Bush-Connected Company That Fed Jewish Corpses to Wild Pigs Now Defiling U.S. War Dead

[Ian David]

National Funeral Home Lets Hundreds Of Corpses Rot In Hallways

The National Funeral Home in Falls Church, Virginia stores unrefrigerated corpses, including some bound for Arlington National Cemetery, in hallways and garages for months on end, according to embalmer-turned-whistleblower Steven Napper. The Funeral Home's owner, Texas-based Service Corporation International, told Napper that they were unwilling to pay for refrigeration, which would prevent corpses from leaking and growing mold.

During his time there, Napper said, as many as 200 corpses were left on makeshift gurneys in the garage, in hallways and in a back room, unrefrigerated and leaking fluids onto the floor. Some were stored on cardboard boxes or were balanced on biohazard containers. At least half a dozen veterans destined for the hallowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery were left in their coffins on a garage rack, Napper said.

He began to take photographs in December and presented them to the Virginia Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers. Federici and Napper's observations — accounts supported by three others who have worked there — have led to a probe by the state board, although board officials said they were prohibited by law from disclosing such an inquiry. Several people said they were interviewed by a board investigator in recent weeks.

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"A lot of the bodies that are there are there for a week or a month, and they're just sitting there dripping on the floor," the employee said. "The families don't know anything about it because the families aren't allowed at Central."




More:
http://consumerist.com/5198918/national-funeral-home-lets-hundreds-of-corpses-rot-in-hallways?skyline=true&s=x


See also:

Bush Funeralgate Scandal: Katrina, Whittington, Gonzales: CORRUPTION
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x466720


Georgia Crematory Operator Faces Lawsuit (Funeralgate link)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x770461

Cheney shoot-victim Whittington replaced Funeralgate whistleblower in '99
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x403342




Connection? Funeralgate and NOLA FEMA-hired body-counting Co.?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x397210

[pleah]

1. K&R

:(

[smoogatz]

2. Jesus.

If this is true--and I'd like to see some confirmation elsewhere in the media--it's incredibly horrible. WTF did Bush do to the government?

[Canuckistanian]

7. How about the Washington Post?

'I Never Could Have Imagined'

Dignity Was Denied the Dead as Bodies Were Stored and Handled Using 'Disturbing' Methods, Area Funeral Home Workers Say

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 5, 2009; A01

Ronald Federici's father, a retired Army colonel, had just died, and Federici wanted to escort his body to Demaine Funeral Home in Alexandria. But the driver who came to pick up the remains at the hospital said he wasn't going to Demaine, he was going to some other place.

Upset and confused, Federici followed the van driver, who pulled up to National Funeral Home in Falls Church. When the white garage door opened at the edge of a cemetery just off Lee Highway, Federici said, the foul odor of decomposition smacked him in the face. A body lay on a gurney in the garage near a rack holding coffins, and the walk-in cooler where his father was to be left was filled with exposed bodies.

"The stench was horrific," Federici, 53, said about the cooler. "Bodies were laying buck naked all over the place. There was no dignity whatsoever. It was disgusting, degrading and humiliating."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/04/AR2009040402976_pf.html

[smoogatz]

11. Works for me.

Good God. What the fuck is going on in this country? Seriously.

[Ian David]

3. Now being covered by Associated Press

Va funeral home accused of atrocious conditions
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMQzrfc6CFLZIwFVtAq0Cc6Ler3AD97CL3L81

[FourScore]

4. I can't find where it has any mention of Jewish corpses being fed to wild hogs.

The allegations are horrendous enough. I'm not sure I understand the sensational headline in the OP.

[Ian David]

5. It's in the "See Also" links in the OP. n/t

[notadmblnd]

13. here's the paragraph for the 3rd link provided by the OP

The problems with SCI included a big lawsuit accusing the company of "recycling" bodies in several Jewish cemeteries it owned in the Palm Beach, Florida area, cramming new cadavers into existing graves, or digging up the dead and tossing their bones into the woods nearby. In late 2001 the media briefly reported on "Funeralgate" when Peter Hartmann, an SCI funeral operator from Boca Raton who had been brought in to clean up the funeral scandal, was found dead in his garage of carbon monoxide poisoning. Hartmann was a devout Catholic and devoted family man who was described by a co-worker as a very upright person who "always tried to do the right thing". His death was ruled suicide by the local police department.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x403342

There is no mention that in any of the links that bodies were fed to pigs, just that bodies were dug up and tossed in the woods to make room for more. This was a scandal back in 1999 and I do think the OP is sensationalizing just a tad to provoke outrage. Jewish people were no more a target than anyone else. This is just story about another corporation too greedy to do the right thing.

[FourScore]

14. Thanks.

:hi:

[crikkett]

16. I know, that's close to blood libel.

[Canuckistanian]

6. Wow.

It must be a pathological sickness with these people. They seem to have NO values, ethics or morality.

But they do seem to make a crapload of money.

[cliffordu]

8. here's my argument for the death penalty.

[NashVegas]

9. Jail the CEO, Jail the Board

They have been knowingly committing fraud for a decade, and Bush isn't in office to protect them anymore.

[Echo In Light]

10. More sicko right-wing "values" at work

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. How big is Falls Church, Virginia?

And how does so much poisonous crap come from one town that size?

[YOY]

15. It's a damn good sized suburb of DC.

Not exactly a poor one either...