FORMER BLUE CROSS CHIEF DECLINES TO TESTIFY
Joseph P. Gamble, who led the Washington area Blue Cross plan down a financially disastrous path during the 1980s, said yesterday he would answer no questions from the Senate subcommittee looking into the management of the troubled insurance giant...
Gamble, who retired as chief executive officer of the National Capital plan in November, led the company into an ill-fated diversification strategy during the 1980s that led to more than $ 100 million in losses...
In six years, Gamble alone ran up $447,000 in travel expenses, and travel for him and two other top executives topped $ 1 million, the probe found.




