hmmm... for all I know, he joined the board as part of a clean-up effort, though if he were smart he'd say exactly that. Maybe he can't say anything about an on-going case, yadda yadda.
As for his directorship at Paladin, isn't that SOP amongst the neo-cons? On 7/24/06, Dan Scanlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is the only reference I could find, from Covert Action Quarterly (http://mediafilter.org/caq/CAQ57briefs.html). Probably more significant is his directorship at Paladin, a business entity aimed at profiting from 9/11. Dan Another former CIA head is cashing in on his name and connections. In October 1995, R. James Woolsey joined the board of directors of the Sun Healthcare Group. A $1 billion company based in Albuquerque, Sun is currently under federal investigation for billing fraud at some of its nursing and rehabilitation homes around the country. Sundance Rehabilitation, the unit under investigation, provides therapy at many of Sun's 145 nursing homes and at 565 other facilities in 30 states. After obtaining a search warrant to find evidence of conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to claims; false claims; and obstruction of proceeding before departments, agencies and committees, the FBI raided a Sun-owned facility in Seattle on July 26, 1995. In an affidavit obtained by CAQ, Jeffrey A. Stanley, an FBI special agent assigned to the Health Care Task Force, charged that Sun CEO Andrew Turner had issued a verbal policy instructing employees to misrepresent group therapy sessions and, as a Sun worker quoting Turner reported, just bill it as individual therapy. For example, a therapist would simultaneously help five stroke victims relearn how to eat and would charge Medicare for five individual sessions. According to Woolsey, Sun received about 40 percent of its income from Medicare. Woolsey joined the Sun board after the raid and after two other board members had resigned. The ex-DCI said he was aware of the fraud investigation when he accepted the seat. I made a general inquiry and found that there was no reason not to go on board. Asked if he considered that there was a problem working for a company involved in Medicare fraud, he declined to answer hypothetical questions. He later added that he had no ethical constraints since almost all companies face investigation. Asked why he wanted to the board seat, Woolsey said it is an interesting industry and I am honored. In addition to the honor, Woolsey estimated his cash compensation at $35,000 a year plus a generous stock option plan equivalent to more than two years' pay for most of the people who work in nursing homes. While he admits to very little background in health care, the former spook cites his experience as a corporate lawyer and litigator as the reason he was selected. As the fraud investigation continues, those qualifications will no doubt come in handy. On the reassuring side, Woolsey is no longer a member of the President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform. On Jul 24, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > Michael Perelman wrote: >> >> I believe that was James Woolsey. > > me: >> > right, a Clinton appointee. I've read, however, that the >> Clintonoids >> > didn't get along with him. > > Dan Scanlan wrote: >> Wasn't he indicted or questioned or something about his chain of old >> folks' homes screwing old folks? > > I couldn't find out anything about that by googling. > -- > Jim Devine / "You need a busload of faith to get by." -- Lou Reed. Dan Scanlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coolhanduke.com "We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." — George Orwell
-- Jim Devine / "You need a busload of faith to get by." -- Lou Reed.
