Day: January 29, 2012

Churches Charities Allowed Better Prizes

Churches Charities Allowed Better Prizes — A grand isn’t what it was, so the Pennsylvania legislature has for the first time since 1988 updated the state’s Small Games of Chance Act to increase  limits for prize payouts for contests run nonprofit associations, charitable organizations and other civic groups.

The law raises the limit from $500 to $1,000 for daily drawings, from $5,000 to $25,000 for weekly drawings and from $5,000 to $10,000 for raffles per calendar month.

The bill amending the act, HB 169, awaits the governor’s expected signature.

The Senate amended the bill to include measures that permit fire and emergency services to hold a raffle with $50,000 prize limits and to require clubs with liquor licenses to submit semi-annual reports to the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue.

Hat tip State Rep Jim Cox (R-129)

 

Churches Charities Allowed Better Prizes

Medicare Fraud Connection Mitt’s Latest Headache

Medicare Fraud Connection Mitt’s Latest Headache — Democrats and supporters of Newt Gingrich are now bringing out Willard Mitt Romney’s connection to Damon Corp, a medical testing company, which  paid  $119 million in fines and civil settlements concerning Medicare fraud in 1996.

Damon was taken over by Romney’s Bain Capital in 1989 and Romney sat on its board from 1990 until 1993 when it was sold to Corning Inc.

The fraud — in which Medicare paid for unnecessary lab work, and a lot of unnecessary lab work it was — allegedly occurred during Romney’s tenure.

Here is a link to the web expose produced by Winning Our Future, a pro-Gingrich super-PAC.

Hat tip, Tom Flocco.



Medicare Fraud Connection Mitt’s Latest Headache