disrupter
06-12-2009, 01:35 PM
One of the FEW people steering the supposed healthcare reform is a paid board member for several of the Medical Mafia Gangsters.
She is whoring on their blood-money profiteer boards for over 3 hundred thousand dollars.
But she is by no means alone in prostituting herself for Medical Mafia Money.
Dodd's wife serves on health care company boards
12 June 2009
Larry Margasak And Sharon Theimer, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON –
The wife of a senator playing a lead role on a national health care overhaul
sits on the boards of three health care companies,
one of several examples of lawmakers with ties to the medical industry.
Jackie Clegg Dodd, wife of Sen. Chris Dodd, serves on the boards of
Javelin Pharmaceuticals Inc.,
Cardiome Pharma Corp., and
Brookdale Senior Living,
their Securities and Exchange Commission filings and Web sites show.
Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., is filling in for ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which will soon start work on a health care bill.
Dodd, who as Senate Banking Committee chairman also has been an architect of the nation's financial industry and housing rescue plans, did not file a new disclosure report outlining his personal finances as most other senators did in May. The Senate was releasing those reports Friday.
Dodd sought a 90-day extension to file his report covering last year, giving him until mid-August to submit his report.
Other publicly available documents show
Mrs. Dodd last year was one of the
most highly compensated
non-employee
members of the Javelin Pharmaceuticals Inc. board,
on which she has served since 2004. She earned $32,000 in fees and $109,587 in stock option awards last year, according to the company's SEC filings.
Mrs. Dodd earned $79,063 in fees from Cardiome in its last fiscal year, while Brookdale Senior Living gave her $122,231 in stock awards in 2008, their SEC filings show.
A complaint filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group, led the Senate Ethics Committee to begin looking at mortgages that Dodd and Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., received from Countrywide Financial Corp.
The controversy involved a Countrywide "VIP" program for "friends of Angelo," Countrywide's then-chief executive Angelo Mozilo. The SEC filed a lawsuit this month accusing Mozilo of civil fraud and illegal insider trading.
Both senators have denied any wrongdoing. Dodd's mortgages haven't appeared in his public financial disclosure reports and didn't have to because they were for non-rental homes; Conrad disclosed a Countrywide mortgage on a rental property but not one for a vacation home.
Dodd is not the only member of the Senate health committee with ties to health care interests:
• Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., reported $15,001 to $50,000 in capital gains for his wife from the sale of a stake in Athenahealth Inc.,
a business services company that helps medical providers with billing and clinical operations.
Rockefeller is honorary chairman of the Alliance for Health Reform, a Washington nonprofit whose board includes representatives from the UnitedHealth Group health insurance company; AFL-CIO labor union; the AARP, which sells health insurance; St. John Health, a nonprofit health system that includes seven hospitals and 125 medical facilities in southeast Michigan; CIGNA Corp., an employer-sponsored benefits company; and the United Hospital Fund of New York.
Rockefeller also serves on the advisory board of the Children's Health Fund, a New York nonprofit focused on pediatric health care, and is an honorary board member of Beckley Health Right Inc., a nonprofit community medical clinic.
• Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is a practicing physician. He reported slight business income, $268, from the Muskogee Allergy Clinic last year; $3,000 to $45,000 in stock in Affymetrix Inc., a biotechnology company and pioneer in genetic analysis; $1,000 to $15,000 in stock in Pfizer Inc., a pharmaceutical company; and a $1,000 to $15,000 interest in Thomas A. Coburn, Md., Inc.
[Now this is RICH irony!]
Under Senate ethics rules, Coburn can't accept money from his patients.[!!!]
• Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., disclosed $1,000 to $15,000 each in stock in pharmaceutical companies Merck & Co., and Pfizer, the Johnson & Johnson health care products company and Agilent Technologies, which is involved in the biomedical industry.
Some members of the Senate leadership also have financial ties to the health industry.
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., reported $15,001 to $50,000 in stock in Amgen Inc., which develops medical therapeutics. Kyl's retirement account held stakes in several health care businesses, including the Wyeth, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and AstraZeneca pharmaceutical companies; medical provider Tenet Healthcare Corp.; CVS Caremark prescription and health services company; Genentech, a biotherapeutics manufacturer; and insurer MetLife Inc.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090612/ap_on_go_co/us_senate_disclosures;_ylt=A0wNdPJhhjJK4yIAE6Cs0NU E;_ylu=X3oDMTFldTY2Z3M1BHBvcwM4OARzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9 uX3BvbGl0aWNzBHNsawNkb2Rkc3dpZmVzZXI-
There are dirty hands,
but these guys are just plain FILTHY.
