Exclusive | FBI probes bombshell claim that NY robbed Long Island public hospital of crucial funds: chairman

The FBI is investigating bombshell allegations of a scheme by top Long Island and New York officials to shut down Nassau University Medical Center, the public hospital’s chairman told The Post on Monday.NUMC chief Matthew Bruderman revealed he is “cooperating” with the agency, as well as the Department of Justice, in a probe of his claims that the hospital was robbed of more than $1 billion over decades to ensure its failure.Bruderman said he believes the officials’ ultimate goal was to financially strangle the public hospital, paving the way for state and local leaders to shut it down, take over the land currently owned by the public-benefit corporation that runs it and have it redeveloped for profit.“It is a fact that New York state did not pay their share of the money owed” to keep NUMC running, said Bruderman, who receives no salary in his post and recently sued the state over his allegations.“And now I’m going to prove it,’’ the chairman said just days after Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman met with FBI Director Kash Patel on Long Island.“I have every bank account, document, transfer, everything,” he said.Patel’s meeting with Blakeman occurred after the FBI chief received a letter from Bruderman and Missouri Rep.Eric Burlison, who sits on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, the CEO said.The letter urged Patel and US Attorney General Pam Bondi to open an investigation into “what appears to be a large financial scheme, uncovered by hospital leadership.’’At the center of the alleged scheme is a little-known federal program called the Disproportionate Share Hospital Fund — meant to help keep afloat struggling hospitals such as NUMC, which treat large numbers of low-income patients on Medicaid and Medicare.Under the program, the federal government agrees to give these hospitals tens of millions of dollars in funding as long as their state matches the investment.Bruderman came on board at NUMC in 2022, when it wa...