Reply #7: more here

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found at http://www.1115.org/2007/04/10/novation-llc-medicare-fraud-us-attorneys-accidental-deaths-firings/

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On March 9, 2005, Medical Supply Chain, Inc. filed a civil antitrust suit against Texas based Novation LLC, Volunteer Hospital Association (VHA), University Health System Consortium (UHC) and Neoforma, Inc., alleging that the companies formed a cartel and were involved in a scheme to monopolize hospital supplies to defraud Medicare through payments to administrators and kickbacks.

Todd P. Graves, U.S. Attorney for the western District of Missouri, was working on this anti-trust suit (i.e., prosecuting Novation et al).

A U.S. Department of Justice memo unearthed by Medical Supply Chain founder Samuel Lipari in the course of discovery in this anti-trust suit shows that the Attorney General’s office had targeted not eight but ten U.S. Attorneys, including Todd Graves.

The e-mail dated January 9th, 2006 from Kyle Sampson, chief of staff for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, to Harriet Miers and William Kelley at the White House, shows the ten U.S. Attorneys that were first selected to voluntarily resign or face termination. Attorneys that resigned were redacted. Todd P. Graves of Missouri resigned March 24, 2006.

Graves was replaced by Bradley J. Schlozman.

He worked in the Justice Department - and was one of the primary guys who helped get approval for Tom DeLay</strong>’s controversial Texas redistricting plan. In other words, a true Bush supporter.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used a little known provision of the USA PATRIOT Act to replace Todd P. Graves with Bradley Schlozman. Bradley Schlozman failed to prosecute public corruption related to the Medical Supply Chain litigation and failed to enforce civil rights laws related to the Novation LLC defendants’ success in getting Medical Supply Chain’s counsel Bret D. Landrith disbarred. Samuel Lipari raised these concerns before the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit. On January 16, 2007 Attorney General Gonzales tried to quell criticism of the mass US Attorney firings and the misuse of the USA PATRIOT Act by announcing John Wood would be taking Schlozman’s place in Kansas City.

And who, pray, is John Wood? He’s “the husband of Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Julie Myers and an ex-deputy general counsel of the White House Office of Management and Budget.” So delightfully incestuous, innit?

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so we have more evidence of disenfranchising the voters amongst other things...

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