HORRENDOUS Conditions Discovered At iBrain Special Needs School

A special needs school in New York is being sued for running, what one former employee calls, a complete scam operation costing taxpayers millions. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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A special needs school in New York is being sued for running what one former employee called a complete scam that caused taxpayers millions of dollars. Lay this story out. I, you and I may have similar angles on it. I, I want to take another track on it. Go ahead.

This, this is an absolute, just start to finish every part of this story is, is horrendous. You have this iBrain school in New York is what it's called, iBrain. And what they are is it's a special needs school. You know, give us your, your your, you know, mentally disabled individuals, you know, physically disabled. We're gonna get them, we're gonna give them an education. And finally, eventually, one of the workers there came out and, and has sued them because they said, among other things, and I'm gonna try to get the whole list, but there's roaches and spiders everywhere. There was a dead rat carcass on the floor for days before anybody even bothered to move it. The smell is horrific. The black mold is dripping off of our ceilings. There are roaches in the children's wheelchairs. Oh, and by the way, you're, they're performing illegal surgeries on these students with people that it turns out aren't actually doctors. They lied about their credentials.

Yeah. So here, so, so, so what you have going here is you have the, there's, there's supposed to be oversight here, right?

Yeah.

There's supposed to be regulatory oversight. This goes on, apparently for years. The, the whistleblower described it as the most, as a filthy environment. Then she points out that, that part of the lawsuit anyway, you know, it still hadn't gone to court. But the lawsuit is that, the people running it were, the guy running it was a chiropractor. He wasn't even a doctor. And the one person that he had working as a technician was an ex-felon that had been, you know, actually given this job, make sure everything runs right here, is acting as a doctor in, in many capacities.

Yeah. They, they gave him a fake name, you know, fake credentials. None of it was real. The guy had, you know, spent a lot of his time in prison. And so the parents who would go and, and get their children into this place assumed, okay, well we have doctor number one who owns it and runs it, who says he has perfected this unique treatment.

Yeah.

Which turns out to not even really exist. And then they've got the other doctor, you know, the former inmate that, oh, okay, well this guy went to Harvard and he went to all these places. Nope. He went to prison. He didn't ever go to medical school.

No.

And, and then the, they're getting $235,000 per student from the state each year, this school is. It is a, it's a money making scam.

Well, it is. But it, which leads you to the problem that is bigger for New York. It's bigger for a lot of big cities right now. And that the regulate, regulators, forget it. There are no regulators. There's nobody watching anything. And it goes to the idea of, of other things that are happening with the infrastructure in New York, the garbage collection that ties right into the story. What's happening there? Our regulators aren't regulating. Social services are not working. That's why this happened. Subway services, I mean, you know, we can't even get our subways working without crime problems, without delay problems, without breakdowns. You've got an epidemic of homelessness going on up there. When I looked at this story, and I, I talked, I, when I compared what is different about what's going on in some of these bigger cities, this is it. This story to me is the metaphor for the entire infrastructure. When you have this going on for apparently years, you have it going on for years.

Yeah. I mean.

And, and, and there's no regulator there.