Ex-Hospital Exec, GOP Donor to Plead Guilty

[NVMojo]

How many of these GOP crook type stories today? Four?? At least???

WASHINGTON (AP) - A former hospital company executive has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with $50,000 in illegal corporate campaign contributions over more than five years, the man's lawyer and court papers said Friday.

Donald M. Boucher, who was a vice president of LifeCare Management Services of Plano, Texas, made the contributions between April 1997 and December 2002, prosecutors said in a filing in U.S. District Court in Washington.

LifeCare operates 21 hospitals in Louisiana, Texas and seven other states, according to the company's Web site. Most of Boucher's contributions went to Republican members of Congress, mainly from states with LifeCare hospitals, according to federal campaign records.

Individuals may contribute to federal candidates and committees, but corporate contributions are banned under federal law.

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LifeCare was acquired last summer by the Carlyle Group. Twenty-four patients died at a LifeCare facility on the grounds of a Tenet Healthcare Corp. hospital in New Orleans that was cut off by floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina.
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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/mar/03/030308998.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Can we just null and void

the elections since 2000. The amount of fraud, funny money and hacked votes is astounding.

[NVMojo]

2. it's beyond disgusting!

[acmejack]

3. Ethics and the GOP are mutually exclusive!

Low down conniving varmits.

[mom cat]

4. Another Caryle Group connection? ...

[stillcool]

5. isn't there always?....

I remember the hospital 'story's' around Katrina...and I recall Frist's little adventure...but I don't remember the Carlyle Group being mentioned. Jeepers they're into everything...the new world monarchy?

[mom cat]

6. You may be on to something there.

[NVMojo]

8. i need to do some homework ...Frist's family was the big owners

of Columbia HCA, I think they may have been the ones who spun off Tenent Healthcare which could have spun off LifeCare which I think is connected to LifePoint Healthcare ...all "private for profit" healthcare chains that have really made a farce out of healthcare in this country, even more so then pharmacies ...these bastards have been flying low and reaping major profits ...now we know why ...

[MadMaddie]

7. Was Frist tied in with this guy?

Oh one can only hope...