ObamaCare's con artists & criminals

02/25/2014

If ObamaCare officials cannot prevent accused embezzlers from infiltrating their offices, how can they protect enrollees from grifters, con artists and thieves in the federal health insurance exchange system?

Here in my home state, a director of Connect for Health Colorado — the state-sponsored ObamaCare health insurance exchange — was just put on administrative leave. No, Christa Ann McClure did not go on leave over the chronic problems plaguing the cursed Connect for Health website. She's on leave because she has been indicted for allegedly filching funds from her last employer in Montana.

McClure allegedly 'fessed up only after the local Billings Gazette newspaper reported on the charges against her. She was indicted by a grand jury on Jan. 16. But her current state government employers did not find out until recently, when McClure finally informed them because the press had published the indictment.

The Keystone Kops of the Colorado health exchange tell us they conducted “thorough” background checks of McClure. Colorado officials say she was “well-qualified” for the ObamaCare job, which involves being a “liaison” with other government agencies.

But mum's the word on who recommended her.

The 12-page federal indictment is a blood-boiling document outlining government waste, fraud and abuse in the federal affordable housing racket. The feds allege that McClure siphoned untold amounts of money from the nonprofit group Housing Montana, which received a half-million-dollar federal grant to build homes for poor people.

McClure reportedly was paying herself “significant sums” for bogus “consulting services” while also taking a full-time salary as executive director of the nonprofit.

She is accused of raiding the organization's funds for family expenses, personal travel and a laptop and lying to the IRS to obtain false reimbursements.

Here's another disturbing fact: McClure had bounced around successfully from government-funded job to job until now. The Montana state auditor's office disclosed that McClure had managed three grants worth more than $2 million to implement ObamaCare in that state. McClure worked on the project for three years at an annual salary of $98,000. She was “responsible for managing a broad range of contracts and making sure they got delivered on time,” according to the Billings Gazette.

McClure faces trial in June and up to 20 years on each of the eight charges of fraud and embezzlement.

I'd like to be able to tell you that she'll never work in another ObamaCare job again. But take a look at California. Just a few weeks ago, Jillian Kay Melchior reported in National Review that “at least 43 convicted criminals are working as ObamaCare navigators in California, including three individuals with records of significant financial crimes.” The crimes include forgery, petty theft, shoplifting, welfare fraud, child abuse and evading an officer.

“We have to pass the (ObamaCare) bill so you can find out what's in it,” Nancy Pelosi infamously brayed in 2010. Ever since, ObamaCare has revealed its true and horrifying colors: It's not salvation. It's a criminal enterprise rooted in ideological fraud.

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