Saturday Grey yacht with 6 foot wake

[Muskrat]

I made one of the first posts about that yacht. I'll never forget the huge wakes it made. No one was safe if it crossed your path.

 

[Oldman]

bubba will get revenge for all of us.lol

 

[elwestb]

It was a 74 foot Polaris Sunseeker Predator Yacht. I don't know for sure but it was said to have diesel engines capable of reaching a cruising speed of around 40 knots. This is an ocean going, open seas vessel! It might be just me but i think that is a little too big and a little too fast for Chickamauga Lake! Mr. Collins had many complaints of damages from property owners and boaters as well. When confronted his answer was "prove that it was me"! Just before Mr. Collins encountered all of his legal problems it was reported that he had also boasted that he was going to sell the 74 foot beast and purchase another Polaris that was a 102 foot monster! Be glad he is gone!

 

[TravRN]

Pershing Yacht

 

[WaterChap]

Looks like the Pershing 74. Twin 1950HP engines. 44 knots.

This is the greatest thread I’ve read in a long time.

 

[elwestb]

TrayRN, I'm sorry! You are correct. It was a Pershing 74 instead of a Polatis. I don't know why Polaris poped into my head? I knew better, My mistake. But almost 4,000 HP pushing that monster up to 44 knots or 50 mph is just way too much for Chickamauga. Especially with an operator that has no regard for anyone or anything behind the wheel running it. I know first hand because a friend of mine and i encountered Mr. Collins' wake one night. We were running about 45 mph. Not fast, it was night. We never saw that wall of water coming until it was too late. I swear it looked like it was over six feet tall. We were swamped. It killed the 225 hp engine on our boat and filled us up with water. Again, we never saw the wake until a split second before we hit it launching our boat completely air born. When the boat came down we went directly nose first into the second roller of water that filled the boat and stalled the engine. We were very lucky. After that experience we learned that on the same night two other Bass fisherman from Ringgold hit the wake also. One snapped a vertebrae in his neck and the other broke his tail bone. They also sustained other damage to the boat. Once again, I'm glad that thing is gone!

 

[drdetroit]

