What’s John Ashcroft doing in Indiana? Making millions

[Newsjock]

Source: Terre Haute Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — Until the past year, an august northern Indiana company, Zimmer Holdings, was pretty much going about business as usual: manufacturing a broad array of medical devices, such as hip and knee replacement implants, expanding operations in the United States and 25 nations, and racking up annual sales of nearly $4 billion.

Then Zimmer, with headquarters in Warsaw, got into some hot water with the federal government.

... Four of the five companies, including Zimmer, were smacked with fines totaling about $311 million. All five agreed to an increasingly popular method of avoiding trial-and-punishment in federal court. The legal remedy is known as “deferred prosecution” and relies on an outside, independent “monitor” who oversees the compliance portion of the corporation’s effort to straighten up its act.

... The name of the monitor assigned to supervise Zimmer’s corporate integrity agreement for 18 months caught many an eye: Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.

... Depending on the workload, Ashcroft will charge Zimmer between $28 million and $52 million for monitoring services.

... But even a potential $52-million haul for Ashcroft is not what brought deferred prosecutions to public — and Congressional — attention. Rather, it is the fact that Ashcroft got the no-bid, no-public-notice contract from someone who used to call him “boss.”

Read more: http://www.tribstar.com/opinion/local_story_054222256.html

[NV Whino]

1. No wonder all the calico cat have left Indiana

Hey, where to I apply for a job like that? I'm good at cracking the whip and the cats don't even have to leave.

[mac2]

2. Ashcroft is a crook

and lied to us about who the terrorists of 911 were (some were alive and none listed on the passenger lists). He should be in jail.

He lost to a dead guy's wife. I think he was responsible for the death of the governor candidate and his son who died since he had motive. No one could beat the man. People in his state still wouldn't vote for him. They hated him.

Ashcroft is a "religiously insane" person from his dad (Calico cats, statues of Liberty covered up...appropreiate in his case). Very religious lying and murdering man.

[mac2]

3. War profiteering and fraud

Like the other Republicans who have left office with "change of face law" Ashcroft has not been held accountable but rewarded for his lies and fear mongering with plunder.

Who was the "monitor"? Gonzales?