

Thank you for posting

[Midnight Writer]

4. Sounds like he was on a career path to being a Republican Senator.

[Blue Owl]

5. Kamikazi republican

After all the damage is done, they take their own life...

[3auld6phart]

6. Dang

That is sad. The loss of another vintage aircraft.

[gay texan]

7. Feel sorry for the aircraft n/t

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

8. was his body identified? There is a case, covered by crime shows, guy and wife defrauded medicare

got caught, had huge amount to pay back to medicare.


While he was working on his car in the garage, garage caught on fire and he died in the fire.

The coroner noticed that the burned body skeleton was that of a teen, not a 40 plus year old man.

he had lured a teen to work for him at a huge salary, and killed him and used his body. Plan was defrauder - new identity- and wife to move on, free from the burden of the big restitution owed the government.

The defrauder was hiding out at a hotel. killed himself as the cops moved in.