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Just last week, Dr. Eithan Haim came days away from going to federal
prison — and he has no regrets.

As federal prosecutors prepared to accelerate the now-dismissed criminal
case against the Texas Children’s Hospital whistleblower, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department stepped in just in time.

On Friday, the Justice Department’s new leadership dropped the second superseding indictment against the surgeon, who the Biden Justice
Department had accused of violating the privacy of patients protected
under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The
only problem is he didn’t.

Haim disclosed carefully redacted medical records in May 2023, showing
that Texas Children’s physicians were surgically inserting hormonal
devices into gender-dysphoric pediatric patients as part of the hospital’s transgender program. No individually identifiable health information was unethically revealed. Furthermore, he exposed that the Houston-based
hospital was secretly continuing trans medical procedures in violation of
Texas law after it had supposedly ended them.

Haim felt it was his moral obligation to tell the truth, even if he was punished for his actions.

“In the very beginning, I knew if I was gonna blow the whistle that we’d
have to go fully in no matter the consequences,” Haim told National
Review. “I asked my wife, ‘Is this something you’re willing to die for?’
And she said, ‘Yes.’ And I said, ‘Yes,’ too. It sounds kind of hyperbolic,
but that was the only way we would do it.”

Before the charges were dismissed with prejudice, the surgeon faced a
decade in federal prison and a $250,000 maximum fine for the alleged HIPAA violations.

If Trump’s Justice Department hadn’t dismissed the case in time, it’s
possible Haim would have been prematurely jailed over the weekend and gone
to an early trial.

Haim and his wife, Andrea, were ecstatic, to say the least, when they
learned of the dismissal on Friday.

“We took on the federal leviathan under the greatest odds possible. We
won, we suffered, and we paid the price. But we never gave up, and we
never gave in,” Haim told NR.

Likewise, his lead defense attorney was relieved. “This fully vindicates
Dr. Haim,” Marcella Burke of Burke Law Group said.

Haim’s trial date was previously scheduled for February 10, but the former defendant revealed the jury trial could have started as early as this
Monday because he was accused of violating a de facto gag order.

In December, Judge David Hittner, whose jurisdiction lies in the Southern District of Texas, warned Haim would be placed under a gag order if he continued posting about his case on social media. The prosecutors alleged
the whistleblower posted “inflammatory language” and engaged in “online bullying” that targeted their own attorneys. They would have likely
employed the same argument if the trial proceeded.

In the event of future violations, Hittner warned Haim would be sent to a federal jail, and his bond would be revoked if he continued posting “inflammatory language” about the charges and prosecutors. Haim argued he
was exercising his First Amendment rights but agreed to the judge’s terms.

Hittner didn’t issue a formal gag order at the time, priding himself on
the fact that he had never issued one in his decades-long career as a
federal judge. However, the judge said he wouldn’t “hesitate to
reconsider” such an order.

Hittner never imposed a formal gag order, even when Haim aired his
grievances online last week. But the judge still threatened jail time.

After President Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office ending the Biden administration’s weaponization of the federal government against its perceived political opponents, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas, Jennifer Lowery, was still moving forward with
the politically motivated prosecution. By posting about his own case, Haim decided to call the judge’s bluff.

“There was a part of me that really didn’t believe it, but I was wrong.
This guy was legitimately going to send me to jail,” he said of Hittner.

Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.), who personally called acting U.S. Attorney General James McHenry to drop the prosecution, confirmed to the Daily Wire
that an arrest warrant was in the works. Luckily, the case was dismissed
before the court could issue a warrant.

Haim wondered how many other people were wrongfully imprisoned because of judges like Hittner.

“You might have innocent people in prison today because they’ve been
railroaded by someone like Hittner,” who “carries the appearance of legitimacy,” Haim said, calling the Reagan-appointed judge a “criminal
thug.”

He has expressed similarly strong words toward Tina Ansari, the former
lead prosecutor who withdrew from the case, presumably because of her
apparent conflicts of interest. Ansari provided no explanation for her withdrawal, but her family had existing financial ties to Texas Children’s
and Baylor College of Medicine, two interested parties in the then-ongoing case.

Haim was completing his surgical residency at Baylor College when he blew
the whistle.

Moreover, Ansari was suspended by the State Bar of Texas after her law
license expired for a brief period of time due to outstanding bar dues.
She ultimately resolved the issue and continues to practice law in Texas.

Haim holds Ansari, former U.S. attorney Alamdar Hamdani, and three other officials responsible for leading the investigation into him.

He hopes the Trump administration will punish the Southern District of
Texas prosecutors for bringing the charges against him. The practicing
surgeon suggested they should be fired, disbarred, or arrested if they
were found to have conspired with Texas Children’s or Baylor College to manufacture evidence against him.

On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order to prohibit gender transitions
for everyone under 19, defund any medical institutions that engage in
trans procedures, and issue new guidance that protects whistleblowers in
the healthcare industry. Being one of those whistleblowers, Haim responded positively to the order.

“They’re going to keep the door open for medical whistleblowers, and
that’s a very important door to stay open” because the repercussions they
face “are very severe and can result in very long prison sentences,” Haim
said of Trump’s order.

However, he does caution that the executive action will only cause health-
care providers specializing in transgender medicine to conceal the
procedures by using fraudulent billing codes. He said the order would
protect whistleblowers like Vanessa Sivadge, who in June 2024 exposed that Texas Children’s committed Medicaid fraud to cover the costs of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors. A nurse, Sivadge was eventually
fired for coming forward.

“It’s an indication that Trump is truly the type of person who delivers on
the things he says,” Haim added about the order. “This should represent a
win for all of us, but we should also start moving the goalposts because a
true win is when the people who are responsible for [transitioning
children] are in orange jumpsuits and sitting behind bars.”

David Zimmermann is a news writer for National Review. Originally from New Jersey, he is a graduate of Grove City College and currently writes from Washington, D.C. His writing has appeared in the Washington Examiner, the Western Journal, Upward News, and the College Fix. @dezward01

Reprinted with Permission from National Review – By David Zimmermann


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