Democratic Senators challenged a prison healthcare company’s bankruptcy plan, calling it a misuse of bankruptcy law and questioning mediation overseen by a judge who recently resigned amid an ethics complaint.
The senators, including Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), “strongly object” to an attempt by Corizon Health Inc. “to manipulate bankruptcy law with the aim of skirting accountability,” they said in a Tuesday letter to Corizon’s leaders.
Corizon created shell company Tehum Care Services Inc. to resolve hundreds of medical malpractice suits in bankruptcy. Corizon is one of the country’s largest prison health care providers, but it has been ...
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