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Title: US Attorney Todd Graves in Missouri: The ninth victim of Gonzogate (MYSTERIOUS DEATHS OF FEDERAL PROSECUTORS)
Source: Daily Kos
URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/17/18120/2944
Published: Apr 23, 2007
Author: "James Risser"
Post Date: 2007-04-23 18:57:05 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 310
Comments: 13

US Attorney Todd Graves in Missouri: The ninth victim of Gonzogate

by james risser [Subscribe]
Tue Apr 17, 2007 at 03:11:59 PM PDT

The Bush Crime Family consider themselves magicians. While we look in one place, the trick is played in the other. They claim that this or that US Attorney did not go after voter-fraud, or immigration, or terrorism with sufficient fervor; yet, upon further investigation, the truth is found not in what they are saying, but, in what they are doing behind the curtain.

Once again, I understand this diary is lengthy. But, this scandal spreads from Texas, to Missouri, to Arkansas, and to Washington, D.C.; it spans several years, there are several fired, resigned, and dead attorneys, along with violations of the Patriot Act, the Anti-Trust laws, and probably a RICO criminal syndicate underlies the entire matter. The tags indicate just how deep this particular scandal in Missouri goes into the depths of the Bush Crime Family.

Introduction

There are several parts below. The first sections of the diary have to do with litigation against Novation LLC for its antitrust violations in the market for medical supplies. Novation's parent is Tenet Healthcare Corp of Texas. During the time of the litigation, three assistant US Attorneys left the Dallas office en masse; two other lawyers mysteriously died within two months of each other in Texas with direct connections to litigation there. And, over the same period, three US Attorneys in the Western District of Missouri headed that office.

Coincidently, Carol Lam was investigating similar health care fraud in San Diego at the time of her dismissal against a Tenet Health Care Hospital. There is also a connection to Bud Collins in Arkansas who at the time of his replacement by Karl Rove's friend, was investigating Governor Matt Blunt for campaign violations--one element of Collins' case was that Graves is alleged to have received a kickback from Blunt.

PART ONE: Novation LLC

I. Novation LLC

Allow me to start with a letter written to Senator Clair McCaskill by the President and CEO of the company, Medical Supply Chain, Samuel Lipari:

The U.S. Justice department has been reported by the New York Times and the London Times to be investigating Novation LLC for its anticompetitive practices in the market for hospital supplies. The Assistant U.S. Attorney in Ft. Worth Texas who signed the subpoenas against Novation LLC passed away as did the Ft. Worth office’s Assistant Attorney in charge of Medicare Fraud two months earlier. The U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales immediately fired three more Assistant U.S. Attorneys with extensive experience in prosecuting white collar crime that worked in the Ft. Worth, Texas U.S. Attorney Office which started the investigation of Novation, LLC. The US Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales while in private practice was a partner with the law firm of Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. that represents Novation, LLC in my complaint and other hospital supply antitrust litigation.

Novation is owned by Tenet Healthcare Corp where Jeb Bush is on the Board of Directors, and where Jerry Barbakow, the CEO, resigned in 2003; he was not missed:"Barbakow’s departure was welcomed by investors, who saw Tenet’s stock plunge in October after several investigations into the company were launched. Barbakow is an active member of the Bush Crime Family as a Bush Pioneer, for the 2004 campaign. Here is a brief summary:

Tenet Healthcare’s board ended Jeffrey Barbakow’s 10-year reign as CEO in May 2003 with the company where it was at the start of his 10-year reign--under a massive scandal cloud. Federal investigators raided Tenet facilities in 2002, probing federal charges that Tenet hospitals, officials and doctors: Over-billed Medicare; Paid doctors illegal referral kickbacks; and Performed unnecessary heart surgeries. A 2003 shareholder committee reported that Tenet could face legal liabilities of up to $6 billion for its Medicare billing practices alone. Tenet agreed to pay a record $54 million in 2003 to settle federal charges that doctors at one of its California hospitals billed Uncle Sam for unnecessary surgeries.

