An ongoing federal investigation into alleged corruption and embezzlement at a Chicago hospital has resulted in a conspiracy charge against the hospital’s former Chief Executive Officer. A 45-count, second superseding indictment accuses former CEO George Miller, Jr, 73, of Dallas, Texas, of conspiring with the hospital’s then-Chief Financial Officer, Anosh Ahmed, 40, of Houston, Texas, to corruptly steer vendor contracts and other hospital business to certain medical supply companies in exchange for cash from the companies’ owner, Sameer Suhail, 47, of Chicago. Ahmed, Suhail, and the hospital’s former Chief Transformation Officer, Heather Bergdahl, 37, of Houston, Texas, were originally indicted earlier this year on fraud, embezzlement, and money laundering counts. The charges accused them of causing the hospital to issue payments to purported vendor companies for goods and services that they knew had not been provided. Many of the purported vendor companies were created by Suhail and Ahmed under various names to conceal their association with the fraudulent payments, the charges alleged. Bergdahl allegedly opened bank accounts in the names of two legitimate hospital vendors and caused the hospital to deposit fraudulent payments into those accounts.
