Did we elect chickens?
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Last October, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson filed formal criminal charges against the Cypress Creek Emergency Medical Services for violating state charity transparency laws. Nearly two months ago, the same District Attorney’s office issue a subpoena for the payroll records of the ambulance service.
After all, taxpayers pay most of the salaries.
Cypress Creek has ignored the subpoena, and this week, Cypress Creek lawyers delayed another pre-trial hearing on the case. That makes eight times this court case has been delayed. It is set again for September 10, 2015.
Meanwhile, the ESD #11 Commissioners you elected to watchdog your money have demonstrated a bizarre refusal to actually do their job.
“It is time for all this pretty please with sugar on top stuff to stop,” says Wayne Dolcefino, President of Dolcefino Consulting. “The District Attorney ought to execute a search warrant today to get these records because these are the tax-payers records.”
Dolcefino Consulting has spent more than a year investigating the financially bloated ambulance service, from the expensive entertainment habits of the top administrator to questions about possible bid rigging in a lucrative medical billing contract.
“Taxpayers should not have to file lawsuits to see how their money has been spent, and the ESD Commissioners should be ashamed of themselves,” says Dolcefino. “CCEMS talks about all the awards it gets for great ambulance service, but they forget they would be out of business without this government contract.”
They also forget who is paying the bills. Why shouldn’t they stall, wasting tens of thousands of dollars of your money that should be spent on bandages?
If this was a game of chicken, it is pretty obvious who is winning!
You should remember that when you vote.
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