Indicted Abortion Provider is an Associate of Eric Holder’s Wife
Did Obama’s Attorney General Cover up Medicaid Fraud to Protect Personal and Financial Interests?
Did Obama’s Attorney General Cover up Medicaid Fraud to Protect Personal and Financial Interests?
Introduction
Abortion providers across the nation are notorious for Medicaid fraud. This is particularly true of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider and the recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars of both federal aid and Medicaid reimbursements. Medicaid fraud can be prosecuted on both the federal and state levels, but Obama’s Department of Justice has done absolutely nothing to address rampant problem among abortion providers, failing to prosecute a single case.
The recent indictment of Atlanta area abortion provider Dr. Tyrone Malloy on Medicaid fraud charges (brought by the Georgia attorney general) raised further questions about the DOJ’s silence when it was discovered that United States Attorney General Eric Holder had family connections to both Malloy’s practice and the doctor himself. Property tax records revealed that one of the three facilities where Dr. Malloy performs abortions—Old National Gynecology in College Park, Georgia—is owned by Eric Holder’s wife, Dr. Sharon Malone Holder (also an obstetrician). Dr. Malloy co-owned a medical practice with the late Dr. Mack Arthur Jones, the husband of the late Vivian Malone Jones, who was Sharon Malone Holder’s sister.
At least one woman—23 year old Shirika Mayo— is known to have died in 2008 as a result of an abortion performed by Dr. Malloy. Ten years earlier, he failed to assess a patient’s labor properly, and the patient’s baby died as a result. Yet Dr. Malloy remains one of just three late-term abortion providers nationwide to whom Planned Parenthood refers patients.
On December 8, 2011, Dr. Malloy was indicted on charges of Medicaid fraud in DeKalb County, Georgia when it was discovered that he and his office manager received hundreds of thousands of Medicaid dollars through improper billing practices. Strangely, Dr. Malloy had voluntarily dissolved his business on September 8, 2011, although there was no evidence the business was in any kind of financial trouble. (The facility performed over 2000 abortions in 2010.) Malloy continues to perform abortions at his other two locations, and witnesses have seen patients coming and going as usual at the Old National location, the despite the fact that he failed to renew his license to do business in Fulton County. Dr. Malloy’s years of Medicaid fraud either went unnoticed by the DOJ or the U. S. Attorney General turned a blind eye.
Likewise, his decision to dissolve the practice at Old National just three months before his indictment suggests that he was tipped off to the investigation. According to the Georgia State Attorney General’s office, he refused to enter a plea in the case, claiming that the charges against him were unconstitutional. This allowed him to appeal his case directly to the State Supreme Court.
He remains one of abortion giant Planned Parenthood’s preferred providers nationwide, despite causing the death of at least two patients under his care. Unsuspecting women from across the nation fly to Georgia on the recommendation of Planned Parenthood, subjecting themselves to the care of their unlicensed preferred abortion provider. Perhaps the fact that he is and has been in business with the wife and family of the United States Attorney General explain his amazing ability to elude punishment for his crimes.
Obama’s Department of Justice and Medicaid Fraud
When Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder took office in 2009, he was well aware of the growing problem of Medicare and Medicaid fraud. That year, the Department of Justice and Health and Human Services created the HEAT (Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team) task force to fight Medicaid fraud. HEAT’s mission, according to its website is, “To gather resources across government to help prevent waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and crack down on the fraud perpetrators who are abusing the system and costing us all billions of dollars.”
HEAT claims to have deployed fraud task forces to several major cities. HEAT enjoys hundreds of millions of dollars in the federal budget given to “strengthen Medicare and Medicaid program integrity,” and to have expanded the CMS (Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services) Medicaid provider audit program. Yet since this task force’s formation, Obama’s Department of Justice has failed to prosecute a single abortion provider for Medicaid fraud.
