Ex-Hospital Exec, GOP Donor to Plead Guilty

[NVMojo]

How many of these GOP crook type stories today? Four?? At least???

WASHINGTON (AP) - A former hospital company executive has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with $50,000 in illegal corporate campaign contributions over more than five years, the man's lawyer and court papers said Friday.

Donald M. Boucher, who was a vice president of LifeCare Management Services of Plano, Texas, made the contributions between April 1997 and December 2002, prosecutors said in a filing in U.S. District Court in Washington.

LifeCare operates 21 hospitals in Louisiana, Texas and seven other states, according to the company's Web site. Most of Boucher's contributions went to Republican members of Congress, mainly from states with LifeCare hospitals, according to federal campaign records.

Individuals may contribute to federal candidates and committees, but corporate contributions are banned under federal law.

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LifeCare was acquired last summer by the Carlyle Group. Twenty-four patients died at a LifeCare facility on the grounds of a Tenet Healthcare Corp. hospital in New Orleans that was cut off by floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina.
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