Posted on 08/30/2004 12:53:46 PM PDT by amdgmary
Terri Schiavo’s parents threatened with Contempt while opposing counsel cash in on disabled woman’s case
For Immediate Release 8/30/2004
Pinellas County, FL – Attorney Patricia Anderson, who represents the parents of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, has received two letters in as many days, threatening legal action against Bob and Mary Schindler if videos of Terri are not removed from the family’s web site.
Citing a July 2002 court order, attorney Deborah Bushnell, representing Michael Schiavo, states that videos of Terri may not be disseminated by her family and promises that she will pursue a contempt of court action against the family if videos are not immediately removed. It is important to note that these videos of Terri were never sealed by the court and, therefore, public record.
Ms. Bushnell also takes issue that the family web site (www.terrisfight.org) links to Life Legal Defense Foundation’s web site (www.lldf.org), a non-profit organization that has conducted fund-raising to offset the legal challenges Terri’s family has undertaken in the hopes of protecting her life.
Ms. Bushnell’s communications, however, did not address the possible exploitation of Terri Schiavo by her co-counsel, George Felos of Dunedin, Florida – who represents Michael Schiavo in both guardianship matters and in Schiavo v Bush.
Attorney George Felos is now listed as available talent with Eagles Talent Connection, Inc., a Speakers and Entertainers Bureau of South Orange, New Jersey. In their online booking site, Eagles Talent offers the speaking services of Mr. Felos for fees ranging from $10,000 to $15,000. Among the topics listed as presented material, Mr. Felos includes “The Terri Schiavo Saga – From Family Fight to Constitutional Crisis”.
Mr. Felos has already collected more than $500,000 of funds that were awarded to Terri Schiavo as a means to provide health care and rehabilitation services. Instead, this money was used to pay Mr. Felos’s legal fees in the ongoing case to end her life.
Florida Statute 825.103, in part, defines exploitation of elderly and disabled persons thusly: “(a) Knowingly, by deception or intimidation, obtaining or using, or endeavoring to obtain or use, an elderly person's or disabled adult's funds, assets, or property with the intent to temporarily or permanently deprive the elderly person or disabled adult of the use, benefit, or possession of the funds, assets, or property, or to benefit someone other than the elderly person or disabled adult, by a person who: 1. Stands in a position of trust and confidence with the elderly person or disabled adult; or 2. Has a business relationship with the elderly person or disabled adult” The statute goes on to define the degree of felony pursuant to the amount of the funds in question. Donations received by the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation and Life Legal Defense Foundation are directed solely to the efforts to protect Terri from a forced dehydration and starvation death. Mr. Felos, on the other hand, appears to be prospering at Terri’s expense.
Related Documents: August 26, 2004 Letter from Deborah Bushnell - http://www.zimp.org/documents/082604bushnell.pdf August 27, 2004 Letter from Deborah Bushnell - http://www.zimp.org/documents/082704bushnell.pdf Screen capture of Felos offering from Eagles Talent - http://www.zimp.org/documents/fspeaker.jpg Eagles Talent Home Page - http://www.eaglestalent.com
Is there anyone more despicable than Michael Schiavo and his attorneys?
Evil is alive and well...
Hopefully Michael Schiavo will be indicted and prosecuted for Attempted Murder and Terri will be set Free from her Torturer.
From your lips to God's ear....
Ummm... Michael Schiavo and his attorneys and John F'n Kerry !!!
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Have they not caused enough pain to Terri and her family? When will it end?
Wonder if any of those $500,000+++ in legal fees to Felos fdound their way back to Mr. Schiavo?
It's sickening!!!!!!!!!
No!!!!!!!!
Exactly!
Is there anyone more despicable than Michael Schiavo and his attorneys?
Well, we will find out on the evening of Aug. 31 or the morning of Sept. 1. If the Pinellas Co. voters reelect George W. Greer, as most think they will, they will be as evil (collectively, not individually) as Michael R. Schiavo et al.
Nope.
A court order forbidding a family from posting pictures of their daughter ?! WTF !
I know that posts exhorting violence are verbotten here. But I can't help thinking that what that crowd down there needs is what we call in local Chicago parlance "a tuneup".
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