A private investigator claims Nabil El Sanadi, MD, the late president and CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health who killed himself Jan. 24, hired him last spring for an investigation into the public system that led to FBI involvement, according to a Sun Sentinel report.
The corporate private investigator, Wayne Black, wrote an email to Broward Health’s general counsel detailing his correspondence with Dr. El Sanadi. The email was produced to the Sun Sentinel in response to a public records request.
In his note, Mr. Black claims Dr. El Sanadi hired him in April to investigate several matters, including one involving security services and another involving alleged kickbacks. Because Dr. El Sanadi feared his office was bugged, the two met in restaurants and at Dr. El Sanadi’s home. They used Dr. El Sanadi’s wife’s email account to communicate.
Mr. Black alleges that evidence produced during this investigation led to a probe by the FBI, which is reviewing evidence and interviewing witnesses. In his email to the general counsel, the investigator contends that Broward has been hindering the federal investigation by withholding evidence and information, according to the report.