Post by Logan on Feb 3, 2016 2:43:56 GMT -6
Discredited abortion doctor Steven Brigham may be entitled to manage the New Jersey clinics he was ordered to sell when that state took his medical license in 2014 for endangering patients.
That's part of a ruling released Tuesday by the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners, the same regulators who yanked his license after he was found to be illegally performing dangerous late-term abortions.
As part of that action, Brigham was ordered to sell his interest in his seven New Jersey clinics. Instead, Brigham faked an ownership transfer to his medical director, Vikram Kaji, the state attorney general alleged last year.
In Tuesday's ruling, the board concluded that the transfer might be legitimate, and that there might be nothing to stop Brigham's new company from managing the clinics. But an administrative judge will need to sort all that out, the board said.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/20160203_Abortion_doctor_Brigham_may_be_allowed_to_manage_NJ_clinics.html
That's part of a ruling released Tuesday by the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners, the same regulators who yanked his license after he was found to be illegally performing dangerous late-term abortions.
As part of that action, Brigham was ordered to sell his interest in his seven New Jersey clinics. Instead, Brigham faked an ownership transfer to his medical director, Vikram Kaji, the state attorney general alleged last year.
In Tuesday's ruling, the board concluded that the transfer might be legitimate, and that there might be nothing to stop Brigham's new company from managing the clinics. But an administrative judge will need to sort all that out, the board said.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/20160203_Abortion_doctor_Brigham_may_be_allowed_to_manage_NJ_clinics.html