Medicaid Fraud and Abortion
Medicaid fraud costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars each year, and abortion providers are among the worst offenders. Fraudulent claims may include double-charging clients (collecting cash from clients for services and then billing Medicaid for those same services), billing Medicaid for services that were never performed (often with ultrasounds and other diagnostic tests), and billing Medicaid for elective abortions. (Medicaid is not legally allowed to pay for abortions unless the mother is the victim of rape or life of the mother is in danger.) Dr. Malloy was indicted by the state’s attorney general on charges of both billing for ultrasounds that were never performed and for elective abortions.
Extensive evidence of Medicaid fraud has surfaced among abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, as states have sought to address the strain that rising Medicaid costs cause to their budgets. In Iowa, former Planned Parenthood clinic director Sue Thayer alleged that the abortion provider received over $28 million in fraudulent Medicaid payments. In Illinois, the Planned Parenthood clinic that caused the death of young Tonya Reaves, was forced to repay hundreds of thousands of fraudulent payments. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a non-profit firm, has filed a federal suit against Planned Parenthood in Texas alleging hundreds of millions of false Medicaid charges. In California, a similar case has been moving through the court system for four years. Yet in each case, it was state attorney generals or private law firms that brought charges, not the Department of Justice.
Obama’s DOJ has failed to prosecute a single abortion provider as hundreds of millions of federal and state dollars are being stolen from taxpayers each year. It appears Eric Holder’s decades-long relationship with the abortion industry influences his decision to ignore Medicaid fraud. We can only wonder if Dr. Malloy was stealing hundreds of thousands of Medicaid dollars a year without the knowledge of his business partner and fellow obstetrician, Dr. Sharon Malone Holder, while the United States Attorney General turned a blind eye to decades of Medicaid fraud in his own wife’s business.
Abortion providers across the nation are notorious for Medicaid fraud. This is particularly true of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider and the recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars of both federal aid and Medicaid reimbursements. Medicaid fraud can be prosecuted on both the federal and state levels, but Obama’s Department of Justice has done absolutely nothing to address rampant problem among abortion providers, failing to prosecute a single case.
The recent indictment of Atlanta area abortion provider Dr. Tyrone Malloy on Medicaid fraud charges (brought by the Georgia attorney general) raised further questions about the DOJ’s silence when it was discovered that United States Attorney General Eric Holder had family connections to both Malloy’s practice and the doctor himself. Property tax records revealed that one of the three facilities where Dr. Malloy performs abortions—Old National Gynecology in College Park, Georgia—is owned by Eric Holder’s wife, Dr. Sharon Malone Holder (also an obstetrician). Dr. Malloy co-owned a medical practice with the late Dr. Mack Arthur Jones, the husband of the late Vivian Malone Jones, who was Sharon Malone Holder’s sister.
At least one woman—23 year old Shirika Mayo— is known to have died in 2008 as a result of an abortion performed by Dr. Malloy. Ten years earlier, he failed to assess a patient’s labor properly, and the patient’s baby died as a result. Yet Dr. Malloy remains one of just three late-term abortion providers nationwide to whom Planned Parenthood refers patients.
On December 8, 2011, Dr. Malloy was indicted on charges of Medicaid fraud in DeKalb County, Georgia when it was discovered that he and his office manager received hundreds of thousands of Medicaid dollars through improper billing practices. Strangely, Dr. Malloy had voluntarily dissolved his business on September 8, 2011, although there was no evidence the business was in any kind of financial trouble. (The facility performed over 2000 abortions in 2010.) Malloy continues to perform abortions at his other two locations, and witnesses have seen patients coming and going as usual at the Old National location, the despite the fact that he failed to renew his license to do business in Fulton County. Dr. Malloy’s years of Medicaid fraud either went unnoticed by the DOJ or the U. S. Attorney General turned a blind eye.
Likewise, his decision to dissolve the practice at Old National just three months before his indictment suggests that he was tipped off to the investigation. According to the Georgia State Attorney General’s office, he refused to enter a plea in the case, claiming that the charges against him were unconstitutional. This allowed him to appeal his case directly to the State Supreme Court.
