Posted on 05/05/2012 1:43:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The unexpected death of conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart just got a whole lot more mysterious. Only two months after Breitbarts passing, the coroner that investigated the cause of death may have succumbed to arsenic poisoning.
Michael Cormier, 61, passed away on April 20, the Los Angeles Times reports this week. Although Cormiers death is only being publicized now, the timing of actual passing actually came within hours of the release of the preliminary autopsy report of Breitbart.
Commenting to the Times on the latest news, Lt. Alan Hamilton of the Los Angeles Police Department says that investigators have not ruled out foul play in the death of Cormier. Authorities have yet to confirm how they believe arsenic entered his system or if the coroner was deliberately poisoned but Cormier passed away after being admitted to a hospital in Burbank, California last month after displaying symptoms typical with the illness.
Now as investigators consider how Cormiers life came to an end, others are still probing the untimely passing of Breitbart, an event which spawned conspiracy theories within minutes. As some have spent the last several weeks considering the pieces of the puzzle involving the journalists death, an unusual twist has been added to the mix.
Hours after the death of Breitbart was confirmed in early March, skeptics were quick to question what role his passing may have had in relation to a public address he delivered earlier in 2012. Speaking to the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. only weeks earlier, Breitbart claimed he had videos that would end the political career of US President Barack Obama.
I have videos, this election were going to vet him, Breitbart said back in February We are going to vet him from his college days to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008.
Although investigators would go on to call Breitbarts March 1 death the result of heart failure, even some of his personal friends put forth the notion that it was an inside job. He told me RECENTLY he had big dirt on Obama MANY believe it's murder! radio host and pal Mancow Muller tweeted after his death, adding in a similar micro message that he had his doubts about the initial reports of natural causes.
Speaking to reporters at Los Angeless KABC News, investigators with the LA Police Department say that doctors at the hospital that Cormier died at have raised suspicions over the coroners death.
MORE HERE:
Conspiracy theorists cry foul after right-wing journalist Andrew Breitbart’s ‘coroner’ dies of arsenic poisoning
EXCERPT:
Just two months after conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart died of a sudden heart attack, a Los Angeles coroner has died of suspicious circumstances.
Sources told the Los Angeles Times that Michael Cormier, 61, appears to have died of arsenic poisoning on April 20, the day the Los Angeles coroner’s office released their preliminary autopsy report on Mr Breitbart.
Conspiracy theorists and some of Mr Breitbart’s fans say that the timing, as well as the manner in which Mr Cormier died, makes compelling evidence of a sinister connection between the two men’s deaths.
Oh boy ... thanks S&F.
I read last week his cause of death will be confirmed when the Coroner’s report comes in.
Kind of funny if you think about it.
MORE HERE:
Forensic Technician Michael Cormiers Death Fuels Andrew Breitbart Conspiracy Theories
EXCERPT:
When conservative blogger and entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart died on March 1 at the age of 43, many raised the question “Was he assassinated?” Further fueling a mix of conspiracy theories around his death, L.A. County forensic technician Michael Cormier died on April 20...the same day that Breitbart’s autopsy report was released.
The Los Angeles Times reported that officials believe that Cormier, 61, died from poisoning. Last week Cormier had been complaining of pain and vomiting. He was taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center where he passed away.
An autopsy was completed, but it may take months to determine the exact cause of death. Although police were notified by hospital staff about “concerns surrounding the cause of Cormier’s death,” law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times that they are not jumping to the conclusion of homicide.
“At this point we haven’t ruled out foul play,” said Lt. Alan Hamilton of the Los Angeles Police Department. “It is one of the things being considered. We are waiting for the coroner’s results.”
Authorities are currently looking into arsenic as the potentially lethal poison. No final determination has been made, but a poison accidentally entering Cormier’s system is a possibility.
Cormier’s death has the Internet returning to Breitbart death conspiracy theories.
I’m confused - was he the corner or a technician?
LOL - correction...”coroner”.
