Too greedy to govern!
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While insiders at HCA Inc. were selling millions of dollars of their own stock
this year, they were also painting a sunny picture of the company's outlook for
investors. Federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission are
investigating the sale of HCA stock by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist,
R-Tenn., whose family founded the company that grew into the nation's largest
for-profit health care chain.
The SEC turned its initial inquiry into a formal investigation of the company,
HCA announced Thursday. The company said it is cooperating with investigators.
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