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Partners Healthcare consultant, employees face bribery charges
An IT consultant and two employees of Boston-based Partners Healthcare are facing bribery charges in connection with an alleged scheme under which the employees funneled IT work to a consultant in exchange for kickbacks. Partners includes Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
According to a statement from the Massachusetts attorney general's office, Brian Colpak, owner of Lynnfield, MA-based Future Technologies, purportedly won "several hundred thousand dollars" in contracts from Partners by agreeing to pay kickbacks to two key IT decision makers within Partners. Prosecutors contend that between July 2003 and October 2007, Colpak paid Partners IT employees John DiMille, who was group leader in the production division of the information systems department, and John Cleary, master engineer in DiMille's division, thousands of dollars to help his company obtain contracts to provide IT systems and services for Partners entities.
Future Technologies' work for Partners includes moving Dana-Farber to a high-availability system using Oracle applications and two 24-way multi-domaining Sun Fire 6800 servers, which the company said saved the cancer center $1 million a year.
To learn more about this case:
- read this Computerworld piece
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"The agency (AG) said it began investigating last year, after hospital officials contacted them."
An important piece tyou didn't include here.
This actually was initiated by an employee who suspected something was amiss and after failed attempts to escalate this to management went to the internal Security department directly. They investigated and referred this externally to the AG who continued the investigation with the assistance of the unnamed employee and Partners external council who was hired to protect the company during this time. The real breadth of this corruption will never see the light of day but keep in mind that more than one senior manager left surrounding this news.
Why would that be significant (if it were true)?
Truth ... as reported in major papers around the area
Why - not necessary to answer, now is it, as you were just making your point
"This actually was initiated by an employee who suspected something was amiss and after failed attempts to escalate this to management went to the internal Security department directly. They investigated and referred this externally to the AG who continued the investigation with the assistance of the unnamed employee and Partners external council who was hired to protect the company during this time. The real breadth of this corruption will never see the light of day but keep in mind that more than one senior manager left surrounding this news."
That comment is bull****!!! Not true AT ALL!
what greedy people, and they said they were broke SELFISH GREEDYPEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These two guys (DiMille and Cleary) did more damage to the Partners organization, and their own families, than they could ever realize, just for a few bucks. I hope they get the book thrown at them and rot in jail, poor and lonely while the rest of the Partners staffing deals with the fallout their greed created. Funny thing was, neither of those guys had any talent whatsoever...especially DiMille! How he got into such a position of power within Partners is beyond anyone's understanding. Yes, I worked with him....he's a baffoon...always was!!! Looks like he'll have to sell his gold chains to pay the lawyer bills :)
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