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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:50 AM Jun 2014

Shadowy Obama Megadonor Indicted On Fraud And Manslaughter Charges

Source: TPM

ERIC LACH – JUNE 20, 2014, 11:19 AM EDT

A California grand jury has indicted Kareem Ahmed, a major donor to President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, and 15 of Ahmed's associates in an alleged multimillion-dollar insurance kickback scheme.

Ahmed, the president and CEO of a company called Landmark Medical Management, is accused of masterminding the scheme and faces charges including conspiracy, insurance fraud, and, most dramatically, involuntary manslaughter, according to one of two sealed indictments issued by an Orange County grand jury both dated June 17 and obtained this week by TPM.

The first of the two indictments accused Ahmed of developing topical cream formulas "based on the profitability of the ingredients," and then giving doctors who treated workers' compensation patients illegal financial incentives to prescribe the creams. The scheme, which ran from 2009-2013, also involved filing false claims with multiple insurance companies, the nine-count indictment alleges.

The indictment provides few details on the involuntary manslaughter charge, alleging only that Ahmed, a pharmacist named Michael Rudolph, and a doctor named Andrew Jarminiski (who are both charged along with Ahmed in the first indictment) "did unlawfully and without malice kill Andrew G. (a minor), a human being, in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner and without due caution and circumspection."

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/kareem-ahmed-obama-donor-indicted

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Shadowy Obama Megadonor Indicted On Fraud And Manslaughter Charges (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
And your point is jehop61 Jun 2014 #1
Good question. elleng Jun 2014 #3
I think the poster's point is Kelvin Mace Jun 2014 #4
Indeed. This is going to be another steak on the heap of red meat for the Reactionaries. Fantastic Anarchist Jun 2014 #6
You infer correctly, Kelvin Mace.... DonViejo Jun 2014 #7
also people might want to know things that happened Enrique Jun 2014 #10
If the campaign could give the money back, they should, probably cant randys1 Jun 2014 #2
It's probably not the greatest PR move NobodyHere Jun 2014 #9
The Benghazi replacement outrage story. nt valerief Jun 2014 #5
I wonder how many of the president's big donors are in the insurance racket Doctor_J Jun 2014 #8
 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
4. I think the poster's point is
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:17 PM
Jun 2014

(and I am inferring here) that a news story appeared on a fairly reliable site that a major Obama contributor is going down for major criminal activity. This is something we need to know because you can pretty sure that the other side will make hay of this and distort the facts to Jupiter and back.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
2. If the campaign could give the money back, they should, probably cant
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:01 PM
Jun 2014

Just another example of how fucked up our process is and how many disgusting people are part of it.

It is the system, we must fix the system, blaming any one person is a waste of time

 

NobodyHere

(2,810 posts)
9. It's probably not the greatest PR move
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 07:15 PM
Jun 2014

but screw giving the money the back, assuming the allegations are accurate.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
8. I wonder how many of the president's big donors are in the insurance racket
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 05:45 PM
Jun 2014

That might explain his abandonment of sp and the public option.

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