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CEO of “health care terrorists” sues senators after contempt of Congress charges
Suing an entire Senate panel seen as a "Hail Mary play" unlikely to succeed.
In a federal lawsuit filed Monday, Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre claimed the senators "bulldozed over [his] constitutional rights" as they tried to "pillory and crucify him as a loathsome criminal" in a "televised circus." In the lawsuit filed today, de la Torre argues that the senators are attempting to punish him for invoking his Constitutional rights and that the hearing "was simply a device for the Committee to attack [him] and try to publicly humiliate and condemn him." "Indeed, the Committee made it abundantly clear that they would put Dr. de la Torre’s invocation [of the Fifth Amendment] itself at the heart of their televised circus and paint him as guilty for the sin of remaining silent in the face of these assaults on his character and integrity," the suit reads.
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