Posted on 11/16/2001 1:20:06 PM PST by rdavis84
It might be of value to find out the location and status of infamous "Dr." Fahmy Malak. In appearance and name he seems to be a M.E. heritage/citizen. I've tried my best to track him from this Guam position, but he seems to have disappeared. Because Pine Bluff was working with Anthrax weapons, because Russell Welch contracted Anthrax, and because Stanley Huggins was from the area and a key player and died from Viral Pneumonia, he (Malak) needs to be looked at again.
Arkansas Times
August 13, 1992
Fahmy Malak Accepts Guam Job
But his failure to disclose controversy puts post on hold.
BY MAX BRANTLEY
Malak has been offered, and returned a signed contract accepting, the job as Guam's chief medical examiner, subject to ratification by the Board of Licensure on Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific.
But the retiring Guam medical examiner, Dr. Hee-Yong Park, has raised questions about Malak's credibility because of a misstatement of credentials on his resume. And, since then, the controversy has grown with disclosures in Pacific Daily News about the controversies surrounding Malak in Arkansas.
Malak never told members of the commission seeking to fill the position of his troubled tenure in Arkansas, Guam Attorney General Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson has said. Anderson chairs the Postmortem Examination Commission, which is in charge of finding a new medical examiner.
Malak applied for the job in December 1991 and was interviewed by Guam officials later. "We even had a personal interview in June of last year and he mentioned nothing," Barrett-Anderson said.
Malak's hiring has been put on hold, at least until Monday, Aug. 17, so that he may have an opportunity to respond to press accounts of his Arkansas tenure and to explain the discrepancy Park found in Malak's resume.
Malak was unavailable for comment to the Arkansas Times. His secretary at the state Health Department, where Malak has worked as a $70,000-a-year consultant since resigning as medical examiner under fire Sept. 10, said he was away from the office for two weeks.
Malak resigned after nearly 12 years as medical examiner amid a growing controversy over his rulings. An ad hoc group, VOMIT, (Victims of Malak's Incredible Testimony) also has protested Malak's continued employment in a state job. Malak's job performance also has been an issue in the presidential race. Gov. Bill Clinton has had to defend the state's longtime employment of Malak amid ongoing controversy. Questions also have been raised by the Los Angeles Times and NBC, among others, about Malak's findings in the case of an assault victim who died during a surgery in which Clinton's mother was the nurse anesthetist. (The case occurred while Clinton was out of office and independent pathologists have concurred with Malak's findings in the case.)
Malak's initial problems on Guam stemmed from Park's questioning of why Malak had held throughout his 12-year tenure in Arkansas an associate professor's post at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Park Suggested that Malak should have been promoted over such a long period.
But when Park asked Malak about the matter, Malak told him his resume was incorrect; he actually was a lower-ranked assistant professor. When Park checked further in Arkansas, he found that Malak was only an unpaid clinical assistant professor. As it happens, Malak's misrepresentation of credentials was one of the issues in a series of reports by the Arkansas Gazette several years ago.
Officials in Guam learned of Malak's controversial tenure in Arkansas through a quirk. A visiting law enforcement official from the U.S. happened to be visiting while the hiring of Malak was being discussed and mentioned that he had recently seen a televised news segment, related to the Clinton campaign, about Malak.
That set off a round of further checks and a series of articles detailed Malak's autopsy findings as well as defense of Malak from Jim Clark, director of the state Crime Laboratory, and from Dr. Michael Graham, A St. Louis medical examiner who has been reviewing 13 of Malak's disputed cases. Graham said he would have disagreed with Malak in only two of the cases and in relatively minor ways.
Guam officials have been checking Malak's references in Arkansas in recent weeks. Clark has emphasized Malak's workload. The state of Arkansas now employs three pathologists to do the work that Malak, at times, did alone.
Given the workload, and the inherently emotional nature of the work, Clark said Malak's record was solid. "Thirteen questionable cases out of 7,000-percentagewise, that's not very many," Clark said.
THE MENA ANTHRAX POISONING CASE
On the weekend of September 21, 1991, Arkansas State Police
Investigator Russell Welch met with IRS Investigator Bill Duncan
to write a report on their Investigation of Mena drug smuggling
and money laundering and send it to Iran-Contra prosecutor
Lawrence Walsh. Investigator Welch had been ordered by Major Doug
Stephens to meet with Duncan over the weekend in Arkansas
Attorney General Winston Bryant's office. Welch had just opened
a case concerning the theft of sexually explicit photographs
which could have been used to blackmail state officials. On
Friday, September 20, Welch went to one of the prisons near Pine
Bluff and interviewed the person who had actually taken the
photographs. A person whose best friend was very close to Barry
Seal. The next morning, Saturday, he and his wife, Debbie Welch,
made the three hour drive to Little Rock.
34. Stanley Huggins
Huggins, 46, was a principal in a Memphis law firm which
headed a 1987 investigation into the loan practices of Madison
Guaranty S&L. Stanley died in Delaware in July 1994 --
reported cause of death was viral pneumonia.
Where does it say Russell Welch contracted anthrax?
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America -- here
From --- The Mena Anthrax Case
I thought he had done the country a favor and retired.
Mr.(Dan) Harmon has a long and colorful career in Arkansas
law enforcement. In 1980, he was running unopposed
for a second term as prosecuting attorney when he
abruptly withdrew and declared personal bankruptcy.
He came back from political oblivion with the train
deaths case. When Ives and Henry were found dead on
railroad tracks southwest of Little Rock in August 1987,
Gov. Clinton's medical examiner, Fahmy Malak, quickly
ruled the deaths "accidental," saying the teenagers had
fallen asleep after smoking too much marijuana. After a
public outcry, a second autopsy concluded the boys had
been murdered, and Mr. Clinton's solicitude for Dr.
Malak in this and other cases became a subject of
controversy. Gov. Clinton named Department of Health
Director Joycelyn Elders to head a commission to
review Dr. Malak. She cleared him of improprieties and
recommended a raise. Dr. Malak was eased out of
office on the eve of Mr. Clinton's 1992 presidential run.
Arkansas Justice (WSJ article)
It's Dangerous to Buck the System
Mena Murders in Arkansas
But why would Mr. Clinton defend Malak, although his rulings had been questioned in more than 20 cases? Dateline NBC and The Los Angeles Times have suggested a motive. They've documented Fahmy Malak's role in clearing Bill Clinton's mother, the late Virginia Kelly, of wrongdoing in the negligent death of a teenage girl at Ouachita Memorial Hospital in 1981. The Los Angeles Times reported that Dr. Malak's ruling helped Clinton's mother avoid scrutiny in the death of patient Susie Deer. The Times quoted the Polaski County coroner as saying there was a lot of speculation that "Malak's ruling in favor of Clinton's mother was a factor" in the governor's decision to retain him as state medical examiner.
Then-Governor Clinton said he resented any implications of a connection, and the governor's office proceeded to shut down further investigation of the train deaths. Dr. Malak was eventually removed as state medical examiner, but was given a job as a $70,000 per year consultant to the Arkansas Department of Health.
On a broader level, having the state medical examiner in your hip pocket is a classic technique for covering up Arkancides. One suspects that the Dixie Mafia got away with a lot of murders that way.
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