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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: US Attorney Todd Graves in Missouri: The ninth victim of Gonzogate (MYSTERIOUS DEATHS OF FEDERAL PROSECUTORS) US Attorney Todd Graves in Missouri: The ninth victim of Gonzogate by james risser [Subscribe] 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: 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: From the New York Times: 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: 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: 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: 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: "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 source And, this from NPR: 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: 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: 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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... 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 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.
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.
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