"...then the condo was sold..."
December 24, 2014
By Joseph Serna
..“There’s a lot of people (click here) that are just victim of circumstance, that didn’t go homeless because they’re lazy.”
Thomas said he became homeless after his parents died within weeks of each other and the condo he shared with them was sold.
The video has been viewed more than 11.4 million times on YouTube since it was posted on Monday. On Lin’s multiple social media pages, he says he was so moved by Thomas’ generosity that he put him up in a hotel and has launched a fundraiser to get Thomas back on his feet.
The account had more than $55,000 as of Wednesday morning.
Bush is another Romney. They are poured out of the same mold. What is astounding to watch is the lack of his connection with reality. He only learned now that he is the one percent and has sought to devest his image, not his financial affiliations. Basically, he found out, "Oops, I like money too much."
Effective Dec. 31, Bush (click here) will no longer be employed by Tenet Healthcare or multinational financial services firm Barclays
He has also stopped booking paid speeches, though he will follow through on previous commitments through early next year
Bush is disentangling himself from business interests that could cause conflicts if he declares his candidacy for the Republican nomination
He remains a partner in three private equity funds and is still listed as a board member of Rayonier
Tenet supports Obamacare and predicts it will make $100 million off of new Obamacare signups this year
Bush is against Obamacare yet remained on the hospital chain's board from the beginning of the health care negotiations until now.
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A senior member of the Bush dynasty (click here) is about to get a large sum of money from a company with a history of ethical violations.
Stop me if you've heard this one before.
This is the same Tenet that had to pay $900 million to Uncle Sam last summer to settle charges that it had overbilled Medicare and Medicaid over many years.
Nine hundred million dollars.
The U.S. attorneys announcing the settlement accused the company of "fraud" and trying to "manipulate and cheat the system."
Mike Leavitt, the Health and Human Services Secretary appointed by Jeb's brother George, said the company had "fraudulently abused the Medicare program."
It's also the same Tenet that just paid $80 million to the IRS after an audit found it owed back taxes going back as far as 1995.
The company recently had to restate nearly five years of earnings statements after an investigation into its books.
And this is just the big stuff. Tenet's recent public filings read like a police blotter. One of its clinics in South Carolina performed 436 open heart operations without certification. The company is being sued in California by staff claiming they were systematically short-changed on pay and overtime, in breach of the state's labor code. Three former Tenet staff members, at a New Orleans hospital it owned, are under investigation for allegedly euthanizing four patients following Hurricane Katrina.
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) (click here) joined with a team of bankers to create a private equity investment firm, a development that raises new questions about whether he will run for president in 2016.
Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell confirmed the creation of the entity, Britton Hill Holdings LLC, which was first reported Thursday by Bloomberg. It was created in 2013....
...Bloomberg reported that Bush teamed with former bankers from Credit Suisse Group AG and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to create a Florida-based investment firm. The firm has made investments tied to the oil and gas industries....
