Posted on 06/01/2007 2:54:48 PM PDT by rhetorica
DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- An Atlanta tuberculosis patient who may have defied health officials' warnings by going on a wedding trip to Europe appears not to have gotten married, a Greek official said Friday.
Mayor Angelos Roussos of Santorini, Greece, said a clerk from the municipality office informed him that Andrew Speaker and his fiancee, Sarah Cooksey, did not have the necessary paperwork for a civil marriage.
"He made no previous contact with the town hall about arranging a civil marriage," Roussos said. "So the wedding never happened. He stayed instead at a hotel for two days, the Majestic Hotel, before setting back for the United States. It was his first time here."
more at: DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- An Atlanta tuberculosis patient who may have defied health officials' warnings by going on a wedding trip to Europe appears not to have gotten married, a Greek official said Friday.
Mayor Angelos Roussos of Santorini, Greece, said a clerk from the municipality office informed him that Andrew Speaker and his fiancee, Sarah Cooksey, did not have the necessary paperwork for a civil marriage.
"He made no previous contact with the town hall about arranging a civil marriage," Roussos said. "So the wedding never happened. He stayed instead at a hotel for two days, the Majestic Hotel, before setting back for the United States. It was his first time here."
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Asked about remarks by health officials that they had been looking at another option to get him back to the United States from Italy, Speaker responded, "That is a complete lie."
Hiring a private jet would have cost $100,000, which he did not have, Speaker said.
Speaker's wife, Sarah Cooksey, told ABC she had pleaded for any kind of transportation, including a military vessel.
She said her father, who works at the CDC, had tried to help the couple get home.
"Oh he did, everybody did, our entire family, everybody was calling all day," she told ABC.
This is what really steams me about this pair, The CDC tells him not to travel, but they do anyway. And then it becomes the CDC (and the American taxpayer's) responsibility to get them home. Excuse me, but how arrogant is this guy?????
He is a personal injury attorney, there is no statute of limitations on their arrogance. And the gubermint better send him a bill. And I hope all those who were around him sue him into oblivion.
And are we sucking up the cost for his hospital stay now?
Sounds to me he’s a mole for the islamics just testing the system prior to a major bio-warfare hit on the US.
How did he get this strain of TB if it is so rare anyway?
Does any one know where he contracted this form of TB?
Possibly the least likely conjecture ever offered on FR.
I look forward to him being a very busy (and losing...) DEFENDANT in such cases for the foreseeable future!
Reports say that that how Mr. Speaker got TB is one thing that medical team will be trying to find out. Now he’s saying on local news that he never meant to hurt anyone and that CDC told him it was o.k. to be around other people like his wife and daughter whom, he says, he would never, ever, harm.
Taking care of his TB is reportedly going to cost about a quarter of a million dollars. Even if he doesn’t have private insurance it is a good use of taxpayer dollars. We do NOT want XDR to get established in the population. Which is what the ACLU suit in Arizona to get the other guy with XDR might help do. He broke quarantine order so they are holding him in nicest jail cell. He’s reportedly ticked.
CDC Specialist Cooksey [tuberculosis resistance and testing]
proudly shows off his specimens for the press. Needs gloves obviously.
Inquiring minds want to know if he did this for his future almost-son-in-law, too.
Who else handled the samples shown?
In other news, some rumors fly that Cooksey, Sarah, and Andrew Speaker are reportedly
getting ready to sue the airlines, all governments involved, the CDC,and
the border patrol agent, for failing to stop them.
He claims it was on a trip to Viet Nam helping poor children.
I don’t believe that for one minute. No one that selfish is gonna help poor kids in Nam.
You know, I hope that is the case and all his bad judgments is simply from being either scared or ignorant.. but something in me doubts this..
This guy’s story is so confusing and I don’t believe a word of it.
First, while coincidences DO happen, I do NOT believe there is no connection to his Father-in-Law who just happens to work at the CDC and this guy with the TB.
For now, my theory is that Speaker was being monitored/treated for TB at the CDC and somehow, someway, he met the FIL’s daughter. Boom, love blossomed and next thing you know, Speaker wanted to marry CDC guy’s daughter.
I mean there HAS to be some connection.
Add to this story about the non-marriage, we have the CDC’s vague replies to any connection to the organization by Speaker despite his new FIL’s job.
When the dust settles on this, I’m betting the CDC had something to do, perhaps through the FIL who loved his daughter and could have responded to her pleas for him to use his influence to get him clearance to go overseas.
Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if the CDC is somehow involved in this whole thing from that guard in Canada through to Greece....something really stinks about this case.
My money’s on some kind of coverup by the CDC.
I wonder if this was some sort of test by the CDC/Homeland Security to see what would happen if someone with a disease came up on the watch-list and it all went awry so they fed this story to the media?????
This story keeps getting screwier and screwier.
Sumthin’s up.
I heard her sobbing on the radio that they were on their honeymoon. Sounds as though they have a lot in common when it comes to falsehoods.
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