Tea at Trianon: The Biggest Healthcare Fraud Bust in DOJ History

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

The Biggest Healthcare Fraud Bust in DOJ History

From Overton:

As the DOJ cracks down, Dr. Oz says the real change is in how they're fighting fraud: stopping the scams before the money is even gone.
He called it a paradigm shift.
“What we're doing today is changing the paradigm,” he explained.
“Not just going after bad guys and putting them behind bars, but actually getting ahead of these schemes, so the money never leaves our bank account.”
He warned that once the money is stolen, it’s practically impossible to get back.
“Because by the time we find out that these criminals have stolen and the money has left the building, it's already offshore, somewhere in some foreign country's vaults where foreign leaders are rejoicing in the fact they took advantage of the American people.”
That’s why, he said, this approach is so aggressive. (Read more.)