The Department of Justice has dropped charges against a doctor who was prosecuted on spurious privacy charges after he sounded the alarm about transgender procedures being performed on children at his hospital.
Eithan Haim provided evidence to a journalist that Texas Children’s Hospital was performing transgender medical procedures on children as young as 11, despite the hospital’s claims to the contrary. He was charged with violating HIPAA, even though he did not provide any personal identifiable information. Haim’s revelations helped lead to Texas’s state legislature banning the procedures.
He was slated to go to trial next month, where he would face up to 10 years in prison.
Judge David Hittner of the Southern District of Texas signed an order dismissing charges on Friday.
Haim was on the phone with The Daily Wire when he heard the news from his wife. “It’s over! He signed it! I love you!,” he said to his wife. “It’s fucking over!”
A career Department of Justice prosecutor, Jennifer B. Lowery, had continued to move forward with a trial despite President Donald Trump’s executive order opposing gender ideology and the weaponization of government. On Thursday, Lowery relented and filed a motion to dismiss after facing pressure from Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and others.
The Biden Justice Department had sought a gag order against him, but Haim himself broke his silence on Thursday to call attention to the apparent insubordination of a career DOJ prosecutor.
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“[T]he acting US Attorney is running cover while this weaponized prosecution is being accelerated behind closed doors in direct violation of the President’s Executive Order,” he wrote on X. “Whatever the cost, whatever the sacrifice, I will not give in… we cannot back down because whatever we give up comes at a cost – a cost which will be paid by our children. The future we give them is whatever we are willing to fight for in the present moment.”
Prosecutors had continued with the case even as its factual premise fell apart, leading them to amend the charges. Haim previously told The Daily Wire how federal agents knocked on his door and derailed his life, and why he stuck to his guns.
Haim has incurred more than $1 million in legal bills fighting off the charges, but he refused to accept a plea deal, believing he did nothing wrong.