Would a coroner normally come in contact with arsenic? Is arsenic used in embalming (but embalming is usually done after the inquest, not before). Today arsenic in a form that could be ingested as poison is scarcely used for anything a typical consumer would touch. Semiconductor facilities use a lot, but the precautions are great and the finished product doesn’t have any reactive arsenic in it.
Hmmmmm ..?? Seems Obama is starting to collect “mysterious deaths”. How many remember all the strange deaths connected to the Clintons ..??
I do. I was in Ft. Marcy..
Andrew Breitbart had a history of heart problems. His death appeared to have ironic timing, just before a purported major release of information against the current regime. Possible conspiracy, but quite possibly natural. The death by POISON of his coroner now elevates it to a conspiracy that will not die down.
Will the coroner’s coroner also mysterious die?
This probably isn’t appropriate, but this makes me think of that TV show The Closer (takes place in L.A.) where she takes over the “High Profile” cases and has to go against the Department and/or media to do it.
Does anyone have enough umph to look into this and let the chips fall where they may?
This only becomes a real scandal if the coroner for the guy who was the coroner of Breitbart dies under suspicious circumstances, and then his coroner has a mysterious accident.
I think most busy people would be shocked at how many deaths there are surrounding certain cases. What happens is that normal people stop looking into it, and these deaths an d incidents happen later when there is no drumbeat of attention.
That is why it can be called “tinfoil” because people in current generations think that “kind of thing” doesn’t happen anymore. You read it in history, but surely it isn’t happening NOW, when in reality a conspiracy is simply the way the world works...people conspire and have since the Garden of Eden.
“...but a poison accidentally entering Cormiers system is a possibility.”
That is about as likely as me being named King of England. And no, arsenic is not used in embalming - formeldehyde is.
In fact, about the only way one will ingest arsenic is if one drinks water from a contaminated well where the arsenic is naturally occurring. There are some such contaminated water wells in Alaska around Fairbanks and the locals know all about them.
Funny how the original story said he "may have" been one of the coroners........So now they have concrete evidence that "HE WAS THE ONE"?
Can we now assuume that the entire staff of Breitbart.com is now in a super secret location reminiscent of Cheney, conducting their Breitbart.com stuff via ultra secure laptops? LOL!
Re: I do. I was in Ft. Marcy
Is there a concession stand in Ft. Marcy???
Re: I do. I was in Ft. Marcy
Is there a concession stand in Ft. Marcy???
Welcome home Michael Rivero!
Sorry for db post
From what I have heard Cormier was a photographic technician working with the medical examiner. Of course it is intentionally misleading to call him a coroner.
Very strange. Since Breitbart was Jewish (or so I hear), an autopsy wouldn’t be performed unless there was strong suspicion of something wrong. Results had to wait for extra tox screens.
And now the examiner, “who may have done the autopsy” is dead from “maybe arsenic”?
The wall of dead ppl around the Democrats is staggering.
Sometime prior to Breitbart's death, he had dinner at the Ayers/Dohrn place. Not only that, but Ayers was the Cook!
This is RT, from the masters of disinformation. That puts it somewhere between the Enquirer the Star.
bill ayers is THE spawn of Satan.
Not that I remember.. :0)
Here is the URL of what comes up when you type in “mysterious deaths around obama” :https://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=mysterious+deaths+around+obama&cat=web&pl=ie&language=englishb
It’s very extensive.
Coronary failure causes blue-to-gray pallor. Cyanide causes a bright red flush...
“Coronary failure causes blue-to-gray pallor. Cyanide causes a bright red flush... “
Having watched someone going through a heart attack that killed him, I testify to the truth of that. He was revived, but died after the cardiac care machinery was disengaged.
That picture disgusts me, for obvious reasons. Why dine with an enemy of the country you supposedly love so much. No doubt, Breibart did; but I still don’t get being in the “company” of this man and his wife; the same goes for Tucker “Bowtie” Carlson.
