Unit­ed­Health­care CEO Bri­an Thomp­son Killed While DOJ Inves­ti­gat­ing Execs for Insid­er Trad­ing, Monop­oly

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Bri­an Thomp­son, the slain CEO of Unit­ed­Health­care, was gunned down on Wednes­day while top exec­u­tives at his com­pa­ny have report­ed­ly been under inves­ti­ga­tion by the Depart­ment of Jus­tice (DOJ) for alleged insid­er trad­ing and a monop­oly.

“Mul­ti­ple senior exec­u­tives at Unit­ed­Health­care have been under inves­ti­ga­tion by the Depart­ment of Jus­tice, though it is not clear if CEO Bri­an Thomp­son was part of that inves­ti­ga­tion before his mur­der,” report­ed Fox Busi­ness.

“There were reports that the exec­u­tives were accused of insid­er trad­ing and fraud, and last year the DOJ launched a probe into whether the nation’s largest insur­er was unfair­ly restrict­ing com­peti­tors and run­ning a monop­oly,” it added.

Law­suits were filed by the DOJ in con­junc­tion with attor­neys gen­er­al from Mary­land, Illi­nois, New Jer­sey, and New York to block the $3.3 bil­lion acqui­si­tion of rival health and hos­pice provider Amedisys, which would have elim­i­nat­ed the com­pe­ti­tion. Attor­ney Gen­er­al Mer­rick Gar­land said last month that the merg­er could harm vul­ner­a­ble patients.

“We are chal­leng­ing this merg­er because home health and hos­pice patients and their fam­i­lies expe­ri­enc­ing some of the most dif­fi­cult moments of their lives deserve afford­able, high qual­i­ty care options,” said Gar­land. “The Jus­tice Depart­ment will not hes­i­tate to check unlaw­ful con­sol­i­da­tion and monop­o­liza­tion in the health­care mar­ket that threat­ens to harm vul­ner­a­ble patients, their fam­i­lies, and health care work­ers.”

“Amer­i­can health­care is unwell. Unless this $3.3 bil­lion trans­ac­tion is stopped, Unit­ed­Health Group will fur­ther extend its grip to home health and hos­pice care, threat­en­ing seniors, their fam­i­lies and nurs­es,” said Assis­tant Attor­ney Gen­er­al Jonathan Kan­ter of the Jus­tice Department’s Antitrust Divi­sion.

The com­pa­ny also expe­ri­enced a major hack­ing scan­dal ear­li­er this year in which large num­bers of Amer­i­cans’ per­son­al data was lost.

As Bre­it­bart News report­ed on Wednes­day, the NYPD char­ac­ter­ized the killing of Bri­an Thomp­son as a “brazen tar­get­ed attack” after the CEO was shot and killed out­side his hotel in Man­hat­tan by a masked gun­man.

“The attack­er fired more than once–striking Thomp­son more than once–and was able to clear jams in the gun as he was fir­ing. The attacker’s abil­i­ty to clear jams in the gun leads Ken­ny to believe the attack­er was ‘pro­fi­cient in the use of firearms,’” report­ed Bre­it­bart News.

“The attack­er fled the scene on an E‑City bike and was last seen ‘rid­ing into Cen­tral Park at Cen­tral Dri­ve,’” it added.

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