Roger Marshall's ties to hospital profiteers unmasked in scathing report

Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican, has long been tied in business and politics to a private equity executive whose hospital investments have repeatedly gone bust, according to an American Prospect investigation by David Dayen and Maureen Tkacik.Marshall and Dan Tasset of Nueterra have been partners since 1998, when they co-owned a surgical center in Great Bend, Kansas. Marshall’s family later invested in Tasset-run funds. The Prospect says Nueterra has a record of acquiring hospitals that later fail, naming two in Missouri and one in Florida.Tasset-linked money has also flowed to Marshall, according to the report. Nueterra employees have given him over $218,000 in the past decade, including $47,600 from Tasset himself, and a Tasset-affiliated company gave $100,000 to a super PAC that backed Marshall’s 2020 Senate win. Marshall’s son has worked for a Tasset-owned company since 2019, and a member of Tasset’s family worked in Marshall’s office as an...