Rush Limbaugh ARRESTED On Prescription Fraud Charges (CBS NEWS)

[kpete]

Rush Limbaugh arrested on prescription fraud charges, Palm Beach County authorities tell CBS News. 6:17 pm |

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/28/rush-limbaugh-arrested/#comments

on the ticker:
http://www.cbsnews.com/
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Rush Limbaugh makes deal with in 'doctor shopping' probe
RAW STORY
Published: Friday April 28, 2006

Rush Limbaugh has committed to a settlement agreement with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office in their probe of allegations that the conservative talk show host went doctor shopping, according to a press release issued by Limbaugh's attorney, RAW STORY has found.

The Palm Beach Post reported that Limbaugh turned himself in to Florida authorities on Friday after a warrant was issued.

"The conservative radio commentator came into the jail at about 4 p.m. with his attorney Roy Black and bonded out an hour later on a $3,000 bail," said a spokesman for the State Attorney's office, according to the Palm Beach Post.

According to attorney Roy Black, a single charge of doctor shopping will be filed in court by the state attorney, and as long as Limbaugh "completes an additional 18 months of treatment" by his physician, and pays $30,000 "to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation," the charge will then be dropped.

Press release issued by Limbaugh's attorney:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Rush_Limbaugh_makes_deal_in_doctor_0428.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060428/ap_on_re_us/limbaugh_painkillers

[TahitiNut]

1. Banner: "Palm Beach County authorities say Rush Limbaugh has been arrested

"Palm Beach County authorities say Rush Limbaugh has been arrested on prescription fraud charges. Details soon."


:party: :toast: :bounce: :beer: :beer: :headbang: :woohoo: :applause: :rofl:

[kstewart33]

2. kpete, you've had some great posts lately.

Keep it up!

[juajen]

5. Good Lord,

wouldn't you know it would be late afternoon on a Friday? That's power, folks. I'm disgusted.

[TahitiNut]

10. Yep. He's out in an hour on $3,000 bond, too.

That's chump money for the pig.

[Protagoras]

3. And immediately released with a sweetheart deal

and looking at his record being sealed and expunged in 18 months at which time he'll have his sheeple convinced it never actually happened.

This isn't the exciting news people think it is from the headlines.

[saltpoint]

4. Thanks for the update, kpete. Appreciate your on-the-ball posts.

Almost as a separate consideration, I want Limbaugh humbled for his long-standing bigotry and hard-ass attitude to the poor and disenfranchised. Drug addiction is a health problem, not a moral issue, in my opinion, and that's why Limbaugh needs to be humbled.

I don't want him criticized for HIS addiction if as a condition of his sentence he could be made to offer an apology to others for their addiction.

If his attitude remains as bigoted and hard-assed as ever, I think punitive action is a more appealing option.

He owes many anonymous people an apology.

[Mz Pip]

6. Is this on the old allegations

or is this new?

Mz Pip
:dem:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I wonder if we get to see him smile like Delay.

Or if he'll be wearing way too much makeup like that Fox anchor- whatshisname.

[LittleClarkie]

18. There's another thread that has the photo

and yes, he's smiling

[cal04]

8. Rush Limbaugh arrested on prescription drug charges

Rush Limbaugh was arrested Friday on prescription drug charges, law enforcement officials said. Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities on a warrant issued by the State Attorney's Office, said Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office.

The conservative radio commentator came into the jail at about 4 p.m. with his attorney Roy Black and bonded out an hour later on a $3,000 bail, Barbera said. The warrant was for fraud to conceal information to obtain prescription, Barbera said.

Black said his client and authorities reached a settlement on a single count charge of doctor shopping filed Friday by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months. Prosecutors seized Limbaugh's records after learning that he received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion. They contend that Limbaugh engaged in "doctor shopping," or illegally deceived multiple doctors to receive overlapping prescriptions.

Limbaugh has not been charged and maintains he's innocent. He has acknowledged he became addicted to pain medication, blaming it on severe back pain, and took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter a rehabilitation program in 2003.

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/14455252.htm

[malaise]

Another one bites the dust

They're falling like flies :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[TahitiNut]

9. "Rush Limbaugh arrested on prescription drug charges"

Rush Limbaugh arrested on prescription drug charges

The Associated Press
April 28. 2006 6:18PM

Rush Limbaugh was arrested Friday on prescription drug charges, law enforcement officials said.

Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities on a warrant issued by the State Attorney's Office, said Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office.

The conservative radio commentator came into the jail at about 4 p.m. with his attorney Roy Black and bonded out an hour later on a $3,000 bail, Barbera said.

The warrant was for fraud to conceal information to obtain prescription, Barbera said.

Black said his client and authorities reached a settlement on a single count charge of doctor shopping filed Friday by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months.

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[WiseButAngrySara]

11. Is this really true! Oh, JOY! I'm ROFLMHO !!!! I can't believe how I

have come to really despise these RW creeps...I'm HAPPY that this jerk is to be jailed.

:rofl:

[rodeodance]

17. no jail time. He is out and about already.

[WiseButAngrySara]

20. I know now dammit! I posted too soon, and rejoiced too briefly! ....n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. And gets a slap on the wrist

This sentence is bullshit.

Most people have their lives ruined for what he did and less.

[WiseButAngrySara]

13. Lou Dobbs just announced it on CNN: unusual for him to break in with news!

n/t

[LuCifer]

14. If this was Randi Rhodes or Howard Stern...

...they would already be in JAIL by now, even if it wasn't true.
I am SO sick of the double standard in this country. You watch, oxyRU$Hitler will get a slap on the wrist. Just by having Roy Black as his lawyer says one word: GUILTY!

[Bluebear]

15. MEGADITTOS YOU BLOWHARD PIECE OF SHIT! nt

[lonestarnot]

16. Hey all you guys in the klink, you're about to be joined by

some bad company with some bad gas! Be forwarned! The windbag cometh!

[PuraVidaDreamin]

21. Damn woman! You gotta way with words!

I'm so happy we will see each other this summer!

[lonestarnot]

28. Excellent! I'm looking forward and forward looking. Today we march!

Kyle's office that freak'n warmonger! I'll be thinking of all my D.C. partners! Love them all each and every one. :hug:

[Arugula Latte]

19. YEEEEEEEES!

Put him in shackles for 24 hours and let him soil himself ... He made fun of people who didn't like that treatment for detainees of the U.S. military -- so let's see him put his money where his mouth is!

[Cleita]

22. Yes, let him enjoy first hand the "fraternity pranks" he spoke

so glibly about.

[UTUSN]

23. This is not a joke, correct?????/ n/t

[Roland99]

24. Nope...not at all!!

http://www.vinelink.com/offender/detail.jsp?siteID=10008&offenderSID=23779334

Offender Record
Last Name: LIMBAUGH Custody Status: In Custody
First Name: RUSH HUNDSON Agency: unknown
Date of Birth: 01/12/1951 Race: White
Offender ID: 0334594 Gender: Male

[DanCa]

25. Didn't Limpnuts once push for the maximum sentance for drug users?

The man (and I use that term loosely) is as fraudulent as the politics that he preaches.

[Roland99]

26. Rush Limbaugh drug-war quotes. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/1652834_comment.php

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
convicted and they ought to be sent up."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html

"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html

"It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html

[hanginthere]

27. So he's not guilty of anything and he spent 60 minutes in jail?

If I read this right the state of Florida, after spending $30.000 is saying he is not guilty of illegal drug use? That his crime was doctor shopping? (I didn't know that was a crime). And after a year and a half, his slate will be completely clean?

They clearly weren't looking very hard.