The Sleeping Giant VOTE is AWAKE.

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Are you with me on a roller coaster election season or not?. One thing’s for sure: 2008 will be the year of the immigrant and Latino voter. Political scientist Matt Barreto of the University of Washington predicts that more than 9 million Hispanic voters will turn out this year compared to 7.6 million in 2004.And it's no accident. Groups like the We Are America Alliance and their My Vote / Our Future campaign, which is on track to register 500,000 new voters and get one million voters to the polls, are coordinating like never before to make sure Latino and immigrant citizens make their voices heard. After election day, these voters will get to work pressing for immigration reform.In a new nationwide survey, the Pew Hispanic Center found that 93% of Latinos nationwide said that immigration was important to them. To these voters, it’s not just a question of how many visas we offer and to whom, but whether they and their families feel welcomed in the United States. As Cecilia Muñoz, Senior Vice President at the NCLR recently said, immigration “tends to determine who the good guys are and the bad guys are for Latinos.” This has made the extremists who’ve dominated immigration politics very nervous about what’s coming: a newly organized powerhouse demanding that Washington deliver real, comprehensive immigration reform.

Exposing the blind side of Lou Dobbs in the War on Drugs and Broken Borders.

I used to like CNN, in days gone by they actually reported news, now alas they have dropped all pretense of news and have become the mouthpiece of whoever pays most, and that seems to be whoever is in the White House!

The worst offender of this sleazy bunch has to be Lou Dobbs. Day after day we are introduced to new and inventive ways that the Undocumented are taking over the US, and undermining the very fabric of our society!

I used to think that Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck was an insufferable bore, but Lou has elevated this genre to a new level! If there was an Oscar for bigoted idiot reporting, I would cast my vote for Lou Dobbs


American authorities allege three of the accused travelled to New York from Canada to try to buy weapons, including missiles, launchers and AK-47s. The men are also charged with fundraising and money laundering through "front" charitable organizations and U.S. bank accounts.
Money to bribe a U.S. official - traced during an international anti-terrorism probe aimed at the Tamil Tigers - came from Montreal, the FBI said Thursday.

And two of the men arrested in the bribery case are former Montreal residents, adding more Canadian connections to a widening probe that has seen six other men from Canada arrested on charges of aiding a foreign terrorist organization, including money laundering, smuggling equipment and people, and trying to purchase anti-aircraft missiles, machine-guns and other military equipment.

Tens of thousands of dollars from Montreal were earmarked as a bribe for a U.S. federal agent who was posing as a corrupt immigration officer, pretending to allow Tamils to illegally enter the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation alleged in a sworn criminal complaint filed in a New York court.

The money's path was tracked as part of a large sting operation mounted by the FBI against alleged operatives of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly called the Tamil Tigers, an organization banned as a terrorist group on both sides of the border.

So far a total of 14 people have been taken into custody in the joint FBI-RCMP probe.

First, three Canadians of Tamil descent were accused in New York City on the weekend of trying to buy military hardware after driving across the Canada-U.S. border to meet with a man they believed was a black-market arms dealer, but who was a federal agent, and a Tamil man, who co-operated with U.S. authorities in their probe.

Three other Canadian residents were arrested this week by the RCMP in Ontario, including an engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo who is accused of arranging student couriers to smuggle equipment into Sri Lanka to further the Tamil Tiger's cause.

A third set of criminal complaints unsealed in a New York court, against three people arrested in Buffalo as part of the FBI's probe, now reveal further Canadian links.

Thileepan Patpanathan and his brother, Sujeepan Patpanathan, moved to Buffalo from Montreal about six months ago, said Rodney O. Personius, a Buffalo lawyer who represented one of the men in court.

They lived in Montreal for about three years, he said.

The Patpanathan brothers are charged along with Logeswaran Krishnamoorthy of knowingly conspiring to bribe a public official to illegally bring other people from Sri Lanka. They were caught in a sting operation using the same Tamil informant.

An agent was introduced to co-conspirators as an officer with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service who, for a fee, could help smuggle foreigners into the U.S. The man was, in fact, a federal agent and the meetings were recorded, the FBI said.

An offer of $6,000 US per person smuggled was offered, authorities alleged.

Exposing the blind side of Lou Dobbs in the War in Drugs, and Terror

Federal agents have closed down the first known smuggling tunnel under the U.S.-Canada border and arrested on drug charges the three Canadians who allegedly built it, law enforcement authorities said Thursday.
The DEA said the newly completed tunnel is the first discovered on the northern border. Several tunnels have been discovered along the Mexico border.
The 360-foot tunnel runs from under a Quonset hut on the Canadian side of the border to the living room of a house in Lynden, Washington, authorities said. The town is about 90 miles north of Seattle.
After they were tipped about the tunnel while it was under construction early this year, U.S. and Canadian agents jointly monitored the project until it was completed in early July.
Authorities said the tunnel -- reinforced by wooden beams and steel bars -- is between 3 feet (1 meter) and 10 feet deep and about 360 feet long.
Officials said one of the defendants owned the British Columbia land where the tunnel began, and all of the defendants had cared for the property on the U.S. side to make it appear occupied.
"The presence of a tunnel on our northern border threatens the security of countries, whether it is used to smuggle drugs, contraband or even terrorists," said U.S. Attorney John McKay.
The owner of the house on the U.S. side of the border has not been arrested, one official said.
The officials said they expected the three to be prosecuted in the United States rather than Canada because no illegal drugs were transported from the U.S. side of the border.

My Green Card got lost in a pile. A Broken Immigration System

"Immigration says my application for citizenship is being held up by the FBI pending a name search but I had an interview 18 months ago and was issued a conditional green card," says Fahd Mohiuebin.

"I think the FBI is holding my file because my first name is Arabic"

Fahd's wife is a U.S. citizen and a Caucasian, and Fahd is Indian. They did everything according to the book, went through all the right channels. There is no plausible reason why, since he was issued a conditional green card in February 2005, that his citizenship application would require a further name search.

"My wife and I had a 15 minute interview with an immigration officer and we supplied supporting documentation and proof that we were married - our certificate, photos, etc. He said there would be no problem and I would get my permanent green card in 60-90 days.

