The new secretary for the Louisiana Department of Health is actually a former secretary of that department. Bruce Greenstein had previously served as LDH secretary from 2010 to 2013, during Bobby Jindal’s administration. During that time, he was indicted with lying to a grand jury under oath about his alleged involvement in the awarding of a cancelled Medicaid contract with his previous employer, Maryland-based CNSI, worth $200 million dollars. During a news conference on his first day back on the job, Greenstein was asked about the indictment, which was eventually dismissed.
“The accusations were not founded. There wasn’t evidence. It was just simply accusations,” Greenstein explained.
The charges were dropped in 2015 by Jeff Landry, who at that time had just been elected Louisiana attorney general.
“Two different teams of legal experts looked at it, one internal and one external, and there was nothing behind the charges, and so it was dropped,” Greenstein said.
CNSI sued Louisiana after the state cancelled the contract in 2013. It was settled three years later under the governorship of John Bel Edwards. Greenstein says he had nothing to do with the civil suit.
“In a civil suit, I’m just not a part of that. You’d have to go and ask the attorneys from either side,” Greenstein said.
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