If The Alleged Leader Of Huge Medicare Fraud, Doctor Jacques Roy, Is Convicted, Will The Tea Party Express PAC Return The $$$ He Contributed?
Doctor Jacques Roy, the self-proclaimed geriatric specialist indicted and accused of masterminding a $350 million rip off of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, was a Tea Party supporter, at least in 2009 and 2010. Then, he donated to the Tea Party Express (TPE) political action committee (PAC), Our Country Deserves Better (OCDB).
It’d be different if he’d donated his own money, but federal health care fraud allegations suggest that at least part of the money he gave to the OCDB was stolen from the taxpaying public. According to the Federal Election Committee’s contributor database, from August 2009 to January 2010 Dr. Roy wrote five checks totalling $1,150 to Our Country Deserves Better. [See the FEC data below] Actually, it’s not much money. He must’ve been a multi-millionaire at the time, if the allegations are proved. In any event, the doc was a class A tightwad. . .
Ripping off cento-millions from Medicare and Medicaid surely offends tea partiers. Mostly. Nonetheless, a few may very well view Dr. Roy as a 21st century Robin Hood, stealing from the sovereign and redistributing to the wishfully sovereign. Apparently, Roy misinterpreted the official Tea Party remedies for “government fraud and waste.” This is not what they suggest, publicly anyway. 
In the weeks ahead, though, some of the stiffer backs in the movement may well argue that government “appropriation” through taxation is theft, quite literally. In fact, if Dr. Roy is looking to make Tea Party guest lists, he might seriously consider building his defense around that: “You’re Honor, I was just taking back what was lawfully mine. With a hefty vig.” Perhaps we’ll soon see a Tea Party Express-inspired defense fund for the good doctor and his compatriots.
If convicted, though, let’s face it, Dr. Roy fed quite well at what those tea partiers and others call “the government trough.” Visualized, the amount the doc grabbed would have provided a nice budget boost for the national School Lunch Program, or a moderate number of Cruise missiles, or a million dollar contribution to every program in geriatric medicine in the country. Perhaps that was the doc’s plan after all; you know, advancing the art and science of medicine.
Of course, I’m not “indicting” TPE or its PAC, OCDB, in any way (this time). No reverse guilt by association need apply. Nonetheless, I sent TPE and OCDB a request that
the PAC disavow and return the doctor’s $1,150 total contribution if Dr. Roy pleads guilty to any charges, enters an accepted plea bargain, is otherwise convicted, or the court accepts a plea of “no contest.”
Somehow, giving up Roy’s contribution seems fair and just, chock full of Tea Party values. You’ll see their reply as soon as I get it.
Finally, here’s his FEC contribution record accessed today:
ROY, JACQUES MR.
ROCKWALL, TX 75087
JACQUES ROY/PHYSICIANOUR COUNTRY DESERVES BETTER PAC – TEAPARTYEXPRESS.ORG
08/31/2009 200.00 29935530744
10/06/2009 250.00 29935531214
10/16/2009 200.00 29935531290
11/06/2009 200.00 29935531650
01/10/2010 500.00 10990318827
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$1,150.00
Where That Tea Party Medicare and Medicaid Money Went
Here’s the URL for the FEC record of Tea Party Express PAC campaign contributions, during 2009-2010. It’s quite a rogue’s gallery, Christine O’Donnell; Sharon Angle; Alaska’s Joe Miller, and Wall Street minion Massachusetts’ Scott Brown.
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