Rush Limbaugh Arrested on Prescription Fraud Charges

[Hurin_Rules]

No more information as of yet, but MSNBC is reporting that he has been arrested on prescription fraud charges.

[drone]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/28/li....ap/index.html

Not much info yet.

Edit-> Washington Post with a little more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...042801692.html

[Byzantine Prince]

*drools*

[The_Doctor]

Who is Rush Limbaugh?

[solypsist]

it's not news unless he gets jailtime

[Leet Eriksson]

Who is Rush Limbaugh?

Some guy who is paid to talk.

[drone]

Who is Rush Limbaugh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh
Conservative radio show host.

[Divinus Arma]

Drudge Report:

Settlement Agreement Ends State Investigation of Rush Limbaugh
Fri Apr 28 2006 18:59:55 ET

Palm Beach, FL – April 28, 2006 – In response to media and other inquiries, Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh’s attorney, released the following statement today concerning a settlement agreement with the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office to end the investigation of Mr. Limbaugh:

"I am pleased to announce that the State Attorney’s Office and Mr. Limbaugh have reached an agreement whereby a single count charge of doctor shopping filed today by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months. As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years. This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.

“Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position. Accordingly, we filed today with the Court a plea of ‘Not Guilty’ to the charge filed by the State.

“As part of this agreement, Mr. Limbaugh also has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation. The agreement also provides that he must refrain from violating the law during this 18 months, must pay $30 per month for the cost of “supervision” and comply with other similar provisions of the agreement.

“Mr. Limbaugh had intended to remain in treatment. Thus, we believe the outcome for him personally will be much as if he had fought the charge and won.”

The actions taken today are as follows:

The State Attorney has filed a single charge of doctor shopping with the Court. The charge is being held in abeyance under the terms of an agreement between the State and Mr. Limbaugh.

Mr. Limbaugh has filed a plea of “Not Guilty” with the Court.

The formal agreement between Mr. Limbaugh and the State Attorney will be filed with the Court on Monday. The terms of the agreement are substantively as follows:

Ø Mr. Limbaugh will continue in treatment with the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years.

Ø After Mr. Limbaugh completes an additional 18 months of treatment, the State Attorney has agreed to drop the charge.

Ø Mr. Limbaugh has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation.

They're going to drop the charge.

[Don Corleone]

Guys, this isn't new news. The federal prosecutor for that region has been after Limbaugh for prescription drug violations for over 2 years now.

Personally, I'm actually not that big a fan of Limbaugh. By oversimplifying issues and making crass 'jokes' as he calls it, I personally think he gives Conservatism a bad name. That being said, I hate to think that a federal prosecutor has spent 2 years, and his entire budget, letting all the drug dealers importing drugs into the US through Florida go free so that he can whack at the Rush pinata, and only bust a simple junkie. Pathetic, yes... worth the entire budget (money and time) of the DEA and the federal prosecutor in Florida? Just to bust a user?

That's even more pathetic.

[Banquo's Ghost]

A very wise man, a long time ago, had a view on this kind of event.

To paraphrase: 'Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house.'

[Hurin_Rules]

What I find somewhat odd is that Limbaugh is getting off easy in part because he agreed to pay $30,000 to the government. Does that seem wierd to anyone else? What happens to those non-rich people who can't pay $30,000 to get off easier? Doesn't this suggest something rather unsavory about the US justice system?

[Sjakihata]

What I find somewhat odd is that Limbaugh is getting off easy in part because he agreed to pay $30,000 to the government. Does that seem wierd to anyone else? What happens to those non-rich people who can't pay $30,000 to get off easier? Doesn't this suggest something rather unsavory about the US justice system?

I thought that is the US justice system in a nutshell.

[Lemur]

A bigger man would resist the urge to kick a fat, deaf idealogue when he's down. I am not that big of a man.

"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.

"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.

[KafirChobee]

Who did Palm Beach vote for in the last election? Who is Governor of Florida? Which side of the fence does Rush reside? Say no more. Say no more. He beat it the first time, he beat it the second time .... give it time, he won't beat it a third (and face it he is an addict.

BTW, I thought one of the conditions was he actually go into a rehab facility this time? It was reported as such in WPB. Or, is that just another ... "see the rich are treated just like you and me", whimsies the press likes to exaggerate down here? [like saving the Everglades by creating more farmland for Big Sugar]