"According to Scott, it’s personal. “This is what happens when you challenge leadership,” Scott said in a statement to the New York Post on Wednesday.
“It was McConnell’s decision to remove someone who has actually run businesses and ran the third-largest state from a committee I’ve served on for four years,” Scott said. “You’ll have to ask him why.”
Scott was CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. for a decade beginning in 1987. In 1999 the hospital chain agreed to pay what has widely been characterized as the largest-ever fine — $1.7 billion — over Medicare fraud. Scott resigned from the company under pressure in 1997, according to local media reports, departing with a nine-figure severance package.
During a 2000 deposition on the matter, Politifact reported, Scott exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 75 times. "
Well no shit...You tried to depose a vengeful old bastard, and thought there would be no repercussions? If you really didn't see any pay back coming, you are too stupid to be in office, much less on an important committee.