Updated
Rush Limbaugh was arrested today and charged with one count of prescription fraud (correction: Rush will not be charged if he meets requirements listed in press release below):
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.
Prosecutors seized Limbaugh’s records after learning that he received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion. They contend that Limbaugh engaged in “doctor shopping,” or illegally deceived multiple doctors to receive overlapping prescriptions.
Limbaugh has not been charged and maintains he’s innocent. He has acknowledged he became addicted to pain medication, blaming it on severe back pain, and took a five-week leave from his radio show to enter a rehabilitation program in 2003.
I’ll post more information as I get it.
Update:
Drudge has the above picture on his site which may be Rush’s mug shot. If so, then he took a page from the Tom DeLay playbook and smiled so as to keep the liberals from gleefully plastering it all over their websites, t-shirts, coffee mugs etc. Drudge has Attorney Black’s statement:
“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.
The prosecutor should pay the $30,000 fine since he’s the one who initiated this witch hunt.
Rush addressed the settlement on his website; however, there isn’t a link attached to it right now.
Update II: Rush’s link is now live.
Update III: About Rush’s arrest (it technically wasn’t an arrest since Rush turned himself in), Lucianne says “He’ll be fine. It sounds worse than it is.”
The KGB is live and well in America..
His web site is a good start.
I assume that all the other hollywood druggies get the same treatment, right? Oh wait, they use the real stuff, never mind.
Oh, there’ll be joy in Moonbatville tonight.
Does this remind anyone else of Salem? Well, Salem without all that burning at the stake.
I’d like to know how many Hooeywood lefties have had their medical records pulled in “doctor shopping” investigations. Anybody check Anna Nicole Smith’s medical records? She’s an obvious pill fiend, and a waste of oxygen.
$30,000 dollars to defray public investigative costs?first of all the public did not violate Mr. Limbaughs medical privacy. the state attorney did. 2nd 30 grand to look at some papers? what a scam..they can have mine for half that!
More hypocrisy – “a witch hunt?” – what a sad state of affairs.
Limbaugh was caught – the same Limbaugh who said:
“Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. … And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.”
on Oct. 5, 1995.
And you will see posts and comments frequently on this site decrying drug use, or claiming someone has “inhaled” — yet when the fat guru of gloat gets caught it’s a witch hunt.
Why did he agree to pay the $30,000 in investigate costs if he’s not guilty?
because he is guilty, a fact also demonstrated by Limbaugh’s agreement to stay in treatment.
…and if he’s guilty – what makes this a witch hunt?
Because its off the record after 18 months You Masochist..
“Because its off the record after 18 months You Masochist..
So he plea bargained – what a surprise. The fat hypocrite rolled over…
Now what makes this a witch hunt, really — anyone?
How about violating His civil rights for starters. this is akin to a police officer pulling someone over for no reason other then to look thru their vehicle to find something to charge Him/Her with..
Florida taxpayers are out how much for this nothingburger?
Ha Ha Ha
So the 21st century fat-ass Goebbles got a bit of a comeuppance Limbarf deserves every bit he gets, altho w a 25mil income, he isn’t treated like any other lowly drug shopper nor in any style of the fashion he has demanded in the past for drug offenders.
No doubt, this Propoganda Pig Limbarf is a master of twisting reason & truth until it stands on its head.
Had Goebbles had the assisstance of Limbarf in the 1930’s & 1940′, Germany would have won WWII & we’d be speaking Deutsch.
Good going, Lee on the quote research.
It;s really quite revealing to see all these little piggy la-n-order hypocrites squeal & call witch hunt when LimBARF, the fat sow that he is, got ensnared in his own hypocrisy.
How Karmic!!!!
mak,
Did Godwin know you when he formulated his law of internet discourse?
Kim Priestap
Condolences on this sad, sad LimBARF Day.
You wrote,
“Drudge has the above picture on his site which may be Rush’s mug shot. If so, then he took a page from the Tom DeLay playbook and smiled so as to keep the liberals from gleefully plastering it all over their websites, t-shirts, coffee mugs etc.”
Not quite, but that LimBARF fat sow pic would be perfect on toilet seat lids & bedpans.
No, SCSIwuzzy
My post would have been the very 1st had I run to Wizbang at the 1st announcement of this.
The Goebbles analogy occured to me in LimBARF’s early years as I listened to him twist & reweave Reality & Truth into any slimey propaganda bilge that he desired & then slime his opponents w/ his creation.
As I said above, this Fat Pig IS A MASTER. Almost makes one believe that reincarnation is the way of the Universe.
Virgo
“KGB” & “Masochist”????????
Do you ever form a coherent thought before you slobber on the keyboard?
