Corrupt Minnesota business owner dies in Montana warbird crash [View all]

[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.