In an earlier report, it was mentioned that the Justice Department under President Biden brought charges against a Texas surgeon who exposed a sex-change program at Texas Children’s Hospital.
In May 2023, Dr. Eithan Haim shared documents related to the sex-change program with investigative journalist Christopher Rufo.
Dr. Haim took care not to reveal any patient details, but he was still indicted by the Biden administration on four felony counts linked to violating HIPAA regulations.
Shortly after Dr. Haim’s disclosure about Texas Children’s Hospital, the Texas state legislature passed a law prohibiting transgender medical treatments and procedures for minors.
EXCLUSIVE: Dr. @EithanHaim exposed the child sex-change program at Texas Children’s Hospital. Now the Biden Administration has indicted him on four felony charges. This is an outrageous political persecution—and must be resisted.https://t.co/9ck67YV0EI
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) June 6, 2024
Last year, Dr. Haim received notice of a federal investigation into allegations of leaking documents to Christopher Rufo.
This Tuesday, Dr. Haim was confronted at his door by heavily armed agents who informed him that he had been indicted on four felony charges.
Not only his people. Had three heavily armed agents at my door 7AM Tuesday to inform me I was indicted with four felonies…for blowing the whistle about the largest children’s hospital in the world lying to the public about their transgender program. https://t.co/u3cwHVuplH
— Eithan Haim MD (@EithanHaim) June 7, 2024
The Biden administration revealed the charges against Dr. Haim on Monday. Dr. Haim faces four felony counts in the indictment.
If found guilty, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
Per the DOJ:
A Houston doctor has been indicted for obtaining protected individual health information for patients that were not under his care and without authorization, announced Alamdar S. Hamdani.
The case against Ethan Haim, 34, Dallas, has now been unsealed, and he is set to make his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Yvonne Y. Ho in Houston at 2 p.m.
The four-count indictment alleges Haim obtained personal information including patient names, treatment codes and the attending physician from Texas Children’s Hospital’s (TCH) electronic system without authorization. He allegedly obtained this information under false pretenses and with intent to cause malicious harm to TCH.
According to the indictment, Haim was a resident at Baylor College of Medicine and had previous rotations at TCH as part of his residency.
In April 2023, Haim allegedly requested to re-activate his login access at TCH to access pediatric patients not under his care. The indictment alleges he obtained unauthorized access to personal information of pediatric patients under false pretenses and later disclosed it to a media contact.
If convicted, Haim faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 maximum possible fine.
You can support Dr. Eithan Haim’s GiveSendGo here.
“My name is Eithan Haim. I am a 33-year-old general surgeon who was the anonymous whistleblower in a story released May 16, 2023 by Christopher Rufo. We exposed the fact that Texas Children’s Hospital – the largest children’s hospital in the world – was lying to the public about the existence of their transgender program. In part due to the story’s release, the very next day, the Texas Legislature voted, with bipartisan support, to ban transgender medical interventions on minors. The conduct we exposed became illegal in the State of Texas within 24 hours of our story,” the Dr’s GiveSendGo said.
“Just over a month later, on June 23rd, 2023, a few hours before my graduation from surgical training, two federal agents showed up to my apartment in a highly atypical, unexpected, and aggressive show of force. Despite their best attempt at launching a surprise interview, I insisted on having an attorney present. Before leaving, however, I was given a target letter signed by a federal prosecutor that stated I was being criminally investigated for a case regarding “medical records.”” – he said.
“Since no laws had been violated (no personally identifiable patient health information was disclosed), this was nothing more than a blatant attempt at political intimidation. We believe this case is being driven by a highly ideological division within the Department of Health and Human Services that aims to silence whistleblowers who expose institutionalized medical corruption and the dangers of these hormone-based interventions for confused, adolescent children,” Dr. Haim added.
