Guest post by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission
Blind Spot in Assassination Probe: Task Force Overlooked Mental Health Angle, Why?
Republished with permission from AbleChild.
The Recent Bipartisan Task Force Final Report on the Assassination Attempt of President Trump has thrown Bethel Park Skilled Nursing Home back in the spotlight, where the alleged shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, worked as a dietary aide. The shocking assassination attempt on former President Trump, allegedly orchestrated and carried out by Crooks, has ignited a firestorm of controversy surrounding the nursing home and its apparent lack of participation in the investigation.
Disclosure of any mental health history of Crooks has not been made available by the parents who are both “behavioral health experts” and claim according to the FBI, their son wasn’t on any psychotropic drugs. Remember this information is coming from the father who handed his son a gun just hours before the assassination attempt and has failed to explain how, both “experts” in behavioral health, he and his wife missed or ignored signs that their son’s mental health was deteriorating.
According to the Task Force Final Report, the father of the shooter did notice his son’s behavior had changed in the months leading up to the assassination attempt. What exactly did the father (a behavioral health specialist) do for his son about this strange behavior? The report does not go into any detail about whether there was any intervention on behalf of the parents. This seems odd. Especially because the father and mother are mental health experts. One can only wonder why, if aware that the alleged shooter’s behavior was strange, did the father hand over a high-powered weapon to the alleged shooter. “Irresponsible” comes to mind and parents have been sued for far less in recent years. Time will tell if the victims decide to file suits against the irresponsible behavior of the alleged shooter’s actions.
The investigation into Crooks’ motives has been hampered by significant gaps in information. Notably absent are key identification details that may clarify his connection to the assassination attempt. Despite the nursing home having access to recent photographs and fingerprint records required by Pennsylvania law, these crucial pieces of evidence have not been disclosed. This raises alarming questions about transparency and accountability by the nursing home and the identification process of Crooks as a lone assassin shot dead on the roof of the ARG building. In other words, the Bethel Park Nursing facility could have provided a photograph of Crooks that was more recent than the high school photos that been splashed over the news. Why has this photo been withheld?
Nevertheless, without any actual physical evidence, no photos, no DNA, no fingerprints on the weapon, no ballistics connecting the bullets to the appropriate weapons, the public is forced to accept that Thomas Matthew Crooks, just 20 years old was the lone shooter who opened fire during a Trump rally, tragically killing one spectator and injuring others before being shot dead by Secret Service agents because the powers that be said so.
The physical evidence in this case exists. Crooks passed a background check and was described as a diligent worker at the nursing home, where he had been employed. Marcie Grimm, the facility’s administrator, expressed shock at his involvement, stating that he had always performed his duties competently and without concern. Yet the facility has not made public the adult photo of Crooks that may prove to be a match to the body lying on the roof of the ARG Building.
Adding to the Nursing Homes apparent decision to withhold information on the alleged shooter, there is a history that goes much deeper. Serious allegations involving the nursing home’s parent company, Genesis HealthCare should be considered. Reports have surfaced detailing an investigation into fraud and abuse within the company’s facilities, including falsifying records to inflate Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, clearly criminal activity.
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP represented Genesis in these matters. What is stunning about the law firm that pulled Bethel Skilled Nursing home out of the grips of the Department of Justice was that Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP is knee deep into the psychiatric drug world. The firm has extensive ties to pharmaceutical companies. In fact, the firm handled one of the biggest psychotropic drug settlements in United States’ history in 2017 M.B. v. Tidball on behalf of a group of nonprofits, that the firm also just happen to represent.
The conflict of interest the firm had was a huge win for their pharmaceutical client. The settlement that was reached created Psychotropic Medication Advisory Committees in each State that normalized the drugging of foster care children and oversees a “formula” of allowable psychotropic drug cocktails for children trapped in State care. The State Advisory Committees were then, and still are, stacked with behavioral health “stakeholders” that profit off large government contracts.
This settlement was not only ineffective in stopping the drugging of children in State care, but it ignited the increase of psychiatric drugging of children within the foster care system at an alarming rate throughout the United States. The tightly held data by these “stakeholder” committees on just how many children are drugged has slowly been exposed over the last eight years since the landmark settlement via limited state audits and freedom of Information requests from the media and human rights organizations. The numbers released confirm a booming business for big pharma and the behavioral health “stakeholders” overseeing children in State custody. Crook’s employer, Bethel Park Nursing, and its parent company’s law firm have an interesting relationship with the federal government.
The bipartisan committee tasked with investigating the assassination attempt apparently did not feel it necessary to interview staff at Bethel Park Skilled Nursing. Nor did the Task Force request a copy of Crooks’ identification badge that would have had an updated photograph. Why? Certainly, if anyone could command a response it would be Congress. But apparently, there was no interest on the part of the Congressional committee in talking to the alleged assassin’s former employers.
The Task Force’s apparent inaction is particularly concerning given the history of serious allegations of fraud against Genesis HealthCare, and the conflicted legal representatives that impacted millions of children lives in State care and highlights a troubling relationship between powerful interests in healthcare and political oversight.
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