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Owners of Defunct Nurse Staffing Company Indicted
U.S. Attorney for Colorado Bill Leone announced on July 27 that
William C. Crabbe and James S. Rowan, owners of Columbine
Health Care Systems, Inc. of Greeley, Colorado, were indicted by a
federal grand jury in Denver on Tuesday, July 25, 2006, for failure
to pay federal payroll taxes, failure to pay taxes, and tax evasion.
Crabbe was also charged with filing false tax returns. Both defendants
received summons to appear in U.S. District Court in Denver
on August 10, 2006 at 2:00 pm, where they will be advised of the
charges against them. Columbine Health Care Systems went out of
business in June 2003.
According to the indictment, Crabbe and Rowan were the owners
and principal officers of Columbine Health Care Systems, a
national nurse-staffing agency. Columbine would charge its clients
a fee for placing nurses in such places as hospitals, healthcare facilities,
and doctor’s offices. Columbine would then pay wages to the
nurses. The company’s corporate offices were located in Greeley,
Colorado, with a few small sales offices located in other states.
For more: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/co/press_releases/2006/
July06/7_27_06.html
UMDNJ Remains in the News
On July 26, The Star-Ledger reported that “New Jersey’s troubled
medical university and its major teaching hospital swallowed a
tough pill yesterday in addressing mounting financial problems:
more than 100 layoffs, program cutbacks, and an indefinite delay in
the opening of a new $110 million cancer center in Newark.
“The cuts at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New
Jersey come in the wake of the state’s own budget woes, which led
to cuts of millions of dollars for charity care and higher education. “
For more: http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/
news-4/1153892605261510.xml&coll=1
UMDNJ Trustee Steps Down
On July 29, Newsday reported that “Another trustee at the
embattled University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is
stepping down.
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Frederic C. Sterritt is leaving UMDNJ’s board, about a week after
the state started an ethics probe into how he helped his brother get
a job.
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