The Center of District Columbia health bureaucrats are finding themselves caught up in another scandal. This time, the allegations stem from a lawsuit of a former director, Sharon Lehay- Lind, who was in charge of the Division of Local Public Health.

Last spring, Lindh said her bosses from the Maine CDC, demanded that she shred public documents pertaining to tax funding for Maine’s Healthy Partnership Program. She refused to do so and now the state’s Attorney General will be formally notified of possible wrongdoing.

Sun Journal reports:

A legislative committee will formally notify the Maine Attorney General’s Office that there may have been wrongdoing by officials at the Maine Center for Disease Control.

Members of the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee unanimously voted Wednesday to send a letter to the AG’s Office letting it know they’ve received information suggesting CDC officials violated the Maine Freedom of Access Act or tried to frustrate the intent of the law by ordering documents destroyed. The letter will ask the AG’s Office to review the information and consider whether it should investigate the matter.



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Lindh has since resigned. In her complaint to the Human Rights Commission, she said she was kicked, told to “shut the fuck up,” and faced a hostile work environment.

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OPEGA, Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, are running the investigation, have found that money went where it shouldn’t have, that the deputy director told employees to shred documents related to the partnership program, and that scores were changed to allocate funds to more favorable partnerships.

OPEGA will continue its investigation, and draft the formal letter in the next few weeks.