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November 18, 2019
The Vatican said on Monday the head of its financial regulator would leave, weeks after unprecedented police raids on his organization and another key arm of the Catholic Churchs bureaucracy.
Rene Bruelhart, a 47-year-old Swiss lawyer, told Reuters he had resigned from the top job at the Financial Information Authority (AIF), but did not go into further detail.
Vatican police entered the offices of the AIF and of the Secretariat of State - the administrative heart of the Catholic Church - on Oct. 1, as part of an investigation into an investment the Secretariat hade made in London real estate.
The officers, operating under a search warrant secured by the Vaticans own prosecutor, seized documents and computers.
Surprisingly enough, this scandal at the vatican is not about child abuse.
Head of Vatican financial regulator leaves job weeks after police raids
The Vatican said on Monday the head of its financial regulator would leave, weeks after unprecedented police raids on his organization and another key arm of the Catholic Churchs bureaucracy.
Rene Bruelhart, a 47-year-old Swiss lawyer, told Reuters he had resigned from the top job at the Financial Information Authority (AIF), but did not go into further detail.
Vatican police entered the offices of the AIF and of the Secretariat of State - the administrative heart of the Catholic Church - on Oct. 1, as part of an investigation into an investment the Secretariat hade made in London real estate.
The officers, operating under a search warrant secured by the Vaticans own prosecutor, seized documents and computers.
Surprisingly enough, this scandal at the vatican is not about child abuse.
November 5, 2019
Its EXTORTION. "Quid pro quo" is deliberately obscure and confusing framing.
This is "enhanced interrogation" all over again. The word has gone out to not refer to what the Trump administration was doing to the government of Ukraine as extortion. but instead to use the somewhat obscure latin phrase quid pro quo.
Fuck that nonsense.
November 4, 2019
Dignity Health said its employee, an ER nurse, failed to meet the deadline to add her premature newborn to its health plan, so she was responsible for the medical bills. It rejected her appeals for a year until ProPublica called.
Lauren Bard opened the hospital bill this month and her body went numb. In bold block letters it said, AMOUNT DUE: $898,984.57.
Last fall, Bards daughter, Sadie, had arrived about three months prematurely; and as a nurse herself, Bard knew the costs for Sadies care would be high. But shed assumed the bulk would be covered by the organization that owned the hospital where she worked: Dignity Health, whose marketing motto is Hello humankindness.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-one-employer-stuck-a-new-mom-with-a-bill-for-her-premature-baby
How One Employer Stuck a New Mom With a $898,984 Bill for Her Premature Baby
This is the crap system some of our candidates are defending.
Dignity Health said its employee, an ER nurse, failed to meet the deadline to add her premature newborn to its health plan, so she was responsible for the medical bills. It rejected her appeals for a year until ProPublica called.
Lauren Bard opened the hospital bill this month and her body went numb. In bold block letters it said, AMOUNT DUE: $898,984.57.
Last fall, Bards daughter, Sadie, had arrived about three months prematurely; and as a nurse herself, Bard knew the costs for Sadies care would be high. But shed assumed the bulk would be covered by the organization that owned the hospital where she worked: Dignity Health, whose marketing motto is Hello humankindness.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-one-employer-stuck-a-new-mom-with-a-bill-for-her-premature-baby
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