The upcoming court case isn’t Bosworth’s first time at the Rodeo. Allegations of fraudulent disclosure dogged her in 2010.

Funny what you stumble across when doing background research.

In anticipation of Annette Bosworth’s upcoming court case involving allegations of falsely attesting that she witnessed signatures that she actually didn’t (because she might have been in the Philippines at the time), I was reviewing some of the documents involved in her going round & round with the state medical board.

And I stumbled across something interesting in this Argus Leader article by Jonathan Ellis, that I’m surprised have remained quiet until now:

This isn’t the first time that Bosworth has tangled with the board over its disclosure questions.

Now an independent physician, Bosworth worked for Sanford Health in 2010 when she disclosed that she was leaving the Sioux Falls hospital for Brookings. She said she got a notice that her license would not be renewed. After a 14-week investigation, her license was renewed. She was told she had to sign a form saying she had fraudulently filled out the disclosure and pay a $5,000 fine.

She refused. Her license was renewed last year.

Read it here.

(At the time in 2010, I believe she might have been represented by Bill Janklow or another attorney.)

The allegation from the Medical Board that she had fraudulently filled out a disclosure is eerily prescient with what she’s alleged to have done in 2014, when she signed the oath that she witnessed all the signatures on the petitions she claimed she circulated.

The charges Bosworth now face, via an indictment by the grand jury, are six counts of offering false or forged instrument for filing, and six counts of perjury. A little stronger than a license violation, but you’d think after that experience where she fought tooth and nail over the language of the form versus what she believed was accurate information, she would have been equally cautious about filling out the portion of her Senate petitions which clearly stated that as circulator, she witnessed the signatures?

Somehow in 2010, she managed to pull a rabbit out of her hat, keep her license, and not pay a fine. I’d be very interested in the resolution that did take place, and I’m continuing to dig.

But for now, as the trial date approaches, we’ll have to see if she find a lucky foot off of the same old rabbit.