..and it comes from a Teabagger.
According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Jacques Roy is facing life in prison for a $375 million dollar fraud scheme.
A Texas doctor was accused Tuesday in the largest Medicare fraud case in US history, with federal prosecutors charging him with scamming the government with $375 million in phony billings. [...]
The newspaper reported that Roy and his assistant, who was also charged, sent “recruiters” door-to-door in the Dallas area to get people to sign bogus medical forms that were then used in the alleged scam. The pair even went as far as to pay homeless people $50 each to sign the forms, according to the DOJ accusations.
The grounds that he's a Tea Partier? Political donations.
Mr. JACQUES ROY (JACQUES ROY/PHYSICIAN), (Zip code: 75087) $500 to OUR COUNTRY DESERVES BETTER PAC - TEAPARTYEXPRESS.ORG on 01/10/10
Mr. JACQUES ROY (JACQUES ROY/PHYSICIAN), (Zip code: 75087) $200 to OUR COUNTRY DESERVES BETTER PAC - TEAPARTYEXPRESS.ORG on 08/31/09
Mr. JACQUES ROY (JACQUES ROY/PHYSICIAN), (Zip code: 75087) $250 to OUR COUNTRY DESERVES BETTER PAC - TEAPARTYEXPRESS.ORG on 10/06/09
Mr. JACQUES ROY (JACQUES ROY/PHYSICIAN), (Zip code: 75087) $200 to OUR COUNTRY DESERVES BETTER PAC - TEAPARTYEXPRESS.ORG on 10/16/09
Mr. JACQUES ROY (JACQUES ROY/PHYSICIAN), (Zip code: 75087) $200 to OUR COUNTRY DESERVES BETTER PAC - TEAPARTYEXPRESS.ORG on 11/06/09
Dr. Jacques A. Roy (Self Employed/Physician), (Zip code: 75087) $300 to TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE on 12/21/10
Yes, our country deserves better. Better than screwing Medicare out of hundreds of millions of dollars while simultaneously contributing to the campaigns of those who would use him as an example of the failure of Medicare. This is full-circle hypocrisy.