After 90 days, I went back to the immigration office in Spokane. They said my file was pending an FBI name check and I asked them how long it would take. The immigration officer said that he had no idea because Immigration is not a part of the FBI; they are an independent body. There was nothing I could do. The only thing Immigration told me was that the FBI conduct name checks weekly but I didn't know how far I was up on the list.
I phoned the FBI three times but my call just went to voice mail and I never received a call back. I had to renew my work authorization permit so I could continue to work - it was good for a year and I applied for a renewal two months before it expired. My work permit expired October 23rd and now I am worried. The people I worked with treated me like a family but I had to give up my job.

I went to immigration and they said I could legally work when I get my renewal card. Immigration is now working on issuing renewals dating back to July 25th so I'm expecting a long wait - at least a few months.

Immigration said that technically I should have a temporary green card but in order for me to get a permanent card, it has to be within two years of my wedding date. I was married May 15th, 2004. Now that the FBI has taken so long, I don't fall under this category.

My wife is frustrated. If I can't get my green card we might have to split up - her family is here and her mother needs looking after as she is diabetic. I am 28 and my wife is 29. Both our families are pressuring us to have a family but everything is on hold. I don't know what the future holds.

I don't know if my file is sitting on a pile with the FBI or if they are going to do anything at all. My wife and I need to know if I have a future life in America. I don't know what to do or where to turn."

Utica, NY: Hatem F. is an Iranian citizen, born in Kuwait. He is a permanent resident with a green card and applied for U.S. citizenship in 2002. Hatem waited until July 2005 to get an interview to be granted citizenship, only to be told that his application would be rejected.

"But I was given the option to withdraw my application and apply again," says Hatem. "These were my choices given: if I didn't withdraw my application, it would be rejected and the procedure would take longer than if I withdraw right away - it doesn't make any sense."

Talk about a Catch-22!

"The immigration officer said that I was all done with the background check (which took since 2002) and if it was rejected I would have to go through another background check. But another check would be unnecessary if I just reapply.

No reason was given to me about having to file another application, but she promised that, if I applied again, by December 2005 I would be granted another interview. This was July.

So I withdrew my application and that same day I filled out another application form and sent it overnight express to the Vermont immigration center.

December came and went. I am still waiting. My green card has now expired and I applied to renew it. Here is the real kicker: because I have a citizenship in process, they won't renew my green card so now I am in limbo. Immigration gave me a stamp on my passport saying that I was lawfully admitted to the U.S. and I am allowed to work but they told me not to travel because there might be some delays getting in and out of the country.

Two months ago Immigration sent me a letter, informing me that I had an interview, then two weeks later I received another letter stating that "due to unforeseen circumstances" my interview was canceled.

I don't feel the security that I used to. My mother is sick in Kuwait and I can't take the chance to visit her - I am not sure if I will be allowed back into the U.S. Now I feel a captive in this country. To be honest, I don't know what to think. I love this country but I don't know who is benefiting from leaving me in the dark."

Both these stories sound like a scene taken from a Kafka novel! Sounds like both Immigration and the FBI are employing stall tactics.

Not even Hatem's congress representative could help. "My congresswoman finally contacted Immigration, but all she got out of them was that they were waiting for my background check. "

With the advances we have in technology, why would it take years to gather information about someone? "I am disappointed," says Hatem. "The reason I came to this country is because we are supposed to be treated equally.

Exposed the hardship of the detention centers

Agatha Joseph's daughter was placed in seven detention centers over three years. She was the victim of double jeopardy. Watch, as her mother, Agatha, tells the hardships her daughter endured behind the unsafe walls of the detention center.

Tax Evasion. Undocumented Immigrants Undermine trust not paying taxes? A Myth or a Lie?

below is an interesting video on the current problems our country is facing with tax evasion. According to the video, the government loses about $100 billion in revenue from tax evasion, which makes up a huge part of the tax gap. Just for comparisons sake, $100 billion is more than what the federal government spends on education and training, triple what they spend on the environment and natural resources, and nearly five times what they spend on temporary assistance for families in need. Thanks to the American News Project.
Ignorance and the Intolerance against the Unknownn remains the powerful weapons against our Society.

The counterfeit degrees enable some a good Jobs, some good paychecks but taking jobs from legitimate candidates!!







The counterfeit degrees enabled some to get jobs they wouldn't qualify for otherwise. For others, the bogus master's degrees translated to bigger paychecks. And some truly believed the degrees they purchased were legitimate. Of course they got the easy pass. Are you there Lou, Tommy Tancredo? Undocumented students just asking for an opportunity to have a real education. a real dream. Why denied with their dream when other people which are US. Citizens drop out school?
Immigration officials searching 9,000 names for Illegal High School or College degrees. A former U.S.marshal who bought a bogus college degree online and used it to get a $15,000--a-year job promotion, and the list is on and on, click here for a full list.

Immigration officials are looking through a list of more than 9,000 names to see how many federal employees may have bought a phony high school or college degree from a Spokane, Wash.-based diploma mill.

The Spokesman-Review newspaper obtained the list and published the names on its Web site Tuesday. The Justice Department has refused to release the list, which grew out of a lengthy investigation by the U.S. attorney for the Eastern district of Washington.

The list included some people who apparently work for government, educational institutions and the military, according to their e-mail addresses that ended in .gov, .edu or .mil., according to the newspaper report.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one of the federal agencies that investigates document fraud, is going through the list of 9,612 names and searching for federal employees, agency spokesman Brandon Alvarez-Montgomery said.

It is not known how many Homeland Security Department employees are on this list, he said. But the department's inspector general is investigating what ICE finds. ICE is part of the 208,000-strong department.

Authorities contended the bogus degrees could be used to circumvent U.S. immigration laws and to help the degree holders win promotions and pay raises in government jobs. A task force of state and federal agents served search warrants in August 2005 after investigators found many of the phony degrees were sold in Saudi Arabia, raising national security concerns.

