Bankruptcy lawyers cleaning up after the collapse of Philadelphia’s historic Hahnemann University Hospital are seeking help from a judge in getting answers from affiliates of Joel Freedman, the California investor who controlled the hospital, about real-estate transactions, WSJ Pro Bankruptcy reported. Freedman led the 2018 buyout of Hahnemann and its sister institution, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. By mid-2019, he was wrangling with Pennsylvania health authorities over plans to shut down a hospital that anchored the city’s services to the poor and homeless, as well trauma victims. Now he is being pressed for documents in bankruptcy court where Hahnemann and St. Christopher’s wound up last year, out of money and looking for buyers. Creditors have mounted “a total assault on our attorney-client privilege,” Edward Moss, lawyer for Freedman’s affiliates, said at a Friday court hearing on the dispute over documents.
