Florida attorney general Pam Bondi’s corruption doesn’t stop at her dropping the Trump University investigation in exchange for campaign donations.
In 2014, she wrote a letter to the head of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services supporting the corrupt Millennium Laboratories, a company making millions off of unneeded drug tests.
As reported earlier this year in The Palm Beach Post:
The letter directly benefited Millennium, a firm that once salvaged a key anti-drug initiative championed by Bondi and, through its high-powered lobbying firm, had deep ties to Bondi and Gov. Rick Scott’s legal team.
In October, Millennium, while not acknowledging wrongdoing, agreed to pay $256 million to resolve federal kickback and civil fraud charges. The company has been forced into Chapter 11 bankruptcy by its lenders, even as founder James Slattery and other insiders walked away with nearly $1 billion.
Why would Bondi encourage doctors to perform these unnecessary drug tests, even as Millennium was under federal investigation? One guess…
[Even while under investigation’] Millennium was establishing influence, courting goodwill and spreading cash in Tallahassee.
It poured $67,500 into the Republican Party of Florida, which donated thousands to Bondi’s campaign and paid thousands more for her consultants, polling, travel, phones and staff.
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It hired the powerhouse law firm of GrayRobinson to lobby on its behalf and GrayRobinson staffers directly poured more than $10,000 into Bondi’s campaign beginning in 2010, the year Millennium hired the firm. Bondi’s first chief of staff was a GrayRobinson lawyer.
No wonder Donald Trump knew he’d get his money’s worth from Bondi.