The Pope Tells the Mafia to KNOCK IT OFF, The Prophet Elevates the Crook to Apostleship

Truly, an astonishing newsworthy story has just broken. While Pope Francis is truly making efforts to get rid of Gadianton Robbers in his midst, the Mormon Prophet Thomas L. Monson is giving them a comfy home and pension in the Apostleship of Mormonism. It seems the key to get close to God is make multiple million$ no matter how unethical one can contrive to accomplish such a goal. This story is just quite disturbing no matter how you slice it.

“For Elder Cook, of the Mormon leadership, commitment to career resulted in 27 years as a business lawyer and three years as president of California Healthcare Systems. Commitment to community led to 14 years of volunteer service as a city attorney.”

http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/w/o/wol3/cookql1.htm

“In 1963, Quentin Cook received a Bachelor’s Degree from Utah State University. He went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from Stanford University in 1966. He lived in Hillsborough, California for 27 years, working as a business lawyer and managing partner of a San Francisco law firm, then as the CEO of California health care company. He also served his community for 14 years as a volunteer city attorney.”

http://moroni10.com/quentin_cook.html

“In 1996 California Healthcare System and MGH were merged into Sutter Health, Sacramento. Quentin Cook by then also was CEO of CHS. His 1995 CEO salary was $311,479 just from CHS. The same year Buhrmann paid himself $379,401 as MGH CEO. Buhrmann, in the 1996 merger also became a Sutter official.”

http://members.aol.com/mshcc/news/cp-4.htm

‘Millions of dollars of public assets were transferred to the MGH shell corporation in 1985. Probably the comment of a county supervisor at the time, Gary Giacomini, was the most memorable about the event: “The biggest theft of public property in Marin’s history.”‘

http://www.pacificsun.com/square/index.php?i=3&d=&t=358

Quentin Cook was employed simultaneously as general counsel to the Healthcare District and as counsel to an existing corporation renamed MGH Corp. He created California Healthcare Systems (CHS) which owned Marin Health Systems (now Marin Community Health (MCH)), the entity that manages MGH Corp (56). Then Cook became CEO of CHS (57). In that role, he negotiated the 1995 Sutter/CHS merger. He became a Sutter Vice President, resigned in 1996, and became a missionary for the Mormon Church (58). His law firm remains counsel to MGH Corp.

See:http://www.smartvoter.org/2000/11/07/ca/mrn/vote/severinghaus_j/paper2.html

Hospital CEO Henry J. Buhrmann and hospital lawyer Quentin Cook formed a MGH shell corporation, got all five directors to sign their 30-year lease, and then siphoned millions of dollars of public assets to the shell. The Sutter Health hospital chain acquired the lease in early 1996. Fortunately for California residents any lease similar to this one would now require voter approval.

http://www.coastalpost.com/07/09/05.html

Marin General Chief Executive Officer Henry Buhrmann and Charles Mason, former head of Mills-Peninsula, each led his respective hospital district into a privatization deal. Each subsequently became the top executive of the nonprofit that leased the formerly public hospital.

Quentin Cook — an attorney formerly with the San Francisco law firm of Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson & Horn — represented the districts in both deals. Cook became the attorney for the nonprofit health care organizations created in those deals to lease the once-public hospitals.

In their lawsuits, the districts allege that Cook and the CEOs violated a conflict-of-interest law preventing government employees from participating in transactions in which they stand to gain from the outcome. Therefore, they argue that the 1985 hospital leases, which are still in place, are invalid.

Both districts allege that those leases heavily favor the nonprofits — now part of Sutter — leaving the public with little say in health care issues and virtually no income from the hospitals. “There’s a mission that district hospitals have, and there’s a mission that nonprofits have, and they are not the same,” says Marin Health Care District Board Member Linda Remy. “District hospitals are the only form of organization for hospitals where the mission is to serve everyone in the community.”

See:http://www.sfweekly.com/1998-01-21/news/sutter-s-empire-strikes-back/

One such enlightening comment (I give the link to the discussion at the end of this article) designed to show the issue here is “Oh, I guess you are not aware of the fact that privatization is an unadulterated good for all. You see, it was good for the hospital to go into debt to the tune of 46 million dollars. It was also good that the quality of healthcare provided by the hospital hit its nadir under Cook’s regime. I really don’t see how you can criticize a man who siphons millions of public dollars into the coffers of a private corporation that makes him a vice-president in return.”

Clearly this is a most disturbing thing happening in theological America. The crooks are not being jailed, they are being elevated.

Another comment also shows us the ethical issues here involved:

“Side A: he’s a new authority in an organization that lives off of charitable donations for capital investment into the elites for-profit businesses. He was picked for his skill in ripping people off through “creative accounting”, ala Enron.

Side B: he’s a new authority in an organization that lives off of charitable donations for capital investment into the elites for-profit businesses. He was picked for his skill in ripping people off through “creative accounting”, ala Enron.”

And on the other hand we read another comment like this:

“At the very least he broke a California state code that prohibited public employees from entering into contracts on behalf of the government that benefited themselves.

I see no reason to condemn Cook at all. I don’t know the man, and I don’t know how he got where he is. I’ll say that it looks kind of poor from here, but looks can be deceiving. When one considers that the apostle Paul had once participated in the murder of Christians, however, this looks somewhat less dramatically evil. I do have to say, though, that if it is what it looks like, it is pretty callous to rip off institutions that were created to treat the sick.”

Others pipe in discussing the ramifications as well:

“Since the money went to Sutter, and not to the personal account of Cook, I don’t know what one could expect in regard his personal restitution of all of that money. As for it going to the Cayman Islands, one article did make that claim, but I don’t know about the accuracy of that report. Not that it really matters all that much. The theft of millions of dollars from a public institution for the health and welfare of its citizens is despicable no matter how you slice it. That is something I would not want any part of weighing on my conscience.”

Still more consternation: “He was a public employee that secured the deal bringing the public organization into massive debt. The assets were given to a private organization that then appointed the dealmaker into a VERY profitable position.” Further another commenter indicated that “From what I read, if he was directing the transition to a corporation that he was an officer of (and that seems to be the case), that’s a clear conflict of interest and extremely unethical. Maybe there’s another side of the story, but at this point it seems more than a bit shady.”

And others have begun seeing the forest from the trees here: a very fascinating link one ought to watch and read!

http://www.slideshare.net/Mormons4justice/new-l-d-s-apostle-quentin-l/1

All of this can be found at http://mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3319