(managed by cabal?0Forest Park Bariatric Director: “I Did What They Told Me To Do”

Forest Park Bariatric Director: “I Did What They Told Me To Do”: After 18 days and 47 witnesses, the federal government rested its case last week against defendants in the Forest Park Medical Center case involving $200 million in insurance payments that were influenced by alleged kickbacks and bribes. On Monday, the defense began with testimony from now-bankrupt Forest Park Medical Center's Director of Bariatric Services Carli Hempel, who is being accused of selling Medicare and Medicaid referrals to other facilities because Forest Park was not eligible to bill those entities. Hempel worked for Forest Park from 2008 to 2011. She was recruited to Forest Park by Alan Beauchamp, a co-founder who pleaded guilty last year to paying bribes to specialty doctors to bring their surgeries to the now defunct medical center. He faces up to five years in prison. Hempel was a bariatric surgery patient who switched careers to work in the field that meant so much to her, and worked her way up from receptionist to director of bariatric surgery at various hospitals,