Nursing home trial may trouble Rauner campaign
From front page of Chicago Tribune:
As Bruce Rauner enters the home stretch of his run for Illinois governor, 1,000 miles away in Tampa, Fla., a federal bankruptcy trial opens Monday to weigh allegations that the investment firm he ran participated in a fraudulent scheme to avoid liability for a string of deaths at nursing homes.
A central concern of the proceedings is likely to echo questions raised in Illinois before Rauner won the March Republican primary: What responsibility does his longtime equity firm GTCR bear for the troubles at a giant nursing home chain it launched in 1998?
Rauner, who headed GTCR for more than 20 years until retiring in 2012, is not a named defendant in the civil case. But GTCR is a defendant, as is former GTCR partner Edgar Jannotta Jr., who long was the firm's point person overseeing the nursing home investment. Records show Jannotta has donated $405,000 to Rauner's campaign, making him one of the candidate's largest contributors.
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