Update On Real-Time Project (2)

This afternoon, I received a letter from the IRS (dated May 26).

Here is the text:

Dear Ms. Johnson (Nobody in an offical capacity - particulary a legal or political one - seems to be capable of addressing me as Dr. Johnson. That's okay. I'm used to it.),

We are in receipt of your complaint regarding Randolph Hospital and RMA administrators. Thank you for this information pertaining to the allegations involving these individuals and the 501C(3) Non-Profit Corporation.

Although statutory provisions regarding disclosure of tax information (Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code) prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from disclosing someone else's tax matters, even thought this may involve a 501C Non-Profit Corporation. (This is a sentence fragment) We would like to assure you that the information you provided will be evaluated and the appropriate action will be taken.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Brian G. Thomas, Special Agent at (336) 378-2201.

Sincerely,

Brian G. Thomas

This is not the first time I have contacted the IRS. It IS the first time anyone from that agency has EVER responded.

I plan to call Mr. Thomas next week, and remind him that what I reported is, plainly and simply, a crime, NOT a "tax matter". Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin withheld information that was public record, they lied about the availability of this information under Oath, and they did it to avoid answering for the fiscal consequences to me of their deeds. Again, it's perjury, contempt, and fraud. It's very staightforward and not at all "complicated".

There's not much to investigate either . . . when case is literally boxed and giftwrapped and dumped in your lap.

Call me a skeptic, but " . . . the information you provided will be evaluated and the appropriate action will be taken" line is just tired. Based on past experience with the Feds, this tripe is usually part one of the big blow-off. You wait for weeks or months or years and hear absolutely NOTHING . . . no one calls or interviews you, no one answers any of your questions . . . because whatever you reported is being "investigated". They really want you to give up and "just go away". "Appropriate action" never gets taken. The whole thing gets buried.

I've found that criminal law is generally a "the good of the many" thing (it's why the Enron twins were prosecuted) . . . or a stepping stone to fame & fortune for the prosecutor (ala: Martha Stewart or the Duke case). The victims of many crimes (especially white-collar ones) have less rights than the accused, and they are often ignored.

A few years back, after uncovering the perjury, I actually did score a meeting with Federal & State investigators (at the DA's office in Greensboro) - and raised all of the above questions and more. For instance, while I was at RMA, all I ever heard was that we were not making enough money (yet doctor salaries skyrockted within months of me being booted out the door). During settlement negotiations, Bob and Steve and their "we're experts on non-profits" lawyers (if you were truly - get it, TRULY - "experts" you would not have let your clients bold-face lie under Oath) plead "near-bankruptcy" as they worked the snow-job that effectively defrauded me of fair compensation for the total destruction of my Pediatric practice (not to mention the vicious assault on my professional reputation in the form of their despicable little "libel" lawsuit). So, one of my questions to these investigators was: Where was the money coming from to pay all these outrageous administrative and "non-profit" physicians' salaries at Randolph Hospital and RMA? Nobody had a clue (especially at the state level). Nothing ever came of it.

Of course, this was before the "disproportionate share" story broke (hospitals all over the state - led by the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte - plundering the Medicaid coffers to the tune of nearly a billion dollars as compensation for seeing indigent and underinsured patients), and it became fairly obvious where all the money was coming from. That scam has never been prosecuted either - because the principals have tight connections to Raleigh. So much for "combating corruption wherever we find it" (quoting the Enron attorneys).

Sometime it really does PAY to cater to the poor & underserved.

It's called exploitation.

I plain to be very straightforward with Agent Thomas. I want a meeting with investigators from the IRS and US Attorney's office to discuss remedies for the criminal behavior of Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin. I'm asking nicely, and it's far past the time I got treated respectfully . . . instead of as some "wackjob".

The "wackjob" was right all along.