Kerry Murphy Healey, lieutenant governor in the Romney administration, serves on the board of Apollo Global, the New York private equity firm battling the state over the fate of Steward's hospitals.
The New York private equity giant playing a key role in the fate of bankrupt Steward Health Care’s Massachusetts hospitals has a prominent local figure on its board: former Lt. Gov. Kerry Murphy Healey., according to public company filings. She served in the Romney administration from 2003 to 2007, then went on to hold other non-elected government roles and was president of Babson College.
Reached by phone, Healey told WBUR that while she serves on Apollo’s board, she has had “nothing to do” with the Steward talks. She declined further comment. Financial and political observers of the state’s battle with Apollo said this is an awkward spot for a former high-level state official like Healey to find herself in, but it’s not entirely unusual.
Several people in political circles said if they were in the former lieutenant governor's shoes, they would feel compelled to reach out to Gov. Healey, or to help Apollo navigate the fraught Steward situation in a way that’s positive for Massachusetts. The governor’s office was not immediately able to say whether anyone in the administration had reached out to Kerry Healey on the matter.
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