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Suspects Used Penis Pumps to Enhance Medicare Fraud
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Men-Charged-With-Enhancing-Medicare-Fraud-With-Penis-Pumps-100785004.html ^ | August 16, 2010

Posted on 08/17/2010 8:46:10 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Medicare fraud has been known to inflate the rates of others, but two Hialeah businessmen took it to the extreme, according to federal authorities.

Emilio Felipe Lopez, 47, and 25-year-old Orlando Hernandez Estevez used penis pumps to fraudulently enhance their charges to Medicare, the Miami Herald reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcmiami.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chat; floriduh; healthcare; medicare; napl; penispump
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There's an Austin Powers joke in here somewhere.
1 posted on 08/17/2010 8:46:12 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

This sort of thing ain’t my bag, baby!


2 posted on 08/17/2010 8:47:05 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Hang in there, baby! November's comin'...)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Oh, behave!


3 posted on 08/17/2010 8:47:40 AM PDT by chs68
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To: ConservativeStatement

This story is blown up out of proportion.


4 posted on 08/17/2010 8:48:50 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Pic at link...


5 posted on 08/17/2010 8:49:37 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: wiggen

These two should get shafted.


6 posted on 08/17/2010 8:49:42 AM PDT by jessduntno (I wonder...how will third Manassas turn out?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

7 posted on 08/17/2010 8:49:57 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Perhaps they’re just blowing this thing out of proportion.


8 posted on 08/17/2010 8:50:19 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: ConservativeStatement; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
The evidence won't stand up in court.


9 posted on 08/17/2010 8:50:52 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Wow, this sucks.


10 posted on 08/17/2010 8:52:55 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

What dicks.


11 posted on 08/17/2010 8:53:48 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: ConservativeStatement
Oh Behave!.....
12 posted on 08/17/2010 8:53:51 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: wiggen

It’ll never stand up in court.


13 posted on 08/17/2010 8:53:58 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Slings and Arrows

Floriduh. Figures


14 posted on 08/17/2010 8:54:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Those who support the construction of the WTC mosque oppose Christian missionaries working abroad.)
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To: Jewbacca

It blows.


15 posted on 08/17/2010 8:54:33 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: wiggen

I’d say that this sort of flaccid thinking is becoming more rampant in penis studies ...


16 posted on 08/17/2010 8:55:15 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Money for broken tools. There is also a Sears joke in here somewhere.


17 posted on 08/17/2010 8:55:28 AM PDT by TexasPatriot1 (Legalize the Constitution)
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To: Slings and Arrows
As I looked at the title I saw....
 

Suspects Used Penis Pumps to Enhance Medicare Fraud

And I thought, Ewww. Who would want a USED penis pump?

18 posted on 08/17/2010 8:56:23 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: a fool in paradise

At least they draw attention away from South Carolina. ;^)


19 posted on 08/17/2010 8:57:45 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
...to fraudulently enhance their charges...

LOL...choice of words. And..."Charges?" Is that what men are calling the body part nowadays? LOL.

20 posted on 08/17/2010 8:58:26 AM PDT by CitizenM ("Do you miss me yet?" Yes, George, we do.)
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To: ErnBatavia

21 posted on 08/17/2010 8:58:50 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Ewww. Who would want a USED penis pump?

Go green today!

22 posted on 08/17/2010 8:59:47 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I can’t imagine what it would be like to work in the Returns Department at a place that sells those...


23 posted on 08/17/2010 9:01:15 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: ConservativeStatement

We need more upright citizens.


24 posted on 08/17/2010 9:02:20 AM PDT by earlJam
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To: ConservativeStatement

Just Another case of someone needing a stimulus because they were too big to fail


25 posted on 08/17/2010 9:02:29 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The charges will have to be dismissed, though, if the evidence doesn’t stand up in court.


26 posted on 08/17/2010 9:03:41 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Slings and Arrows
Ewww. Who would want a USED penis pump?

Go green today!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

27 posted on 08/17/2010 9:05:01 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Kagan and Sotomayor-Hope and Change)
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To: Abathar

I can’t imagine what it would be like to work in the Returns Department at a place that sells those...

________________________________

And I can’t imagine what it would be like to even need to BUY one of those things in the first place.

But I’ve always been fortunate in that department.


28 posted on 08/17/2010 9:05:12 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Don’t point that thing - it might be loaded!”

- W.C. Fields


29 posted on 08/17/2010 9:05:24 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Compact Theory)
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To: Slings and Arrows

As for the pumps, I know a very liberal communist who posts on facebook who has a pump. It’s all I can do not to mention it. Now it’ll be all I can do not to post this story.