This is congress's blood money game,
Your blood,
Your money,
their game.
She is whoring on their blood-money profiteer boards for over 3 hundred thousand dollars.
But she is by no means alone in prostituting herself for Medical Mafia Money.
Dodd's wife serves on health care company boards
12 June 2009
Larry Margasak And Sharon Theimer, Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON –
The wife of a senator playing a lead role on a national health care overhaul
sits on the boards of three health care companies,
one of several examples of lawmakers with ties to the medical industry.
Jackie Clegg Dodd, wife of Sen. Chris Dodd, serves on the boards of
Javelin Pharmaceuticals Inc.,
Cardiome Pharma Corp., and
Brookdale Senior Living,
their Securities and Exchange Commission filings and Web sites show.
Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., is filling in for ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which will soon start work on a health care bill.
Dodd, who as Senate Banking Committee chairman also has been an architect of the nation's financial industry and housing rescue plans, did not file a new disclosure report outlining his personal finances as most other senators did in May. The Senate was releasing those reports Friday.
Dodd sought a 90-day extension to file his report covering last year, giving him until mid-August to submit his report.
Other publicly available documents show
Mrs. Dodd last year was one of the
most highly compensated
non-employee
members of the Javelin Pharmaceuticals Inc. board,
on which she has served since 2004. She earned $32,000 in fees and $109,587 in stock option awards last year, according to the company's SEC filings.
Mrs. Dodd earned $79,063 in fees from Cardiome in its last fiscal year, while Brookdale Senior Living gave her $122,231 in stock awards in 2008, their SEC filings show.
A complaint filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group, led the Senate Ethics Committee to begin looking at mortgages that Dodd and Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., received from Countrywide Financial Corp.
The controversy involved a Countrywide "VIP" program for "friends of Angelo," Countrywide's then-chief executive Angelo Mozilo. The SEC filed a lawsuit this month accusing Mozilo of civil fraud and illegal insider trading.
Both senators have denied any wrongdoing. Dodd's mortgages haven't appeared in his public financial disclosure reports and didn't have to because they were for non-rental homes; Conrad disclosed a Countrywide mortgage on a rental property but not one for a vacation home.
Dodd is not the only member of the Senate health committee with ties to health care interests:
• Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., reported $15,001 to $50,000 in capital gains for his wife from the sale of a stake in Athenahealth Inc.,
a business services company that helps medical providers with billing and clinical operations.
Rockefeller is honorary chairman of the Alliance for Health Reform, a Washington nonprofit whose board includes representatives from the UnitedHealth Group health insurance company; AFL-CIO labor union; the AARP, which sells health insurance; St. John Health, a nonprofit health system that includes seven hospitals and 125 medical facilities in southeast Michigan; CIGNA Corp., an employer-sponsored benefits company; and the United Hospital Fund of New York.
Rockefeller also serves on the advisory board of the Children's Health Fund, a New York nonprofit focused on pediatric health care, and is an honorary board member of Beckley Health Right Inc., a nonprofit community medical clinic.
• Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is a practicing physician. He reported slight business income, $268, from the Muskogee Allergy Clinic last year; $3,000 to $45,000 in stock in Affymetrix Inc., a biotechnology company and pioneer in genetic analysis; $1,000 to $15,000 in stock in Pfizer Inc., a pharmaceutical company; and a $1,000 to $15,000 interest in Thomas A. Coburn, Md., Inc.
[Now this is RICH irony!]
Under Senate ethics rules, Coburn can't accept money from his patients.[!!!]
• Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., disclosed $1,000 to $15,000 each in stock in pharmaceutical companies Merck & Co., and Pfizer, the Johnson & Johnson health care products company and Agilent Technologies, which is involved in the biomedical industry.
Some members of the Senate leadership also have financial ties to the health industry.
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., reported $15,001 to $50,000 in stock in Amgen Inc., which develops medical therapeutics. Kyl's retirement account held stakes in several health care businesses, including the Wyeth, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and AstraZeneca pharmaceutical companies; medical provider Tenet Healthcare Corp.; CVS Caremark prescription and health services company; Genentech, a biotherapeutics manufacturer; and insurer MetLife Inc.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090612/ap_on_go_co/us_senate_disclosures;_ylt=A0wNdPJhhjJK4yIAE6Cs0NU E;_ylu=X3oDMTFldTY2Z3M1BHBvcwM4OARzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9 uX3BvbGl0aWNzBHNsawNkb2Rkc3dpZmVzZXI-
There are dirty hands,
but these guys are just plain FILTHY.
This is congress's blood money game,
Your blood,
Your money,
their game.