Reese Dunklin of the Dallas Morning News is continuing to beat the SurroGenesis drum. Mr. Dunklin had an exhaustive article on the SurroGenesis scandal this past Sunday. Today he has an update on his Blog regarding the case that includes an interview with Debra Haworth:
“Many times I sat down and thought, OK, where exactly is this money coming from?” Haworth said. She figured at the time that Collins “must be signing up [new] parents to support her family. Never in a billion years would I think that she was just draining the trust accounts.”
Collins told would-be parents who used her surrogacy agency to help have children, SurroGenesis, to deposit as much as $100,000 into the accounts held by an escrow company she had formed and controlled, the Michael Charles Independent Financial Holdings Group.
That money was supposed to pay for surrogate mothers and egg donors, their medical bills and prescriptions, and other expenses. Collins had told two clients I interviewed that the escrow company was independently owned.
Haworth said she didn’t think it was a conflict for Collins to run both companies. But Haworth thought clients should have been told in advance about the connection and given an option to use a different escrow firm.
“To watch someone go and take that money is devastating,” said Haworth, who lost her SurroGenesis job after it closed in the days after the scandal first broke publicly.
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