UPDATED: Limbaugh arrested on drug charges

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Well, this is big time.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Rush Limbaugh was arrested Friday on prescription drug charges, law enforcement officials said. Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities on a warrant issued by the State Attorney's Office, said Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office.

The conservative radio commentator came into the jail at about 4 p.m. with his attorney Roy Black and bonded out an hour later on a $3,000 bail, Barbera said. The warrant was for fraud to conceal information to obtain prescription, Barbera said.

Black said his client and authorities reached a settlement on a single count charge of doctor shopping filed Friday by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12536446/

While I don't agree that medical records should be released for trivial purposes or without warrant, I also think that there needs to be mechanisms in place to handle alleged "doctor shopping" and prescription-pill related crimes. Do you know how much a single Oxycontin pill goes for on the streets?

You might want to mention in your topic this is the culmination of a 3 year old charge/story

 

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: nutxo

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit

Originally posted by: nutxo

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit

Prosecutors have learned that Rush Limbaugh has received 2,000 painkillers in six months

Wow, like 10 a day?!?!

Actually 10.989

Meh. My mother was allowed either 12 or 14 a day until recently when the doc cut her back to 8 a day and a morphiene patch.

Why does she need so many?

I know this is gonna get some unwanted relies but wth. When my mom retired she went to work for a retailer. Something to get her out of the house and such, ya know?

One day when she was walking through a stockroom someone dropped a 27 inch tv on her and broke some crap in her back. Being much older instead of recovering its just getting worse.

That sucks, sorry to hear it. I hope she gets better. SOunds like she might need to get it fused?

 

[Zedtom]

With all due respect to your mother, nutxo- This is the kind of thing that Limbaugh is good at. The thread starts out talking about a serious criminal charge, than veers off with a personal anecdote about someone else.

I'm sure that Rush will be blaming Bill Clinton for all this.

 

[zendari]

Originally posted by: NJDevil

Originally posted by: zendari
People who peddle these kinds of pills suck. Especially those who receive medication through government socialist programs.

So it's not Rush's fault that he went around to several doctors getting multiple prescriptions, but the fault of government programs?

No, it is, and he should be punished if guilty.

Abuse is typical of mass government schemes, however, and this isn't an isolated incident.

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[TRUMPHENT]

Originally posted by: Zedtom
With all due respect to your mother, nutxo- This is the kind of thing that Limbaugh is good at. The thread starts out talking about a serious criminal charge, than veers off with a personal anecdote about someone else.

I'm sure that Rush will be blaming Bill Clinton for all this.

I wish him luck! The law that Rush ran afoul was generated by Bill Crist, the Florida Attorney General appointed by Jeb. Jeb fastracked it through the state legislature.

 

[tommywishbone]

Strike two! One more and he gets 25-to-life.:laugh:

 

[jlmadyson]

Settlement Agreement Ends State Investigation of Rush Limbaugh

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.

Looks like Rush getting the ole slap on wrist with charges dropped after 18 months, lucky could have been much worse.

 

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: jlmadyson

Looks like Rush getting the ole slap on wrist with charges dropped after 18 months, lucky could have been much worse.

In other words, he bought his way out of it.

 

[Thump553]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
He got his thru "legal sources"...doctor shopped till he found one who wouuld write the prescription...even had his housekeeper go buy them...no allegations of him buying them from "illegal" sources...just illegally obtained from legal sources...

If that's true, he found a monumentally stupid - or greedy - doctor. Rush is a high profile prescription drug abuser already under great scrutiny, I would think the odds of him being caught a second time are pretty high.

I forget-did he ever get sentenced after his first go-round? What did he get?

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: jlmadyson
Settlement Agreement Ends State Investigation of Rush Limbaugh

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.

Looks like Rush getting the ole slap on wrist with charges dropped after 18 months, lucky could have been much worse.

Lucky? Hardly. He's the conservative's lackey radio mouthpiece and he's rich. In a state where they put people away for YEARS for possession of a single marijuana cigarette, this major drug criminal gets to walk. :roll:

American "justice". Money talks, the rest of you go straight to jail, do not pass GO, do not collect $200.

 

[MegaWorks]

BUAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

 

[alien42]

how long was rush limbaugh the poster boy for the right wing? so much for values and ethics.

 

[Lemon law]

Rush is on the fast track for serious criminal charges---incident one was being sent to a half way house--this one carries 18 months probation
he better not violate---a future incident three better get him a presidential pardon---or he may do felony jail time.

 

[tommywishbone]

That old man is nothing but a junky. A fat-bloated-rusty-needle-using-spoon-cooking-heroin addict. His cardboard box is just a little nicer than the guy sleeping behind the bus staion.

And with his money, he'll keep on slammin' dope and he'll keep walkin' on the prison time. Power to the people!

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: OrByte
what a dork.

and people still want to trust him?

Who else are they to trust? Themselves?

 

[randym431]

BREAKING NEWS: Limbaugh arrested on drug charges

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

 

[Rainsford]

Originally posted by: jrenz

Originally posted by: Todd33
Conservative values...

I thought the liberal standpoint was to legalize all drug use?

I think Todd33 is pointing out the hypocritical actions of someone who goes around bitching about how traditional values are dying out while he personally isn't exactly living those conservative values.

And the "liberal standpoint" almost certainly does NOT say all drugs should be legalized, most often the discussion is about pot, something Rush is extremely against by the way, even though the side effects of Rush's particular drug of choice are much, MUCH worse.

 

[gcy]

Originally posted by: Todd33

Originally posted by: jrenz

Originally posted by: Todd33
Conservative values...

I thought the liberal standpoint was to legalize all drug use?

I thought it was the conservative standpoint to obey laws?




I almost typed that without lauging...

:laugh:

 

[Thump553]

CNN was reporting this morning that the fix is already in. He's released on $3000 bail and the plea agreement, expected to be entered Monday, will dismiss all charges if he agrees to stay with his original doctor, and only that doctor, for 18 months.

I guess we do have a seperate jusitce system for the privileged. I'm outraged.

 

[trenchfoot]

because he is a chronic, he'll be using the gold-guilded version of the revolving door of justice that addicted celebrities like him use over and over again.

all of his monetary wealth will never buy him true happiness. these ridiculously wealthy media star types get spoiled and jaded by having their lust for every material desire satiated. they then turn mercilessly on themselves for not being able to acquire things that money can't buy.

poor guy. he has my condolences.

 

[Red Dawn]

Hell after listening to him for 10 minutes I knew he was on drugs.

 

[borosp1]

I like what Michael Savage says about Limbaugh:

He constantly calls Rush "Hush Bimbo", says he's nothing but a GOP mouthpiece, says that he's disgusted by Rush's constant self-promotions.

Savage has been extremely critical of his fellow conservative talk show hosts (particularly Rush Limbaugh, whom he has called "Hush Bimbo", for what he views as their blind support of the Republican Party and President George W. Bush. He has also attacked Bill O'Reilly (whom Savage has dubbed the "Leprechaun"), and William Bennett, as hypocrites and "phony" conservatives for advocating morality while living what he views as immoral lives.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Theb

Originally posted by: BBond
PS When will this convicted criminal be forced off the air by the stations that carry the hypocrites lies?

When people stop listening to him.

Correction: When Republicans stop listening to him.

and that is not going to happen. They love their fellow rich Gods.

 

[TheSlamma]

Do as he says not as he does

 

[CaptnKirk]

After years of railing on the law and insisting that the law should be changed to make sure that offenders get the maximum sentance,
the same law he opposed is in fact the law that lets him off lightly in the courts at the discression of a level headed judge.

Mush Bimbaugh - you are a joke.