Loretto Hospital

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Damage from the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/05/21/broadview-ice-protest-grand-jury-transcript-kat-abughazaleh-trump" target="_blank" >“Broadview Six”</a> case officially began to spread Tuesday, with defense attorneys in the high-profile case against an ex-Loretto Hospital executive and others now claiming that misconduct allegations against a prosecutor common to both cases were known for months.“There is reason to believe that the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois was aware of allegations related to [the prosecutor] at least several months ago, when the defense in the Broadview Six case began pushing for disclosures,” wrote defense attorneys Gabrielle Sansonetti and Patrick Blegen.Sansonetti and Blegen represent Mahmood Sami Khan, who was once employed by onetime Loretto chief financial officer Anosh Ahmed. They are now charged together in a fraud case formerly handled by Sheri Mecklenburg, the onetime lead prosecutor in the “Broadview Six” case.<div class="RelatedList Enhancement" data-module data-align-center> <div class="RelatedList-title">Related</div> <ul class="RelatedList-items"> <li class="RelatedList-items-item"> <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/05/26/broadview-six-andrew-boutros-kat-abughazaleh-ice-trump-chicago" >Grand jurors in tainted ‘Broadview 6' case had contact with Chicago’s top federal prosecutor, defense says</a> </li> </ul> </div> Also charged in the case related to Loretto Hospital are Mohamed Sirajudeen and Suhaib Ahmad Chaudhry.Mecklenburg wrote earlier this year that the case arose “out of a single, widespread scheme to submit more than $800 million in false claims to the United States Health Resources and Services Administration … for reimbursement of COVID-19 testing of uninsured individuals.”The scheme lasted from June 2021 to March 2022, Mecklenburg wrote, “when the government program ran out of money.”But Khan’s defense attorneys now say the case should be permanently dismissed, just as the Broadview case was last week.Their motion doesn’t mention Mecklenburg by name, but she is the only prosecutor involved in both cases.Sansonetti and Blegen wrote that prosecutors disclosed potential misconduct in the fraud case involving Ahmed and Khan during a meeting Friday. Specifically, they were told of potential “vouching” — in which a prosecutor improperly puts their credibility on the line to push an indictment.The defense attorneys were told prosecutors planned to seek a new indictment to cure any potential taint.U.S.

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