Was Pat McCullough Set Up by the Government?

     Someone suggested to me that the purchase of Hawthorne Medical Center might not have been  "on the level"--that the federal government staged the whole thing as a way of getting inside my business and confiscating all my earnings, past and present.
     In this scenario, Pat McCullough would have been a fake, an envoy for the feds, slated with the task of looking for ambiguities in my clinic's billing-coding-documentation process, so the government could steal money under the guise of cleaning up what has been portrayed in recent years as the awful, messy, fraudulent world of doctoring.  Government agents--who are people, after all, with salaries to earn and political aspirations to nurture--would collect revenues for our flagging economy, feather their beds (the FBI takes a percentage of money from plea-bargaining to fund its coffers), and represent themselves to the TV-sedated people of our country as good policemen who are making the world a better place.
     Those of us who question government raids, and who claim that our national liberties are being threatened, look as much like "radicals" to the indifferent masses as did the few brave town criers in the 1930's when Hitler and his men sang lullabies to their people, getting them to sleep through the decimation of millions of its country's most creative and contributory human beings.
     It's a fact that Pat did "due diligence" for eighteen months prior to the transfer of my Hawthorne business into her name, and that she had access to all the clinic's billing records, including the Medicare insurance numbers for patients, physician licenses, and all manner of data that could make for a real heist.  I have no idea if she was behind a big scam, supported by the government or outside the law.  I hadn't considered the possibility that she might have been an actor in a Dragnet drama--a government agent masquerading as a do-gooder with a Kentucky twang, out to get the bad doctor.
     Pat signed a confidentiality agreement with me, and our lawyers exchanged the usual overwrought dispatches, and c.c.'ed  them to everyone, so it seemed natural to assume that my clinic information, including patient charts and insurance numbers, was safe.
     (But government agents aren't bound by confidentiality agreements, are they?  It seems to me that they can do whatever they like with people's private medical records, and with their bank accounts.) 
     I suppose governments everywhere engage, at times, in slick set-ups, based on the need to find guilty parties, and justified, at least outwardly, by a mission to protect their citizens.  And I expect that too often the cocksure ship of their assumptions founders on the shores of the facts.  Even worse, most victims of their misguided attacks never get compensated, and are left like people on small desert islands to their own devices.  The number of death-row inmates who have been exonerated by DNA evidence, and sent back out into the world after lifetimes of mistreatment, attests to this.
     But it's hard to believe that anyone--even our immoderate government police--would resort to such exreme methods--buying an entire business?--to investigate a rural doctor's business, when it could obtain every document it needed to indict and destroy that doctor with the wave of a subpoena, or steal every asset in the books by assuming ownership of bank accounts and titles..
     And Pat...well, she was slick.  And she might have been of the right caliber for bureaucratic work.  But I like to think the government would have been a little less sordid, if all it wanted was my money and my life.  Why put the health and well-being of thousands of patients at risk, depriving them of access to medical care at their local medical facility, and why add so many productive employees to the unemployment rolls?  Our elected officials and their minions don't waste resources like that, do they?