As ICE officials go through the list and identify the federal employees, their names will be sent to their respective agencies for inspector general review, Alvarez-Montgomery said. If a federal employee used a fake degree for personal gain or to get a job with the government, it would be up to the individual agency to take action.

There is no Justice Department investigation into people on the list, Alvarez-Montgomery said.

The newspaper reported that at least nine people with .gov domains worked for federal agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Health and Human Services Department, the National Security Agency and the CIA.

Indictments in the case were returned in 2005, contending that operators of the diploma mill sold fake high school or college degrees to more than 9,000 people in 131 countries, generating more than $1 million in sales.

The conspirators also made and sold counterfeit copies of degrees and transcripts from legitimate universities, court documents claimed.

The phony diplomas used names such as St. Regis University, James Monroe University and Robertstown University, lawyers said. Counterfeit degrees also were sold in the names of the University of Maryland, the University of Tennessee, Texas A&M and George Washington University.

Investigators also said more than $43,000 in bribes were paid to three Liberian diplomats, including one payment that was videotaped by Secret Service agents at a hotel in Washington, D.C. Government lawyers have said diplomatic immunity precludes charges against the diplomats.

The Liberian "Board of Education" offered accreditation for the diploma mills in exchange for the bribes, according to court filings.

The leader of a diploma mill, Dixie Ellen Randock, 58, earlier this month was sentenced to three years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. Randock's daughter, Heidi Kae Lorhan, was sentenced to a year in prison.

Dixie's husband, Steven K. Randock Sr., 68, who is recovering from open-heart surgery, will be sentenced Aug. 5.

The Randocks and Lorhan were indicted in October 2005 and pleaded guilty March 26, the eve of their trial, to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. In the plea agreement, the U.S. attorney's office dropped charges of money laundering, which carried longer sentences.

The Randocks also agreed to forfeit $535,000 in cash and their late-model Jaguar.

Defendants Blake Alan Carlson, Richard John Novak, Kenneth Wade Pearson and Amy Leann Hensley await sentencing after pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate with authorities in exchange for lighter sentences.

U.S. Detention Centers a Nightmare.



The Horrible and miserable conditions in U.S. Detention Centers violating civil rights for detainees.

Aryan Members out on the street getting caught by police.

After the acts of September 11, 2001. Seems that The Terrorist were and are just Hispanics, Latinos.
The Department of Homeland security are more concern to search, persecute, dimished the Undocumented Latino, Hispanic Immigrants. That's sad and clearly Violation of their Constitutional rights. ICE continue Building more Detention Center for Private Corporations profit out of the people who's do not have a political voice. That's ashamed.

Nativists, and Anti Immigrants. What part of Ilegal you do not Understand.!!!!!!!!!!!!



Most of Nativists, Anti Immigrants found that Undocumented(Ilegal) Immigrants were mostly a drain. Well Just Ilegal Billing, Ilegal fraud, ilegal benefits entitled to, ilegal claim, ilegal Kickbacks, Ilegal charges for services do not rendered to patient,

But they found greater ambiguity on whether Undocumented immigrants are good or bad for American society because they do not see the real facts. They rather create waves of flames of Anti Immigrant sentiment to our Society to see Undocumented people as a bad people.

Undocumented Immigrants has been persecuted, scapegoated, dimished, criminalized and labeled as a problem on Social Services specially Healthcare Services like Medicare and Medicaid. Well lets see the real facts.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

False Claims Act Returns $2 Billion in FY 2007.

The Justice Department has announced that $2 billion has been recovered under the federal False Claims Act in Fiscal Year 2007, of which $1.45 billion came from whistleblower-filed cases. The total amount returned to the U.S. Government under the False Claims Act since 1986 is well over $20 billion. Department of Justice data is actually very conservative, as it does not include billions of dollars in civil recoveries returned to the states or criminal fines imposed as a direct consequence of False Claims Act filings and prosecutions.

The cases below represent a "running tally" of False Claims Act cases compiled by the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund for Fiscal Year 2007.

Amount in Millions $ Date Nature of the fraud Medicare Medicaid.

Bristol-Myers Squibb 328 9/28/2007 A total $515 million settlement, with $328 million to be paid under the Federal False Claims Act, and the state's getting $187 million. Fraud charges included off-label marketing, kickbacks, AWP drug pricing violations and several other frauds involving 50 drugs and a total of seven qui tam cases.

Amerigroup 172 3//14/2007 Judgment for $334 million including penalties. Amerigroup cherry-picked patients in violation of its HMO Medicaid contract, purposely avoided women in their third trimester of pregnancy because they cost more to insure. Note that this judgment is on appeal and reflects a $190 million penalty on top of a $144 million jury verdict.

Combined settlement with four orthotics companies: Smith & Nephew, Biomet, Zimmer, DePuy (Johnson & Johnson) 310 9/27/2007 $310 million total settlement of broad practice of kickback in the orthotics industry. Zimmer to pay 169.5 million, DePuy to pay $84.7 million, Smith and Nephew to pay $28.9 million, Biomet to pay $26.9 million. Stryker agreed to be monitored, but has entered no civil settlement.

Aventis (sanofi-aventis) 180 9/17/2007 Medicaid Average Wholesale Price case involving the anti-nausea drug Anzemet. Total settlement was for $190 million

Medco 155 10/24/2006 Shorting prescriptions, canceling prescriptions to avoid paying non-performance penalties, soliciting and accepting kickbacks from pharmaceutical manufacturers to favor their drugs, and paying kickbacks to health plans to obtain business. X X

Purdue Pharma 140.5 5/10/2007 Company "mislabeled" the drug saying it was less addictive than it was. This is a $634.5 million settlement, with $276 million to be forfeited to the United States, $160 million allocated to federal and state government agencies to resolve false claims for government healthcare programs and $130 million will go to resolving private civil claims. Of the 160 million to go to State and Federal FCA claims, $19.5 million is to go to the states.

Bill L. Harbert-owned construction companies 102 5/15/2007 Bid rigging for US AID paid for water and sewer systems installed in Egypt in the 1980s as part of the Camp David peace accords.

Oracle / PeopleSoft 98.5 10/10/2006 Provided false pricing information to GSA to obtain a federal contract.

