CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The one-word subject line of Ann Wilson’s email said enough: “resigned.”
After just working just four days as the chief financial officer at the CW Williams Health Center, Wilson was emailing her direct report to say she’d be leaving her new position.
“I cannot operate under the circumstances at CW,” Wilson wrote.
That email was among hundreds of pages of documents—emails, text messages and internal financial records—provided to WBTV by Heather Piper, a financial accountant who worked at CW Williams for about four months this year.
Piper and a second former employee, James Wankel, spoke with WBTV to detail what they say are serious financial concerns in the health center’s operation.
Allegations from the pair of whistleblowers include poor patient recordkeeping, billing practices that led to patients being over-charged for services they should have received for free or at minimal cost, improper administration of grant funding and internal financial controls that did not align with generally accepted accounting principles.
WBTV has confirmed the whistleblowers’ claims are being investigated by special agents with the FBI and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
Piper, the financial accountant, said the problems center around what she called financial mismanagement by CEO Debra Weeks.
“She does not follow the policies and procedures herself; being the CEO, it’s her rules,” Piper said of Weeks, who had sole access...
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