Barb Clark addresses the California Fraud Assessment Commission (CFAC) in 2006.
CFAC collected $40 Million last year to "fight workers comp fraud"
by giving millions to state district attorneys
to prosecute injured workers, as the infamous David Wolf scandal points out.
Insurers are immune from prosecution
(see SCIF scandal and the missing $1 Billion dollars).
What
is this case all about?
This case involves alleged illegal and unethical schemes
by a network of Sourthern California attorneys that have
defrauded injured workers out of hundreds of thousands of
dollars in medical treatment. Allegations of mail fraud
have been cited concerning the unneccessary delaying of
complex civil litigation in the federal, state and workers'
compensation courts through the use of perjured testimony.
Allegations are being prepared that these attroneys shared
litigation and office expenses and paid kickbacks to each
other. See Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
(RICO) Act and mail fraud. 18 U.S.C. §§ 1962(c)
and 1341.
The
Barbara Clark story
(click here
to read in German 
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See Barb Speak out-click here
In 1994 a labor and delivery nurse suffered an undisputed
industrial injury at an Adventist hospital in Bakersfield
caused by an unsafe delivery room. She was kicked in the
head and left for dead until the delivery was completed.
Her employer refused to even give her time off (not even
vacation time) for the next 2.5 years, until she finally
collasped and was placed on temporary disability.
The following decade has been a living hell for the nurse.
She was first turned into a walking pharmacy with over medications
of narcotics prescriped by her ex-employers treating physicians.
When she came out of the fog and filed a claim in the State's
workers compensation system the employer fought back with
an attorney, an attorney described as "vile, conniving
and despicable" by the very workers compensation appeals
board handling the nurse's case.
Although her work comp "awards and orders" for
medical treatment were certified by the California Supreme
Court in 2001 and 2002 the new attorney started a nasty
letter writing campaign to her physicians. These letters
are the subject of a racketeering lawsuit that is set for
trial in Bakersfield in August 2007. The "vile, conniving
and despicable" attorney told doctors that they would
be in serious trouble if they dared to treat the nurse for
her spinal and jaw injuries.
The last five years has been a legal nightmare for the nurse,
involving hired detectives that tried to run her off mountain
roads, having psychiatric records distributed to her former
friends and collegues to destroy her reputation, issuance
of sham restraining orders for "work place violence"
to destroy her career, attorneys suborning perjury from
witnesses, work comp judges holding ex parte meetings with
convicted felons playing both sides of the fence, allegations
of mail fraud, etc., etc. After writing almost 250 letters
to state and federal regulators and legislators the nurse
has taken these people to court.
Anyone naive enough to think the Adventist Health System
is some type of Christian organization is simply a self
deluded fool. It is a racketeering organization that stuffs
millions of dollars into the pockets of a handful of executives
to finance their homes and millionaire life styles in Granite
Bay (near Sacramento), California. There is nothing Christian
about this organization, except for the painting of Jesus
on the walls.
It is worse than Scientology, it is Adventology. A group
hiding behind non-profit status granted to the Church of
Seventh Day Adventists in 1947 to a non-existent corporation
in Maryland. Somehow that qualifies the Adventologist hosiptals
(Roseville, Ca) to be exempted from taxes while they receive
nearly a billion dollars a year in Medicare reimbursements.
Now the day of judgment has arrived: August 29, 2007, Wednesday,
at the U.S. Courthouse in Sacramento, California.
Skeptical? Come to the courthouse and see the evidence of
corruption, mail fraud, wire fraud, destruction of evidence,
perjury, suborning perjury, etc., etc. Come and see the
Adventologists defend their racketeering activities.
It
is instructive to note that the Dr. Davenport scandal (see
Long Beach, California) involved the leasing of office buildings
to the U.S. Postal Service. That scandal was known as the
"Davenport Post Office Scandal".
"The
Barbara Clark case is a teaching case," Hon. Armand
Arabian, retired judge of the California Supreme Court;
referring to the vexatious refusal of the Adventist health
insurance group to settle this claim. See Comunale v. Traders
& Gen. Ins. Co., 328 P.2d 198 (Cal.1958).
What
is a lawyer's duty to his client? "..He must not regard
the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which
he may bring on another..," Lord Brougham defending
Queen Caroline before the House of Lords in her divorce
from George IV.
Other
Adventist scandals
It is instructive to note that the Dr. Davenport scandal
(see Long Beach, California) involved the leasing of office
buildings to the U.S. Postal Service.
That scandal was known as the "Davenport Post Office
Scandal".
Shankel,
Stewart, Members for Church Accountability, said,
"Harry Weis joined Adventist HealthCare in March 1998
as chief financial officer.
Weis collected $379,000 in compensation in 1998.
.In January 2000, with less than two years of service,
he resigned to become the chief financial officer of a group
of California Adventist hospitals."
Ellen White, founder of the Adventologist movement in the
1850s,
said, “It requires more grace, more stern discipline
of character, to work for God
in the capacity of a lawyer…than to labor as an acknowledged
missionary in the open field."
Adventologist
Efren Saldivar, a respiratory therapist at Glendale Adventist
Hospital,
who became known as the Angel of Death,
confessed to killing hundreds of patients
at this Adventist Health System hospital. In 2002,
Saldivar was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences
for killing six of those patients.
