posted on January 29, 2002 02:55:00 PM new
The enron executive's supposed suicide, a suicide verified by the autopsy report of a Dr. Joyce Carter, is not so verified after all. This Carter has committed, or sanctioned the commission of false reporting in the past and been fined and investigated for such misdeeds. She's a natural choice when a coverup is required.
ongoing problems follow Ms. Carter after she fired yet another whistleblowing employee:
Legal review of examiner's office sought
County official wants to know `what's going on over there'
Harris County Commissioner Steve Radack wants the county to hire a local law firm to review Chief
Medical Examiner Dr. Joye Carter's hiring and firing practices in response to a second successful
whistle-blower lawsuit against Carter's office.
Radack placed an item on the court's May 2 agenda calling on the county to hire Fulbright &
Jaworski "to form an outside review of the employment practices of the medical examiner's office, " a
review Carter said she welcomes.
Radack said he wants "to find out a very respectable law firm's opinion of what's going on over
there."
The whistle-blower suits resulted in awards totaling $625,000 to two former employees who claimed
that Carter fired them for reporting illegal or potentially illegal practices at the office.
A third former employee has threatened to file a third whistle-blower suit. Those suits and legal
threats have cost Carter some support on the Commissioners Court.
Radack's move came only hours after about six of Carter's employees appeared before the
Commissioners Court to show support for her.
"This is a spontaneous demonstration of support for our county medical examiner," Robert
Reynolds, a laboratory employee and spokesman for the group, told the court.
"We have withstood internal as well as external forces attempting to discredit Dr. Carter and our
office. We have served, and will continue to serve, the citizens of Harris County to the utmost with
your continued support."
No member of the Commissioners Court responded to the employee's presentation, but Carter said
later that she was "pleasantly surprised" by the show of support. She said the group was a small
part of the many loyal members of her staff.
Radack said the outside legal review is necessary because the county attorney's office has been
"tied up defending lawsuits" filed against Carter's office and could not investigate it while serving as
its attorneys.
Before Radack's request became known, County Judge Robert Eckels criticized Carter's
administration of her office, saying firing employees for reporting wrongdoing sends the wrong
message to other county workers.
All county employees need to know they can report wrongdoing to his office without fear of
retribution, Eckels said, but that doesn't appear to be true of Carter's workers.
"I think the message sent through these two lawsuits is that they cannot," he said. "And I think the
court needs to, as a group, look at the problem with these lawsuits. Losing these lawsuits is a
serious problem for the county."
Respondingt, Carter said, "It would be wonderful to have an attorney firm come in and see what
practices the employees have been indulging in.
"I'd love them to come and do that ... While people are out wondering about our practices, when it
comes down to getting something done and comes to death investigation, it's a top-notch office. And
I'm very proud of my employees."
Carter also was critical of Eckels for criticizing her without speaking to her first.
"Judge Eckels makes these types of comments, but he doesn't talk to his department heads," she
said. "There has not been one occasion on any of these problems he's ever discussed with me, nor
has he been to the office in about four years. That's kind of puzzling."
Carter said Eckels refers to the lawsuits publicly, but will not respond to her phone calls.
The first of the two whistle-blower suits was filed by Dr. Elizabeth "Libby" Johnson, who was
awarded $375,000 by a state jury in 1998. Johnson, who headed the medical examiner's DNA lab,
claimed that she was fired for blowing the whistle on potentially illegal cover-ups at the office.
Dr. Marilyn Murr Doyle, a former pathologist, was awarded $250,000 in federal court last month. A jury found that Doyle was fired in 1998 because she reported that an unlicensed physician in the
office had been allowed to perform autopsies.
I believe that he was murdered. He was a problem to Enron before his death because he had been raising hell about what was going on.
Murder is not unusual when the stakes are so high. I was concerned about Hillary Clinton when she began to battle the insurance industry. If she had not given up, she might be dead today also.
posted on January 30, 2002 08:16:53 PM new
Bodyguards yeah it s an obvious silkwood syndrome here but again clinton bodies around her would maybe inculde several arkansas state troopers who when they were alive gaurded and procured for her and slick willy
foolish democrats drugs are for clinton supporters
posted on January 30, 2002 09:08:14 PM newAuroranorth: Please find a different English Translation software program. Your message has such bad grammar and sentace structure that it can not be understood. Free translator programs on the Internet are not very good in this way. Try your message again after you find a better translation program.
Borillar
"Friends don't let friends vote republican"
posted on January 30, 2002 09:16:00 PM new
A translation program will not help. This post is the product of a well functioning brain. It's called a troll, I think...
posted on January 31, 2002 11:16:54 AM new
I was being serious. Have you tried to use one of those free translator programs available on the Internet? I translated the Gettysburg Address to Spanish and discovered that while it did translate the verbage somewhat corectly, the grammar and sentance structures were terrible. I suspect that AuroraNorth speaks in a foreign language and would like to participate in our discussions and is using a freee translation program on the Internet to translate it from his (her?) native tounge to English.
posted on January 31, 2002 12:55:24 PM new
Borillar, auroranorth may be masking his/her identity. It's probably hepburn. Every new poster seems to be hepburn.
posted on January 31, 2002 06:04:56 PM new
I dunno. If that was Hepburn, then her use of english indicates that she only posts when drunk! If it is someone who is American born and raised, then it must be a teenager of some sort ... the kind that gonna need remedial schooling once he/she tries to enter college. And if it is a teenager: welcome to the party! Stay, and learn!
