It’s a given that even a well-funded Charlie Crist will be outspent in the upcoming gubernatorial race by deep-pocketed incumbent Rick Scott. While Crist will not lack for ad material, it wouldn’t surprise anyone to see Scott’s Medicare-fraud past with Columbia/HCA return to the air waves.
And while it was part of a civil suit–not the one that caused Columbia/HCA to pay a $1.7 billion Medicare-fraud fine and Scott to resign in (golden-parachuted) disgrace–there’s another case that would be tempting to revisit. It’s the civil suit that featured Scott taking the Fifth Amendment no less than 75 times in 2000. It’s the video deposition from hell–and it still has character-revealing legs.