Bush Funeralgate Scandal: Katrina, Whittington, Gonzales: CORRUPTION

[Dr. Jones]

"Neither SCI, Mr. Bush nor any of the other defendants admit wrongdoing under the terms of the settlement. Attorney General John Cornyn, who was also named as a defendant as a result of a legal opinion he wrote that was favorable to SCI, represented the state in the case....Harry Whittington of Austin, who was named presiding officer of the Funeral Service Commission after a major shakeup of agency in 1999, said his board reluctantly agreed to pay $50,000 as part of the settlement to end the 2-year-old case....Mr. Bush, Mr. Allbaugh, and the other defendants had previously denied wrongdoing. Ms. May's lawyers had accused Mr. Bush of improperly intervening in the funeral commission investigation as a favor to his friend, Mr. Waltrip. Mr. Waltrip served as a trustee for the George Bush Presidential Library, and SCI donated more than $100,000 toward its construction. Mr. Waltrip also contributed $45,000 to the younger Mr. Bush's gubernatorial campaigns."

May claimed that current White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales was also complicit in the matter and even helped SCI in a cover-up. Gonzales, who was also Bush's gubernatorial counsel, reportedly received a memo on April 22, 1996, suggesting possible improprieties by two funeral commissioners with ties to SCI....In his interview with Newsweek, Gonzales said such a memo was merely one of many that might have crossed his desk and was otherwise not memorable. In any case, Bush never acted on the memo's recommendations that the SCI affiliated commissioners be removed."

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina. Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses....Kenyon's original deal was secured by the Department of Homeland Security."

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[sam sarrha]

1. they got $17 million -No Bid-to do the morgue work in NOLA, employed 300

people on the last day it was open which was the day the $17 million dollar facility was completed, it had only one body that day..

...SHIT HOWDY, that got some GOOD campaign contributions of taxpayers money from the no bid contractors..

campaign contributions is the new spun word for BRIBE..!!

[Dr. Jones]

2. It is truly disgusting.

New meme: "Organized crime is running our country."

[Dr. Jones]

3. This also bolsters my theory that

the Katrina body count is being suppressed. I recall after Katrina happened, I saw reports of up to 40,000 people dead. Then it was less than 10,000. Then is was a few hundred. Then the whole thing was never mentioned again. Convenient that discussion of the body count dropped off the map, isn't it??