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Alligator takes bite out of fraud

By Brian F. LaBovick

Dear Blog Readers,

I write this blog with absolute reverence. What I am about to share is a biblical tale of the Lord's retribution against the evil fraudsters in our midst.  In modern society we often see the hand of the Lord as a simple act of coincidence or an explained scientific event or better yet, a scientific anomaly.  But here, the hand of the Lord is obvious.   He  (this is not intended to be sexist) is against those who defraud Medicare.  That's right, you heard it here first.  The Lord is paying attention to the fraudulent people who are ripping off Medicare.

Ok, let me clarify this beginning.   On Wednesday, December 5, 2007, Mark Potter, an NBC Correspondent, wrote an article for MSNBC.com entitled "Fake Companies Steal Billions from Medicare". What makes this article interesting is that it involves a man from Miami, Florida, literally being eaten by an alligator while running from the police. Another important feature about this man is that he allegedly ran a fraudulent Medical Supply Company in Florida. 

Make no mistake about it.  This is not an unfortunate event.  This is one of those events that gets written down in the Holy Scriptures and retold for centuries to come.  I can hear it now:

And the people cried, for the coins set aside for the sick were stolen by the evil souls amongst the people.  And so the people sent their courageous fighters to find the evil souls, collect their coins and cage the evil to stop the theft of the coins set aside for the ill.  The courageous fighters searched across the swamps and paved lots through a sea of multi-colored automobiles.  Upon finding the evil souls the courageous fighters took flight to capture and cage the evil amongst them.  The evil would not be taken and caged and thus also took flight.  Into the wilderness the evil fled to avoid capture by the courageous fighters.  Through all  this  the Lord was watching.  The Lord was angered by the evil in the land.  The Lord knew the coins set aside for the sick were sacred to the people.  Helping the ill was judged by the Lord as good and proper under his laws and commandments.  Therefore the coins were good and aiding the ill was important to the Lord.  The Lord  decided he would no longer permit the evil to dwell in the land.  The Lord sent a great lizard to rise up from the Earth's midst.  The great lizard heard the voice of the Lord and came forth  to teach the people how to rid the evil from their midst.  The great lizard searched the wilderness until it found the evil souls.  In a quick and merciless moment  the  great lizard tore from limb to limb the evil souls .  The people could hear the gnashing of teeth and the and wrenching of souls.  The intent of the Lord was good and the people understood the evil must dwell in the land no more.

Can we stick that in one of the minor scriptures?

All Jokes aside. It is not my intent to be blasphemous.  Please note: I am just kidding around.   I do think it is unfortunate that the Lord doesn't intervene more often to stop fraudulent people.  But then again, the Lord could be leaving it up to us to take action and bring these corrupt people to justice.  The fraud that is going on in the world around us is astounding.  Medicare is bilked out of an estimated $60+ Billion  (yes "B" billion) dollars a year.  Imagine what we could do with the money, if it was applied to some cause other then fraud.

Potential Whistleblowers: If you know of a significant fraudulent scheme, stand up.  Stop the silence.  The sight of criminals driving luxury cars and living on oceanfront mansions is too much for society to bear.  These people must be brought to Justice.  If the Lord is willing to take one or two out with an alligator now and again, so be it.  But we are being challenged to take out the rest.  We must take a stand.  We must swallow the safety of anonymity and report the fraud.  We must be willing to fight.

Brian

Full post as published by Whistleblower Law Blog on December 11, 2007 (boomark / email).