Posted on 09/13/2005 2:59:47 PM PDT by areafiftyone
BATON ROUGE, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The owners of a nursing home where 34 people were found dead after Hurricane Katrina have been arrested and charged with 34 counts of negligent homicide for not evacuating their patients, the Louisiana attorney general's office said on Tuesday.
Mable Mangano and Salvador Mangano Sr. declined an offer from authorities of buses to evacuate the residents of their facility, the state said.
Good~! Guess since they regulate and license the facilities they didn't want those 34 lawsuits coming against the state.
If the owners can be charged, so should the public officials in charge of evacuation.
AMEN! ALL OF THEM should be investigated and tried for dereliction of duty.
My thoughts exactly
How can they arrest the nursing home operators without charging Nagin, Blanco, et al for negligent homicide...or is that why Nagin went to Texas, to avoid arrest?
So they DID have busses?
Between death and involuntary manslaughter - I'd take the manslaughter charges.
I called this one back here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1482128/posts
"Wow - nursing home admin is culpable here and disgusting...sounds like involuntary manslaughter. She should be thrown in jail pronto..."
Sounds like a gubment oh-fissial passing the blame...
Was this where Bawl-Baby Broussard's friends Mamma kept phoning in from the Great Beyond?
Refused to use available busses? Gee, where have I heard that before....
Um, who gave them the option of "declining the offer"? It was a MANDATORY evacuation order.
I almost sure it is. How about that Aaron Bouchard, you puke!
Ah wish we could get a few old fashioned torchlight parades going, but they'd get us for the open flames or lacking a permit, or some such nonsense.
Is there a law against having one of those trailer thingees full of hot roofin' tar just hangin' around? And a few feather pillas?
"Good! Can we arrest Mayor Nagin and Governor Bianco and Sen. Mary Landrieu, too?"
I wonder how many thousands of people across the country had that same reaction to this story? I know I did, although I only thought of the governor and mayor.
In Nursing Home, a Fight Lost to Rising Waters (Broussard less than truthful on Meet The Press)
".. >St. Bernard Parish officials say that 32 of the home's roughly 60 residents died on Aug. 29, more than a week ago.
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Update 9-11-11
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"..And finally, on the question I raised a few days ago about Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard’s tearful story about his emergency manager’s mother drowning in a St. Bernard nursing home, I think the evidence shows pretty clearly that Broussard was embellishing the story. Readers helpfully pointed me to the following news accounts:
New York Times: In nursing home, a fight lost to rising waters.
Newsday: Desperately seeking survivors.
MSNBC: This anger comes from watching death.
From the MSNBC item:
The man he was talking about is Thomas Rodrigue, who told “Dateline” that his 92-year-old mother was one of 32 elderly people found dead at the St. Rita’s nursing home.
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MSNBC Quote:
"..The man he was talking about is Thomas Rodrigue, who told “Dateline” that his 92-year-old mother was one of 32 elderly people found dead at the St. Rita’s nursing home..."
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But the 32 people who died at St. Rita’s nursing home didn’t die on Friday; they died earlier in the week, when the floodwaters first inundated the low-lying facility. Rather than being attributable to the federal authorities’ slow response (which was pretty much the point of Broussard’s version of the story), the death of those senior citizens was more the fault of local authorities (who failed to evacuate them) than of federal officials (who wouldn’t have been there in time to rescue them under the best of circumstances).
So, assuming the MSNBC story is accurate, Broussard’s story was at least significantly embellished. The tear-jerking account of the repeated calls to momma were fictional (or at least were displaced from their actual time of occurrence, which would have to have been before or during the storm, not during the several days afterward when FEMA was MIA). And if that part was fiction, it would mean that Broussard, for all the apparent sincerity in his emotional on-air breakdown, was willing to lie in order to make his story work better as political theater, which in turn makes it harder for me to credit the rest of the slow-FEMA-response anecdotes he described .."
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I strongly agree. Apparently, the point was that the owner turned down offers of help. Blanco did the same thing when the Pres. offered and she turned him down.
Accountability has begun. This has got to scare the hell out of the LA Democrat political machine.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of these LA Democrats escape to Tora Bora and Michael Moore makes a movie showing how Bush was asleep at the wheel when it happened. I hope we are monitoring these people closely so they can't slip away.
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