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New York to create team of legal observers to document ICE raids
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Stand down, Comrade, and read her bio. Yes, she's a lawyer, but she has spent her whole law career as a public defender and local politician, eventually becoming the NYC Public Advocate, which is a weird position that amounts to a Deputy Mayor who is a permanent government ombudsman/watchdog, before becoming the State AG.
She is literally the last person you should be accusing of class warfare on behalf of the bourgeoisie. Sometimes, a politician is just a politician, and not part of a capitalist plot....
Leticia James is amazing. I worked for a Fidelis care and they had managed medicaid plans for NYS. Pre-covid a gentleman was approved for pain injections, but couldn't get into the office before his authorization ran out, because anything non emergent was closed. Once the doctor's office was open, the doctor submitted a new request, with the same clinical information, and it was denied. I put an appeal together for this man, painstakingly pulling the clinical records from the first authorization, the second authorization, EVERY PAID CLAIM related to his condition, AND EVERY RX CLAIM FOR PAIN MEDS the company paid for. 4 hours of work. The appeals team denied it in 15 later. I rage quit, helped the man file an external appeal through the state department of finances. The state ruled in favor of that medicaid client. Then I helped that man file a complaint against the insurance carrier with the NYS attorney general, (Leticia James.) There was lots of other bullshit going down at Fidelis, like denying claims for covid testing, which I also helped consumers make complaints about because I new what was going on was illegal. Leticia James raked them over the fucking coals. She has been fighting for everyday people, and she makes me proud to be a NYer.