The room went dead silent. Mara’s face turned a ghostly shade of grey. Gavin Price tried to speak, but I cut him off.
“And let’s talk about this,” I continued, clicking to the next slide. It was the “Difficult Patients” folder. I played an audio clip Rosa had recorded—Mara and the former Director of Riverbridge laughing about how they had “flagged” a young Black mother for CPS because she asked too many questions about her IV.
“This isn’t just a PR problem, Gavin,” I said, looking him dead in the eye. “This is a civil rights violation on a corporate scale. This is medical fraud. This is racketeering.”
I turned back to the board. “I have already turned this evidence over to the District Attorney and the State Health Department. Mara Quincaid and the Director are being indicted as we speak. As for the rest of you, you have a choice. You can vote to remove me and go down with this sinking ship, or you can let me do what I was hired to do: fix this.”
