Contacts

Newark Office
One Gateway Center
Twenty-Third Floor
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: (973) 639-8700
Toll Free: 1-888-398-1642
Fax: (973) 639-8723

Camden Office
One Port Center
Suite 505, Fifth Floor
2 Riverside Drive
Camden, NJ 08101
Phone: (856) 338-8922
Fax: (856) 338-8936

Washington, DC
Hart Senate Office Building
Suite 324
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3224
TTY: (202) 224-2087
Fax: (202) 228-4054

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Documents, Letters and News Articles on the Medicare scandal

• Legal opinion by General Accounting Office (GAO) on whether the salary of Thomas A. Scully, the former head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), should be rescind.

• Letter sent by Senator Lautenberg on May 20, 2004 President Bush calling for the Bush/Cheney
  2004 campaign to repay taxpayer funds used to create the Medicare VNRs.
  
  
• GAO decision on whether Bush administration's videon news releases (VNR) violated the law.
  
  
• Report by the Office of Senator Frank Lautenberg titled Medigate: Bribes, Lies and Videotapes
  
  
• Letter sent by Senator Lautenberg to Attorney General Ashcroft on March 24, 2004. The letter requested for an investigation of possible criminal violations made by officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the White House.
  
  
• Letter sent by democratic Senators to the General Accounting Office (GAO) on March 18, 2004. The letter seeks the legal opion of GAO on whether Richard S. Foster, an employee ofthe Department
  of Health and Human Services (HHS), violated the law by threatening Thomas A. Scully, the former
  head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), with termination of employment if
  Mr. Foster disclosed to Congress cost estimates for the then-pending Medicare prescription drug
  bill.
  
  
• GAO legal opinion regarding the Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS) use of
  taxpayer dollars to produce and distribute print and television advertisements concerning the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 which was released on March 10, 2004.
  
  
• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) full page advertisement in a Puerto Rican Newspaper, San Juan Star, on February 19, 2004.
  
  
• Letter sent by Senator Lautenberg to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) CFO on February 12, 2004 alerting him to the potential personal liablitiy of his staff.
  
  
• Letter sent by Senator Lautenberg to Secretary Tommy G. Thompson on February 11, 2004.
  
  
• Letter sent by the General Accounting Office (GAO) to the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) on February 6, 2004 launching an inquiry regarding MMA materials.
  
  
• Letter sent by Senator Lautenberg to the General Accounting Office (GAO) on January 29, 2005 on
  the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Medicare campaign-like materials on
  Medicare.
  
  
• Senator Lautenberg's analysis of the misleading Department of Health and Human Service's Medicare Flyer. Flyer front and back.