Now, if you go down to your local Wal-Mart and walk out the door with some goods and forget to pay, you'll likely get a ride in a police car handcuffed, be photographed, fingerprinted and jailed and eventually have to see a judge.
Here's a recent case from Calvert to illustrate:
On the other hand, if you are a doctor, banker, or politician, you can seemingly steal as much as you like from the taxpayers or your customers and get off with a fine and have your name in the newspaper.
So, if you're an individual and you steal a few bucks from a big corporation, you get the full brunt of the law against you. However, if you're a small corporation of doctors, you can steal from the taxpayer and just get a fine--no arrests, photos or fingerprints.
An even bigger example than the local story above is the recent Wells Fargo ruse where bank employees established thousands of accounts for unknowing "customers" just so the bank could collect fees and make a mint. 5,300 bankers were fired and the two executives blamed for the fraud had to pay back several million in compensation they were previously paid, but no jail time for anyone as far as I know.
The powers-that-be want us to believe that our differences are based on skin color and religious beliefs, when the real divider is one of wealth and power---the haves and the have nots.
Here's a recent case from Calvert to illustrate:
THEFT CASE #17-19071: On April 12, 2017, at approximately 1:30pm, Deputy A. Ostazeski was dispatched to the Prince Frederick Walmart store for the report of a shoplifter in custody. He made contact with the store's loss prevention officer who advised he observed a female customer, Dana Lee, 47, of Alexandria, VA , attempting to conceal clothing items and leave the store without paying. Due to the fact that Lee is not a Maryland resident, Deputy Ostazeski transported her to the Detention Center where she was charged with Theft Less Than $100.00
On the other hand, if you are a doctor, banker, or politician, you can seemingly steal as much as you like from the taxpayers or your customers and get off with a fine and have your name in the newspaper.
Complete Family Care, P.C. Pays $250,000 to Settle Medicaid Fraud
Takoma Park Primary Care Practice Billed for Expensive Procedures but Only Performed Simple Tests
Baltimore, MD (April 18, 2017) – Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced today that Complete Family Care, P.C., a Takoma Park primary care practice owned by Suresh Khetan, M.D. and his wife Renu Khetan, paid $250,000 to the State of Maryland to resolve allegations that the practice engaged in a fraudulent billing scheme to increase profits.
The settlement stems from an investigation which found that, over a five-year period, Complete Family Care routinely billed Medicaid for complex blood removals and eye examinations with high reimbursement rates while actually performing only simple blood draws and eye tests with far lower reimbursement rates.
Attorney General Frosh thanked the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for their work on this case, specifically Assistant Attorney General Raja Mishra, Investigators Melinda FitzGerald and Julia Foster, and Auditor Oludolapo Osikomaiya. Attorney General Frosh also thanked the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Office of the Inspector General for its assistance.
So, if you're an individual and you steal a few bucks from a big corporation, you get the full brunt of the law against you. However, if you're a small corporation of doctors, you can steal from the taxpayer and just get a fine--no arrests, photos or fingerprints.
An even bigger example than the local story above is the recent Wells Fargo ruse where bank employees established thousands of accounts for unknowing "customers" just so the bank could collect fees and make a mint. 5,300 bankers were fired and the two executives blamed for the fraud had to pay back several million in compensation they were previously paid, but no jail time for anyone as far as I know.
Well Fargo executives were ordered to pay back $75 million after a scathing report on the company’s sales fraud scandal
Monday, April 10, 2017 10:30 AM EDT
Wells Fargo’s board said Monday that it would claw back an additional $75 million in compensation from the two executives on whom it pinned most of the blame for the company’s sales scandal: the bank’s former chief executive, John G. Stumpf, and its former head of community banking, Carrie L. Tolstedt.
In a scathing, 113-page report that made it clear that all the warning signs of the problem had been glaring, the board released the results of its six-month investigation into the conditions and culture that prompted thousands of Wells Fargo employees to create fraudulent accounts in an effort to meet aggressive sales goals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/business/wells-fargo-pay-executives-accounts-scandal.html
The powers-that-be want us to believe that our differences are based on skin color and religious beliefs, when the real divider is one of wealth and power---the haves and the have nots.