No charges filed against former Truckee hospital chief
By David Bunker, Moonshine Ink
The Nevada County District Attorney’s Office has closed its two-year investigation into former Tahoe Forest Hospital CEO Bob Schapper. District Attorney Cliff Newell said his office will file no charges in the case and will pursue no further action regarding the investigation.
Newell launched his investigation following the July 2014 publication of a Moonshine Ink article titled New Revelationsthat investigated the ties between Bob Schapper’s leadership of the public hospital and his wife’s decade-long employment and contractual relationship with the organization.
The article and Newell’s investigation focused on whether Schapper violated a California conflict of interest law related to public contracts. The law, California Code 1090, makes it illegal for public officials to influence a contract that he or she has a financial interest in.