Senior Counsel at Empower Oversight. My own thoughts at the Greenbrier Street Brief. Chase DeLauter guy. https://xitter.cf/t.co/X6VRWtNLBg
Charleston, West Virginia
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Scalia’s favorite movie, and I think anyone real who watches it grows 5% more integrity and 10% more spine
Back in college a federal judge I admired spoke to our student government class about the 1966 drama A Man for All Seasons, adapted by Robert Bolt from his 1960 play. I’ve grown to love it. The dramatic climax of the film is when Sir Thomas More is sentenced to death as a result of Richard Rich perjuring himself. Recognizing Rich's new chain of office and learning he’s been made Attorney General for Wales, below was More's response.
Seeing so many people in government over the last 20 years trade away their integrity, this is the line I think of every time.
Virginia's 1862 consent said Frederick County could join West Virginia "whenever" its voters chose. Berkeley and Jefferson voted and came over. Frederick never got its vote.
Lower income tax. Your car tax back. Constitutional carry.
The invitation stands. Let Frederick vote.
Bobby Cheren retweeted
The state Auditor's job is to catch wrongdoing in state and local government. Confirming that their own office is under federal grand jury investigation is a HUGE deal.
The state Auditor has declined a request for records that represent federal subpoenas issued to that office or its personnel, saying the state office cannot release materials before a federal grand jury.
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Kenya has named Mary Wang'ang'a a national heroine.
She runs our mobility carts program. Her first response was to give the award away.
Her story, in her own words, on the Partners for Care Substack:
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In 2001, Detroit police picked up a 20-year-old because someone said a white Cadillac was his. Within days he had signed statements in two murders. He never read them. Mario Evans has been in prison ever since. AI helped me finally make his case for release in one day.
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As someone who graduated in three years because of AP credits in high school, I’m a big fan of this idea as an option. If you can become a lawyer in just three years of school, you should be able to get a BA in that ammount of time. I hope WVU and Marshall look at this, assuming it means you can just serve more students and not reduce the number of professors and classes.
While the biggest threat today is illicit fentanyl, we must remain vigilant about abuse of prescription opioids, partly because diversion can lead kids and adults down a road that leads to fentanyl and death. If you don’t need all of your pain pills, please take advantage of this program supported by the DEA and @WestVirginiaAG
@maddysperl
Paging @CaseyMattox_
A national pediatricians' group wants raw milk banned. Everywhere.
I wrote Wyoming's Food Freedom Act on one idea: an informed adult can buy food straight from the neighbor who made it.
Doctors should warn. That's their job. Deciding for every family in all 50 states isn't. States set their own rules. Keep it that way.
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New on the Greenbrier Street Brief: “Walk, Don’t Run.” How an 1830 book review, a property casebook, and the first page of All the King’s Men made me an optimistic conservative. greenbrierstreetbrief.substa…
I am passionate about completing the 20 miles of missing pieces in the potential continuous rail trail between Parkersburg and Morgantown. But it needs a name. Please help.
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Floris and Benavides have a long history, but well before they lied to @JudiciaryGOP in 2023 about their knowledge of the Biden laptop, Floris and Benavides were the officials who approved the operational plan for ROUND RIVER (which helped stifle reporting on the laptop in October 2020).
Two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris, 46, of Alexandria, Virginia, and Bradley Benavides, 56, of Aiken, South Carolina, surrendered today on arrest warrants issued after a criminal complaint charged them with lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden, announced @USAttyPirro.
The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force.
Evidence shows that Floris discussed the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden routinely for more than a year both within the FITF and with others in the FBI. Contrary to his assertion that he learned of the Hunter Biden laptop from Wikipedia, Benavides regularly discussed the laptop with FBI officials in the leadup to the 2020 election.
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This week @joerogan discussed our DEA client’s whistleblower disclosures. But here’s the thing: law enforcement doesn’t have to choose between stopping fentanyl and making big cases—it’s possible to do both. It’s not too much to ask that law enforcement try to protect the public.
A whistleblower represented by @EMPOWR_us revealed that the DEA was walking fentanyl, similar to how DOJ walked guns more than 10 years ago. Millions of pills were walked, who knows how many people died. One is too many. The DEA forgot its own message. @joerogan pays attention.
The Joe Rogan Experience covers Fast and Furious 2.0, the DEA fentanyl walking scandal in New Mexico revealed by three brave @EMPOWR_us whistleblowers
The DEA fentanyl walking story made Joe Rogan’s show. 1:48:00 if you want to skip to it.
Three whistleblowers. At least a million deadly pills. A House Oversight investigation, a DOJ Inspector General review, a state AG lawsuit, and a county that just declared a state of emergency citing it.
This started with one agent in Albuquerque who wouldn’t let it go.
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Ryan Laughlin and KOB 4 Investigates have been on this tragic story from the beginning, and this is their best work yet.
Robert and Leah Jones lost DJ in 2015. He was 22. They are talking now — about the day a DEA agent knocked on their door, and about what's happening in New Mexico today — so other families don't have to live what they've lived.
Watch it.
kob.com/new-mexico/4-investi…
In March we asked California's health department what it knew about hospice providers clustering at single addresses, abnormal billing, and outlier reimbursement rates — in Los Angeles County specifically. In April we asked New York's hospice regulator the same kinds of questions.
Today DOJ charged 15 people in Los Angeles, including $138M in alleged hospice fraud. One case: four interconnected hospices with non-death discharge rates three to five times the national average.
We didn't bring these cases. But the patterns are visible in the data long before anyone gets charged, and state regulators are the ones who should be finding them first.
DOJ found another of today's cases through data analytics flagging an extreme billing outlier. Their words: "the data will lead us to wherever you are." That's the whole argument for putting this data in public hands.
@EMPOWR_us
🚨BREAKING: FBI agents on Thursday dismantled a suspected $2 billion health care fraud operation in Los Angeles, resulting in the arrests of 15 individuals, according to the California Post.
The defendants reportedly include medical professionals who are accused of making fraudulent claims to government and private health care programs. The Department of Justice is expected to share further details on the operation later Thursday.
In March we asked California's health department what it knew about hospice providers clustering at single addresses, abnormal billing, and outlier reimbursement rates — in Los Angeles County specifically. In April we asked New York's hospice regulator the same kinds of questions.
Today DOJ charged 15 people in Los Angeles, including $138M in alleged hospice fraud. One case: four interconnected hospices with non-death discharge rates three to five times the national average.
We didn't bring these cases. But the patterns are visible in the data long before anyone gets charged, and state regulators are the ones who should be finding them first.
@EMPOWR_us
🚨 @AAGMcDonald announces Los Angeles Health Care Fraud Takedown results in charges against 15 defendants, including 6 medical professionals, $1.8 BILLION loss ⬇️
In March we asked California's health department what it knew about hospice providers clustering at single addresses, abnormal billing, and outlier reimbursement rates — in Los Angeles County specifically. In April we asked New York's hospice regulator the same kinds of questions.
Today DOJ charged 15 people in Los Angeles, including $138M in alleged hospice fraud. One case: four interconnected hospices with non-death discharge rates three to five times the national average.
We didn't bring these cases. But the patterns are visible in the data long before anyone gets charged, and state regulators are the ones who should be finding them first.
@EMPOWR_us
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Case Western Reserve closed out its bicentennial year by launching a $2.5 billion campaign.
I went to CWRU Law on a full ride. That scholarship is the only reason the last fifteen years of my career happened. A campaign like this is how the next kid in that chair gets the same shot.
Go Spartans. @cwru #2.5Billion
