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The Miami Herald reports:
Conventional political wisdom would typically advise candidates to steer clear of mentioning their past controversies. But U.S. Sen. Rick Scott went out of his way, quite literally, on Thursday to attend former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan and remind Americans that he once ran a healthcare company that was slapped with the largest Medicare fraud fine in U.S. history.
In a press conference outside the courthouse in Manhattan where Trump is on trial, Scott compared the criminal charges against Trump to the federal Medicare and Medicaid fraud investigation that resulted in $1.7 billion in fines against Columbia/HCA, the healthcare company that helped make Scott the United States’ wealthiest U.S. senator. But in comparing himself to Trump, Scott is also trying to rewrite history. Scott himself acknowledged years ago that his company had “made mistakes.”
Read the full article. In the video below, Scott claims that his company’s Medicare fraud charges only came because Hillary Clinton sicced the DOJ on him because he had campaigned against “Hillarycare.” Scott ended up leaving his company with $300 million in stock.
Rick Scott tries to rewrite history on $1.7 billion Medicare fraud controversy https://t.co/ePz9gcQqrj
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) May 9, 2024
While Rick Scott’s company was committing Medicare fraud, he pled the Fifth 75 times and wouldn’t even confirm his signature….
The Florida man is a fraudsterpic.twitter.com/eRuLCSpsDA
— Lebang Moloi (@lebang_moloi) May 9, 2024
Rick Scott compares the prosecution of Trump to his own company, which was found to have engaged in the biggest Medicare fraud in history at the time and pleaded guilty to 14 felonies. https://t.co/HqYisr4UhU
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 9, 2024