In the latter instance, the documents reportedly said the senator's former chief counsel asked U.S. Customs and Border Protection not to donate old screening equipment to the Caribbean nation -- which would allow a Melgen-tied contractor to sell such equipment.
Why is US Customs and Border Protection donating our property to foreign nations to begin with? If this is surplus property of the United States, it is not supposed to be donated to anyone, it's supposed to be sold at an auction or if sensitive technology, destroyed. Isn't that right? I don't see a problem with a member of Congress intervening by a request not to do that. The agency can either agree or not. But the request itself is not wrong or doesn't seem to be.

As to helping someone work through charges of over-billing, I also have no problem with that. Why is that wrong? Medicare makes mistakes, but even if they didn't and the donor was over-billing, by mistake themselves or even on purpose, there's nothing wrong with a member of Congress helping them sort it out. This is done all the time over one thing or another.

So where's the meat in this beef?