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To: John Faust
Didn't Clines get prison time on those charges?

Yes.
And more recently he has been sued by the SEC for stock fraud
involved in come computer technology company he was involved with.

LITIGATION RELEASE NO. 16881 / January 31, 2001

72 posted on 08/18/2004 3:35:21 AM PDT by Allan
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http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/3664548/detail.html

PITTSBURGH -- Dr. Kenneth Berry, whose homes were recently searched by federal agents probing the unsolved 2001 anthrax attacks, has lost his job at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

"His employment ends on Nov. 8 and he will be on leave until then," UPMC spokesman Frank Raczkiewicz said Wednesday. Raczkiewicz would not elaborate.

The Rev. Richard Helms, a friend of Berry's in his hometown of Wellsville, N.Y., said Berry told him earlier this week he was disappointed at being let go from his position as an emergency room doctor.

"They made up all kinds of reasons for it, but you know as well as I do why they let him go," Helms said, referring to the anthrax investigation.

On Aug. 5, agents descended on Berry's home and a former apartment in rural western New York, as well as his parents' summer home on the New Jersey shore. An FBI spokesman said the searches were part of the anthrax investigation. The FBI has not commented on Berry's status.

That same day, Berry, who founded an organization in 1997 that trains medical professionals to respond to chemical and biological attacks, was arrested after a domestic dispute at a motel in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., authorities said. He is free on bail. The charges were unrelated to anthrax.

Several attempts to reach Berry by phone and in person have been unsuccessful. Helms said he remains out of town.

"He's being harmed tremendously and there's no reason for it," Helms said.

Five people died and 17 were sickened in the fall of 2001 in the anthrax mailings that targeted government and media officials. The attacks unsettled a nation already reeling from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Berry is the second doctor connected to the anthrax probe to lose his job.

Dr. Steven Hatfill, who was called a "person of interest" in the anthrax probe, was placed on administrative leave from his job at Louisiana State University the day after the Justice Department's Office for Domestic Preparedness e-mailed instructions to "immediately cease and desist" from using Hatfill on any DOJ contract.

LSU fired him Sept. 3, saying it had to fulfill its obligations to funding agencies and maintain its academic integrity. The university said it was not making any judgment as to Hatfill's guilt or innocence regarding the FBI's anthrax probe.

In a lawsuit filed last August, Hatfill said Attorney General John Ashcroft and others identified him as a person of interest to detract attention from their inability to find the person responsible for sending anthrax-laced envelopes to government and media offices in October 2001. He was the only person identified that way by government officials.


73 posted on 08/18/2004 5:56:12 PM PDT by Shermy (Kerry smiled and aimed his finger: "Pow.")
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