D.C. Exec Admits Lying About Contributions

[icymist]

By Associated Press

May 15, 2006, 5:29 PM EDT


WASHINGTON -- A former hospital company executive pleaded guilty Monday to making a false statement about $50,000 in illegal corporate campaign contributions over a five-year period.

During a hearing in U.S. District Court, Donald M. Boucher, 72, former vice president of LifeCare Management Services of Plano, Texas, admitted lying to the Federal Election Commission about the contributions that were made between April 1997 and December 2002.

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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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[UpInArms]

1. but - you left out the part that said those contributions went to the GOP

Most of Boucher's contributions went to Republican members of Congress, mainly from states with LifeCare hospitals, according to federal campaign records.

I knew before I even looked. I have become ultra-cynical.

[Supersedeas]

2. more slime to add to the Freep cesspool

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. 24 dead is pretty mild for a Carlyle buyout.

Times must be lean.

[leveymg]

4. Carlyle Group owned Lifecare unit in NOLA where 24 patients died.

How come that part wasn't spotlighted by the MSM? AP is among the worst offenders in sanitizing headlines. So, who controls AP? They control much of the news.

There was some attention paid to the Lifecare/Tenet/Carlyle scandal in the blogs back in March:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/8/161330/5884
Contributions, Lifecare and Carlyle,
by ilyana
Wed Mar 08, 2006 at 01:13:30 PM PDT
Under the wire ... An executive from the LifeCare Management Services pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions. To whom were these contributions made?
You guessed it: mostly to Republican Congressmen who represented states that had Lifecare Hospitals. LifeCare Management Services is the company that operated in several of the hospitals in New Orleans, one of which hit the headlines with 24 dead patients after Katrina. Lifecare operated at Memorial Hospital (a Tenet Healthcare Corporation facility) , and has been under investigation for accusations of the "mercy killing" of some of these people(1). More convoluted is the fact that Lifecare was acquired by The Carlyle Group this past summer.(2)


Carlyle group, illegal campaign contributions? Naw, that couldn't be. Boucher is just a bad apple in a barrel of nice shiny bombs,uh,I mean pomes, pomes! Carlyle wouldn't buy any special favors, would they? They just give lucrative jobs to politicians who leave public office, that's all.

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[The Deacon]

5. Carlyle Group?

Isn't that the people Junior's Daddy pimps for?

[leveymg]

6. Yes. Poppy, and the former heads of half a dozen countries.

They all work for the Saudis and Emirs, who own a majority stake in Carlyle, the world's largest investment bank.

[0007]

7. An Republican scam and another Carlyle Group fingerprint

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.

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.

[kestrel91316]

8. Gee, let me guess - ANOTHER Republican???