The chairman’s house at the University of Nassau Medical Center was taken Wednesday night, but the robber only stole documents that were clearly tied to the FBI probe of the bomb, the Post learned.
Chairman Matthew Bruderman confirmed his home in the Gulf of Oki in two weeks after the news broke that he was “cooperating” with the FBI and the Justice Department in an investigation into his allegations that the hospital had been robbed of state and former county leaders since 2006.
The stolen documents were later recovered by Centre Island Police, confirming that an aggressive investigation into the robbery was ongoing, but refused to release any further information or stated whether someone had been arrested.
He said Bruderman was discovered not at home at the time of the robbery, but only after police called to let him know that he had regained his name in the car the unidentified couple had driven.
“It was the binder I had on my desk when I left, which was a confusing thing,” he said.
Bruderman said he later found the backdoor wide open.
He said it contained “sensitive” material related to the ongoing federal investigation, including documents and records that it allegedly revealed while reviewing hospital finances and state rebates.
The chairman is considering the timing of the break-in, raising a red flag and serious concern that it appears that nothing has been stolen except for documents.
The FBI declined to comment on the investigation that opened in early April.
Bruderman said he has looked into the hospital’s financial records and refund returns since his appointment in 2022, claiming he has discovered billions of dollars in state funds for NUMC, which have been featured elsewhere.
At the heart of the alleged scheme is a little-known federal program called the Disproportionate Equity Hospital Fund. It aims to help sustain struggling hospitals such as NUMC, which treats many low-income patients in Medicaid and Medicare.
Under the program, the federal government agrees to provide hospitals with tens of millions of dollars in funding, as long as the state matches its investment.
However, Bruderman, a longtime financial advisor with over 30 years of experience, said it’s not what’s been happening at NUMC since at least 2006.
His internal financial records reviews say that former hospital leaders have “borrowed” what was originally considered to be the state’s matching share from offshore accounts tied to a Cayman Islands trust established to cover legal bills for medical centers.
The funds will be temporarily transferred to a hospital’s general fund long enough to deceive the federal government to believe New York has paid its shares, HGE argued.
However, once federal funds are settled, it is said that the state’s contribution will move back offshore.
That means that the matching funds have disappeared into the shadows in a conspiracy that could include the best officials.
