Company Hired to Handle Katrina's Dead Has Tainted History!

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Company Hired to Handle Katrina's Dead Has Tainted History
WAFB - Baton Rouge- Sep 14

On Wednesday the official death toll from Katrina jumped to 474. More than 400 of those bodies are now being held for autopsy at two locations in the Baton Rouge area. All those bodies are now producing a brand new public relations nightmare for state officials. This time, it involves the hiring of the world's largest funeral corporation to handle the job of recovering the dead. But it's a company we've learned has a tainted history of legal troubles.

According to the Department of Health and Hospitals, Kenyon International has been in charge of recovering and handling Hurricane Katrina's dead without a contract since last Wednesday. That contract was finally inked these past few days by Governor Kathleen Blanco, who obviously felt FEMA was dragging its feet.

Even before Katrina hit, the accusations and criticisms for both federal and local leaders were endless. First, national attacks on the slow search and rescue efforts, and now more trouble concerning the recovery of Katrina's dead. Governor Blanco has just inked the deal with Kenyon International to lead body recovering efforts. The only problem -- Kenyon's parent company is Service Corporation International, a scandal-ridden, Texas-based company accused in a number of lawsuits for illegally discarding and desecrating corpses.

link
http://wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=3851853

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1. Oh this is rich

They suddenly discover the history of Kenyon when Blanco signs the deal, totally ignoring the fact that Kenyon has a standing contract with FEMA and the Bush crony connection, which is how they became the largest funeral corporation in the first place.

Wrote on this a week ago. I don't believe for one minute that any respectable journalist has just learned about its tainted history.

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=1359

[LeighAnn]

2. Funeralgate

Yeah, Bush was tied to this in a big way

http://www.hereinreality.com/funeralgate.htm

[sandnsea]

3. kick

The bias of this story makes me sick.