ConocoPhillips 97.5 8/15/2007 Underpaid royalties owed on natural gas produced from federal and Indian leases

Omnicare / Specialized Pharmacy Services (Michigan) 52.5 10/5/2006 Improper billing, failure to credit Medicare for returned drugs, billing drugs for dead patients. X
Omnicare 49.5 11/14/2006 Illegal switching of generic pill to capsule forms of Zantac (ranitidine) in nursing homes and other facilities.

InterMune, Inc. 36.8 10/27/2006 Illegal off-label promotion of Actimmune. X X

Lourdes Perez, Provident Home Health Care Services Inc. and Tri-Regional Home Health
Care Inc. 33.8 10/11/2006 Medicare "bill mill" in which Medicare was billed for patients who were not homebound and for services her companies did not perform, creating false medical records to support the claims. X

Maximus Inc. 30.5 7/24/2007 Maximus billed DC Medicaid for targeted case management services that it either did not provide or had no records for.

Kerr-McGee Oil 30 1/25/2007 Jury verdict on case involving Kerr-McGee cheating the government out of millions of dollars in royalties on oil it produced in publicly owned coastal waters.

Robert I. Bourseau, Dr. Rudra Sabaratnam, and their two single-employee corporations, RIB Medical Management Services, Inc., and Navatkuda, Inc., 23.8 10/2/2006 Used false cost reports to bill Medicare for unreimbursable services at the Chula Vista psychiatric hospital formerly known as Bayview Hospital & Mental Health Systems. X

Akal Security Inc 18 7/13/2007 Akal violated terms of its contract to provide trained civilian guards at eight U.S. Army bases.

Harris County Hospital District 15.5 3/28/2007 Medicare Secondary Payer violations plus billing Medicaid for patients under custody of law enforcement.

Larkin Community Hospital in Miami and its current and former owners, Dr. Jack Michel, Dr. James Desnick, Morris Esformes and Philip Esformes 15.4 11/30/2006 Kickbacks X X

Aggregate Industries 15 7/27/2007 Total settlement of $50 million, of which $27 million will go into a special fund to be used to pay for future maintenance and repair of the Big Dig highway project, and an additional $8 million will be paid in criminal fines.

Jackson Memorial Health System 14.25 12/20/2006 Jackson Memorial was deliberately making use of unallowable or reopened cost reports, getting wrongful overpayments as a result. X

Ajax Paving Industries Inc. and Dan's Excavating Inc. 11.75 3/16/2007 Knowingly violated Disadvantaged Business

Enterprise (DBE) contracting requirements for federally funded construction
projects at Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan Airport

Cell Therapeutics 10.5 4/18/2007 Off-label marketing of Trisenox billed to Medicare.

Intergris Baptist Medical Center 10 11/28/2006 Inflated costs for organ transplants

Emory Worldwide 10 11/14/2006 Inflated bills for handling priority mail for USPS

Medicis Pharmaceutical 9.8 5/8/2007 Off-label marketing: Company promoted the use of a topical anti-fungal, Loprox, for diaper rash on children under the age of 10, without approval by the Food & Drug Administration.

American Medical Response Inc. 9 10/5/2006 Ambulance services fraud. X

KBR Inc. 8 11/29/2006 Overcharged the U.S. Army for logistical support in the Balkans during 1999 and 2000
Crane Co.
7.6 8/14/2007 Substandard valves sold to the U.S.

SCCI Health Services Corporation, and its subsidiary, SCCI Hospital Ventures Inc 7.5 1/7/2007 Kickback and self-referral (Stark violations) X

Raritan Bay Medical Center 7.5 3/16/2007 Purposefully inflated outlier charges for inpatient and outpatient care to make these cases appear more costly than they actually were.

PBSJ 6.4 1/25/2007 PBSJ submitted claims to the overstated overhead rates in its Government contracts.

Atlanta's Northside Hospital 5.75 10/20/2006 Kickbacks

Oakland City University 5.3 7/31/2007 University paid incentives to admissions recruiters contrary to federal regulations.

IBM & PriceWaterhouseCoopers 5.2 8/16/2007 Companies solicited and provided improper payments and other things of value on technology contracts with government agencies

Keystone Mercy Health Plan 5 10/27/2006 Medicaid HMO Kept Medicaid overpayments X
Cook County, Illinois 5 12/20/2006 County mismanaged a federally funded study involving pregnant drug addicts.

AIT Worldwide Logistics of Itasca, Ill. 4.2 10/20/2006 Kickbacks and bill padding.

St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center (NE) 4 10/31/2006 Used false cost reports to overbill l Medicare for neonatal and burn units.

Scooter Stores 4 5/14/2007 Settlement includes $4 million in cash and $13 million in foregone Medicare payments to settle charges the company billed Medicare medically unnecessary power wheelchairs.

HealthSouth Corporation 4 11/3/2006 HealthSouth submitted fraudulent Medicare claims for prosthetic and orthotic devices - such as artificial limbs and braces - used to treat HealthSouth hospital inpatients X

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center 3.8 5/9/2007 Billing Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance providers $2.5 million for unnecessary cardiac procedures, such as angiograms and angioplasties, on more than 70 patients.

Orphan Medical/ Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc 3.75 7/13/2007 Aggressive marketing of Xyrem (GBH, the "date rape" drug) for unapproved use. Part of a total settlement of $20 million, including criminal.

Cabrini Medical Center 3.4 3/29/2007 Kickbacks billed as administrative services for referral of patients.

Korrect Optical 3.25 1/25/2007 Korrect Optical submitted false claims to the

Department of Veteran Affairs ( VA )through ophthalmic prescriptions for eyewear for veterans.

Dr. Daniel Nixon and other board members of the Institute for Cancer Prevention, Tatum, LLC and Weiser, LLP 3.2 1/17/2007 Unlawful receipt and use of federal grant money.

Electronic Data Systems Inc. and Travelers Casualty 2.85 1/23/2007 EDS was processing National Flood Insurance Program claims based on backdated policies written by Travelers.
Dey 2.8 4/26/2007 Settle charges of price inflation and defrauding Mass. Medicaid program (AWP).

