Democrats say DeVos controlled troubled nursing home company
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006.
Lansing, MI - Democrats on Tuesday repeated their charges that Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos, along with his family, controlled a troubled nursing home company cited for allowing elderly patients to be abused.
“He made a huge investment in this company,” Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer said of Alterra Healthcare Corp., which went bankrupt in 2003 and was folded into another company. “Dick DeVos had the responsibility to care for vulnerable senior citizens at Alterra.”
Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis denied that DeVos had a controlling interest in the company and said he sold his shares after the company went bankrupt.
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