Rush plausible theory of what happened with the pills

me | 10/03/03 | snooker

[snooker]

A lot of this drugs and Rush stuff isn't adding up for me. So let me try out a theory here.

Read this on http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.html

If true it gives insight to the behind the scenes goings on.

Note that the two were running a Palm Beach-area pharmacy.

Now, what if Rush were a legitimate customer of the pharmacy these two owned. Just happened this way. With me so far?

So the maid may have been picking up Rush's legitimate prescriptions all along. So if anyone asked, she just says these are for Rush. Cool cover story for the maid/pusher who might get caught with the drugs eh?

OK lets say these two pharmacy owners were doing what is alleged on the smoking gun site, selling these pills on the black market. Well how do they cover their tracks at audit time? Simple. Rush is a customer. So they simply credit the excess purchases to his account. Why Rush's account? They assume that if anyone wants Rush's medical records he will resist with legal means. Might be why Rush is accused of buying enough of these pills to kill a horse ... hmmmm.

Neat scam we have here. All is fine until the cops start moving in. Then trouble. The maid might have been a pusher who was taking the excess "Rush pills" and selling them, not to Rush but anyone who wanted them. So Rush was part of the cover story for the dealers/pushers.

Now add this tidbit ... I remember Rush on-air several times saying he does not bill his insurance company for drug expenses, he just pays cash for them. He admitted to not keeping records of his drug purchases nor did he total it up for taxes at year end. So Rush was an accidental sitting duck for the scam.

So now Rush goes on the air. Says he doesn't know what is going on. Assume what Rush says is true for the moment and all else begins to make sense.

Curious don't you think.

comments???

[Milligan]

My brother went deaf when he was in first grade. The teacher thought he was stupied. The kids tormented him because he couldn't read. The visiting nurse thought it was something else and advised my parents to take him to a specialist. His tonsils were putting pressure on his "inner ear tubes." His tonsils were removed and he was able to hear again. But he had to repeat first grade in a different school.

[SuziQ]

Troll. You don't know anything about me, so don't make judgements. I don't happen to listen to Rush everyday. I'm lucky if I can listen once a month. I don't know if these allegations are true, but I know enough about how the press works that folks who are accused of something can be railroaded, no matter how many denials, non-denials or whatever that they state. I'll wait until there is some firm information, not just stories in a tabloid, or stories that use the tabloid as a serious and sole source.

[1L]

For my nickle, why did they meet clandestinely at a Denny's (I think) parking lot??? She was his MAID for pit sakes.

I wondered about that myself. Even if she wasn't working for him at the time, why would he meet her anywhere? Why would he risk being seen taking a paper bag of stuff when all she has to do is come over with mop in hand, stay for 30 minutes, leave, and no one knows the difference?

However, I am just a little troubled there has been no denial of the underlying premise. Even as an attorney, I haven't thought of how a "I didn't do it" causes trouble. Even the feds don't prosecute false denials under the False Statement Act.