Category: Criminal Justice System

Nursing Home Execs Stole $83 Million while Residents Suffered

And apparently, neither of the nursing home executives are going to face jail time.

Operators of four New York nursing homes siphoned more than $83 million in Medicare and Medicaid funding to line their own pockets — all while allowing residents to live under horrific conditions, including letting them sit for hours in their own filth, state Attorney General Letitia James alleges in a new lawsuit.

If an individual abused their elder parents the same way they would be thrown in jail. But if a corporation does the same thing, they get to buy their way out of trouble. Corporations are people until they commit a crime.

source: NYPost

The scheme left their facilities were chronically understaffed, resulting in the widespread neglect of elderly residents who were forced to remain in their own urine and feces for hours, were allowed to become dehydrated and malnourished and whose wounds were left to fester, the suit alleges.

Judge Warned In 2021 Of Gay Bar Attack Suspect’s Shooting Plans

The criminal justice system failed in this case as it has for so many others over and over again. It particularly fails when it comes to people with ‘mental illness.’ There is no system for dealing with it:

A judge dismissed the 2021 kidnapping case against the suspect in the Colorado gay nightclub shooting even though she had previously raised concerns about the defendant stockpiling weapons and explosives and planning a shootout, court transcripts obtained Friday by The Associated Press reveal.

Relatives, including the grandparents who claimed to have been kidnapped, had also told Judge Robin Chittum in August last year about Anderson Aldrich’s struggles with mental illness during a hearing at which the judge said the defendant needed treatment or “it’s going to be so bad,” according to the documents.

Still, no mention was made during a hearing this July of the suspect’s violent behavior or the status of any mental health treatment.

Anderson Lee Aldrich surrenders to police at a home.(AP/Leslie Bowman

He even made a bomb threat but was allowed to walk the streets a free man until the shooting in November. How was that possible?

Colorado gay club shooter tried to reclaim guns seized after 2021 bomb threat but prosecutor says they were not returned.