Brendon Marotta (@bdmarotta)

How Doctors Prosecuted for FGM Kept Their Medical Licenses Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and Dr. Fakhruddin Attar were charged in 2017 in the first federal prosecution of female genital mutilation in United States history. Both hold active, unrestricted medical licenses issued by the State of Michigan. They now practice together at a Detroit clinic that advertises school physicals and accepts Medicaid. Michigan’s licensing agency closed its investigation into Nagarwala on September 25, 2018, two months before the federal charges were dismissed. The Attorney General recommended closing Attar's case on July 27, 2018, four months before. State records certify that no traditional investigation was ever conducted into Attar. Both cases were closed with no disciplinary action. For the past seven months, I have been researching this. Below is my full investigation: https://hegemonmedia.com/p/how-doctors-prosecuted-for-fgm-kept Every fact in the timeline is sourced to state licensing files, Attorney General records, internal agency communications, federal court documents, public record, or on-the-record statements. I obtained the non-public records through more than a hundred Freedom of Information Act requests.