OK many thanks for the info!
More questions about this part of your post:
“...the MCPD Accountinq Office which had (and qave me) the invoices they qot for autopsy expenses,which were billed not to the County of Maui but to the Maui Police Department - but it didn’t come out of the MCPD budqet and was never reimbursed by the MCPD,and the MCPD never even knew about it?
1) If it didn’t come out of the mcpd budget, where would it come from?
2) What would tell us where the $ came from?
3) Who reimbursed it?
4) If it went to the mcpd instead of to the Maui county, that means a police dept got involved ....
question here is,
if a pd gets involved, why would they get involved?
Many thanks again,
WildHighlander57
The police dept claims to have been involved. The police chief is the county coroner, and he is the one who ordered the autopsy. The police dept paid for the autopsy and pronouncement of death but even though travel expenses are supposed to be listed on the form that the other autopsy expenses were billed on, there were no travel expenses incurred for either the pronouncement of death or the autopsy.
An attorney for Maui County, in response to a request for records that would show either the means of communicating the pronouncement of death or the presence of Dr. Harle on-site for the pronouncement and/or autopsy, said they don’t have any records and to their knowledge nobody else has any records either.
That seems pretty clear to me. Travel expenses are supposed to be billed to the Police Dept. They weren’t, and the Maui Co attorney said that neither they nor anybody else that he knew of had any records which would show Harle present for either the pronouncement or the autopsy itself.
Should have been a piece of cake to prove, since autopsies are supposed to be recorded. (One court case involved someone contesting whether the recording of a Maui County autopsy could be used in court.) Apparently not this one. I wonder why not...
The questions about somebody besides the police dept paying for transportation of Dr. Harle - by charter plane or by any other way - come from 4Zoltan. It’s his theory so you’d have to ask him about this. The records and responses I’ve gotten say it was the Police Dept who should have been charged for that expense, since the place for the billing is right there on the form where all the other autopsy and pronouncement charges were billed to the MCPD. And IIRC the form itself had a heading saying this was for Maui County Police Department, so it isn’t like this was a form that was also used by other counties. The form was intended for Maui County Police Department’s arrangements with that medical company.