As we've reported, a surgeon from Texas Children's Hospital is facing up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine for blowing the whistle on doctors who continued to perform sex-change surgeries on minors after the hospital allegedly shut down its child gender clinic and Texas outlawed such "gender-affirming care." Another whistleblower was visited by the FBI after she came forward and said the hospital was committing Medicaid fraud. According to the FBI, Dr. Eithan Haim allegedly obtained personal information "under false pretenses and with intent to cause malicious harm to TCH."
So they're going after the whistleblower for violating HIPAA, not the doctors who were performing the surgeries and billing Medicaid.
Christopher Rufo has an update:
The prosecutor who is trying to imprison Texas Children's whistleblower Eithan Haim got the facts wrong, admitted that she hadn't reviewed the evidence, and falsely claimed that Haim had leaked children's names.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 25, 2024
This is a nakedly political prosecution. https://t.co/ma15XvWguf pic.twitter.com/ZxHR3w9VGb
Madeleine Rowley writes for the City Journal:
Haim had anonymously sent City Journal’s Christopher Rufo documents proving that doctors at TCH were still prescribing hormone replacement therapy drugs and implanting puberty blockers in minor-age patients more than a year after the hospital announced it had stopped its pediatric gender-affirming care program. A month after Rufo published his article in May 2023, federal agents from the Department of Health and Human Services knocked on Haim’s door to let him know that he was a “potential target” in an investigation of alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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According to a letter written by Haim’s lawyers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari admitted that she hadn’t reviewed the purported evidence against Haim and was instead relying on what FBI agents told her. In the same discussion, Ansari insisted that the documents Haim sent to Rufo included children’s names, but nothing in the documents Rufo saw identified any individuals. All were redacted.
Soviet show trial
— Nicole Levitt (@LevittNicole7) June 25, 2024
Prosecutors aren't allowed to make that sort of mistake. She needs to be fired. Help make that happen, Christopher.
— Dick Ball (@dickballxy) June 25, 2024
Does this matter anymore? A former(and future) President could go to prison next month for a crime that was never even named. You think the weaponized justice system cares if they get the facts right when going after their political enemies? All that matters is the verdict.
— AdamInHTownTX (Not a Neurologist) (@AdamInHTownTX) June 25, 2024
What practically matters here of course is that the whistleblower didn't leak the names. But correct me if I'm wrong, isn't it the case that in cases of illegal conduct such as this, the whistleblower would have been protected anyway by divulging such details?
— Steven DeLay (@StevenDeLay4) June 25, 2024
I thought the Left thought whistleblowers were heroes.
The process is the punishment.
— BeeLady🐝 (@miamivandynyu) June 25, 2024
The goal is to make examples of a few and scare the rest into compliance.
— Kal-El (@SpikeDiet) June 25, 2024
Haim lied to access a computer system where he did not work, He accessed the private medical charts of children who were not his patients. He then gave them to the press. Even redacted that is a crime.
— Terri (@terris991) June 25, 2024
What about the hospital continuing to perform surgeries and committing Medicaid fraud? Does that hold any interest for the FBI?
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