DeWine: Additional transparency not needed in massive Medicaid contracts
Ohio Medicaid Director Maureen Corcoran apparently held stock in two huge health companies last year as she negotiated and signed multi-billion-dollar contracts with their subsidiaries. But she has refused to say how much she owned as she signed the deals.
Nor will the man who appointed her, Gov. Mike DeWine, say he thinks Corcoran should disclose the details of her private business with companies benefitting from her public contracts. After the governor last week declined to directly answer a question about the matter, his spokesman this week said the governor believes the Medicaid director has complied with the law.
When it comes to transparency in this case, the administration is disinclined “go above and beyond” that.
Public corruption has been a major issue through the first years of the DeWine administration.
In July 2020, former House Speaker Larry Householder, R-Glenford, and four aides were arrested by federal authorities on charges that they corruptly used $61 million from Akron-based FirstEnergy to make Householder speaker and pass a $1.3 billion energy bailout. Two of the aides have since pleaded guilty and a third died by suicide.
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