The former attorney for Hudson Healthcare, the non-profit operator of Hoboken (N.J.) University Medical Center, said he quit due to his fear that the city was committing fraud by orchestrating the bankruptcy of its hospital, according to a Herald News report.
Donald Scarinci, former general counsel from 2009 through this past July, said Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority, the city-backed authority that oversees HUMC, withheld millions in contractual payments to make it appear as though the facility was in financial distress and push it into bankruptcy.
Hudson Healthcare filed for Chapter 11 protection Aug. 1 in Newark, N.J., while the hospital was being sold to HUMC Holdco.
"I was the firsthand witness to a pattern of conduct by the Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority board members to intimidate, threaten, control, abuse and attempt to force the CEO of [the hospital] and members of the board to take actions adverse to its charter and otherwise violate the laws of the state of New Jersey," Mr. Scarinci said in a document filed Wednesday, according to the report.
Hospital authority attorney Ken Rosen said he would not "respond to hysterical allegations that have no basis in fact," according to the report.
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Donald Scarinci, former general counsel from 2009 through this past July, said Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority, the city-backed authority that oversees HUMC, withheld millions in contractual payments to make it appear as though the facility was in financial distress and push it into bankruptcy.
Hudson Healthcare filed for Chapter 11 protection Aug. 1 in Newark, N.J., while the hospital was being sold to HUMC Holdco.
"I was the firsthand witness to a pattern of conduct by the Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority board members to intimidate, threaten, control, abuse and attempt to force the CEO of [the hospital] and members of the board to take actions adverse to its charter and otherwise violate the laws of the state of New Jersey," Mr. Scarinci said in a document filed Wednesday, according to the report.
Hospital authority attorney Ken Rosen said he would not "respond to hysterical allegations that have no basis in fact," according to the report.
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