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Former Loretto Hospital CEO charged in $15M fraud scheme

By WBEZ.org  
   October 16, 2024

The former CEO of Loretto Hospital has been named in a new indictment by federal prosecutors for his alleged role in a $15 million embezzlement scheme. George Miller, 73, faces a count of conspiracy to defraud in a superseding indictment filed in federal court in Chicago. He is the fourth person named in an alleged fraud scheme in which the small West Side hospital was billed for goods and services it had not received between 2018 and 2022. Miller left Loretto as CEO and president in 2022 under a cloud of allegations of financial mismanagement that stemmed from earlier allegations he abused his access to COVID-19 vaccinations at a time when supplies were limited.

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