STAT+: Steward Health Care spent millions on surveillance of its critics — even amid financial crisis
This story was reported by Hanna Krueger, Jessica Bartlett, Mark Arsenault, and Elizabeth Koh. It was written by Krueger and edited by Brendan McCarthy.
One night last year, a surveillance team camped outside a financial analyst’s English country home and videotaped him as he watched television with his partner. The team — contracted through a British private intelligence agency — put a tracker on the analyst’s car, watched his daughter go to school, and followed him into pubs and on errands, during a bike ride.
Another time, staffers of an intelligence firm pored over details from a health care executive’s phone and seized on sensitive tidbits: a text message with a sex worker, consultations with a doctor about cosmetic surgery, and lewd photos.
