Jeffrey Bado, DO, of Philadelphia, PA was found guilty of 304 charges involving his pain management clinic. All of these charges are examples of government overreach into doctors’ legitimate medical practices. THIS HAS TO BE STOPPED!!!
In the Eastern District of Pennsylvania this illegal prosecution of doctors has become Big Business. It supports a multitude of US Attorneys and all their employees. It supports DEA agents and Department of Health and Human Services agents. In just the research I’ve done from 2004 to 2011, 24 doctors had been prosecuted by the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, half of which were in Philadelphia. Now really! Even by simple statistical probability, you are not going to have that many “bad doctors” in one area. Doesn’t that tell you something? I doubt if there has even been one bad doctor. This is just a case of an out-of-control Department of Justice.
The rule is, in these areas that are supporting their jobs and their agencies by illegal prosecutions of doctors, that as soon as one doctor is convicted or takes a plea, they put a target on another doctor’s back. You see, jobs are secured for 2 years from the targeting to the raid on the office, then another two years to the trial. All of this is simply FOR THE MONEY!!! And because US Attorneys have immunity, they are now simply going to where the money is. They fabricate a crime where there is no crime, and people believe it, because there USED to be some integrity in our government. But not anymore. Sidney Powell’s book Licensed To Lie is a perfect example of how prosecutors work now. This has become the norm, not the exception. And the rise to power and politics of these most unscrupulous US Attorneys shows that there are no ramifications for government agents who break the law.
And then there is the confiscation of the doctor’s assets. This is a major reason why doctors are being illegally prosecuted today. The charge of “maintaining a drug-involved premises” gives the government the right to confiscate his office, and any other items of value that he owns. The government is making money on the backs of hard-working, caring physicians.
In order to charge these doctors with committing a crime, the prosecutors have to reconstruct the Controlled Substance Act into language to make it work. This is just want the prosecutors did in Licensed to Lie—create a law where there isn’t one by restructuring the wording in statutes.
In the original Title 21 Law, doctors are exempt from prosecution. Here is the exact wording:
§1306.04 Purpose of issue of prescription
(a) A prescription for a controlled substance to be effective must be issued for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of his professional practice.
Now what the legislators meant here when they wrote that, as stated by a US Supreme Court Justice, is that as long as the doctor isn’t out on the street selling prescriptions, he/she is protected from prosecution. But because this has become big business, and the doctors in the country are completely unaware that they could just as easily become the next target, the prosecutors are riding the gravy train. They just use terms in front of the jury like “just like a street pusher”, and other inflammatory terms to make the doctor’s actions fit the purported crime he/she is being charged with. In reality, if a person comes in to a doctor’s office as a patient, is seen and evaluated by the doctor, and receives a prescription, it is legitimate medical practice. The prosecution, though, just throws out that phrase completely disregarding its meaning, and creates a “crime” where there isn’t a crime.
As I have been working for the last year trying to educate people into this illegal restructuring of law, I was hoping to see a shift with Dr. Bado’s case. I am very disappointed it didn’t happen. But I also fault the defense attorneys. I was available to be a witness at Dr. Bado’s trial and could have informed the jury of the truth. But defense attorneys are in cahoots with the government. Everybody in the legal profession wins with creating crimes that aren’t crimes, because innocent people have to then be defended. No one in the legal profession wants to stop the gravy train. So the defense attorneys didn’t even approach me for my testimony.
So the only way we are going to change this is for the American people to wake up and realize that our Justice Department is no longer that. It is now the Injustice Department of Greed and Self-promotion.
I also wonder one more thing, because it happened to me before my trial. Did the CBS affiliate in Philly run any documentaries just before Dr. Bado’s trial, or during it, in which doctors were blamed for the heroin epidemic? It is my belief from all of the media coverage that I’ve seen, that CBS does this, possibly connected in some way to sway public opinion. I believe a connection between CBS and the government needs to be investigated.
In conclusion, but probably the most important, neither doctors nor the prescribing of opiates is the cause of addiction. The REAL cause of addiction is identified in my DVD: The REAL Cause of Drug Abuse that can be found on my website at http://www.sevenpillarstotalhealth.com/our-products/#!/The-REAL-Cause-of-Drug-Abuse/p/68564073/category=20493001. If doctors being tried would just understand this and pass it on to their friends and family, maybe this illegal persecution of doctors would stop. Chronic pain patients would get the medicines they need desperately and are now being deprived of, and people could easily treat or prevent drug abuse, saving themselves from a life of depravity.
Addendum:
Jeffrey Bado, DO, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. We must get this government overreach turned around and get all convicted physicians exonerated. We hold the key to success on DoC. People just need to use it.
