Posted on 03/27/2005 7:09:17 AM PST by Maria S
According to the Associated Press, Michael Schiavo sued medical professionals who he said failed to recognize symptoms that caused his wife's heart to stop beating, causing her brain damage. As a result, he won a $1.2 million settlement. At the time, Michael sought the funds with the promise to use the money for Terri Schiavo's care and rehabilitation. As part of the settlement, Michael Schiavo received $300,000, the rest being earmarked for Terri's care and rehabilitation. His attorneys say today most of the money designated for Terri is gone, spent on her care and legal bills. One of his lawyers, Deborah Bushnell, told the AP that more than half of the $700,000 designated from the malpractice award for Terri's care has been spent for that purpose, with the rest going toward litigation. But that statement is at odds with records that show that lawyers - not medical care - ate up most of the expenditures and have been paid directly from Terri's Medical Trust fund, with the approval of Judge George Greer: Here’s where most of the money went:
Atty. Gwyneth Stanley - $10,668.05 Atty. Deborah Bushnell - $65,607.00 Atty. Steve Nilson - $7,404.95 Atty. Pacarek - $1,500.00 Atty. Richard Pearse (GAL) - $4,511.95 Atty. George Felos - $397,249.99 Other - 1st Union/South Trust Bank – $55,459.85 Michael Schiavo - $10,929.95 Total: $545,852.34
These funds, the result of a malpractice suit, were meant solely to provide for Terri Schiavo’s care and rehabilitation, not to pay lawyers to help Michael Schiavo kill his wife. Schiavo’s primary attorney, George Felos, a professional advocate of mercy killing, has received upwards of $400,000 dollars since Schiavo hired him. This same attorney, at the expense of Terri’s medical fund, publicly likened Terri to a "houseplant" and has used Terri’s case on national television to promote his newly published book.
You are a fool. The Congress passed a bill to allow the case to be heard "De Novo." The judges ignored the law passed by Congress. That is why people are upset.
Additionally, the question whether you want to live like that or not is irrelevent. The point is that you have parties with clear conflicts of interest putting someone to death who was not dying. Do you not see the problem with this??????
You are obviously not paying all your payroll and social security taxes if you are hiring illegals.
Actually, Judge Greer was elected.
Although prohibited by Florida Statutes, then Sheriff Everett Rice and other Pinellas county public officers including state attorney Bernie McCabe and public defender Bob Dillinger, allowed employees of their offices to appear in a campaign commercial for Greer which inferred that Greer was “tough on crime” although Greer is a administrative probate judge.
As legistator, Rice was one of eight Republicans in the state House who voted against a bill that would have prevented the withholding of food and water to incapacitated patients who did not make their intentions clear beforehand.
As sheriff of Pinellas County, Everett Rice gave Michael Schiavo a job in the Pinellas County jail.
McCabe shut down the DCF investigation.
I'll sure would question any Pinellas County ME's autopsy report, seems they are all covering each others backs.
Humm, makes one wonder, eh?
No office either, it was run out of their (Michael & Jodi) home. BTW, Jodi is listed as owner of the property which is taxed at about $266,000. She could easily get $400,000 or more if placed for sale today.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I didn't say I employed the illegals. I said I allow them to keep their jobs, by not reporting them (though that probably wouldn't do nay good these days).
I am not the restauranteur. I am a patron of the dining establishment, not the cheap-ass who employs illegals and should be heavily fined and maybe imprisoned.
There is no problem, per se. It's isn't as if Michael just up and said, "Kill my wife, please." Mrs. Schiavo had a guardian ad litem, via the courts, who herself, too, that Mrs. Schiavo probably did not want to persist in such a state and that she really wasn't cogent in any meaningful way anyway.
The conflicts of interest were looked into by the courts, more than once, and they weren't deemed sufficient to be a threat to the integrity of the case.
It d-o-e-s-n-'-t m-a-t-t-e-r.
He is her h-u-s-b-a-n-d.
She also had a guardian ad litem through the courts, who agreed with Mr. Schiavo's petition, and a judge said okay after a full and thorough investigation.
What part of being married do so many people not understand?
If Greer were breaking the law, then all the upper courts, who have supported his rulings, would have reversed them.
Whatever.
Mrs. Schiavo had a heart attack, brought on by malnutrition because she was bulemic. She did it to herself. This is SO documented it's unbelievable that people just don't READ it. Michael and her parents dialed 911, but the attack was so traumatic and so dire her brain was oxygen-starved. Michael took her all over the COUNTRY to specialists and for experimental treatments, and nothing worked. Her parents were on-board with it, too. They KNOW all this.
AFTER all reasonable avenues were exhausted did Michael say it was time for his wife to pass on, and just about ALL the doctors agreed. Just Mommy and Daddy didn't, because they couldn't let go of their little girl. Understandable. Sad. But true.
All anyone needs to do on this is get a new CT scan, to see once and for all how much brain matter Mrs. Schiavo DOESN'T have left in her head. Docs say she has just about nothing qualifying as human left, only the "reptile" brain (the one that keep autonmoic systems functioning and manages basic reactions, like to heat and cold and pain).
It's a tragic situation, but it's NOT THAT COMPLICATED.
"Alienation of Affection"? Then Mrs. Schiavo should sue for divorce immediately.
And by the way, until Mr. Schiavo is legally NOT recognized as Mrs. Schiavo's HUSBAND... he still is.
Schiavo isn't a bigamist. Common-law isn't the same as "legally married", which he IS to Mrs. Schiavo.
Besides, unless you live in Florida... It's none of YOUR business. It's not even mine. I'm just trying to point that out to people who want some cause to cling to.
One thing worse than death is to be an angry vengeful shill for the culture of death.
BTW, who do you think should decide whether people should be fed or not? Who do you want deciding whether you should be taken care of or killed, should you become old and/or helpless?
Good question.
I think *I* should decide when and if I go off the tube. My living will says so. I was smart, unlike some people in Florida.
I made my decision a while back, way before this fiasco.
And as for being an angry shill for the culture of death. I reckon it makes more sense than being an angry shill for the culture of peace, love and happiness. See the irony there?
No irony. There is vengeful spiteful anger on the side of death, and there is righteous anger on the side of life.
You want conservatives to be Mr. Nice Guy and Mr. Milquetoast? Wimpy spineless eunuch-like conservatism has got us into the fix we're in now.
It's time to instill a little anger on the right side.
Florida courts were asked by Congress, not ordered, to review the facts from the start. The fact that they did says more about their a$$-covering, back-slapping nature than their ability to deliver justice.
You can thank democrats and their fellow travelers for gutting the specially written Terri law, by making it optional and not mandatory.
In the long run, we will win. By we, I refer to those who sense a profound injustice.
You'd think.
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