The Lawyer Bringing The Lawsuit Against The DNC Speaks Out

In this latest episode of Redacted Tonight VIP, Lee Camp talks to Jared Beck, the attorney leading the lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee, and its former leader Debbie Wasserman Schultz, for rigging the 2016 Democratic Primary for Hillary Clinton. Beck goes into detail with Lee about how Bernie Sanders and his supporters got screwed by an organization that, according to court hearings, felt no obligation to be transparent or impartial during the election process. While one would think such a blatant disrespect for the democratic process would get more play in the mainstream media, it's falling on deaf ears. In the second half, Lee Camp gets into the importance of the release of prisoner Chelsea Manning, who was originally sentenced to 35 years for revealing classified information about inhumane behavior in the U.S. military, including the slaughter of innocent civilians. Manning isn't the only one who suffered the worst for revealing the ugly truth about our country. Lee digs into other examples of how our government has made a habit of punishing people whose only mission was to reveal abuses in our society. Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Wells Fargo Whistle-Blower Wins $5.4 Million and His Job Back

A federal regulator on Monday ordered Wells Fargo to pay $5.4 million to a former manager who said he was fired in 2010 after reporting to his supervisors and to a bank ethics hotline what he suspected was fraudulent behavior.

The bank must also rehire him, the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/business/04-wells-fargo-whistleblower-fired-osha.html?_r=0

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Democrats Want An Investigation Into Donald Trump’s Whistleblower Threats

WASHINGTON ― With President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans threatening to go after the people who leaked classified material about Trump’s ties to Russia, Democrats are asking the Justice Department to investigate the potential intimidation of whistleblowers ― and they want Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself.

In a particularly stern letter, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee asked DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to look into whether the Trump administration has engaged in any “improper effort to intimidate or threaten whistleblowers.” Democrats also asked the inspector general to determine whether Sessions should sit out that sort of investigation, considering his personal ties to former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was also involved with the Trump campaign.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-trump-whistleblower-threats_us_58a737bee4b07602ad544da5

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BREAKING: Prison disciplinary board decides to punish Chelsea Manning with solitary confinement for charges related to suicide attempt

LEAVENWORTH, KS––A prison disciplinary board has decided to punish imprisoned transparency advocate Chelsea Manning with 14 days of solitary confinement (with 7 days suspended) for charges directly related to her suicide attempt in July, and possession of an unmarked book in her cell. The decision is the latest example of the U.S. government’s campaign of harassment and mistreatment of Chelsea, who has been incarcerated in all male military facilities for 6 years.

http://tumblr.fightforthefuture.org/post/150813426803/breaking-prison-disciplinary-board-decides-to

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Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Detroit Mayor Dave Bing

Detroit Whistle Blower Suit Against Mayor Dave Bing

SCOTUS Continues To Strips Whistleblowers of Whistles

The relator approaches the court, on behalf of the United States, on a mission, fearful of those horrible tales of loosing every chance of hope of being made whole again.  Out of the darkness of the legal forest, lurking, are the public disclosure bars of "persons, administrative, reports". Oh my.

At any time, the Court will crush you using one of these "interpretive buttresses" snatched off the Magna Carta, to beat you down and make you and your children go back to the fields and pick tomatoes and lettuce.  (Well, that is the goal once all the anchor babies are cleaned out of the country to give these great jobs to hard working, cheaper laboring American children.)

First the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) says, "Even though all the other laws say a State is a person, we don't think so when it comes to States allowing federal programs to be ripped off under the False Claims Act because it would be too embarrassing for the us because we allowed the States to do whatever they wanted when we give them money, and besides, the States never had to be held to fraud standards before in federal contracts and the Congress was never clear in its intent for the States to be considered as 'persons'."

How dare some average person dare think they have the entitlement right to challenge us!  We are the great Supreme Court of the United States!  Poor people have no rights and definitely no right to sue and get rich.

SCOTUS False Claims Act Opinion of Justice Scalia

There was a lone dissent which believed States were intended by the Congress to be considered as "persons".
SCOTUS Stevens False Claims Act Dissent in Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. U.S. ex rel. Stevensre

Then came another shaving of the qui tam when SCOTUS decided anything "administrative" fell under the "public disclosure bar" meaning any state or federal report, hearing, audit, or anything else as such are not allowed to be used by an original source.
Supreme Court of the United States GRAHAM COUNTY SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT et al., Petitioners...

