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May 03, 2012 | | FREEDOM In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast’s Melinda Liu, blind dissident Chen Guangcheng—whose daring escape from house arrest and subsequent refuge at the U.S. embassy in Beijing has sparked a tense debate during U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit—says he’s now been abandoned by American officials at a Chinese hospital and begs to leave the country on Clinton’s plane. HACKING Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) asked to the British committee investigating News Corp. to look into whether the company had broken any American laws. Murdoch was censured earlier in the week by the British Parliament and declared not “fit and proper” to run News Corp.—a ruling that could affect his control of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB. If the Leveson Committee decides to pursue Rockefeller’s inquiry, made via a letter, it could lead to a Senate investigation—which would probably have implications for Murdoch’s American holdings, such as Fox News. Rockefeller is chairman of the powerful Senate committee on commerce, science, and transportation. Meanwhile, the News Corp. Board of Directors on Wednesday said they still had confidence in Murdoch. HEARTBREAK Not only did the candidate's wife know about his affair, she suffered a harrowing public meltdown, ex-staffers testified Wednesday. Diane Dimond on how it could hurt Edwards's case. NECK AND NECK A new poll by Quinnipiac University found President Obama and the presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney virtually tied in the key swing states of Florida and Ohio, but Obama held onto a solid lead in Pennsylvania. Romney had 44 percent of likely voters to Obama’s 43 percent in Florida, where Obama led by 7 percentage points in late March. In Ohio, Ohio had 44 percent to Romney’s 43 percent, and Obama had led there by 6 percentage points in late March. But in Pennsylvania, Obama led with 47 percent of the vote to Romney’s 39, an increase from Obama’s 3-point lead in late March. The poll had a 2.9 percent margin of error. Sting Federal authorities charged 107 people—doctors, nurses, and social workers among them—in seven different cities with Medicare fraud that cost the nation some $452 million. Agents raided businesses in Miami, Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit, and other locations, suspending payment to 52 providers as part of the investigations. The arrests on Wednesday were in a series of unrelated scams, the largest which totaled $225 million and operated in Baton Rouge, La. Fraud prevention became a “cabinet-level priority” when Attorney General Eric Holder took office, said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who partnered with Holder on the investigations. | | 
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