To bad shit for brains,i beat you to it. And what is Your obsession with Nazis? could it be a little Jewish antesemitism running thru Your veins? hmmm..”
mak
I bet you creamed your shorts when you heard the news. i bet you already have some t-shirts with limbaughs mug shot all ready to sell to those illegals on their first official holiday May 1st dont you..”
mak44, the bottom-feeding, Che-worshiping traitor speaks:
“Had Goebbles had the assisstance of Limbarf in the 1930’s & 1940′, Germany would have won WWII & we’d be speaking Deutsch.”
I think you are referring to The New York Times.
Bligwaorthy & Virgo
The total lack of any logic, or sense, for that matter, in your posts reflects, to paraphrase the Fat Sow LimBARF, that your combined IQ’s barely approach room temperature.
Actually Virgo, I didn’t cream my shorts. But I did drag out my Rush decaled bedpan & take a celebratory dump.
mak44, the bottom-feeding, Che-worshiping traitor:
Wow. Limbaugh really must have really hit a nerve with that “dope smoking, maggot infested, FM type” stuff.
What’s hilarious is that all of mak44’s ranting and raving, he looks like such an idiot that Rush’s hypocrisy pales in comparison.
What’s even more hilarious is this:
“How about violating His civil rights for starters. this is akin to a police officer pulling someone over for no reason other then to look thru their vehicle to find something to charge Him/Her with..”
Pulled over for no reason? You’ve been reading too many right-wing blogs frankfucszeroiq — this story broke when fat boy’s maid went to the tabloids with the story that her boss was abusing opiates. The DA agreed,and Rush plea-bargained.
Now, let’s try again – what makes this a witch hunt?
Lee
thousands and thousands of mega-dittos to you.
In fact, the busting of the LYING FAT PIG is ditto heaven day.
Megawatt dittos!!!!!!!!!!
A political prosecution by an incredibly partisan prosecutor. Old news. Let the lefties gloat. They’ve had a bad week. Air America going down the tubes.
Mak44, does the 44 indicate your IQ? That seems a little high. If the senario you suggest existed. You can be assured idiots like you would have been eliminated. See there is something good about that.
Zelsdoofus
Youare the kind of “Human Debris” about whom LimBARF used to blrat.
All you sheeple wouldn’t know how to go on w/o your daily noon to 3 hate hours.
Any links out there to some great Limbarf Perp-walk footage?
All you sheeple wouldn’t know how to go on w/o your daily noon to 3 hate hours.
Why am I not schocked that mak44 lives on/near the left coast?
And seriously, why do you always leap to Nazi imagery? You diminish their evil and ensure any argument you are making is put on par with a toddler in mid tantrum.
Mak is a Nazipediopheliac with grand delusions of marching in the third Reich!
LEE The DA as you call him? political hack assasin is the accurate term,went into His medical files illegally..so in effect ,there is no case.
No one seem to have taken the bait, so I will link to some brief audio clips of Russ Limbaugh on ‘drug losers’. I aplogize in advance for the irritating Howard Stern commentary..It was the only one I could find quickly.
Thanks Steve – exposing the hypocritical tripe that passes for right-wing commentary is always enlightening. Rush whining about drug users, priceless.
No one, including the author of this post, has offered up anything solid to support Kim’s claim that this was a witch hunt. Why is that?
Any links out there to some great Limbarf Perp-walk footage?
What, you mean Limbaugh being led away in handcuffs to a waiting police car? Sorry, since he turned himself in (i.e. walked into the police station with his lawyer to go through the formalities), it looks like you’re going to have to find something else to fantasize about.
In the most basic sense of the word (do as I say not as I do), then Rush is a hypocrite.
Does anyone here really think that recreational drug use and prescription pain reliever addiction is comparable at any level except the most rudimentary “they took drugs illegally” argument?
If so, then you truly exhibit how out of touch you are with the real facts here.
Did Rush do something illegal. Yup. Was there any need to expend $30K of taxpayers’ money to pursue records that prove what he admitted to doing? Uh, no.
And there’s your answer to the “witch hunt” question, Lee. Why go to so much expense to prove that Rush did exactly what he admitted to, unless the prosecutor was trying like crazy to find something else–that ultimately didn’t exist. This obsession with finding illegal activity or embarassing facts that could damage Rush’s reputation further, and ultimately (and for the prosecutor “hopefully”) destroy his career.
(for further explanation, please review the Salem Witch Trials before you repost the same stupid question…perhaps if you understood what a “witch hunt” was, you’d be able to see why this is rightly classified as such)
Hey squoozy or whatever
I used Goebbles as an example of a propaganda meister who twisted lies into truth. Coincidentally, Dr. Goebbles ( he was a doc of something or other) happened to work for the previous Fuehrer.
I never meant to suggest that our dear LimBARF, who also, coincedentally, fancies himself as a doctor ((quack) of sorts, was a Nazi, as I have never heard him express any empathy for the 1st Fuehrer.
My point was simply to suggest that Goebbles & LimBARF share a common trade; namely Propagandist.
