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Virginian-Pilot LTE Doesn’t Disclose Author is Former Sentara Top Executive

2020-12-12

For a decade, we’ve examined how industry-funded pundits, masquerading as unbiased experts, are published by influential media. Now The Virginian-Pilot joins the list.

Is Sentara Trying to Pressure EVMS Board to Flip Its “No Confidence” Vote?

2020-12-4

A new tip alleges that Sentara Healthcare Chair Dian Calderone will try to provide cover for Virginia Governor Northam. Our request for an interview with Ms. Calderone is denied.

Top Northam Aide: Virginia Governor Won’t Accept Sentara’s Push to Offload EVMS onto Taxpayers

2020-11-30

The timing of Sentara Healthcare’s announcement on August 12 of a $11.5B merger with Cone Health, which CEO Howard Kern would helm, raises questions.

Randazzo Secretly Bought 5 Ohio Properties Starting in 2013

2020-11-24

FirstEnergy Corp. admits to paying $4 million to end a consulting contract with “an entity associated with an individual who subsequently was appointed” as utilities regulator. The contract began in 2013, when Randazzo began buying properties.

Records Suggest Sentara Pushing EVMS Funding Onto Virginia Taxpayers To Ease $11.5B Merger

2020-11-20

Sentara Healthcare is a tax-exempt nonprofit with net assets estimated at $6 billion; $5 billion more than the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Will Sentara Healthcare’s Expansion Plans Hurt Eastern Virginia Medical School’s Ability to Serve Southeast Virginia?

2020-11-13

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s alma mater — Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) — is the subject of a compelling tip from a reader about Sentara Healthcare.

Ohio PUC Chair Randazzo’s Ties to Players in $61M FirstEnergy Scandal Raise Questions

2020-11-2

C&BP launches “The Randazzo Accountability Project,” building upon several years of our previous investigative work into various players in Columbus’s culture of corruption.

U.S. Education Sec. DeVos Subject of Public Records Inquiry into Potential Misuse of Pandemic Relief Funds

2020-10-22

Did DeVos try to divert taxpayers dollars from the CARES Act to wealthy, private schools or schools in swing states to benefit the Trump re-election effort?

Checks and Balances Project Asks Virginia to Revoke Medical License of President’s Physician Dr. Sean Conley

2020-10-15

To protect his medical license, Dr. Conley could have made it clear that he would not endanger the health and welfare of his patient or the public. He could have resigned. But he did not.