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Funeralgate / Crematorigate:� The Skeleton in Bush's closet is back from the dead.� This time it might bury him. At least 5 funeral homes within 50 miles of the crematory where hundreds of desecrated corpses have been found were owned by SCI, the company from the original Funeralgate scandal. [1] This scandal from Bush's days as governor of Texas resurfaced last December, when a similar grisly discovery was made in Florida: Here's a new chapter in an old scandal involving a Bush contributor and longtime family friend, Robert Waltrip. This time it's the desecration of dead bodies, and George W. Bush is directly linked to this scandal (as is current FEMA director Joe Allbaugh,� GW's Chief of Staff while governor of Texas). According to Fox News, Waltrip's company, a cemetery company called Service Corporation International (also known as Dignity Memorial) was "recycling" graves, removing the bodies that were there originally and throwing them in the woods to use the space to house new customers at two Jewish cemeteries in Florida.� Bush's connection to the story is that he was subpoenaed in 1999 but refused to testify as to what his involvement was in halting an investigation into SCI's embalming practices, among other things.� Here is an article from the Austin Chronicle about the lawsuit that lead to the subpeona.� This was a big scandal for GW at the time, but as you will learn from this Washington Post article dated August 31, 1999, a Texas judge put everything right for then-governor Bush.� Had the investigation been allowed to go on unencumbered, the corruption that led to the brutal and disgusting story you will see below might have been stopped a lot sooner. But while Bush was refusing to testify, while his administration was obstructing an investigation that could have put an end to the corruption at SCI, the bodies of people's loved ones were being buried with the decomposing bodies of strangers, left out in the woods, and who knows what else. � Bush dealt with this situation the same way he's treating Dan Burton's Reform Committee, by refusing to cooperate or allow any oversight.� While he was obstructing an investigation into a funeral home company, hideous things were allowed to go on there.� What's going on in the Justice Department, while GW obstructs Dan Burton's investigation?� The reality is likely every bit as horrendous.� ============================================================= From Fox News December 20, 2001 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41298,00.html FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Attorneys suing a cemetery company accused of recycling graves showed grisly photos and video footage Thursday of crushed burial vaults and human remains discarded in the woods.� They also presented internal documents they say show Menorah Gardens & Funeral Chapels in West Palm Beach and its owner, Houston-based Service Corporation International, were aware of the grave desecrations. SCI is the world's largest cemetery company. The attorneys represent 10 families who say their loved ones were dug up and dumped in the woods, buried in the wrong graves or buried in vaults on top of each other instead of side by side as the families had paid for. More than 1,000 people could become part of the class-action lawsuit, they said. "That body that is placed to rest for eternity is now destroyed, maligned, abused," said attorney Ervin A. Gonzalez. SCI officials did not immediately return a call Thursday but said Wednesday that they had no knowledge of any wrongdoing.� The state attorney general's office is investigating Menorah Gardens and four other South Florida cemeteries owned by SCI. A videotape and photos taken by private investigators showed a leg bone beside chunks of a concrete vault, in which coffins are placed. They also show Jewish burial shrouds, and a Star of David next to finger bones. A former cemetery worker led investigators to the remains, attorneys said. Remarks in the burial book, obtained from former employees, included "no room for spouse," "move Mrs. Kolin" and "dig this grave double deep."� Another handwritten note said: "Where are Lippitis and who are Haskells and are they both deceased? Move Haskell marker." The pages show "there are several hundred people who have purchased graves, premium contracts purchased years ago, that do not have a place to be laid to rest," said co-counsel Neal Hirschfeld. Myra Stone of Lake Worth said her parents bought side-by-side graves in 1982. Her father died in 1994, but another man allegedly was buried next to him in her mother's grave. When her mother died last year, the cemetery's operators dug up the man's vault and threw most of his remains in the woods, according to a former employee. "I understand that some of his remains are still in her grave," Stone said. "I am just horrified." The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, seeks unspecified damages. "We've investigated allegations that we thought too heinous to be accurate, too horrible to be true, over the last several years," Hirschfeld said. |