Had LimBARF been available for recruitment in the 30’s & 40’s, his talents could have assured a German victory in WWII. Hell, FDR likely would have fallen to the LimBARFian Sirens’ sway.
TO frankfucszeroiq, or is it frankallfucszindahead
The LimBARF med record search was ultimately sustained in court, so you don’t know what the hell you’re babbling about.
Besides, in these days of an unfettered NSA for security at any costs, it is simply fitting, just fitting that a tink of leeway be taken w/ LimBARF’s med records to help prevent this nation from becoming overrun with opiated drug addicts bloviating their bilge & bile on broadcast networks where they might have a harmful & deleterious effect on impressionable youth & on an allegedly adult audience of impressionable sheeple aka Pavlovian Puppies.
This nation faced an utterly severe, clear & present danger: that w/ the simple ring of the Doctor’s bell, a rattle of a sheaf of papers or an upraised formerly-opiate-stained finger, millions of sycophants could have been sent panting for Oxycontin scripts, or opium hookahs at least as would be the case w/ thelower-income sycophants (read that: human debris).
Let me see if I can shut mak and Lee up:
RACIST! NAZI! FACIST! FAT BASTARD!
Doesn’t work? Well, just taking a play from the Libtard playbook. Worth a try. That’s your plan to shut up opponents. Don’t dazzle ’em with brilliance, just baffle ’em with BS.
I hope you never get serious back or other problems. I have a friend that sat around in a drug induced stupor from these legal prescriptions for a year before having a knee replacement. He could take 3-4 times the dosage that he had for Vicodin, etc. and still not have relief.
I’ve heard all kind of screaming about Bush violating ‘privacy rights’ while trying to find terrorists by not getting warrants from FISA courts, yet a fishing expedition into medical records, which is never supposed to happen, by a political prosecutor, is OK just because it was LimBARF.
How many times have political appointed courts been overturned? Contrary to the spin that you try to put on it, this is over. He plead ‘not guilty’. Keep his nose clean, and the prosecutor will drop the charges in 18 months. Without the trial that you so desperately want. End of story.
Keep babling. You amuse me. Just take a deep breath every once in a while or you will stroke out.
Does anyone here really think that recreational drug use and prescription pain reliever addiction is comparable at any level except the most rudimentary “they took drugs illegally” argument?
Is there another argument? Does there need to be?
I believe the basic argument against illegal aliens — however much they may contribute to our way of life — is that they are here illegally: they have broken the law. Or do you not find illegality a persuasive legal argument?
Did Rush do something illegal. Yup. Was there any need to expend $30K of taxpayers’ money to pursue records that prove what he admitted to doing? Uh, no.
I haven’t heard Rush bleating about being forced to shell this $30k out. Just who are you taking issue with, Rush or the law enforcement establishment?
I like the idea that, if some cop is chasing a conservative lawbreaker down the street somewhere, the cop is now a lefty moonbat; before he laced on his shoes, he was one of Our Boys.
Love your drug war, BTW.
Hey Jamie
You are the perfect example of the LimBARFian method of standing Reason on its head.
Following your LimBARFian logic, one could easily say that, if all that you propound were valid, then the grossest example of a Salem Witch Hunt was the Right-wingnut extremest incessant hunt of the Clintons for 8 years, ultimately resulting in entrapment in a lie that would never had been uttered but for the relentless witch hunt.
All this, not at a cost of 30K, but rather 10’s of millions of taxpayers’ dollars & at the cost of an Administration’s inability to devote full attention to its elected charge of duty. This was foisted on Our Nation by hordes hating fanatics, petty and hateful GOP pols and a self-serving Special Prosecutor who usurped his initial charge in order to pursue the Clintons in an infitnitely more vicious mode than the wickedly fanatic Javert.
And now that modern day Javert, for his reward, sits as the Dean of the Pepperdine Law School, no doubt in the furtherance of his perversion of the concept of Law.
Subsequently, the Javert persecution was followed by a Republican Witch-dunking impeachment, led by none other than the GOP’s very own congressional Javert, their most brilliant beacon of Propriety & Moral Behavior , Tom DeLay, at a great National trauma & National cost for a single charge of perjury resulting from an all-too human trait that most any person would have succumbed to to protect themselves and/or their family from opprobrium.
If your lame and deceitful refutation above isn’t THE CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF LIMBARFIAN HYPOCRISY & LIMBARFIAN ILL-LOGIC , then “hypocrisy” is a non-existent behavior.
You LimBARFian salivating puppies are beyond rational and intellectual redemption.
“Why go to so much expense to prove that Rush did exactly what he admitted to, unless the prosecutor was trying like crazy to find something else–that ultimately didn’t exist.”
1) Fat boy plead not guilty. The fight was on at that point.