Concerning South Carolina, did anyone see the news conference of the sheriff’s press conference in South Carolina about the woman who suffocated her toddlers then put them in a car and drove it into a river? The sheriff said they held her for “non-believability”. Is that a legal charge? They held her for speaking falsities and not speaking truthatudes?


30 posted on 08/17/2010 9:05:55 AM PDT by Terry Mross (I)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Three words you don’t want to see together: “Used Penis Pumps”


31 posted on 08/17/2010 9:06:56 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (a 16 year old Australian girl already did it. And she did it right. - WWJD)
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To: ConservativeStatement; All

Wow what a penetratingly pointed and properly written article regarding persons purloining funds from the public purse by means of penile pumps( pubically applied, of course)!


32 posted on 08/17/2010 9:10:50 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Mike Mathis is my name,opinions are my own,subject to flaming when deserved!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I have absolutely no comment at all about the comments on this thread. Too busy ROFL.


33 posted on 08/17/2010 9:11:45 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TexasPatriot1

“There is also a Sears joke in here somewhere”

It took a clever bureaucratic “craftsman” to pilfer from the public purse by means of penile pumps!


34 posted on 08/17/2010 9:16:23 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Mike Mathis is my name,opinions are my own,subject to flaming when deserved!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

There’s a joke in just the url. LOL

local-beat/Men-Charged-With-Enhancing-Medicare-Fraud-With-Penis-Pumps

Local beat? LOL


35 posted on 08/17/2010 9:17:07 AM PDT by rickb308 (Muslims need to check with Native Americans & ask how that whole cowboys & indians thing worked out.)
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To: mdmathis6

Catwoman said that was “purrfect.”


36 posted on 08/17/2010 9:17:33 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: rickb308

Welcome to Miami, LOL.


37 posted on 08/17/2010 9:20:46 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Alternate Headline: Suspects arrested in Penile Pump Pimping fraud; Taxpayers Anally Shafted!


38 posted on 08/17/2010 9:21:29 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Mike Mathis is my name,opinions are my own,subject to flaming when deserved!)
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To: Terry Mross
As for the pumps, I know a very liberal communist who posts on facebook who has a pump. It’s all I can do not to mention it. Now it’ll be all I can do not to post this story.

Don't hold back on my account.

Concerning South Carolina, did anyone see the news conference of the sheriff’s press conference in South Carolina about the woman who suffocated her toddlers then put them in a car and drove it into a river? The sheriff said they held her for “non-believability”. Is that a legal charge? They held her for speaking falsities and not speaking truthatudes?

Now that she's confessalyzed to murderating them it's mootish pointulate.

39 posted on 08/17/2010 9:30:37 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: cardinal4

If it was used, I’ll bet it was green.


40 posted on 08/17/2010 9:31:47 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I hope restitution is a primary part of their penalty. Too many people need help legitimately from Medicare.


41 posted on 08/17/2010 9:33:22 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: mdmathis6

Penile pumps, tools, craftsman, Sears, Austin Powers, bureaucrats, medicare, South Carolina... Did I miss anything?
This thread is bordering on epic.


42 posted on 08/17/2010 9:37:55 AM PDT by TexasPatriot1 (Legalize the Constitution)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Suspects Used Penis Pumps to Enhance Medicare Fraud

To enhance medicare fraud? I've been using them incorrectly, I fear.

43 posted on 08/17/2010 9:47:35 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Terry Mross
As for the pumps, I know a very liberal communist who posts on facebook who has a pump. It’s all I can do not to mention it.

Two questions:

1. Why do you know this? Are you his butt boy?

2. In what discussion/debate could this fact possibly be germane?Are you intellectually weak?

44 posted on 08/17/2010 10:08:17 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (Bush: Mission Accomplished. Obama: Commission Accomplished.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

ROFL! That was some superbtastical humorosity.


45 posted on 08/17/2010 10:10:24 AM PDT by Anvilhead (Dammit Jim, I'm an American not an American't.)
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To: Anvilhead

My gratitudiness for your praiseosity.


46 posted on 08/17/2010 10:14:14 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: TexasPatriot1

Tunafish? Salami? Coarse grit sand paper?


47 posted on 08/17/2010 10:38:30 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Mike Mathis is my name,opinions are my own,subject to flaming when deserved!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

You know, what’s scary is that there’s no one at Medicare who had even a moment’s concern about writing a check to “Happy Trips”.


48 posted on 08/17/2010 10:39:06 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: GSWarrior

Apparently they can be used to “ suck out” the tax payers’ wallets; why what were you doing with them? ;)


49 posted on 08/17/2010 10:42:32 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Mike Mathis is my name,opinions are my own,subject to flaming when deserved!)
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To: ConservativeStatement; Slings and Arrows

What’s so bad about trying to fix erection flawed?


50 posted on 08/17/2010 10:56:58 AM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality Now: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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