For a man obsessed by stagecraft and keeping all eyes upon himself, the *resident is a big FAIL when it comes to choosing the rallyists he lets be parked behind him on stage.
Chanters, hollerers, Jack Sprat and his wife, people who can chew gum after death, tacky dressers, ultramaroons and mountebanks- they exert a compelling distraction, pulling the TV audience's eyes inexorably away from the Manhattan Mussolini's ravings.
Just nineteen days ago, the star of the *resident's Huntington, West Virginia meltdown was Kentucky doctor and Medicare profiteer Richard Paulus:
Prior to attending the rally Thursday, Paulus was indicted on 11 counts of fraud in September 2015, with federal prosecutors stating he performed medically unnecessary heart procedures, including catheterization and inserting stents, on patients at King’s Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, Kentucky, between 2008 and 2013, according to the indictment filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky. U.S. Attorney Kerry Harvey said Paulus would then bill Medicaid, Medicare and patients’ private insurers for the needless procedures.
In the indictment, Harvey said Paulus performed more cardiac stent placements for Medicare patients than were performed by all of the cardiologists at either the University of Kentucky or University of Louisville health care systems, making roughly $2.5 and $2.6 million annually in 2009, 2010 and 2011. In 2012, Paulus made $1.7 million, and he made $692,197 in 2013.
The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure received an anonymous grievance alleging fraud, abuse and negligence against Paulus in November 2012, according to the indictment.
He retired from King’s Daughters effective July 31, 2013, according to the indictment. Paulus’ medical license has been inactive since 2014, according to Board of Medical Licensure records, and Paulus and the board entered into an agreed order of retirement, which was filed Nov. 7, 2014.
In October 2016, Paulus was convicted of needlessly performing the procedures and charging insurers, and Paulus sought acquittal shortly thereafter, with his attorney, Robert Bennett, arguing federal prosecutors failed to provide enough evidence in the case, according to the Ashland Daily Independent.
In March 2017, Paulus was acquitted of the charges, and his previously scheduled April 25 sentencing hearing was canceled.
The Independent also reported King’s Daughters Medical Center agreed to pay the government $40.9 million to settle claims, but hospital officials admitted no wrongdoing and agreed to internal reforms.The Washington Post has a fascinating story up about last night's zany, Michael the Black Man:
The radical fringe activist from Miami once belonged to a violent black supremacist religious cult, and he runs a handful of amateur, unintelligible conspiracy websites. He has called Barack Obama “The Beast” and Hillary Clinton a Ku Klux Klan member. Oprah Winfrey, he says, is the devil.
Most curiously, in the 1990s, he was charged, then acquitted, with conspiracy to commit two murders.
But Michael the Black Man loves President Trump. And President Trump’s campaign apparently loves him right back.Michael the Black Man- the only nonwhite face visible on the risers behind the *resident- may become even more valuable, though.
His other black supporter is facing existential doubt:
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