Scooter Store Raided; Workers told to leave, call FBI

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8. Crony capitalism stealing Medicare funding, from The Nation magazine:

http://www.thenation.com/article/170470/tagg-team-romney-family-recipe-crony-capitalism

Take Leder, Romney’s Boca Raton host, whose Sun Capital firm bought a stake in the Scooter Store last year. The company, known for its ubiquitous television ads promising seemingly free motorized wheelchairs for Medicare beneficiaries, has struggled as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that governs the programs, implements rules to curb rampant billing fraud. As a CMS report noted last year, 80 percent of the claims for scooters and power wheelchairs did not meet Medicare requirements, meaning that $492 million a year is being improperly spent.

Some of us were wondering why Tag Romney was looking so freaking intense during the 3rd presidential debate.