A Senate committee voted to take steps to hold Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre in civil and criminal contempt​

More than a dozen Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate agreed Thursday that Congress should hold Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

Members of a Senate committee looking into the Steward Health Care bankruptcy said they plan to vote next week to adopt two resolutions to hold Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt after he refus

Senate committee intends to seek contempt proceedings against the CEO of Steward Health Care after the hospital executive skipped committee hearing.

A witness cannot disregard and evade a duly authorized subpoena,” a top GOP lawmaker said at Thursday’s Steward hearing.

US senators investigating the collapse of Steward Health Care, one of the nation’s largest private health systems, are confronting a problem they rarely face: a corporate leader who refused to testify before Congress.

Lawmakers vowed to file a contempt charge against embattled Steward Health CEO Ralph de la Torre after he skipped a subpoena to appear before a U.S. Senate committee hearing into the chain’s bankruptcy.