What money is Michael going to get. I seem to remember him turning down a million bucks just last week. There goes the money motive. And he would be free to marry his new babe if he divorced Terri. Why hasn't he just divorced her? I'm not saying he's a swell guy. I'm just saying these arguments don't wash.
What's a million bucks to the HINO on death row?
If the HINO turned down a million bucks, it was on the advice of his lawyer.
Let's see there is a trust fund in that started in excess of 2 Million dollars. ALL of this was for Terri's 'care and REHABILITATION' - Michael's words. But he hasn't spent it for that. Some, less than 10% has gone to the hospice bills. Since he said he needed that money, he sued to get it, to REHABILITATE her, one might think he meant what he said. One might think that he was telling the truth, but he was not. He lied. Now when Bill Clinton lies Dan Rather still says Bill Clinton is an honest man tho' he lies. Now when Michael lies do we pretend that he too is an honest man. I think he has a little bit of a credibility problem.
Now, no one mention the fact that Michael refuses to say whether Terri has a life insurance policy.
Maybe he is afraid she will get the therapy she needs & be able to communicate what really caused her to be in this condition. Maybe the fear of going to prison for attempted murder? Why has he stipulated that her body be cremated as soon as she dies?
Why did they have to remove the feeding tube in order for her to be "allowed to die"? Why didn't they just stop feeding her? What the hell is going on down there in Florida? Why are so many people willing to err on the side of death???????
Jesus said how you treat the least of us is how you treat him also. God help America!
Perhaps he is the beneficiary on Terri's policy. Perhaps he knew he would get some money in connection with his relationship with his fiancee, Jodi Centonze.
Michael knows his way around insurance, for sure. Terri was a clerk at Prudential, so perhaps she got life insurance as a "benefit." She was young then, so the policy might have been a very good one.
Also Michael is a Director of the Jerger and Centonze Insurnace [sic] Agency, which is run out of his fiancee's house. (Her name is Jodi Centonze). One of the other directors, Richard Jerger, is the son of a very influential and very rich local family, which made a lot of money insuring mobile homes, among other things. The Jerger family's insurance company was bought out by Philadelphia Consolidated in 1999. (a cash and stock deal valued at over $40 million)
Why takes the money if he already has money. Further more if he did take the money public opinion and legal opinion might go against him because this would seem to prove that his motive was money all along.
Not only does her husband have money left over from the 1.3 million settlement (the current hospital is caring for Teri as a indigent case--he's not paying for it), but there is a high probability that like many families, the Schavio's bought "life" insurance.