Attorney General Kathy Simmons has questioned the handling of two high profile lawsuits by her predecessor Trevor Moniz, saying that no local government lawyers were involved and that the files are not in government’s custody. But former AG Moniz insisted in a statement that all was above board and the files were held by the...
Lahey files motion to dismiss Bermuda’s lawsuit
Lahey hospital has asked a court to dismiss a complaint against it by the government of Bermuda alleging a bribery and racketeering conspiracy with former Premier Ewart Brown. In court papers filed today, Lahey describes the complaint as “baseless” and politically motivated. The dismissal motion comes two months after Attorney General Trevor Moniz filed the...
Ewart Brown rebuts corruption allegations, says Attorney General made a “terrible mistake”
90 minute interview with former premier Ewart Brown
Former premier Ewart Brown has given a point by point rebuttal to allegations of corruption made in a lawsuit against Lahey clinic. In a 90 minute interview with Think Media yesterday, Brown insisted that the allegations that he engaged in a healthcare fraud with Lahey clinic were groundless. He told us his lawyers were preparing...
Ewart Brown will be exonerated – DeSilva
Opposition MP Zane DeSilva is confident that his friend and former cabinet colleague Ewart Brown will be exonerated from allegations of bribery and corruption. DeSilva spoke to us on Friday at the House of Assembly as legislators filed out on the lunch break. He is the only MP to come out strongly to the defence of...
Police break in to Ewart Brown’s clinics for search and seizure operation
Bermuda police broke into, and conducted a two day search and seizure operation at, the medical clinics owned by former Premier Ewart Brown over the weekend. After forcing their way into the clinics, about half a dozen officers spent hours inside the buildings and securing the premises. Representatives and employees of the clinics were not...
Police Commissioner loses bid to halt Reddy lawsuit
Corruption, fraud and money laundering investigation said to be nearing completion
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley yesterday rejected a bid to stop judicial review proceedings brought by physician Mahesh Reddy against the Commissioner of Police. But the court heard that a long running police investigation into corruption, money laundering and fraud is nearing completion and police are hopeful that criminal charges would be laid soon. In a...
Top UK QCs in Mahesh Reddy v Police Commissioner
Former UK Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith, QC, is to represent physician Mahesh Reddy in his case against the police commissioner. He will be squaring off against Anesta Weekes QC who has been engaged by the Bermuda police service and will be asking the court to strike out Dr Reddy’s judicial review application, according to...
Dr Reddy: Police raid was abusive, “wholly unnecessary”
Alleges harassment and intimidation by Bermuda Police and US Homeland Security, authorities pressure doctor to incriminate Ewart Brown in health fraud and money laundering
US and Bermuda law enforcement harassed and intimidated Dr Mahesh Reddy in order to get him to provide incriminating evidence against former premier Ewart Brown, according to a court filing. In a sworn affidavit seen by Politica, Dr Reddy outlines law enforcement action against him – including being stopped and questioned at the airport on...
Health Council bill an attack on doctors – Brown
New proposals to regulate health service providers are an attack on Bermuda’s doctors, according to former Premier Ewart Brown. Government attempted to pass a bill granting the Bermuda Health Council a host of new regulatory powers on 8 July, but the measures were put on hold after they failed to withstand scrutiny by the Opposition Progressive Labour Party and...
Doctor’s arrest “politically motivated” – Ewart Brown
Former premier says he is being harassed because he challenged the authority of the Governor and accepted Uighur refugees
Former Premier Ewart Brown has claimed that he is facing a campaign of harassment because of decisions taken while in office such as granting asylum to four former prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. And Bermuda police is to face legal action for the “unwarranted” arrest of physician Mahesh Reddy whose home was searched in an early...