Rural/Metro Corporation 2.5 6/11/2007 Kickback for referrals

David Rommel 2.48 11/13/2006 Dental practice fraud. Won by summary judgment.

Danbury Hospital (CN) 2.4 10/27/2006 Self-reported upcoding for septicemia, respiratory failure, respiratory infections and inflammations. X

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc 2.3 7/2/2007 ACS allegedly Submitted inflated claims for programs run by and through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), and the Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Self reported.

APAC Atlantic 2.25 10/3/2006 False asphalt testing

University of Miami Medical School 2.2 12/27/2006 UM sometimes billed for critical care services when patients were not critically ill or where critical services were not rendered. X X

Loma Linda Behavioral Medicine Center (Loma Linda BMC) in Redlands 2 4/26/2007 Fraudulently overbilled federal health insurance programs by manipulating cost reports.

O'Hara Regional Center for Rehabilitation, Health Care Management Partners, ORCR Inc., Solomon Health Management, Solomon Health Services 1.9 10/5/2006 Abuse and neglect and substandard nursing home services. X

Emeritus Corp 1.86 8/30/2007 False and inaccurate billing to the Texas Medicaid program.

COSMOS Corp 1.5 1/23/2007 COSMOS improperly charged government contracts for costs that dealt with the company's operations, and also shifted labor costs from private contracts to government contracts.

Crawford and Company 1.36 10/11/2006 Billing the government for health care services to federal employees at rates set by Crawford managers, rather than billing the actual time spent performing that service.

Ciena Healthcare Management 1.25 8/20/2007 Improperly billed Medicaid and Medicare for inadequate care of and services to residents at four metro Detroit nursing homes.

Bli Farms, Richard Bli and the estate of James E. Bli 1.229 11/29/2006 False crop insurance claims.

Lancaster Community Hospital 1.2 6/8/2007 Knowingly overbilled Medicare for physical therapy costs.

Lakewood Cheder School 1.2 10/31/2006 False information to obtain funds for preschool lunch program.

Robert E. Eberhart and Jonathan Holzaepfel, orthopedic surgeons and partners in
Seacoast Trust, and Thomas King 1 3/8/2007 HealthSouth paid higher than normal rent equivalent to income from referrals made by the doctors

Parkway Hospital, Inc 1 8/14/2007 Inflated hospital costs reports.

Environmental Management Inc. 1 4/2/2007 Overbilling and illegal disposal of chemicals in methamphetamine lab cleanups for DEA.

Dey 1 4/4/2007 Settlement of Hawaii FCA marketing the spread cases

Julio C. Melo, M.D., 0.984 7/23/2007 Billed Medicare for Evaluation and Management services that exceeded the number of hours there were in a day.

RightCHOICE Managed Care Inc. 0.975 1/31/2007 RightCHOICE paid higher fees to physicians serving government0insured patients than for other plans.

Comprehensive Cancer Centers 0.9 11/8/2006 Upcoding led to overbilling of Medicare for CCC services at Desert Regional Medical Center (owned by Tenet) X

Iftakhar Khan and Amjad Khan 0.825 1/9/2007 Owners of Livonia-based Michigan

Rehabilitation and Pain Management fraudulently billed Medicare. X

Green Valley Pavilion, LLC 0.55 5/14/2007 Forging and altering patient charts to maximize reimbursement from Delaware's Medicaid Program

Oregon Imaging Center 0.51 12/12/2006 Tests not ordered by doctor.

Moritz Embroidery Works 0.5 7/10/2007 False "Buy American Act" certification to the United States government for military and police emblems and patches.

John Dempsey Hospital 0.475 6/27/2007 Overbilled Medicare for chemotherapy treatment.

Colquitt Regional Medical Center 0.475 3/5/2007 Overcharged the government for services through CRMC's Home Health Office in Sylvester, GA X X

Hillsboro Area Hospital, in Hillsboro, Ill. 0.3 2/7/2007 Over billing for the treatment of Medicare beneficiaries who were diagnosed with pneumonia, sepsis, and renal failure. X

Beacon Ambulance Company. 0.219 3/29/2007 Use of one basic technician and a single Paramedic on ambulance run, and billing for two Paramedics.

Promark, Inc. 0.2 11/14/2006 Overstating warranty on epoxy paint to DoT

Riverview Cancer Center 0.165 10/5/2006 Upcoding and services not provided

LS Technologies 0.145 3/16/07 Submitted duplicate claims for two different subcontracts and was paid $50,000 based on these false claims.

Madison County, Alabama 0.11 2/19/2007 Diversion of money from "Working Connection," a welfare-to-work program.

Kansas City, Missouri School District 0.066 5/18/200 66,000 paid in money and over $13.6 in claims relinquished in E-Rate fraud case.

Armstrong Williams 0.035 10/22/2006 Failing to do contracted work for Dept. of Education

Dr. Roberto Ramirez 0.03 12/21/2007 False dental billing X X

Clark's Trading Company (Clark's 0.012 10/18/2006 Product substitution (meat) at Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Link: http://www.taf.org/total2007.htm

IT'S TIME TO START BEING PROACTIVE AND STOP THE FEAR MONGERING FROM CABLE NEWS.


There are many problems facing the United States today: a faltering economy, a health-care crisis, and the continuing war in Iraq, to name a few. But viewers of some of the most prominent cable news programs are presented a different reality, one in which one issue stands above all others: illegal immigration.

Media Matters Action Network undertook this study in order to document the rhetoric surrounding immigration that is heard on cable news. When it comes to this issue, cable news overflows not just with vitriol, but also with a series of myths that feed viewers' resentment and fears, seemingly geared toward creating anti-immigrant hysteria.

