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  • 2020-07-02 (xsd:date)
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  • Did A Program Officer For The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation Die In A Drowning Accident? (en)
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  • A post shared on Facebook claims Nisha Patel, a former U.S. program officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, died in a drowning accident in New Jersey. Verdict: False The Nisha Patel who died in a drowning accident is different from the woman by the same name who once worked for the Gates Foundation. Fact Check: The image shows a screen grab of a Facebook post sharing an article from CNN . The post accompanying the article claims Nisha Patel, who previously worked as a program officer for the Gates Foundation from 2008 to 2011, died in a drowning incident alongside her daughter and father-in-law. The post appears to suggest that the drownings were not accidental. She was the US Program officer at the Bill Gates Foundation, reads the Facebook post . She oversaw 17 BILLION in Federal Grants & budget spending. (Interesting how none of that is mentioned in the CNN article). Herself, her daughter and a grandfather all drowned in their new pool. Ok sure! 3 people drowning in a pool at once seems very likely. However, the former Gates Foundation employee has not died. A representative for Social Policy Institute , where she currently works as a senior fellow, confirmed in an email to the Daily Caller that she is alive and well. (RELATED: Did Bill Gates Visit Jeffrey Epstein’s Island 17 Times?) Please let your readers and the world know that as of June 26, 2020, I am alive and well, she told the fact-checking website Lead Stories . There are multiple people named ‘Nisha Patel’ in the United States, and I am just one of them, which is why I often use my middle initial ‘G.’ across public platforms. Nisha Patel, who no longer works for the Gates Foundation, is 45-years-old and lives in Washington D.C., according to Lead Stories . She currently serves on the foundation’s Alumni Network Advisory Board. A 33-year-old woman with the same name drowned in an above ground pool in East Brunswick, New Jersey, on June 22, according to CNN . Her father-in-law, Bharat Patel, and her 8-year-old daughter drowned in the same incident, The Associated Press reported. (en)
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