{"id":57563,"date":"2014-09-11T10:29:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T18:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57563"},"modified":"2014-09-11T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T18:37:32","slug":"ahmed-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57563","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed To The Rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am tired of negative news stories about people named “Ahmed”. Let’s talk about all the good people named “Ahmed” are doing in the world.<\/p>\n

What about this gal? “Sara Ahmed<\/a> (born 1969) is an Australian and British academic working at the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism.”<\/p>\n

Have Ahmeds done more good or bad in the world? I blame the news media for creating this negative image I have of anyone named Ahmed. A friend of mine called a car dealership asking to speak to someone in charge and when they connected him to “Ahmed” the mechanic, he exploded.<\/p>\n

Who exactly allowed the talented and charming Kareem Ahmed into America?<\/p>\n

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KPCC reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Prosecutors in the Orange County District Attorney’s office call it one of the largest cases they’ve taken on: 20,000 exhibits, 15 defendants and more than $100 million in alleged overbilling in an alleged workers’ compensation fraud scheme centered around compound creams.<\/p>\n

An Inland Empire businessman, Kareem Ahmed, is accused of masterminding the alleged scam. Prosecutors say he paid a dozen doctors, chiropractors and pharmacists a total of $25 million in kickbacks in exchange for writing, filling and billing for large numbers of compound cream prescriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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