Prostitution? Drugs? Staffer plugs ears, suggests 'dealers' call it 'babysitting'
Posted: July 18, 2011, By Drew Zahn
'Drug dealers' applying for Medicaid
Undercover citizen journalist James O'Keefe is at it again, this time capturing on video an Ohio government worker helping a "drug dealer" commit Medicaid fraud.
Posing as Russian drug smugglers who drive an exotic, $800,000 sports car and hire out their underage sister as a prostitute, O'Keefe's operatives reportedly applied for Medicaid assistance for their father with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services, where government employee Traci Daniels told the applicants to omit listing their expensive car as an asset and report their line of work as "babysitting."
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"Maybe I just wouldn't mention it," Daniels said of the car, "not that I can say that. You didn't hear that from me. … He would be immediately not qualified."
Putting her fingers in her ears after discussing the alleged fraud, Daniels said, "Lalalalala, I don't hear."
Even after the operatives hinted strongly that they were in the drug business, calling their product "Bob Marley pharmaceuticals," the worker said, "I know what you're saying, and I don't want to hear what you're saying."
"Babysitting," she said, advising the "drug dealers" to list their business as something more innocuous.
As for the operatives' alleged underage sister, who they said does "sexual favors" for their clients and therefore needs abortions, Daniels merely referred them to Planned Parenthood.
Under the names "Sergei" and "Evgeni Ivanovich," the "drug dealers" reportedly also visited offices in Marion County and London (Madison County), Ohio, as well, their hidden video camera capturing workers who listened dispassionately as they confessed to selling "illicit drugs" and using their underage sister to seal the drug deals.
According to O'Keefe's Project Veritas website, the case workers "never called the police, Child Protective Services or the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In fact, the case workers appear eager to assist the reporters in filling out the necessary Medicaid paperwork."
The video begins by citing a report from The Columbus Dispatch that says it costs Ohio $15.4 billion per year to run the Medicaid program – or $29,000 per minute.
"In this time of economic uncertainty, the American people deserve to know how their tax dollars are being wasted," writes O'Keefe on his website. "This is hardly an isolated incident. Government workers willing to aid people with criminal backgrounds and great wealth should be an outrage to every American."
As WND reported, O'Keefe and his associate Hannah Giles produced a series revealing reports shot undercover at offices of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform, or ACORN, in which workers consented to help the pair, posing as a pimp and prostitute, use grants and programs to help establish their business, avoid IRS complications and more.
The exposé helped put ACORN's illegal and unethical operations in the spotlight, prompting Congress to remove the organization's federal funding, which in turn resulted in ACORN filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Election Day last year.
...reportedly applied for Medicaid assistance for their father with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services...
Looks like a local problem.
Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.
Total amount of Medicare/Medicaid fraud nationwide is almost $100 BILLION per year......
How much of fraud is perpetrated by health care providers?
Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.
Total amount of Medicare/Medicaid fraud nationwide is almost $100 BILLION per year...... How much of fraud is perpetrated by health care providers?
I seen an article awhile back (1-2 years ago) that broke it down as to where they thought the fraud was occuring..... If I remember correctly it was individuals posing as health practitioners that was responsible for most of it.
I'm assuming these people had worked in doctors offices before and knew how to fill out all of the appropriate paperwork to scam the system. I would think they would have to submit some type of certification showing they are an actual licensed practitioner, to be able to be added to the "Approved Physician List".... And I'm also assuming that the Medicare/Medicaid officials don't even bother to go out and verify periodically who are actual and who are the fake health practitioners....
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I seen an article awhile back (1-2 years ago) that broke it down as to where they thought the fraud was occuring..... If I remember correctly it was individuals posing as health practitioners that was responsible for most of it.
It is Real doctors, real hospitals, nursing homes, home health care agencies, and real pharmacies defrauding medicare, medicaid, and insurance companies. Real corporations like Hospital Corporation of America, founded by Senator Bill Frist's father and run by Frist's brother:
By 1999, eleven states were involved in litigation. Faced with the threat of a massive settlement, Thomas shed assets and amassed a legal war chest, buying back $2 billion in shares.
After an internecine legal battle, HCA settled with the Justice Department in 2001 for $840 million. The charges included bilking Medicare, Medicaid and the military's healthcare system by intentionally misidentifying marketing expenses as reimbursable "community education," striking illegal deals with home care agencies, and claiming reimbursement that idle space in a hospital was being used for patient care.
The fraud investigation involved 30 U.S. attorneys' offices, 22 FBI field offices, inspectors general from the Health and Human Service Department and the Office of Personnel Management, Defense Department investigators and state fraud units.
More money and more litigation
But it wasn't over.
Under a 2002 settlement; announced just before Frist took his leadership post; HCA settled with the Justice Department for allegedly filing false claims and paying kickbacks to doctors so they would refer Medicare and Medicaid patients to its facilities. The settlement was $630 million -- bringing the company's payouts for fraud to $2.7 billion, the largest in history.
As a soldier in the class war against poor people and government, James O'Keefe ignores "productive" private sector professional fraud and goes after a clerk in a county office. She committed no fraud. O'Keefe's actors, misrepresented who they were and I guess we could say, committed a little fraud themselves wasting government employee's time and tax payer money.
Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.
