Does Rick Scott really want to relitigate his Medicare scandal?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Republican Sen. Rick Scott doesn't just want to relitigate his Medicare scandal during his re-election campaign, he also has a new conspiracy theory.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/rick-scott-really-want-relitigate-medicare-scandal-rcna151636

But that wasn’t the interesting part. Rather, it was Scott’s claims about his own victimization that stood out for me. Rolling Stone reported:

Standing outside Donald Trump’s criminal trial, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) suggested he, like Trump, was the victim of unfair political persecution — pointing to the Justice Department’s inquiry into his hospital chain, which paid $1.7 billion to resolve Medicare fraud charges.

“I’m fed up,” Scott told reporters. “I watched what happened to me and my company.”

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Though the article is no longer online, The Miami Herald reported in 2010 that federal investigators “found that Scott took part in business practices at Columbia/HCA that were later found to be illegal — specifically, that Scott and other executives offered financial incentives to doctors in exchange for patient referrals, in violation of federal law, according to lawsuits the Justice Department filed against the company in 2001.”

As Rolling Stone’s report added, the Florida Republican even used to express a degree of contrition over the matter, telling voters in 2010, “I’ve made mistakes in my life. And mistakes were certainly made at Columbia/HCA.”

That was 14 years ago. Now, evidently, Scott has settled on an entirely new position: He was a victim of a secret Justice Department plot orchestrated by then-first lady Hillary Clinton.

Even by contemporary GOP standards, this is awfully weird, though the Republican incumbent is generally seen as likely to win re-election anyway.

Rick Scott is a pure scum bag who got off by taking the 5th

[Deuxcents]

1. Rick Scott took the 5th in his deposition 75 times in 2000

He and his company Columbia/HCA were charged with fraud in a 1.7 Billion dollar rip off of Medicare and some other federal programs and were fined over 600 million dollars. He became the governor of Florida and now Senator…😤

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. He should be in prison

since he pulled this theft. 2 sets of laws.

[Geechie]

3. The medical term for his condition

Dipshit

[Johonny]

4. Corporations are people until the criminal activity

Is discovered. Then the corporation pays the penalty and the people walk away with pockets bulging with cash.

[niyad]

5. skeletor speaks?

[liberal N proud]

6. As messed up as the republican policies and actions are...

They refuse to understand they are wrong

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Rick Scott is a criminal