Posted on 06/19/2024 1:18:12 PM PDT by Morgana
CV NEWS FEED // The Biden administration sent a pair of FBI agents to the home of a nurse who asserted that staff at her hospital were committing Medicaid fraud in order to subject children to illicit “transgender” procedures.
“According to a new whistleblower, doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital [TCH] were willing to falsify medical records and break the law to keep practicing ‘gender-affirming care,’” scholar Christopher Rufo wrote in City Journal Tuesday.
This whistleblower, Rufo noted, is Vanessa Sivadge, “a registered nurse at [TCH] who has worked extensively with the hospital’s ‘transgender’ patients.”
Sivadge told Rufo that TCH, America’s largest children’s hospital, “is illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures.”
“It is evident that the hospital continues to believe it is above the law not just by concealing the existence of their transgender medicine program from the public, but by stealing from the federal government,” the nurse explained.
In a Tuesday post to X (formerly Twitter), Rufo called the story a “massive scandal.”
During her tenure at TCH, Sivadge “taught a child how to inject sex-change hormones,” Rufo wrote in a subsequent X post. “Then she realized she was participating in ‘deeds of evil and darkness.’”
Vanessa Sivadge is a registered nurse at Texas Children's Hospital who has worked extensively with the hospital's "transgender" patients. She taught a child how to inject sex-change hormones. Then she realized she was participating in "deeds of evil and darkness." pic.twitter.com/6LtjWs2gtR — Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 18, 2024
Rufo clarified that Sivadge “was the anonymous whistleblower who denounced TCH’s child sex-change program in an interview with me last year.”
“After that, she says, the FBI sent two agents to her home to intimidate and threaten her,” he noted.
Rufo posted to X a 47-second video of the beginning of this encounter. The video appeared to be taken by the Sivadges’ doorbell camera.
The clip shows that when Sivadge came to the door, one of the FBI agents acknowledged that he was “interrupting dinner.”
“I’m sure you’re aware of some of the things that have been going on at your work,” the agent said to the nurse.
“With regards to?” Sivadge asked him.
The agent then asked to “sit down for a minute” and do his “song and dance.” At this point, the video cut out.
This is where we are now: The Biden Administration sent two FBI agents to intimidate a nurse who told the truth about the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes "transgender medicine." pic.twitter.com/XbtZVnp5Kw — Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 18, 2024
“This is where we are now,” Rufo said in response to the FBI’s visit to Sivadge’s family home. “The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes ‘transgender medicine.’”
Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison, R-Midlothian, noted on X that the office of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton determined the “transgender” procedures TCH staff performed on minors amounted to child abuse.
Harrison called on the Texas House to “immediately convene hearings, launch investigations, and issue subpoenas.”
Rufo agreed in a reply to Harrison: “We need immediate action. This is a scandal and the State of Texas needs to step in.”
We need immediate action. This is a scandal and the State of Texas needs to step in. — Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 18, 2024
The news of Sivadge’s encounter with the FBI broke one day after the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed its indictment against her former co-worker Dr. Eithan Haim.
Haim, a surgeon, was another whistleblower who helped expose TCH’s illicit “transgender clinic” for subjecting minors to so-called “gender-affirming care.”
Indicted earlier this month, Haim faces up to a decade in prison if convicted.
Rufo wrote in City Journal: “This is a story of fanaticism, hubris, and the murky business of transgender medicine.”
“It would have remained hidden, except for the courage of two people inside the hospital, a surgeon named Eithan Haim and a nurse [Sivadge] who has now decided to come forward,” Rufo added. “Both have risked much to alert the public to the barbarism that is occurring at the nation’s largest, and arguably most prestigious, children’s hospital.”
This is not the first time the Biden administration has been scrutinized for its use of the FBI and the DOJ against individuals who hold views on social issues such as “transgenderism” and abortion that contradict the administration’s.
Notably, Catholic pro-life activist Mark Houck had faced a prison sentence of up to 11 years following an indictment by Biden’s DOJ. The FBI dramatically raided Houck’s home while his wife and seven children were asleep. Houck was eventually acquitted of all charges.
The Bureau of Ideology Enforcement.
Well yeah!
I hope that Chris Rufo warned that law enforcement might be calling, and not to talk without an attorney present.
Of course warnings like that tend to make your source go quiet.
I would have hoped the FBI would be at her house to take a deposition of her testimony so they could file charges against SOMEBODY at the hospital for the Medicaid fraud. I think a person who uncovers Medicaid fraud is supposed to be able to get rewarded monetarily for it.
Hey FBI, are you still investigating spies and bank robbers? Is that still a priority?
Don’t talk to the FBI without an attorney present who represents you.
Those cowardly FBI “men” did not have the backbone to say no to their supervisors. So they went out as ordered to intimidate a young nurse with both, a backbone and a conscience.
Shameful.
Also the 2 FBI guys looked like bums. Overweight, shirts untucked, no sport jackets. They just looked like dads in a sporting goods store. And at the door one of them set of the gaydar meter with his long feminine “Hellllloooooo?”
Demorat Gestapo.
Using your position to unethically access the confidential medical records of people who are not your patients, stealing copies of those confidential documents, and then providing them to a reporter for publication of patient identities is a crime, not whistle-blowing
Whistle-blowing is when you discover information through your work implicating someone or something in illegal acts. It doesn’t involve committing your own crimes to help the police, FBI, or AG.
Bongino said it best.
“Call my lawyer. Goodbye”
Is all you should tell them.
Even then. The 5th is a good defense. Those aholes will twist everything you say
Welcome to FR.
While you play defense for the Gestapo, children are being illegally mutilated.
Further, you are making allegations but have provided no details, sources, or links for more information.
Newb.
Go to hell.
Evil.
And also require VIDEO and AUDIO recording of the session.
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