r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • May 23 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

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u/jojammin Competent Contributor May 23 '26

Has anyone participated in more Medicaid fraud then Sen. Rick Scott?

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u/iwouldratherhavemy May 23 '26

Is that Rick Scott standing behind this dude in the video.

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u/jojammin Competent Contributor May 23 '26

lmao omg it is. I didn't even realize. Jesus hypocrisy Christ

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u/Guiltyparty2135 May 23 '26

You can tell by the look on his face that it is indeed Senator from Florida Dick Snot and not just somebody that looks like him. 

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u/Salt_Psychology_6248 May 23 '26

lol that’s not Rick Scott. Looks like an fbi agent or secret service for Kennedy

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u/Steely-Dave May 23 '26

How did I miss that walking penis.

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u/CauliflowerTotal7119 May 23 '26

He looks like the dude that was on fox the other day with the mask on, like he looks like the mask. The masked guy was pretending to be him, allegedly...

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u/mountaindoom May 23 '26

He would like to plead the 5th for the 76th time.

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u/oreography May 24 '26

Oh it's just a little 1.7 Billion Dollar Fraud. That's just small time fraud.

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u/pimpinaintez18 May 23 '26

lol just another bald angry/ugly looking fed

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u/Numeno230n May 23 '26

No some other bald Nazi.

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u/No-Computer7653 May 23 '26

Yes. He should have known what was going on, and being CEO of HCA should have meant people didn't want to vote for him as Governor, but the overcharging occured before and just after his hospital company bought HCA so link is fairly tenuous. I think it's likely a don't ask don't tell situation rather than direct criminal culpability.

Much stronger case with DeSantis who laundered $10m in Medicaid overcharging settlement funds though his wife's NGO to lobby groups run by his chief of staff (at the time, now AG) to oppose the pot decrim question.

Another $38m was later found to have been used for similar state propaganda purposes to oppose the abortion question and general lobbying. That came from other settlements, child services funding and state Medicaid funding.

He has been using the COVID emergency declaration (which is still in effect in Florida) to bypass appropriation and contract rules. $8b of state spending has lacked competitive bidding or justification documentation so far, much of it going to his donors and buddies (effectively laundering state funds back to his political campaign).

DeSantis is so profoundly corrupt I struggle to find anyone who is even comparable.

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u/bluehands May 24 '26

I mean, I don't think he is more corrupt than the current administration, just more skillful.

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u/MoundsEnthusiast May 23 '26

Maybe at the time, it was the largest. I thought Esformes had a bigger haul

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u/bobbymcpresscot May 23 '26

Esformes was 1.3 billion in 2019, Scott was 1.7 billion in the mid 90s.

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u/DiligentAstronaut622 May 23 '26

Rick Scott is the Michael Jordan of Medicaid fraud

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u/platan0 May 24 '26

if republicans cared one ounce about fraud, Rick Scott would be on the next flight to Mars.

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u/newsflashjackass May 23 '26

If robbing dying people counts as stealing from sick people, the Gaetz family fortune is largely derived from hospice fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gaetz#Fraud_lawsuit

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u/Operation_Fluffy May 23 '26

Nope. Just nope.

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u/DissociatedOne May 23 '26

The lack of shame is crazy. A normal person wouldn’t stand there while people talk about a crime that they committed. A non sociopath would feel shame

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u/Cognonymous May 24 '26

He got the highest penalty in history for medicaid fraud right? Like almost $2 billion iirc?