pervocracy
@pervocracy

holy shit, Ralph de la Torre made an entire, fantastically unflattering website about why he's innocent and should definitely not go to prison for looting hospitals.

greatest hits include:

MYTH: Ralph only wanted to make money from Steward.
FACT: Ralph cared so much he used his own money to buy supplies for Steward facilities! That's why there's a $1.1 million "reimbursement" check made out to him, you see

MYTH: Ralph was paid $250 million by Steward while the company struggled.
FACT: He was not paid $250 million in cash, okay

MYTH: Ralph used Steward's corporate jets for personal vacations.
FACT: His security team told him to do it. For safety reasons.

MYTH: Steward paid for Ralph's yacht and fishing boat.
FACT: Gosh, guys, they're not that lavish, the smaller one of these boats is only 90 feet long! [They literally say this. Unprompted.] Anyway, Steward didn't pay for them directly, so, like, can't a guy spend his own money how he pleases

MYTH: Ralph is to blame for the hospital closures in Massachusetts.
FACT: Um, actually, have you considered that Massachusetts just sucks at having hospitals? [this continues for FIVE PARAGRAPHS]

anyway, uh, wow. as your lawyer I advise you to definitely keep posting this shit


literalHam
@literalHam

always an incredible look when a CEO tries to invoke the Fifth Amendment and then publishes that invocation to a website he set up for the specific purpose of arguing that he didn't do any crimes

its late and i dont even know where to start with this, but someone please tell me this as hilarious as it sounds: link to download pdf of the letter


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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

also i find it absolutely fucking hilarious that they like, take very similar claims and kind of restate them in order to make it appear that the "myths" are a comprehensive summary of what he is accused of. while totally lying-by-omission about the obvious main source of his hospitals' financial problems, the insane scheme that turned the hospitals from landowners into severely indebted tenants. Like, incredibly damning that he's not even gonna try to justify that as being somehow in the hospitals' best interests, but prefer to hope ppl dont hear about it at all.

yeah, honestly that's the main thing, nobody would care this much about the minutia of his non-cash compensation except that all of it came from gutting the golden goose and then leaving rural cancer patients with a goose carcass where they used to have a chemo clinic