<div class="pr-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: auto; padding: 0px; caret-color: #242424; color: #242424; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%"><div class="urgency-state" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</div><div class="field field--name-field-pr-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; float: right"><div class="field__items" style="box-sizing: border-box"><div class="field__item even" style="box-sizing: border-box"><span class="date-display-single" style="box-sizing: border-box">Friday, January 26, 2018</span></div></div></div></div><h1 class="node-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; margin: 0.25em 0px 1em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; padding: 0px; text-align: center; caret-color: #242424; color: #242424; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">Tennessee Couple and Utah Pharmacy Indicted for $65 Million Tricare Fraud</h1><div class="field field--name-field-pr-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #6d6d6d; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: #242424; color: #242424; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%"><div class="field__items" style="box-sizing: border-box"><div class="field__item even" style="box-sizing: border-box"><p align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 2.9pt; color: #171e24; text-align: center"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box">Assistant U. S. Attorneys Benjamin J. Katz and Mark W. Pletcher[/b]<strong style="box-sizing: border-box"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">(619) 546-9604and(619) 546-9714</span></span>[/b]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box"><u style="box-sizing: border-box">NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY</u>– January 26, 2018[/b]</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">SAN DIEGO – Jimmy Collins and Ashley Collins, a married couple living in Cleveland, Tennessee were arraigned in federal court today on charges that they operated a health care fraud scheme that bilked TRICARE – the health care program that covers United States service members, retirees, and their dependents – out of more than $65 million in pharmacy reimbursement funds.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">According to the indictment, Jimmy and Ashley Collins conspired with CFK, Inc., the owner of The Medicine Shoppe, a pharmacy based in Bountiful, Utah, to submit fraudulent claims for compounded medications mailed mainly to active duty Marines and Sailors based in the Southern District of California.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">“San Diego is a military town. This indictment sends a message to those who seek to defraud the Department of Defense out of the dollars meant to care for our military members and their families: Fraudsters will be held accountable here,” said U.S. Attorney Adam L. Braverman.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">“The theft of military health care dollars directly ‎harms the U.S. Government and our warfighters and will not be tolerated,” said Michael Mentavlos, Special Agent in Charge, Southwest Field Office, Defense Criminal Investigative Service. “Today's indictment demonstrates that DCIS, in partnership with NCIS, IRS, and the FBI, will aggressively pursue those who seek to steal Department of Defense resources.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">“Fraud is criminal abuse of the system that siphons resources away from the American warfighter, said Todd Battaglia, Special Agent in Charge of the NCIS Field Office at Camp Pendleton. “NCIS will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to hold responsible those who would defraud our nation to line their own pockets.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">Compounded medications are specialty medications mixed by a pharmacist to meet the specific medical needs of an individual patient. Although compounded drugs are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), they are properly prescribed when a physician determines that an FDA-approved medication does not meet the health needs of a particular patient, such as if a patient requires a particular dosage or application or is allergic to a dye or other ingredient.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">According to the indictment, between October 2014 and July 2015, Jimmy and Ashley Collins operated a network of recruiters working to induce TRICARE beneficiaries to obtain compounded medications, which cost an average of more than $14,500 per medication per month, from The Medicine Shoppe. To induce TRICARE beneficiaries to sign up to receive these compounded medications, recruiters working for the Collinses were told to inform potential beneficiaries that they would be paid to evaluate the medications as part of an ongoing medical study. In reality, no study was taking place, the indictment said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">Once a recruiter convinced a TRICARE beneficiary to sign up to receive the compounded medications, the straw beneficiary’s information was sent to Choice MD, a Tennessee medical clinic co-owned and operated by the Collinses. Doctors employed by the Collinses at Choice MD then wrote prescriptions for the TRICARE beneficiaries, despite never examining the patients in person. Once signed by the doctors, these prescriptions were not given to the straw beneficiaries, but sent directly to The Medicine Shoppe or related pharmacies, which filled the prescriptions and billed TRICARE at exorbitant prices.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">Between December 2014 and May 9, 2015 – the day that TRICARE stopped reimbursing for compounded medications – doctors working for the Collinses authorized 4,442 prescriptions that were filled at The Medicine Shoppe. The Medicine Shoppe billed TRICARE $65,679,512 for these prescriptions.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">The owners of The Medicine Shoppe then paid kickbacks to the Collinses based on the number of prescriptions referred by the Collinses recruiter network. Between February and July 2015, these kickback payments to the Collinses totaled at least $45.7 million dollars. The Collinses, in turn, paid kickbacks to the recruiters working as part of their network. Six of these kickback payments, including one for more than $1.4 million, form the basis for the six counts of Payment of Illegal Remuneration brought against Jimmy and Ashley Collins in the indictment.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">The indictment also includes a lengthy list of forfeitable funds, property, and items purchased by the Collinses with the proceeds of the scheme. Included among these items is an 82-foot yacht, multiple luxury vehicles (including two Aston-Martins), dozens of pieces of farm equipment and tractor-trailer trucks, and three pieces of Tennessee real estate.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box">Jimmy and Ashley Collins were arraigned today in the Eastern District of Tennessee. Their next court appearance is on February 2, 2018 in San Diego, before Magistrate Judge William J. Gallo.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 15pt; color: #171e24; text-align: justify"><span style="box-sizing: border-box"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box"><u style="box-sizing: border-box">DEFENDANTS</u> Case Number 18-cr-0432-JLS[/b]</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24">Jimmy D. Collins Age: 53 Cleveland, TN</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24">Ashley Collins Age: 31 Cleveland, TN</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24">CFK, Inc. Utah based corporation</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box"><u style="box-sizing: border-box">SUMMARY OF CHARGES</u>[/b]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24"><u style="box-sizing: border-box">Count 1:</u></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24">Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud – Title 18, U.S.C §1349</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24">Maximum penalty: 10 years’ imprisonment and fine of higher of $250,000 or double loss amount</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24"><u style="box-sizing: border-box">Counts 2-7:</u></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24">Illegal Payment of Remuneration – Title 42 U.S.C. §1320(a)-7b(b)(2)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24">Maximum penalty (per count): 5 years’ imprisonment; $250,000 fine</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; color: #171e24"></p></div></div></div>

 

[WaterChap]

Schadenfreude (/'???d?nfr??d?/; German: ['?a?dn??f????d?] (About this soundlisten); lit. 'harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another.

Hard to not feel it right now.

 

[TravRN]

NEVER...Sorry for Ya...but that’s what makes us all unique & Interesting ..Jus Love watching Karma prevail....Faith, Love & Karma...wonderful way to live.