Addendum from the author:
I have failed in my mission to end these attacks on doctors and pain patients. Through John Bevere’s book The Bait of Satan, I have figured out why—my lack of forgiveness to those who attacked me. As in Mark 11: 24-26:
“Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.”
And when you do not do the will of the Father, you are estranged from him and he will ignore you. So we all must forgive the agents who attacked us in order for things to be made right through any of our works.
Jesus said
“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
But we cannot lay down our lives for God unless we know Him well enough to trust Him. We must have the assurance that He would never do anything to harm us. He always looks out for what He knows is in our best interest. As a nation, those of us suffering from these attacks must understand that we are serving as God’s messengers of love. We must forgive those who persecute us and love them instead, following God’s will for us. Then and only then will we see fruits from our labor.
So I hope that everyone who has suffered from what happened to the doctor can trust the Lord, forgive those who have hurt you, and help bring this country back to the God-fearing country that our forefathers founded. Then, and only then, can you be a part of the effort to stop these attacks. I look forward to that day.
Linda Cheek is a teacher and disenfranchised medical doctor, turned activist, author, and speaker. A victim of prosecutorial misconduct and outright law-breaking of the government agencies DEA, DHHS, and DOJ, she hopes to be a part of exonerating all doctors illegally attacked through the Controlled Substance Act. She holds the key to success, as she can offset the government propaganda that drugs cause addiction with the truth: The REAL Cause of Drug Abuse.
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I know this physician ! I worked side by side with him on the night shift at a city hospital. I know his heart and soul. He believed there was a need for a doctor to help people get relief from chronic pain. I am one of those patients and I am a nurse. He never would consider this therapy was harming patients. At the end of hours at the office, he and his staff would pray for patients in the hospital. This man should NOT be punished!! He is NOT a criminal nor is he responsible for the opioid problem in this country ! I worked in the emergency room for 10 years I took care of many opioid overdose patients. None were chronic pain patients. I hope the prosecutors and the jury never get a medical problem that requires opiod pain reduction!!! Or do I wish that??!!
I am Chronic Pain Patient and was actually charged and tried for a DUI where my medications were in my system at the lowest theriputic limit. My Atty said he knew all about limits etc. however didn’t know a thing about them I lost my trial. Two Drs wrote me notes stating the 60 hrs I was to do for the DUI could not be done unless they could accommodate my medical problems. It was a small TN town and the first time I showed up they turned me away. I told my Atty what happened and he acted mad. He then went against everything I asked him not to do and Appealed to the Supreme Court. He needed my signature but that didn’t stop him. Either way I lost that Appeal and had to do the 60 hrs. They were ready so to speak this time. They confiscated most all my narcotic medications that were not in a bottle but in other containers I used for weekly fills. They charged me with possession ( no intent, although the DEA guy did make mention of it) then later charged me with introduction of contraband. At the 55 hr mark they moved me to a cell with another woman who I think was trying to figure out why I wasn’t detoxing as they thought I should. I said well I’m in sever pain, but anyone who knows anything about a true person in pain knows that the detox is minimal if any because you are so consumed with the pain of why you need the meds, the fact you don’t have them isn’t even a real factor. The next day because I had what meds I had confiscated I ended up in the ER wanting to die from my pain. Two months later the case was dropped all charges expunged. I had gotten a different Atty. I truly believe this made all the difference in the world. But do you think my meds were returned? No!! Oh and by the way I was between Pain doctors.
In a case like this there needs to be mens rea, or criminal intent proven, these cases should be instant dismissals on appeal! how they can prove criminal intent without proving the doctor is out there on the streets selling the drugs, is almost impossible. they have the shield of a legal license which allows them the right to prescribe pain meds to those in legitimate medical need. Just writing a script which gets sold on the streets cannot prove the doctor had criminal intent to see those drugs end up on the streets! A conspiracy element must be proven in a case like this! What is going here???
Just like I’ve been discussing in the Licensed To Lie book review, Allan, the government is creating crime where it doesn’t exist. The sad thing is I thought this knowledge was making it out there to the American public, but obviously not. We have to get more active to get this word out. In these cases against doctors, there is never a question of mens rea brought up by the defense. Because they are all in it for the money, and don’t want to upset the gravy train by stopping these persecutions. WE have to do that by informing the public that what they are doing is illegal, and getting the legislature to put it in writing. But they are mostly lawyers too, so we will have to fire them if they don’t. It is a big order to fill. But if we don’t, more innocent doctors will go to prison, and more chronic pain patients will lose their treatment.
Exactly.
What a great question.
The practice of medicine has been hijacked,
With the intent to scapegoat Doctors for the heroin epidemic.
We are now in a fact free discourse in our profession.