There are two types of myths we discuss in this report. The first type is the large and most common myths, about crime and undocumented immigrants, and the costs of illegal immigration in social services and taxes. These topics are complex, and there are sometimes legitimate points buried within the arguments immigration opponents make. The second type of myth is the urban legend: that there is a conspiracy to take back the Southwest United States for Mexico; that there is a secret plan to construct a "NAFTA Superhighway" running from Canada to Mexico; that the U.S. is well on its way to surrendering its sovereignty to a "North American Union" (NAU); that Mexican immigrants are infecting Americans with leprosy; and that undocumented immigrants are responsible for a wave of election fraud. These myths are discussed less often, but are notable for their sheer ludicrousness. The North American Union and NAFTA Superhighway are closely related, and indeed are often discussed in tandem (the building of the Superhighway being posited as a step on the road to the creation of the NAU), but since each is also often discussed alone, we examine these two myths separately.

We focus our analysis on a trio of cable commentators: Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly, and Glenn Beck. While hosts on other cable programs regularly discuss illegal immigration (particularly on Fox News, where it is a frequent topic on Hannity & Colmes and Special Report with Brit Hume), these three are the most notable for a number of reasons. On their eponymous programs, Dobbs, O'Reilly, and Beck serve up a steady diet of fear, anger, and resentment on the topic of illegal immigration.

Dobbs is the one most obsessed with the topic; indeed, instead of Lou Dobbs Tonight, his program might be more properly called Lou Dobbs Crusades Against Illegal Immigration Tonight. Fully 70 percent of the 2007 episodes of Lou Dobbs Tonight contained discussion of illegal immigration. The O'Reilly Factor is not far behind; 56 percent of 2007 episodes discussed illegal immigration. And though Glenn Beck was less consumed with the issue (28 percent of his 2007 programs discussed it), his show is the one on which viewers often find the most inflammatory claims

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Over 1,000 fake passports seized in Thailand-Many are in hands of Terrorist..So why build the wall???????????



The passports were sold to a group of Thai and Burmese middlemen who then sold them to gangs engaged in prostitution, terrorism and smuggling, he said.”

Thai authorities have seized more than a thousand fake Asian and Western passports and arrested a man in one of the biggest anti-counterfeiting operations in recent years, police said on Sunday.

Mohammed Karim, a 56-year-old from Bangladesh, was nabbed in a Bangkok townhouse late on Saturday where they found a sophisticated passport making operation and more than 1,000 finished and unfinished documents, Police Major-General Chaktip Chaichinda said.

“He admitted that he made fake passports,” Chaktip told Reuters, adding that his partner, a Myanmar national, escaped arrest.

The passports were for several countries including the United States, New Zealand, France, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Malta. Police seized two computers, a scanner, three printers and rubber stamps for several countries.

“This guy is rich. He has a BMW. He said he made about 300,000-400,000 baht per month (around $10,000),” Chaktip said.

Chinese people isn't the only ones mad at CNN. Latinos specially Mexicans too.



Leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, a coalition of 21 Latino congressmembers, dispatched a letter Friday to Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes complaining that the network's news coverage is slanted against immigration and has adopted the rhetoric of outspoken CNN host Lou Dobbs.

CHC Chairman Joe Baca (D-CA) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) expressed outrage that their appeals to meet privately with CNN have gone ignored, and that their letter to Time Warner's CEO have instead ended up on the desk of CNN's president

We are deeply offended that you did not take the time or effort to respond to a request from twenty Members of the United States House of Representatives and a United States Senator, but instead simply passed the letter along to Mr. Walton,” the lawmakers wrote, according to an article Monday in Roll Call. “It is additionally offensive that you did so on a topic as important and sensitive as your company’s treatment and portrayal of Latinos in this country.”

Time Warner did not return inquiries from the paper Friday; CNN did not speak for attribution. CNN was attacked recently for a comment made by host Jack Cafferty, who compared China's leadership with "thugs and goons."

CNN president Jim Walton wrote the caucus back Apr. 23, saying Time Warner's CEO would not be able to answer their appeals.

“As a matter of long-standing policy, Time Warner’s corporate management never interferes with the editorial decision-making of its news operations,” Walton penned.

Walton offered to meet with the lawmakers as well as any Congressional Hispanic congressmember -- but the caucus isn't happy Time Warner's CEO won't reply.

“It really is a slap in the face, that as many members as there are in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in the House and the Senate, that we don’t get a direct response,” Menendez said.

Adds Roll Call:

According to Menendez, many of CNN’s news programs have adopted “the language Lou Dobbs uses,” referring to the host of “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” who uses the platform to complain about illegal immigration.

“The news program has become the equivalent of opinion and not information,” Menendez said, asserting that news anchors opt for language describing “hordes” of immigrants crossing borders, and use phrases such as “illegal Alien” rather than “undocumented” when describing such immigrants.

Baca told the paper a meeting with Walton several weeks ago went well. He suggested the network provide another show to counterbalance Dobbs.

“It was a very positive meeting," Baca said. "I said look, there’s a lot of good programs that CNN puts on, and we watch a lot of it. We’re only talking about a specific individual. The other programs are pretty good in terms of the news that they bring out."

CNN sued for $ 1.3 Billion. We hope CNN will take this seriously, because what CNN said and did has not only hurt China's feelings, but also CNN's own image."

The new book of Jack Cafferty. " It's getting ugly out there at CNN"



A Chinese primary school teacher and a beautician have filed a suit against CNN in New York over remarks they say insulted the Chinese people and are seeking $1.3 billion in compensation -- $1 per person in China, a Hong Kong newspaper reported.

The case against the Atlanta-based cable channel, its parent company Turner Broadcasting and Jack Cafferty, the offending commentator, comes after 14 lawyers launched a similar suit in Beijing alleging that Cafferty's remarks earlier this month violated the dignity and reputation of the Chinese people.

Cafferty said the United States imported Chinese-made "junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food" and added: "They're basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years."

CNN said Cafferty was expressing an opinion about the Chinese government, but the Foreign Ministry demanded an apology and accused the network of trying to drive a wedge between the Chinese people and leadership

Why Nativists and protectionists poisoned the Immigration debate rather than a constructive solution to the problem?






For years Undocumented Immigrants has been accused that they are drained the Social Services like Medi care and Medi Caid but the big part of the equation that no one said anything is Health Care fraud.!!!!!!!!!! Why?.

I had been exposed several of Health care frauds ending up in Billions of dollars in taxpayers pocket expenses and scapegoating the Undocumented Immigrants.

