• PugJesus
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    11 months ago

    Conservatives love fraud when it’s rich people doing it.

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      11 months ago

      So what you’re saying is we should all commit fraud until we’re rich and then we’ll be safe.

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        11 months ago

        We were born poors, we’ll always be poors in their eyes.

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        11 months ago

        they did put martha stewart in jail for trying this

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    11 months ago

    Scott is a bag of shit, but the nominee for SoS is Florida’s other senator Marco Rubio (who is also a bag of shit).

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      Thinking of what happened the other day. Executives of evil corporations are surely serial murderers, so I argue it has already happened and has been happening for a long time.

      The very existence of poverty is lethal, making billionaires guilty of manslaughter through inaction at the least, because they are not using their money to improve or eliminate poverty.

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          I understood what you meant, and I still get you. Let’s do a bit of levity. Since you mentioned skeletons in the closet-

          May I present to you, the new Cabinet Head for the Department of Health and Human Resources- Skeletor!

          Please scroll down enough to get to the delicious skeleton quote in full.

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    Scott became CEO of Columbia/HCA … In settlements reached in 2000 and 2002, Columbia/HCA pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and agreed to a $600+ million fine in what was **at the time the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history. ** During Scott’s 2000 deposition, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times.

    For non US peps.

    The Fifth Amendment protects individuals from being forced to incriminate themselves. Incriminating oneself is defined as exposing oneself (or another person) to “an accusation or charge of crime”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott#Fraud_investigation_and_settlement

  • KNova@infosec.pub
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    11 months ago

    Am I missing something? Rubio is set to be Secretary of State. Haven’t heard much about Rick Scott except he is defending all the shitty picks

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caBanned from community
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    11 months ago

    Bests timeline has him replacing Rubio and both fired days after confirmation.