9,000 stake settlement claim in Florida Jewish cemetery desecration case

[Scurrilous]

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/635682.html

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"About 9,000 people have staked a claim to a $100 million settlement against two Jewish cemeteries accused of desecrating graves and mishandling burials, an attorney said.

Eligible claims will be submitted to the court, attorney Ervin Gonzalez told The Palm Beach Post for Tuesday editions.

The claimants will share about $40 million, the amount remaining after payments to lawyers, whistle-blowers and about a dozen families who sued separately. The claimants will receive a wide range of compensation based on their individual cases, lawyers said.

The Menorah Gardens cemeteries in Broward and Palm Beach counties, owned by the world's largest funeral services company, had been accused of burying people in the wrong places, breaking open vaults to squeeze in other remains and, in some instances, tossing bones into the woods. The allegations first surfaced in December 2001."

[sandnsea]

1. This is Kenyon

I thought it was settled. Kenyon is a division of Service Corporation International.

"Gonzales also appears to have been a part of the Texas and Florida scandals known as Funeralgate. In Florida, Service Corporation International was "recycling" graves, removing the bodies that were there originally and throwing them in the woods to use the space to house new customers at two Jewish cemeteries in Florida . Service Corporation International, the world’s largest funeral service company, is headed by Robert Waltrip, a longtime friend and generous financial patron of the Bush family. Eliza May was head of the Texas Funderal Services Commission when it began receiving complaints about unlicensed embalmers, and sued when she was fired. Gonzales kept Bush from testifying in this case and was also under scrutiny when a memo surfaced that was sent to his office when he was Bush’s gubernatorial counsel. The memo suggested possible improprieties by two funeral commissioners with ties to SCI. Joeseph Allbaugh, Bush’s former chief of staff in Austin, 2000 presidential campaign manager, who now serves as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA.). The case was suddenly settled in November 2001. The Menorah Gardens case in Florida , involving 72 families, was settled in Oct of 2004."

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=306

[Karenina]

2. Ah yes, Kenyon...

the company charged with carpetbagging bodies in NOLA? THAT Kenyon?

[sandnsea]

3. Yep, that Kenyon n/t

[LeighAnn]

4. Bush connection to this

I wish more people talked about this

http://www.hereinreality.com/funeralgate.htm

A pretty spooky tale

[Debau2005]

5. They opened vaults

"to squeeze in other remains" and "tossing bones in the woods"?! :wow:

Talk about bad Karma!

I just don't understand some people. Have we lost all respect for EVERYTHING?