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A U.S. Senate panel led by Sen. Bernie Sanders voted Thursday in favor of holding Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre in civil and criminal contempt after he refused to appear at a hearing last week in defiance of a congressional subpoena.The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee passed the contempt resolutions in a near-unanimous vote, with Sen. Rand Paul abstaining.
Ed Markey , a member of the Senate panel, said in a statement that 'as a physician and as the CEO of Steward from its founding, there is no one who understood the potential consequences of Steward's failures more than Dr. Ralph de la Torre.''Dr. de la Torre led Steward when it sold out hospital real estate to Medical Properties Trust and allowed Cerberus to extract over $800 million in profit,' said Markey. 'Dr.
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