MIAMI (AP) -- Lured by easier money and shorter prison sentences, Mafia figures and other violent criminals are increasingly moving into Medicare fraud and spilling blood over what was once a white-collar crime.
Around the nation, federal investigators have been threatened, an informant's body was found riddled with bullets, and a woman was discovered dead in a pharmacy under investigation, her throat slit with a piece of broken toilet seat.
via hosted.ap.org
Well, that's good news for health care reform. Get it right, or sleep with the fishes.
There was a story on NPR a few years ago about how the "agent" for healthcare contracts receives something like 18% of the contracts value, so the "mob" had moved in as the "agent" for the various healthcare contracts for many of the unions in North Jersey. Easy money .. completely legit.
Posted by: Neo | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 12:41 PM