Churkin's death cause hidden due to diplomatic immunity--but previously, causes HAVE been released
Today we are being told that cause of the sudden death of the Russian Ambassador in New York will not be disclosed because his "diplomatic immunity survives death." But when another consular employee died months ago, the medical examiner did announce the cause of death.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ambassador-cause-of-death-wont-be-released/
An autopsy was performed on Ambassador Vitaly Churkin last month, but the death required further study. The additional tests were completed, but Julie Bolcer, spokeswoman for the city’s medical examiner, said Friday that the city’s law department told the office not to release any further information, “in order to comply with international law and protocol.”
The U.S. Department of State asked the city in writing on Feb. 24 to not reveal the autopsy results, because Churkin’s diplomatic immunity survives his death.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alimwatkins/medical-examiner-contradicts-nypd-dead-russian-diplomat-had?utm_term=.ow1y4RxbNN#.hi0Y0OQLRR
WASHINGTON — Sergei Krivov, the security officer who died mysteriously at the Russian Consulate in New York on Election Day, died due to internal bleeding related to a tumor, the New York City Medical Examiner says.
Though the New York City Police Department said Krivov was found dead with a head wound on the morning of November 8, Election Day in the US, the medical examiner’s office said it did not find evidence of a head wound on Krivov’s body, and that he died of natural causes.
“The medical examiner’s findings do not include head trauma,” Julie Bolcer, a spokesperson for the medical examiner’s office, said in an email, after BuzzFeed News asked why the head trauma wasn’t included in the office’s conclusion. “The medical examiner did not find that. That is not in the findings.”
BuzzFeed News has also learned that the FBI helped probe Krivov’s death, despite telling BuzzFeed News in February that it did not. A US Intelligence official said the bureau took part in a joint inquiry into the incident with the NYPD, and did not find Krivov’s death to be suspicious.
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