From the New York Times:

The central issue, according to current and former industry executives, is whether the industry's use of rebates, discounts, barter arrangements and refunds to hospitals and other medical centers means that Medicare and Medicaid are being charged higher prices for products than the hospitals are actually spending.

The investigation appears to be centered on the medical-supply industry's dealings with Novation, a company in Irving, Tex., that is an industry leader in negotiating the contracts that thousands of hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and other facilities use to buy drugs and other supplies.

About $20 billion a year in medical products and services are sold under contracts arranged by Novation, which is owned by about 2,200 of the hospitals and care centers that use its services. They include well-known medical centers like New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Yale-New Haven Health Services and Baylor Health Care System in Dallas.

Because Novation is the link between thousands of health facilities on one side, and hundreds of medical goods and services companies on the other, the scope of the federal investigation appears to be broad.

II. The dead and the missing in action

Thelma Quince-Colbert

Ms Colbert is alleged to be the attorney who filed the complaint against Novation while an assistant attorney in the Dallas office. Remarkably, there are no news stories, no obituaries, no press releases from the Justice Department or the Dallas office. In fact, after several hours of searching Lexis and the usual databases, I could only find one confirmation of her death from her former law-school:

Alumni Call For Scholarship As Tribute to the Late Thelma Quince-Colbert

She was a 2004 inductee into the Law Center’s Alumni Hall of Fame and presented the 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award. Thelma Quince-Colbert, ‘75, was the first editor-in-chief of the Southern University Law Review, a summa cum laude law graduate, and first in her class. As a member of the National Bar Association,Quince-Colbert was a hard worker whose presence at the yearly Southern University Law Center Alumni Breakfast was guaranteed.

As head of the Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit, a section in the Fort Worth, Texas, office of the United States Attorney, where she worked from 1990 until her death, Quince-Colbert’s job was to pursue persons who had defrauded the government. Her passion for her work, never overcame her compassion for people. Upon learning of her untimely death on July 20, 2004, fellow alumni came to the agreement that a life of such compassion must be remembered.

Shannon Ross

Ms Ross' name in connection with the litigation was noted in the New York Times piece quoted above. In fact, here investigation prompted the author to write the piece:

Based on the federal codes cited in a copy of one of the subpoenas, investigators are seeking evidence of health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, theft or bribery involving programs receiving federal funds, obstruction of investigations and other possible violations. The subpoena was signed by Shannon Ross, criminal chief of the United States attorney's office in Dallas.

The article I cite in the next section, tells us of her 'untimely death' less than one month after the appearance of the New York Times piece:

All three men will be missed in a district already reeling from the unexpected deaths of criminal chief Shannon Ross and civil litigator Thelma Louise Quince Colbert, Mr. Roper said. Ms. Ross, who had been feeling ill, was found dead last month in her home. Ms. Colbert accidentally drowned in July. Mr. Roper, who praised both women's service, said the recent retirements are part of working in any government agency. "Hopefully, we'll have some young prosecutors who will step up," he said.

Michael Uhl, Michael Snipes, and Leonard Senerote

Within two months of the mysterious deaths of Colber and Ross, these three gentlemen resigned their positions from the same office:

Three of the region's most experienced and skilled federal prosecutors recently left government service, creating a void at the U.S. attorney's office in Dallas, officials said. Two veteran prosecutors – Michael Uhl and Michael Snipes – are switching to potentially more lucrative jobs as white-collar defense attorneys. The third, Leonard Senerote, is retiring. The three, who have decades of combined experience on complex cases, are the last winners of the Greater Dallas Crime Commission's award for federal prosecutor of the year.

"It's a great loss for the office, no question about it," said U.S. Attorney Richard Roper, who supervises prosecutions of federal crimes such as bank robbery, immigrant smuggling and fraud from Dallas to the Panhandle. All three of these lawyers were go-to guys." Mr. Snipes and Mr. Uhl, who are used to prosecuting accused criminals, now make the transition to the other side – as defense attorneys.

three assistant US Attorneys left the Dallas office

III. The Carol Lam connection to Tenet

The first prosecutor identified as being fired by the Office of the Attorney General was Carol Lam, a U.S. Attorney in San Diego, California. Carol Lam was personally prosecuting Medicare fraud at the Tenet Healthcare Alvarado hospital when political pressure was brought on the Justice Department to remove her from office. Carol Lam's prosecution caused the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services threatened to cut Medicare and Medicaid funds to Alvarado Hospital Case # 03CR15870 US Dist. Court Southern California.

source

And, this from NPR:

February 17, 2005: Mistrial declared in first Medicare fraud trial against San Diego's Alvarado Hospital, after jury fails to reach a verdict. U.S. Attorney Carol Lam suggests a retrial is likely.

