Repub leadership still unethically grifting their members to the point where the Repub donations processor put a stop to it

[JEDI]

How a Record Cash Haul Vanished for Senate Republicans (Published 2022)

The campaign arm of Senate Republicans had collected $181.5 million by the end of July — but spent 95 percent of it. A big investment in digital, and hyperaggressive tactics, have not paid off.

www.nytimes.com

Rick Scott is now the chairman of the Senate Republican campaign arm.

One fund-raising scheme used by the (Repub) Senate committee, which has not previously been disclosed, involved sending an estimated millions of text messages that asked provocative questions — “Should Biden resign?” — followed by a request for cash: “Reply YES to donate.”

Those who replied “YES” had their donation processed immediately, though the text did not reveal in advance where the money was going.

WinRed, the party’s main donation-processing platform, recently stepped in and took the unusual step of blocking the committee from engaging in the practice.


Lolz

 

[Fenixgoon]

How the hell is that not some kind of wire fraud?

 

[soulcougher73]

How are they getting the money just by responding YES to a text? Id be curious.

 

[Amol S.]

How are they getting the money just by responding YES to a text? Id be curious.

Pay to phone bill maybe?

 

[kt]

How are they getting the money just by responding YES to a text? Id be curious.

It's called premium SMS. It's the modern equivalent of 900 numbers.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Tithing to Mordor has its consequences.

 

[iRONic]

MAGATS gonna sheeple it up.

 

[theeedude]

I mean they knowingly made a grifter who ripped off Medicare their senate campaign chair. What did they expect? That he would not grift on them specifically? Naive much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott#Investigation_and_settlement

During Scott's 2000 deposition, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times.[37] In settlements reached in 2000 and 2002, Columbia/HCA pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and agreed to a $600+ million fine in what was at the time the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history. Columbia/HCA admitted systematically overcharging the government by claiming marketing costs as reimbursable, by striking illegal deals with home care agencies, and by filing false data about use of hospital space. It also admitted to fraudulently billing Medicare and other health programs by inflating the seriousness of diagnoses and to giving doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA. It filed false cost reports, fraudulently billing Medicare for home health care workers, and paid kickbacks in the sale of home health agencies and to doctors to refer patients. In addition, it gave doctors "loans" never intending to be repaid, free rent, free office furniture, and free drugs from hospital pharmacies.[38][7]
In late 2002, HCA agreed to pay the United States government $631 million, plus interest, and $17.5 million to state Medicaid agencies, in addition to $250 million paid up to that point to resolve outstanding Medicare expense claims.[39] In all, civil lawsuits cost HCA more than $2 billion to settle; at the time, this was the largest fraud settlement in U.S. history.[40][41]

 

[zinfamous]

Yeah, Rick Scott is one of the mroe infamous looters of the MAGA empire. He was doing it to the GOP and citizens of a state long before Trump came on to the scene.

99% of other people doing what he did would be in prison long ago, but he's old, white, and republican, looting from republicans and other "prisoners" of Florida that have no vote in their leadership because the GOP has erased some 500k of them from the voting rolls since ~1998.