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Texas TBagger Doctor Indicted In Largest Medicare Fraud In History
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/28/1069138/-TBagger-Doctor-Indicted-In-Largest-Medicare-Fraud-In-History
Justice Department officials announced that Dr. Jacques Roy was arrested in Texas and faces life in prison as well as fines of more than $250,000 if convicted.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Doctor Roy and his assistant, who was also charged, sent recruiters door-to-door in the Dallas area to get people to sign bogus medical forms that were then used in the alleged scam. The pair even went as far as to pay homeless people $50 each to sign the forms, according to the DOJ accusations.
(his contributions,according to OpenSecrets:
ROY, JACQUES A DR
ROCKWALL,TX 75087 SELF EMPLOYED/PHYSICIAN 12/21/10 $300 Texas Medical Assn
ROY, JACQUES MR
ROCKWALL,TX 75087 JACQUES ROY/PHYSICIAN 1/10/10 $500 Tea Party Express/Our Country Deserves B
ROY, JACQUES MR
ROCKWALL,TX 75087 JACQUES ROY/PHYSICIAN 10/6/09 $250 Tea Party Express/Our Country Deserves B
ROY, JACQUES MR
ROCKWALL,TX 75087 JACQUES ROY/PHYSICIAN 10/16/09 $200 Tea Party Express/Our Country Deserves B
ROY, JACQUES MR
ROCKWALL,TX 75087 JACQUES ROY/PHYSICIAN 11/6/09 $200 Tea Party Express/Our Country Deserves B
ROY, JACQUES MR
ROCKWALL,TX 75087 JACQUES ROY/PHYSICIAN 8/31/09 $200 Tea Party Express/Our Country Deserves B
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)He is a job creator
Viking12
(6,012 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)just not to accept help from it. After all, they stole it from us lawa-abidin' taxpayers, right?
siligut
(12,272 posts)To right-wing causes. The worst medicare fraud I have seen was in Florida and Utah.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)Jeb Bush and our beloved pRick Scott. And people voted them in AFTER the frauds were proven.
Aren't we special!?
nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)When the authorities shut them down, they just moved their office and changed their name. The punishment for fraud has to act as a deterrent, otherwise, the rewards are too tempting.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)butterfly77
(17,609 posts)iverglas
(38,549 posts)Roy held a medical licence in Quebec from 1981 until 1995.
Quebec's college of physicians says he had no record of disciplinary action.
He is a Canadian who deserted the public health insurance system here and took his mainly publicly paid-for education south to make his fortune.
Sad for you neighbours. But not surprising from this side of the border.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)It's all over the news here.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)This is the first I've heard of it.
SolutionisSolidarity
(606 posts)nm