Entries Tagged ‘Cliff Stearns’
Report to Congressional committee details Planned Parenthood’s fraud, waste, and abuse
One in five Planned Parenthood affiliates has been identified in state and federal audits as perpetrating waste, abuse, and potential fraud. Those details and more emerged today in a press conference held by the Susan B. Anthony List and Alliance Defense Fund as they announced the contents of a report they were submitting to Congressman […]
Inside story on Komen split from Planned Parenthood
I was on the road yesterday afternoon when the news broke that Susan G. Komen for the Cure was defunding Planned Parenthood. Since then abortion proponents and news organizations have worked themselves into a frenzy speculating why it happened and who is to blame – from George W. Bush, to new SGK VP of public […]
Planned Parenthood’s worst nightmare: Seven former employees offer to testify
From U.S. News & World Report today, from an article entitled, “New Planned Parenthood abortion charges”: New charges from seven former workers – including a self-described “abortion doctor” – that Planned Parenthood used federal money for abortions despite prohibitions is expected to fire up Republicans seeking to shut off tax dollars to the massive […]
Breaking: Whistleblower alleges Texas Planned Parenthood committed massive Medicaid fraud
A former employee of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has filed a whistleblower’s complaint with both the Texas and United States Attorneys General alleging her management engaged in massive Medicaid fraud. Karen Reynolds, who worked as a “health care assistant” from 1999 to 2009 at the Lufkin, Texas, branch of the affiliate formerly known as Planned Parenthood […]
Formal protest filed against HHS for no-bid contract to Obama and Shaheen’s Planned Parenthood pal
After the New Hampshire Executive Council voted in June not to award a $1.8 million contract to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England for family planning services, PPNNE appealed to the Obama administration for help. PPNNE CEO Steve Trombley and President Barack Obama were political allies when Obama was an Illinois state senator and Trombley was the […]
Planned Parenthood lawyers up, gets two week extension from House panel
Read backstory here. From Legal Times this afternoon: Planned Parenthood has retained lawyers from Hogan Lovells as it prepares to respond to a sweeping new inquiry into how the organization and its affiliates use federal money…. [Congressman Cliff] Stearns’ [House Energy & Commerce] subcommittee is one of the most active congressional panels for conducting investigations, […]
Congressional investigation of Planned Parenthood: What to expect
Yesterday came the welcome news that a congressional committee has launched an investigation of Planned Parenthood. Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns (pictured right), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (under the Energy & Commerce Committee), had been threatening a probe for months, particularly after Americans United for Life released a damning report in […]