>>What the hell does this fool think is funny? I can just hear the discussion:

>>"Oh darling, I"m going to get rich sending penis pumps to old folks and having medicare pay for it"

>>"Oh but you're such a shithead my love, you need some mental health!"

>>2.2 million is one prodigious pile of penis pumps.

>>

Man gets 3 years in erectile pump case

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46343981/ns ... zWuryPY0lU

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — An Illinois man has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for shipping unwanted penis enlargers to diabetes patients in a scheme to bilk Medicare of more than $2.2 million.

Gary Winner, of Wheeling, Ill., was sentenced in federal court in Rhode Island on Friday to a 37-month sentence and was ordered to pay restitution.

Winner pleaded guilty in November to purchasing enlargers for about $26 each and shipping them to patients, claiming the devices helped "bladder control, urinary flow and prostate comfort."

Prosecutors say Winner billed Medicare an average of $284 for each item.

Prosecutors also allege Winner swindled more than $1.8 million by seeking reimbursement for arthritic packages he claimed Medicare beneficiaries and their physicians ordered.

Three years was not enough, should be 10 years per million, make it worth while.

River

when I saw the headline I thought he invented a super-duper, atomic-powered penis enlarger and it sucked a guys penis right off his body

now that would be painful

If these people put their inventiveness to good use, as opposed to scamming Medicare,

we'd already have a moon colony.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:58 pm Three years was not enough, should be 10 years per million, make it worth while.

River

I absolutely agree River! This CREEP and so many other CREEPS just like him are stealing from medicare, that is stealing from ALL OF US. To my way of thinking, he OWES ME PERSONALLY FOR WHAT HE TOOK FROM ME... and he owes EVERY U.S. citizen the same ammount... So, I figure he owes me one day's HARD LABOR in a rock quarry, and he owes every other U.S. citizen the same ammount, that would be over 300,000,000 days hard work on the rock pile. 37 months in some minimum security "campus" is just a mockery of justice.

It is because of CREEPS like this that medicare recipients don't get taken proper care of, think about that the next time you have to cope with what medicare does NOT pay for. Think about this CREEP mailing out his $284 penis pumps, not working even one tenth as hard as most of us have to work, and he will probably get better medical attention while in Federal custody than most hard working U.S. citizens will get when they go on medicare. It makes me so mad I feel like I could just spit! 37 months?!? He will probably not even do half of that time.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 11, 2012 5:58 pm Three years was not enough, should be 10 years per million, make it worth while.

River

I agree. Our court system often treats money crimes as being lesser, but since money is our abstract way of saving up our life's work then it is actually like killing someone. Most people would work hard all their life to make $1 million. When you steal $1M, you've stolen the equivalent of an entire life. When it is stolen from a company or government it seems even more abstract, but again people that paid into the government or insurance gave up their actual life's work to deposit that $1M.

I think they should take the average salary in the US times 30 years of average working career and anyone that steals that amount should be sentenced equivalent to taking a life (murder if premeditated, manslaughter if accidental).

I am glad were on the same page, the best way to end white collar crime is to make the punishment so long it would make you think twice about doing it.

Good formula to work with. Average persons annual income into the amount taken equals the number of years that must be served.

So if the average income is 50k the guy steels 2 million, less what is recovered, say 500k, equals 30 years.

River