He remains one of abortion giant Planned Parenthood’s preferred providers nationwide, despite causing the death of at least two patients under his care. Unsuspecting women from across the nation fly to Georgia on the recommendation of Planned Parenthood, subjecting themselves to the care of their unlicensed preferred abortion provider. Perhaps the fact that he is and has been in business with the wife and family of the United States Attorney General explain his amazing ability to elude punishment for his crimes.
Obama’s Department of Justice and Medicaid Fraud
When Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder took office in 2009, he was well aware of the growing problem of Medicare and Medicaid fraud. That year, the Department of Justice and Health and Human Services created the HEAT (Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team) task force to fight Medicaid fraud. HEAT’s mission, according to its website is, “To gather resources across government to help prevent waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and crack down on the fraud perpetrators who are abusing the system and costing us all billions of dollars.”
HEAT claims to have deployed fraud task forces to several major cities. HEAT enjoys hundreds of millions of dollars in the federal budget given to “strengthen Medicare and Medicaid program integrity,” and to have expanded the CMS (Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services) Medicaid provider audit program. Yet since this task force’s formation, Obama’s Department of Justice has failed to prosecute a single abortion provider for Medicaid fraud.
Medicaid Fraud and Abortion
Medicaid fraud costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars each year, and abortion providers are among the worst offenders. Fraudulent claims may include double-charging clients (collecting cash from clients for services and then billing Medicaid for those same services), billing Medicaid for services that were never performed (often with ultrasounds and other diagnostic tests), and billing Medicaid for elective abortions. (Medicaid is not legally allowed to pay for abortions unless the mother is the victim of rape or life of the mother is in danger.) Dr. Malloy was indicted by the state’s attorney general on charges of both billing for ultrasounds that were never performed and for elective abortions.
Extensive evidence of Medicaid fraud has surfaced among abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, as states have sought to address the strain that rising Medicaid costs cause to their budgets. In Iowa, former Planned Parenthood clinic director Sue Thayer alleged that the abortion provider received over $28 million in fraudulent Medicaid payments. In Illinois, the Planned Parenthood clinic that caused the death of young Tonya Reaves, was forced to repay hundreds of thousands of fraudulent payments. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a non-profit firm, has filed a federal suit against Planned Parenthood in Texas alleging hundreds of millions of false Medicaid charges. In California, a similar case has been moving through the court system for four years. Yet in each case, it was state attorney generals or private law firms that brought charges, not the Department of Justice.
Obama’s DOJ has failed to prosecute a single abortion provider as hundreds of millions of federal and state dollars are being stolen from taxpayers each year. It appears Eric Holder’s decades-long relationship with the abortion industry influences his decision to ignore Medicaid fraud. We can only wonder if Dr. Malloy was stealing hundreds of thousands of Medicaid dollars a year without the knowledge of his business partner and fellow obstetrician, Dr. Sharon Malone Holder, while the United States Attorney General turned a blind eye to decades of Medicaid fraud in his own wife’s business.
Attachments
Attachment 1 - Property Tax Bill
The property tax bill showing that Old National Gynecology is housed in a building owned by Margie Malone Tuckson and Sharon Malone Holder. |
Attachment 2 - Charges Against Dr. Malloy
A screen shot of the Georgia State Attorney General’s press advisory regarding the charges brought against Dr. Malloy on December 8, 2011. |
Attachment 3 - Articles of Incorporation
The articles of incorporation for Metro Medical, Dr. Malloy’s previous practice, showing Dr. Mack Jones, brother-in-law of Sharon Malone Holder, was the incorporating officer and board member. |
Attachment 4 - Certificate of Termination
The Certificate of Voluntary Termination for Old National Gynecology on September 8, 2011. |
Attachment 5 - Negligence In Patient Deaths
The records of the State Board of Medical Examiners showing that Dr. Malloy was found negligent in the death of Shirika Mayo in 2008 and the death of a patient’s full-term baby in 1999. |