"State Bills Family Of Homicide Victim For Nearly $12 Million" News story.

[Half-Century Man]

In what might be a disturbing trend, the extremely troubled Bernard Fineson Development Center has, in an apparent response to a wrongful death suit, sent the estate of an alleged abuse victim a bill for $11,670,000.00 for ten years of care (1.16 million a year).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/28/rasheen-rose-family-billed-million_n_5407326.html

[elleng]

1. 'A spokeswoman

for the New York state institution where a mentally disabled man's death has been ruled a homicide says officials were obligated to bill the man's estate almost $12 million for his care over 10 years or risk losing federal Medicaid funding.

Spokeswoman Jennifer O'Sullivan says the state was following federal Medicaid obligations in seeking reimbursement recently from the estate of Rasheen Rose.'

[msongs]

2. just another attempt to shut-up somebody - billing, law suits, same thing nt