March 2, 2005: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson emails White House Counsel Harriet Miers, recommending removal of Carol Lam and several others as "weak U.S. Attorneys who have been ineffectual managers and prosecutors, chafed against Administration initiatives, etc."

II. Recent events

IV. Medical Supply and Novation: A case the Bush Crime Family wants to bury

The company claiming that Novation LLC is liable for antitrust violation is Medical Supply. Its CEO, Samuel Lipari has been concerned with the happenings surrounding this investigation, inter alia, the mysterious un-investigated deaths of two attorneys in Texas; his personal safety and that of his family; his allegations of being a target of an FBI probe; and the revolving door in the Western District of Missouri.

This past week, knowing now of the treachery of Gonzales and the Bush Crime Family, Lipari has released certain items of discovery that he finds relevant to his case in particular and to the over-arching scandal, in general:

Disappointed with the continuing US Department of Justice cover up, on April 9, 2007 Samuel Lipari publicly disclosed Medical Supply discovery revealing the US Attorneys targeted by Karl Rove and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that resulted in Todd Graves being replaced by Bradley J. Schlozman a year earlier. John Wood was finally sworn in as the US Attorney for the Western District of Missouri on April 11, 2007.

His claims regarding the misuse of the Patriot Act to harm his business, as a punitive action by the government for his bringing this case against the corrupt Texas parent, Tenet, and Novation:

Novation LLC a hospital supplier in Irving, Texas admitted in a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals filing dated April 9th, 2007 that it was identified as a co-conspirator in a 2002 scheme to use US Bancorp’s trust division to prevent Medical Supply Chain from entering the market for hospital supplies by withholding escrow accounts and misusing the USA PATRIOT act as a pretext.

On July 30, 2006 the British newspaper the Daily Mail reported that Novation was under a bribes probe by the US Department of Justice stating Novation; "...is being investigated by American prosecutors following accusations that it has accepted huge 'bribes' from medical manufacturers."

On July 31, 2006 the London Times reported the existence of the US Department of Justice investigation of Novation’s conduct as a hospital group purchasing organization or "GPO" and quoted Professor Prakash Sethi, president of the International Center for Corporate Accountability at Baruch College in New York who stated "My most conservative estimates suggest that GPOs extract extra profits of $5 billion (£2.6 billion) to $6 billion which legitimately belong to their principal clients, the hospitals."

After Alberto Gonzales became Attorney General on February 3, 2005, the investigation of Novation was suppressed even though insider Novation executives came forward to the US Department of Justice with evidence of laundering hospital funds through the publicly traded electronic hospital supply marketplace Neoforma, Inc. that was then controlled by Novation, Volunteer Hospital Association (VHA), and University Health System Consortium (UHC) and is now owned by the electronic hospital supply marketplace GHX, LLC.

[THIS IS A VERY LONG THREAD. I'M LEAVING OUT THE END OF IT HERE, EXCEPT FOR THE CONCLUSION:]

Part III. Conclusion

With each of my forays into the US Attorney Scandal to date, this particular one is startling. With any luck, someone more able to write investigative pieces will see this diary and will hone it into something more comprehensible, and will tell the story better than what I have attempted.

This particular scandal overlaps Lam, Collins, the US Patriot Act, Health care issues, banking, fraud, antitrust violations, violations of Medicare, mysterious deaths, and throughout the entire filthy mess runs the web of the Bush Crime Family and its greed, its lust for power, and its complete and utter disregard for the law, the Constitution, and the American people.

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#1. To: aristeides (#0)

incredible!!! and outrageous!

Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Red Jones  posted on  2007-04-23   20:11:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: aristeides (#0)

Just another day in America. Get used to it, because no one is going to stop it.

Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org

who knows what evil  posted on  2007-04-23   20:13:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: aristeides, all (#0)

Deceased Chief Justice Rehnquist and retired Justice O'Connor cut their poltical teeth, made their political bones, by challenging and stopping the poor, the black, and the brown from voting.

Republicans have long known their best tactic is to limit those who vote, and they attack the problem across the board. They send out disinformation to confuse voters. They set up road blocks near key boxes and check for outstanding warrants to chill turnover. And they try to get "voting fraud" cases pursued by their party prosecutors.

But Bush has taken the process beyond his predecessors, mainly because he completely disrespects our system.

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-23   20:17:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: aristeides, SKYDRIFTER, MUDDOG, ... (#0)

Novation is owned by Tenet Healthcare Corp where Jeb Bush is on the Board of Directors

...

This particular scandal overlaps Lam, Collins, the US Patriot Act, Health care issues, banking, fraud, antitrust violations, violations of Medicare, mysterious deaths, and throughout the entire filthy mess runs the web of the Bush Crime Family and its greed, its lust for power, and its complete and utter disregard for the law, the Constitution, and the American people.

Variations on a theme.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-04-23   21:01:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: robin (#4)

Seems Shannon Ross drowned in her swimming pool.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-24   11:15:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: robin (#4) (Edited)

The other U.S. Assistant Attorney to die mysteriously, Shannon Ross, was 43 years old when she died after "feeling ill."

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-24   11:20:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: aristeides (#0)

I'm only halfway through this and I'm late for lunch. Marking.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2007-04-24   11:23:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: aristeides (#5)

Seems Shannon Ross drowned in her swimming pool.

Three prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's office in Dallas [correction: Ft. Worth], Texas, left the office during the same period in October, 2004. Two went on to more lucrative work, one retired. Note that the story below says they were fired. I don't know which is correct at this point.

This was in the same district where the two prosecutors, criminal chief Shannon Ross and civil litigator Thelma Louise Quince Colbert, died under what seems to be mysterious circumstances in July and September of the same year. Quince Colbert drowned in her swimming pool. Ross, "who had been feeling ill, was found dead last month in her home."

How very odd.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-04-24   12:14:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: aristeides (#6)

The other U.S. Assistant Attorney to die mysteriously, Shannon Ross, was 43 years old when she died after "feeling ill."

I read a long recognition article about Thelma Louise Quince Colbert (before she died) in an alumni newsletter. Her accomplishments were vast, as were the “issues” she was going after. I just couldn’t figure out how to cut out just that part of the document.

I expect we will hear more about this and other perhaps, not yet discovered, pieces of the puzzle as they come to light.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-04-24   12:17:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: aristeides (#9)

All three men will be missed in a district already reeling from the unexpected deaths of criminal chief Shannon Ross and civil litigator Thelma Louise Quince Colbert, Mr. Roper said. Ms. Ross, who had been feeling ill, was found dead last month in her home. Ms. Colbert accidentally drowned in July. Mr. Roper, who praised both women's service, said the recent retirements are part of working in any government agency. "Hopefully, we'll have some young prosecutors who will step up," he said.<

http://www.mikesnipesforjudge.com/inthenews/doj_retirement_2004.php

There's not much out there to be found. But, at the time, their deaths were a shock.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-04-24   12:20:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: bluedogtxn (#0)

FYI.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-25   15:47:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: aristeides (#0)

This particular scandal overlaps Lam, Collins, the US Patriot Act, Health care issues, banking, fraud, antitrust violations, violations of Medicare, mysterious deaths, and throughout the entire filthy mess runs the web of the Bush Crime Family and its greed, its lust for power, and its complete and utter disregard for the law, the Constitution, and the American people.

This may be the Pelican Brief.

Paranoia is a survival trait in a Decidership.

bluedogtxn  posted on  2007-04-25   16:21:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Paul Revere (#0)

FYI.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-25   16:39:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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