The undocumented people are denied almost all benefits but, yet they are a huge contribution to the economy. The point is that Corporate America Is treating immigrants like slaves. Therefore segregation is not over.

So is not the right to live anywhere one wishes as long as one is peaceful human; right? Who is it to say those in power, those more bigoted or wealthy can tell another human where they are allowed to pursue happiness and peace. Deny welfare or medical benefits but work hard, paid taxes, get lower wages, then being persecuted, scapegoated, diminished and demonized.!!!!!!! Those are our Human Values?.

It's pretty clear that we need immigrants from a macroeconomic level, but we need a Humane comprehensive Immigration reform..


A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money," the late Senator Everett Dirksen is supposed to have said.*

And so it is today with health care fraud, a burgeoning crime plague that's adding up in a big way, big-ticket scheme after big-ticket scheme, essentially costing you money every time you walk into a hospital or doctor's office or fill a prescription, whether you know it or not. The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates that this fraud collectively costs Americans between $60 billion and $100 billion a year. Ouchhhhhhhhhhh.

We're the primary investigative agency, with jurisdiction over federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid (both big targets) and private insurance programs, all the while working hand-in-hand with plenty of public and private sector partners.
Locally, our agents team up with their investigative counterparts on health care fraud working groups, task forces, and strike teams to tackle the biggest scams. Nationally, we have a Health Care Fraud unit at FBI Headquarters that helps support and coordinate field investigations and leads field-wide initiatives.

An anniversary, of sorts. It was 15 years ago, actually, that we ran our first major health care fraud investigation—"Operation Gold Pill." It involved about a thousand "professional patients" getting prescriptions for medicine they didn't need and having them filled at pharmacies that billed Medicare for much more than the cost.
The patients then sold the medication at a discount to dealers, who turned around and hawked it on the street or repackaged it and sold it back to the pharmacies—a full circle of crime.

Fifteen years ago this month, as the investigation came to a head, hundreds of FBI agents and other law enforcement professionals fanned out across the nation, making more than a 100 arrests and seizing more than $30 million in cash and assets.
By today's standards, that's pocket change. But soon, more resources came our way, and we were in the business of busting health care fraud full-time.

A million ways.... Today, the schemes are more complex, more time-consuming, and more costly than ever. "There's literally millions of ways to defraud health care," our Associate Deputy Director Joseph L. Ford told reporters this week. "They come up with new ways every day." Just a very few examples of what we see:

Hospitals, doctors, pharmacists, and other care providers submitting fake bills for services never rendered—or overcharge;

Service providers charging insurance for unnecessary and costly procedures;

Doctors selling prescriptions to patients for cash;

Companies billing insurance for expensive equipment but providing poor substitutes;
Crooked docs enticing patients to visit their offices for "free services" or gifts, then stealing their personal information and using it to file fake claims

Why Lou Dobbs is too obsessed with Mexico and Mexicans? The Anti Mexican Drummer





HIS PANIC. He said that Mexico is the Primary source of Marijuana, Cocaine, Methamphetamine.
I did my research and apparently they are another part of the equation to this problem that Lou Dobbs does not want to inform his viewers.

The fair and balanced news there are not news anymore being a populist and bigotry is better than being a professional Journalist.

Marijuana:

U.S. is the major consumer for this drug and the threat associated with marijuana trafficking and abuse is rising, largely the result of a growing demand for high-potency marijuana as well as a concomitant increase in the drug's availability.
An increase in domestic cannabis cultivation by DTOs contributes to this threat, particularly the recent expansion of cultivation operations by Asian, and Cuban DTOs. Mexican DTOs are moving some of their operations from western to eastern states and to remote areas where cannabis has not been previously cultivated.

Canada-based Asian DTOs and criminal groups are cultivating large quantities of high-potency marijuana in indoor sites in various regions of the country, and they are expanding their networks to control a greater portion of wholesale marijuana distribution.

Cuban groups appear to have increased and expanded their operations significantly in 2006 and 2007 from southern Florida to other southeastern states, particularly Georgia and North Carolina.

1.-Marijuana potency reached its highest recorded level in 2006, most likely attributable to improvements in outdoor and indoor cannabis cultivation methods in U.S.

2.-Indoor cannabis cultivation is increasing in some areas of the country as growers attempt to avoid outdoor eradication and attain higher profits through production of indoor-grown, high-potency marijuana.

3.-Cuban DTOs and criminal groups in the Southeast are expanding indoor grow operations northward to avoid detection and attain better access to drug markets.

4.-Asian DTOs and criminal groups are increasingly becoming involved in marijuana trafficking in every region of the United States.

Mexico and Mexicans are not the only problem of the equation Lou !!!!!!!!!

Marijuana potency reached its highest recorded level in 2006, most likely attributable to improvements in outdoor and indoor cultivation methods. The University of Mississippi Potency Monitoring Project data for 2006 indicate that the average THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol)--the psychoactive chemical in marijuana--level in tested samples of marijuana increased to the highest-ever recorded level since the project's inception in 1975. According to project data, the average THC content of all tested marijuana samples nationwide increased to 8.77 percent in 2006, nearly doubling since 1996 (4.50%.

The national average potency of marijuana appears to be increasing because of a rising prevalence in domestic drug markets of high-potency marijuana that is generally produced in Canada and the United States through improved and highly efficient outdoor and indoor cultivation methods.

Cocaine:

The major part of this equation is the Consumer; U.S. is the major consumer of this drug, the other Mexico is the major corridor but not the producer. The major producer of Cocaine in 2006 is primary Bolivia, Colombia, Peru but What Lou Dobbs denied and continue be blind toward the true. It is that Cocaine availability decrease in 2007 do to the law and military enforcement in Mexico including extraditions of key members of Mexican DTOs. Even the Drug abuse warning Network appear to support the assertion of decreased cocaine availability. Quest Diagnostics data are available in 30 of the 38 cities in which cocaine shortages were reported.

Although the best available estimates indicate an increase in coca cultivation in South America, the rapid adaptation by coca growers and their changing cultivation practices challenge analysts' ability to develop cocaine production estimates with a high degree of certainty.