2) Once it (the details of rush’s drig abuse) was out in open the DA couldn’t ignore it, no could he/she? They had to pursue the matter.
3) I suspect it was so expensive to investigate because fat boy kept lying and putting up road blocks. That’s why it was required that he pay $30,000 in investigation costs.
4. Fat boy is GUILTY, and that’s why he paid the $30,000 and agreed to stay in rehab, rather than fight the charges. Rush has the money to fight the charges, and could have raised millions from his worshipers to fight any false charges.
btw – rehab isn’t necessary unless you have a drug problem. The hypocrisy of the guru of gluttony is yet another shining example of the moral low road taken by this clown. If he had plead guilty I might have a half-ounce of respect for this clown — but for him to maintain his innocence makes the entire right-wing moral-majority leadership the laughing stock of the world.
wav_man-
the brghtest shining example of LimBARFian logic and Pavlovian response!!!!
Guess the bell was ringing & here you are, salivating on cue as the Defender Sycophant.
You slobbered: “How many times have political appointed courts been overturned?”
One critical incident where a politically appointed court was not & could not be overturned was the Republican infested Supreme Court that stole the 2000 election from the American Voter and appointed this pig of a president.
If you want to speak of political courts, cast the stones at the Court that committed the ultimate political act and devalued American Democracy and its Constitution.
to Lee & Astigafa
Yis indeed a joyous time to proclaim:
“Mega-Dittos” to one another & in the words of Tiny Tim, “Merry Dittos to all.”.
Hmmm.
This is a major loss for the prosecutor and this agreement was solely to cover his ass.
If the prosecutor had anything of a case, anything at all, he’d have gone to trial. But without any evidence of a crime to pursue a case now he had to convince Limbaugh to an agreement that will at least allow the prosecutor to save face somewhat.
Anyone who thinks this is a loss for Rush is a fool as anyone who has had to deal with prosecutors knows who ultimately won in this deal.
Mak said:
And you accuse me of Pavlovian responses. DING!
You are a perfect example of being blinded by pure hatred. You’ve convinced me though, I won’t vote for Bush in ’08.
wav_man
BTW I hope your pitiful opiated friend never went so far as ” to assume room temperature.”
Heard on the grapevine that the MahaRushee’s next change of broadcast locale will be relocate his Excellence In Bamboozlement Network to a very large poppy plantation in Mazar e Sharif, the poppy hinterland of Afghanistan, where he can propagandize while sitting before his Golden Opium Hookah, holding its hose in his presently opiate-stained fingers as he belches forth distortions of History & Politics, in the mode of his opiated logic, into his Golden Microphone on his Excellence In Bamboozlement Network.
He has already made arrangement for an endless supply of poppy sap from his opium runner/ housecleaner whom he hopes is not a Taliban sympathizer.
ed-of Mr.ed fame?
No, that can’t be right, as Mr. Ed was a horse, not a talking ass!
You drooled on your keyboard: “If the prosecutor had anything of a case, anything at all, he’d have gone to trial. But without any evidence of a crime to pursue a case now he had to convince Limbaugh to an agreement that will at least allow the prosecutor to save face somewhat.”
The beauty of that illogic is what? That the poor maligned & opiated MahaRushee LimBARF was so in an opiated stupor that he coughed up $30K in spite of the fact that he had been falsely persecuted. And his innocence is reflected by having to submit to a humiliating periodic piss test over 18 months?
And then there’s the matter of the multi-millions that he surely shelled out to his lawyer to out-maneuver a new striped suit when he was innocent.
What an appalling price for a perfectly innocent mpropagandist to pay!
This can only be the measure of a man so befuddled w/ opiates that he acquiesced to persecution w/ a sizeable fine & a huge lawyer’s retainer. He’ll have one helluva a time passing his piss-in-a-bottle tests.
You LimBARFian puppy-sycophants are more mind-pithed than I ever imagined.
mak44
Wha??? Your anger is overcoming your ability to express a rational thought. Take a deep breath.
Keep it up. Like I said before, you amuse me. The raw emotion overcomes any logic that you might be capable of. We all need to be reminded of what we need to oppose in a logical, consice manner.
And no, my “pitiful opiated friend” never did assume room temperature. Finally, after a year and a half of foot dragging, the doctors at the V.A. finally replaced his knee. You see, he was originally injured in service to his country, and aggravated by years of physically demanding work. He wasn’t able to go back to his old, physically demanding job, but he is fine. Your compassion for him is only exceeded by your arrogance.
It’s like I said: joy in Moonbatville.
Is it just me, or does it sound like many of the lefties won’t be happy until El Rushbo is executed for his crimes?
docjim505 said:
Not broad enough. They won’t be satisfied until talk radio is shut down, right wing blogs are silenced, and you and I are bound and gagged.
Then all will be right in the world. Freedom of speech for all, as long as it doesn’t offend their view and sensibilities.