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The Dayton Daily News, a newspaper based in Dayton, Ohio, has interviewed one of the whistleblowers who filed a complaint with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office about alleged financial misconduct by Fred Manchur, the now-former CEO of Kettering Health. Manchur abruptly retired late last year. In December, Spectrum reported on Manchur’s history of financial extravagance and a potential investigation by the attorney general.
In March, the Daily News and other local outlets obtained copies of the complaints, which accuse Manchur of misusing funds. Dave Weigley, president of the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and former Kettering Health board chair, was also named.
Now, one complainant has gone public. Lori Van Nostrand, the former executive secretary at Soin Medical Center, “complained about nepotism in the hospital system and hospital funds being used for improvements at Manchur’s house, among other things,” writes reporter Samantha Wildow. “She also said there were [a] lot of trips that were non-hospital related.”
“There’s this search nationwide for a CEO, but you still have leadership that participated,” she said about why she filed a complaint with the state. “To me, if you don’t stand up and go against or speak out and just say, ‘This isn’t right,’ you’re part of the problem.”
Van Nostrand, who filed a complaint with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office in August 2021 according to the complaint, worked at Soin for five and a half years...
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