The land area surveyed for coca cultivation in South America increased each year from 2004 through 2006, and in each year, coca fields were discovered in areas not previously surveyed or known for large-scale coca cultivation. Analysts are uncertain as to how long these newly discovered coca fields have been active. Moreover, analysts also are uncertain about the productivity of coca fields that are rapidly replanted after aerial eradication and about the productivity of vigorously pruned coca bushes.

Moreover, national cocaine positivity rates from workplace drug tests were 21 percent lower during the second quarter of 2007 (0.553%) than during the same period in 2006.
The imprecision of these studies, combined with uncertainties regarding total cocaine production and U.S. consumption, makes it difficult to determine the extent to which expanding non-U.S. markets have contributed to recent cocaine shortages in the United States.

Methamphetamine:

Production and distribution are undergoing significant changes. Methamphetamine use has stabilized nationally after increasing during much of the 1990s through 2002, and domestic production of methamphetamine has decreased dramatically since 2004. Nevertheless, the increasing prevalence of high-purity ice methamphetamine throughout the country and the expansion of Mexican and, more recently, Asian DTO methamphetamine networks have largely sustained methamphetamine markets in the United States. Despite significant chemical import restrictions in Mexico.

Moreover, large-scale production of methamphetamine has increased significantly in Canada as outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) and Asian DTOs expand their position with respect to methamphetamine production in Canada. Some methamphetamine produced in Canada is distributed in U.S. drug markets, particularly methamphetamine tablets sold as MDMA. Nevertheless, Mexican DTOs distributing Mexican methamphetamine continue to dominate domestic markets.

1.-Mexican DTOs are circumventing chemical sale and import restrictions in Mexico in order to maintain large-scale methamphetamine production in that country.

2.-Methamphetamine production in Canada has increased; some Canadian methamphetamine is intended for distribution in U.S. drug markets

3.-State and federal precursor chemical controls and sustained law enforcement pressure continue to drive down domestic methamphetamine production levels

4.-Methamphetamine availability trends in U.S. drug markets are mixed; some markets in western states have reported sporadic and temporary shortages, while markets in other regions have reported stable to increasing availability.

5.-Law enforcement pressure and chemical controls in the United States and Mexico appear to be contributing to intermittent methamphetamine shortages in some
western drug markets.

Methamphetamine production in Canada has increased; some Canadian methamphetamine is intended for distribution in U.S. drug markets. Anecdotal law enforcement reporting and laboratory seizure data from Canada indicate a potentially significant increase in large-scale production of both ice methamphetamine and methamphetamine tablets since 2005.

The purported increase has been attributed by Canadian law enforcement officials to Canada-based Asian (Chinese and Vietnamese) criminal groups and OMGs (particularly Hells Angels Motorcycle Club), that reportedly produce the drug in large-scale laboratories in rural and residential areas of the country.

According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), methamphetamine tablets are produced primarily by Canada-based Asian DTOs in Quebec, particularly in Montreal. Conversely, ice and, to a much lesser extent, powder methamphetamine is produced in laboratories operated by OMGs and Asian (primarily Chinese, but also Vietnamese) DTOs in superlabs18 in central and western provinces such as Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.

Methamphetamine producers in Canada acquire pseudoephedrine through relationships with illicit chemical brokers in China, from Indo-Canadian brokers who smuggle the drug from India, and through the diversion of legitimate supplies in Canada.
RCMP reporting and laboratory seizure data indicate that methamphetamine producers in Canada currently have little difficulty acquiring bulk ephedrine or pseudoephedrine because most methamphetamine laboratories seized in 2006

15 of 23--had the capacity to produce 20 or more pounds of product per production cycle, and 6 had the capacity to produce between 2 and 20 pounds. According to RCMP reporting, most of the methamphetamine produced in Canada is intended to supply growing demand in that country; however, some is intended for distribution in the United States, Japan, and Australia.

Canada-based methamphetamine traffickers typically transport ice and tableted methamphetamine into the United States through the same smuggling routes used by traffickers to smuggle Canadian marijuana and MDMA into the United States. In fact, tableted methamphetamine produced in Canada is sometimes sold in the United States as MDMA to unsuspecting buyers, most likely in an attempt to stretch their MDMA supplies

Competition between people of different races, cultures, and nationalities is a natural result of globalization. It is a challenge, not a menace. I hope America will rise to meet this challenge instead of piling accolades at the feet of those, like Lou Dobbs, who make their living by blaming bad economic times on the mysterious "other."

Lou dobbs running for President?. What kind of joke is this? What kind of Military, Immigration, or business background or experience Lou Dobbs has? Not even a Political background.BY KEN LAYNE.



Everyone loves orange-headed Space.com founder Lou Dobbs. After all, he has protected you from the Mexicans. By hosting a tv show about how he will stop the Terrible Mexicans, Lou Dobbs truly personifies America: He is a very rich person making millions of additional dollars every year saying things that make certain unemployed people feel angry. And then those angry unemployed people watch the commercials for denture slime or protections against home intruders or time-share offers or over-the-counter solutions to the heartbreak of incontinence.

His claim that a “third of our prison population” are illegal aliens (according to the Justice Department about 6 percent of the state and federal prison population are non-citizens)
Why white supremacists have appeared on Lou Dobbs Tonight without disclosure over their ties to hate groups .
His show’s reporting on leprosy and immigration. A 2005 report on Lou Dobbs Tonight claimed there had been 7,000 new cases of leprosy in the U.S. over the past three years. In fact, there have been 7,000 cases reported over the past 30 years.

LOU DOBBS: Unfortunately, I am a fallible, and I am a man who has made some mistakes. But the reality is, the body of work stands for itself, and you know that. And the reality is, the facts are irresistible. Illegal immigration into this country is absolutely not in the American interest. And that is a reality you’re going to have to contend with.

And he loves to retaliated, and humiliating people who's disagree with his point of view or opinion. See the picture above.

That's the person you want for President and holding your family future... No way Jose..

Vote Noooooooooooooooo for Lou Dobbs. http://www.loudobbsforpresident.org/