comment separately, saying the government may try to flip him. if that happens, the senator would be in very, very, very bad shape. reporter: the pressure for mel general to flip may be intense. one count describes how he treated patients with an injectable drug called luce seine tis against fda regulations, mel general would stretch the one vial per patient dosage to treat four patients, then bill medicare for four dosages. an audit found he had overbilled the government by almost $9 million. he denied it and went to menendez for help. menendez intervened at hhs, prompting a staff terror to write a deputy secretary we have a bit of a situation with senator menendez. he wants to talk to someone today. i talked his office out of the secretary, but therefore, threw you under the bus. three years later and just days after melden wrote a $300,000 check to menendez s political action committee, hhs amended the overbilling complaint. menendez released on his own