While patients sweltered in 99-degree heat and hospitals ran out of vital supplies, Steward Health Care’s CEO Ralph de la Torre was living large on company cash – complete with a $40 million yacht and two corporate jets worth $95 million!
BOMBSHELL whistleblower allegations now reveal de la Torre may have offered “brown bags” to foreign officials in a brazen international bribery scheme. But that’s just the tip of this corruption iceberg.
As his hospital empire crumbled:
- De la Torre pocketed a jaw-dropping $4 MILLION salary
- His company funneled $37 MILLION to his other business ventures
- He even got a SCIENCE CENTER named after his mother at his kids’ private school!
Meanwhile, the body count grows:
- Two Massachusetts hospitals SHUT DOWN
- 1,200 workers JOBLESS
- Five-year-old patients EVACUATED from a sweltering Phoenix facility
Now de la Torre is DEFYING a congressional subpoena, refusing to face the music as federal prosecutors circle. A grand jury is investigating his lavish spending while his hospitals collapsed.
“Appalling greed,” blast Senators Warren and Markey, demanding answers about the CEO who jet-setted while his hospitals imploded.
In a twist worthy of a crime thriller, the whistleblower claims de la Torre’s international scheme included death threats and a conspiracy to have him arrested. De la Torre’s team calls it “preposterous” – but a Maltese court found evidence of “collusion” with government officials.
The question remains: Will this high-flying healthcare CEO face justice, or will he sail away on his $40 million yacht while patients and workers pay the price?