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FBI: Texas Hospice Boss Texted Nurses Execution Orders for Patients

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The founder and CEO of a hospice services company instructed nurses to administer fatal overdoses to patients who had ‘been on the hospice service for too long,’ the FBI alleges.

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As the FBI tells it, Brad Harris became a one-man private death panel as the owner and CEO of a Texas hospice.

“You need to make this patient go bye-bye,” Harris texted one his nurses at Novus Health Care Services, as recounted in an FBI search warrant affidavit.

The Feb.

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