The closest exposure to arsenic he might have at work is with the arsenic compounds use to preserve tissues. Most arsenic found in the US commercially is combined with a copper solution as wood preservative.
Rat poison no longer contains arsenic, instead using an anti-blood coagulant.
The EPA has long had a very strict standard for arsenic in drinking water. So truthfully where anyone would get enough (likely arsenic trioxide) to poison would be quite rare.
This whole thing is silly I mean who would want to kill Breitbart anyway and the same goes for a technician or coroner who may have had some knowledge of the case just plain silly—Right
Kind of reminds you of the klinton era, and it's NO coincidence!
Right! And who would dare question the credibility of WND, a russian internet “news” service, and Mancow Muller?
Very, very strange.
Very strange! I mist admit I’ve been completely dismissing claims of a conspiracy to kill Brietbart. It just seems too crazy.
However ultimarely, wrt Brietbat’s death, before I’d even think of a conspiracy to kill him, I’d have to ask first: where are the materials he apparently claimed to possess that would take down Obama? If they are all still around, maybe just sitting in his house, then: a) Why haven’t they been released and b) as far as a conspiracy to kill him goes, it didn’t have the intended effect if the incriminating material against Obama is still available.
So does anyone know the answer to these questions?
This does seem rather odd.
Agreed. Boy, was I surprised to hear about it, and I only found out from listening to Breitbart’s CPAC speech. He TOTALLY extols Ayers, for his culinary abilities, and then trashes him. My cranial gears are turning with notions of “delayed-action arsenic”, if such a thing is possible.
Liberals. Conservatives? That's a different EPA standard.
As far as arsenic, a semi-metal, is concerned, caution is in order, as it can do some weird and often bad things to us.
One of the more recent discoveries is that it can dull our immune response to novel pathogens, giving them more opportunity to establish themselves. And then, when the immune system finally does react, it tends to overreact, which can be just as harmful to us as the pathogen.
Some bright boy came up with a fairly simple system by which people in rural India, whose groundwater is heavily contaminated with arsenic, can clean it before drinking.
It just takes two buckets, a smaller one and a larger one, with some holes in them. In the smaller one is a cheap iron powder, because iron binds with arsenic to form large molecules. The outer bucket has clean sand in it, that traps these large molecules. The water that comes out has lost almost all its arsenic.
Oh please people......why would you question the fact that Vince Foster killed himself, then rolled himself in new carpet, drove in a white van to the park and dumped the body? That’s perfectly normal or at least plausible.
A comment on the RT site refers to a book entitled “Admit The Horse”. Has anyone read it or know about it?
Coronary failure causes blue-to-gray pallor. Cyanide causes a bright red flush...
No doubt; a few posts included this info. Know that I posted such; on more than several occasions with links to witness who offered info.
It would be less 'odd' perhaps; if this were publicly acknowledged/addressed; as would the 'final' autopsy results; which we/Media waited for. . .but when final disposition is made; we are told only; what had been offered prior. Not a 'specific' diagnosis. We already knew the 'what'; we were waiting for the 'why/how' this happened.
Anyway; many questions; few answers; and family has been ultra quiet about all this.
With death following on the 'heels' of Breitbart;s death report; one can reasonably wonder; just how many fatal coincidences - and questions left unanswered - can one 'story' have; without giving rise to 'wonder' and/or at least some doubt. The missing pieces; that could resolve some of this; may be no more, than just that.
That said; when 'bad' people; have such 'good luck'; it makes one at least think; it may just be; 'too good to be true'. And easy to think that in Obama's case; it just, may not be true.
All too sad; seeing Breitbart here; only to be dead within a few days. When looking at this crew; there certainly can be no doubt; that 'evil' has staying power.
That may not be the ‘V’ for victory sign, well, perhaps in a way it is... he could be saying that, of the 5 of them standing there, only 2 will be left after he has “end[ed] capitalism”, and 25 mil are taken care of that cannot conform to the new order.
Just horsing around before I go sleepy-time.
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