But wait, SCOTUS, as well as those whose corporations make substantial killings, literally, bilking Medicaid in child welfare, decided that anything requested through a Freedom of Information of Act request falls under the "public disclosure bar".

Let's pretend this actually happened:

I walk into the residential institution where my child incarcerated after being ripped from his bed in the middle of the night for no reason beyond child protective services and the police going to the wrong address, is being tortured and, with a fake smile I politely ask for his IEP.  They hand it to me and it states he is considered "ineligible" for special needs, institutionalization and does not need medication, yet he is locked up in solitary confinement, beaten, raped, tortured, drugged suffering multiple heart attacks, tardive dyskensia, attempted suicides, surviving from meals of dried bread and potatoes with no heat in the winter or air conditioning in the summer, with different dates of birth on the court reports submitted to the court because my child was under aged for the facility.

Then, I go the office of the clerk of the court and pull his child protective services case and find out they fabricated a story of a car crash that never took place and had a duplicate fake case as a juvenile delinquent and were not just double billing, but billing me as a juvenile delinquent, also.

So I go and file a FCA and the court says: "So sorry, those are public docs and therefore, the States can do whatever the fuck they want to do and there is nothing that will ever be done because we only cater to the rich."

Let's keep pretending this did not happen, either.
Supreme Court of the United States SCHINDLER ELEVATOR CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. Dan...

"Qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur!"

Being a whistleblower and reporting fraud is a right of free speech.  Verifying it through FOIA requests makes an original source the subject matter expert.  I dare anyone to challenge, publicly of course, my expertise in child welfare fraud, even SCOTUS.

Whistleblower Alleges that U.S. Gun Agency Purposely Allowed Weapons to be Smuggled to Mexico

In an effort to catch Mexican drug lords, the federal agency responsible for regulating the gun industry and cracking down on gun crime allowed thousands of weapons to pass into Mexico and fall into the hands of criminals, according to a report by CBS News and other outlets this week. 

A senior agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—better known as the ATF—told CBS and the Center for Public Integrity that ATF supervisors instructed agents to not intercept weapons made in suspicious sales, but to monitor them to see where the weapons ended up. CBS reported that a number of unnamed agents have made similar allegations.

ATF's acting director has said that the agency will convene a panel to review its strategies for stopping the flow of firearms, but he did not comment to CBS on specifics about the allegations. ATF officials did acknowledge to CPI that there has been a larger shift in the organization’s strategy to go after the drug rings seeking the weapons instead of pursuing the low-level buyers involved in smuggling them:

Mark Chait, ATF’s assistant director in charge of field operations, told the Center he personally decided to change the strategy in September 2010 after years of futile efforts to interdict guns from small-time straw buyers with little hope of dismantling major drug trafficking organizations in Mexico.

The ATF whistleblower, John Dodson, told CBS that the strategy to monitor weapons purchased by suspected smugglers instead of seizing them was approved all the way up to the Justice Department and was kept secret from the government of Mexico. The Justice Department—of which ATF is a division—has denied the allegations. In a letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley, it stated that ATF “makes every effort” to prevent arms smuggling into Mexico and has never sanctioned or “knowingly allowed” sales to straw purchasers who then smuggled the guns across the border.

Recent incidents of violence against U.S. Border Patrol agents suggest that intentionally or otherwise, U.S. guns are still falling into the wrong hands. Last month, two U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot in Mexico with an AK-47 smuggled from Texas. One of those agents died. In December, another Border Patrol agent was killed near the Mexico border. Two guns were found at the scene of the killing, both purchased by a suspected gun smuggler who ATF had reportedly been monitoring but had taken no action against. According to the Los Angeles Times and CPI, hundreds of these weapons have still not been recovered.

The ATF has historically had fairly limited powers when it comes to cracking down on the trade of illicit guns, even domestically. As we’ve noted, it faces strong opposition by the pro-gun lobby, which has fought measures that would expose gun dealers or strengthen the agency’s reach. From our previous story:

[The agency] has gone without a permanent director for four years. The Obama administration, while stating its commitment to doing “all that we can” to stop the flow of U.S. weapons to Mexican drug cartels, waited more than a year and half to even nominate a director—and when a nominee was named, the National Rifle Association was quick to opposethe nomination.

The agency is still without a director.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon last month criticized the efforts of U.S. agencies working to combat the cartels, calling them “notoriously insufficient.” Calderon met with President Obama yesterday, who said that the U.S. has to do its part and “take responsibility” in fighting the drug wars.

