Mysterious Ted Cruz Super PAC Donors Tied To Company Accused Of Stealing Seniors' Social Security
Source: Huffington Post
The CEO of Platinum Health Care -- a nursing-home chain that recently settled a lawsuit alleging it stole patients' Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Veterans Administration payments -- is closely linked to five mysterious companies that donated $250,000 to Stand For Truth, a super PAC supporting Ted Cruz.
The five limited liability companies, which own or operate assisted living facilities for seniors, each donated $50,000 to Stand for Truth on Dec. 21, 2015. That's the same day that Platinum Health Care -- which shares the same Skokie, Illinois, address as the five LLCs -- settled over allegations that CEO Ben Klein and his firms kept seniors' government checks after they moved out of Platinum facilities or died.
Klein and his co-defendants, the complaint charged, “fabricated false and fraudulent charges and records," pocketing at least $1 million from Medicaid and an unspecified amount from Medicare. The defendants also allegedly kept $92,596.80 in VA benefits belonging to a Navy veteran who had died, rather than transferring the money to his estate or returning it to the government, as the law requires. The company stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of Social Security payments at just one of the 26 facilities it owned or operated, according to the complaint.
The federal court docket for the case does not contain any details of the settlement. Settlements don't generally include an admission of wrongdoing. Klein declined to comment on the case.
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