BOMBSHELL LAID BARE: Thompson Hine's Debbie Read Hired Huron to Help Close Hosp--Trick Anderson et al
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:53 pm
The beginning usually determines the end.
And that pretty much says it all in the case of the Huron Consulting engagement.
The attached public records--previously concealed--show that Thompson Hine's then Managing Partner, Debbie Read, initially engaged with Huron consulting to:
1. "support the city in their negotiations with the [Cleveland Clinic]."
2. Use Huron's expertise in "dozens of municipal-owned hospital deals and engagements in which the acute care hospital is converted to an outpatient center."
The record below confirms that Attorney Read then introduced Huron to the City.
David Anderson had spent weeks pushing for an independent consultant.
Anderson and the public were told that Huron was hired to conduct that independent assessment, not work to close the hospital.
Rather, Anderson and the public were sold out by sneaky lawyers like Butler hiding behind the cloak of mis-asserted attorney-client privilege.
Recall that Butler initially withheld the records below (and thousands of others) claiming they were protected by a Joint Defense Agreement and that Huron was somehow a trial consultant.
So, Butler and Thompson Hine spent $75,000 of taxpayer money pulling one over on the public.
And that pretty much says it all in the case of the Huron Consulting engagement.
The attached public records--previously concealed--show that Thompson Hine's then Managing Partner, Debbie Read, initially engaged with Huron consulting to:
1. "support the city in their negotiations with the [Cleveland Clinic]."
2. Use Huron's expertise in "dozens of municipal-owned hospital deals and engagements in which the acute care hospital is converted to an outpatient center."
The record below confirms that Attorney Read then introduced Huron to the City.
David Anderson had spent weeks pushing for an independent consultant.
Anderson and the public were told that Huron was hired to conduct that independent assessment, not work to close the hospital.
Rather, Anderson and the public were sold out by sneaky lawyers like Butler hiding behind the cloak of mis-asserted attorney-client privilege.
Recall that Butler initially withheld the records below (and thousands of others) claiming they were protected by a Joint Defense Agreement and that Huron was somehow a trial consultant.
So, Butler and Thompson Hine spent $75,000 of taxpayer money pulling one over on the public.