The Justice Department’s inspector general has been asked to investigate the recent allegations about the ATF’s strategy. ATF’s public affairs officer sent an internal memo on Thursday asking the agency’s press officers to “proactively push positive stories” to counter the recent “negative coverage,” CBS reported.

Quo Warranto Exhibits in Petition Against Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum

Tampa Attorney Barry Cohen issued this press release announcing the filing of a State Supreme Court petition challenging Florida Attorney General and Republican Candidate for State Governor, Bill McCollum,  alleging that he received political campaign contributions from WellCare, party to a Medicaid fraud case, in exchange for  a lenient price tag for the settlement of the case.

The petition is what is called a quo warranto.  First of the writs extraordinaire, which can operate as an oversight mechanism, is when a citizen, in possession of the unenumerated right of the writ, in this case information of Medicaid fraud, goes forth, on behalf of the state, to challenge the authority of an individual holding public office or functioning in official capacity of the state, by petitioning the Attorney General to bring forth an action in the Supreme Court.

As Bill McCollum is the State Attorney General and subject of the quo warranto, that would be an inherent conflict of interest.

This conflict of interest triggers an activation argument, which is what gives this particular quo warranto significant weight in setting precedence with the substantive subject matter of Medicaid fraud within the States Medicaid Fraud Control Units.

Quo Warranto Exhbits in Petition Against Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum

All Hail The Florida Whistleblowers!

Taking the time to disperse Medicaid fraud news is more than exposing the fraud schemes, it also praises the brave and brilliant individuals who embark on such endeavors.

All hail the whistleblowers!!!

To Barry Cohen and his associates, I thank you for believing.


Petition says McCollum gave WellCare a break in fraud case

TAMPA - Attorney Barry Cohen claims in a new court petition that Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is so tainted by campaign cash from WellCare  Health Plans and [here are the foster care Targeted Case Management programs!] that he shouldn't be involved in a massive settlement with the insurer.

Cohen's law firm is representing Sean Hellein, a former WellCare financial analyst, in a whistleblower suit against the Tampa-based company.

Hellein claims WellCare conspired over several years to defraud the federal government, Florida and six other states out of at least $400 million. [It's more than that!!!] He said WellCare got the money through Medicaid, the insurance program for low-income people.

WellCare has reached a potential deal to settle with the U.S. Department of Justice for $137.5 million. But Cohen and Hellein say the amount is too low and would allow WellCare to keep two-thirds of its ill-gotten gains.

At a news conference Tuesday morning, Cohen sought to link McCollum to what he called the state's failure to aggressively pursue WellCare. Cohen filed a petition asking the Florida Supreme Court to block McCollum from the proposed settlement.

The petition said that when he ran for attorney general in 2006, McCollum received $9,000 in direct contributions from WellCare. The figure is supported by a Tribune search of online campaign finance records.

But the petition said McCollum also benefited from more than $800,000 in contributions that WellCare provided to the Republican Party of Florida. The money was turned over to McCollum's campaign, the petition said.

The petition cites Republican Party contributions to McCollum's campaign that occurred within days of a large WellCare contribution to the party. Most money went to McCollum's campaign for attorney general, not his recent unsuccessful run for governor.

As attorney general, McCollum heads a unit that investigates Medicaid fraud.

Ryan Wiggins, a spokeswoman for McCollum's office, declined to comment on the allegations, saying, "We are waiting on further direction from the court."

Daniel Conston, spokesman for the Republican Party of Florida, denied any contributions were earmarked for McCollum.

"I'd chalk this up to one of many absurd allegations thrown around in politics today," Conston said. "The RPOF simply does not earmark contributions, nor would a contribution cause a GOP leader to turn a blind eye to a potential crime."

The petition said the contributions help explain why McCollum failed to investigate exactly how much WellCare improperly received from Florida, and why McCollum did not object when Gov. Charlie Crist appointed Andrew Agwunobi as head of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.

Agwunobi served on WellCare's board of directors before taking the job at AHCA.

McCollum also looked the other way when legislators drafted a bill that might have helped WellCare but hurt the public, the petition said.

It happened when WellCare faced a $23 million repayment to the state of Florida for overcharging its Medicaid fund. WellCare successfully lobbied for legislation to head off future repayments but Crist vetoed the bill containing the measure.