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The excuse that his testifying will risk hospitals closing is obviously bogus but is a threat. Likely some or all of these hospitals are the last medical lifeline to remote, rural or otherwise medically underserved communities. While hanging this a**hole out to dry may be highly desirable, impact to critically needed healthcare services is not. This guy seems to be of the same scum fabric as Trump but how you take him and the management team down, get the hospitals operating safely and well again and avoid their closing will be quite the trick. The private equity types bleeding scarce dollars from already challenged community hospitals should be some kind of crime but many on Wall Street see it as legitimate way to make a profit the cost of it to patients and communities that can hardly afford it be damned.