http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/swindlers/ en-us Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:14:03 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088871/posts AP: FBI Investigating Fannie, Freddie, Lehman & AIG Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088871/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:14:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797265/posts Bobby Schindler, brother of late Terri Schiavo, spoke to members of the Cornell community last night to promote awareness of issues facing disabled individuals. After collapsing in her home on Feb. 25, 1990, Terri Schiavo suffered several minutes without oxygen to her brain, resulting in severe brain damage. Although she needed immediate care afterwards, a few weeks later, she only required a feeding tube to regulate her nutrition. During 1991 and 1992, Schiavo showed signs of improvement due to rehabilitation programs and therapy, according to Schindler. In 1993, Terri was awarded a medical trust fund of $1.5 million for life-long... Cornell Daily Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797265/posts#comment Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:11:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1502332/posts Firm takes heat for cons’ crimes Settled suits cost top-tier legal entity $30 million, with more pending By Janet Elliott Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau (10-21-01) Locke Liddell and Sapp is one of Texas’ premier law firms, having represented some of the state’s top corporations and individuals, including George W. Bush when he was governor and general partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team. But it is two other former clients, convicted swindlers Russell Erxleben and Brian Stearns, who have brought unwanted attention to the 426-lawyer firm with offices in Houston and several other cities. In the past two years, Locke... Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1502332/posts#comment Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:08:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492314/posts Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings are writing a book about their struggle in the epic end-of-life case that divided the country and captured the attention of everyone from the Pope John Paul II to President Bush, their publisher said Tuesday. The yet untitled memoir by parents Bob and Mary Schindler, brother Bobby Schindler and sister Suzanne Vitadamo will be published in March to coincide with the first anniversary of the death of the brain-damaged woman, whose feeding tube was removed after her husband won a court order to do so. "This book is the moving story of an ordinary family... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492314/posts#comment Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:47:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1432747/posts This excerpt, from MSNBC, doesn't get anywhere near the meat of the book - where Fuhrman shows how Michael's inconstent statements, and the timeline of the morning that Terri collapsed, raise a lot of questions - and suspicions. Read the book. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1432747/posts#comment Wed, 29 Jun 2005 02:29:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1435949/posts In a stunning profile of George Felos -- the attorney who helped Michael Schiavo put his wife Terri to death -- an author and famed theologian shows the weird side of the crusading right-to-die lawyer. This is certainly a story the mainstream media ignored. Writing in Crisis magazine, Benjamin Wiker, co-author of "Architects of the Culture of Death" and a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, uses Felos' own words to expose his oddball views. Wiker is no friend of Felos' views. He writes of Terri's Shiavo's death: "Cold blooded murder," sanctioned by the state of... NEWSMAX.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1435949/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jul 2005 00:00:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1435933/posts Famed detective Mark Fuhrman is calling for a grand jury probe of the Terri Schiavo case, saying there's no other way to get to the bottom of the unexplained 1990 collapse of the then-26-year-old woman. "I want a grand jury investigation," he told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity on Tuesday, adding that Schiavo's parents also favor the move. Fuhrman, whose book "Silent Witness" hit bookstores this week, said that if Florida prosecutors decline to convene a grand jury probe, the Justice Department should step in. He asked, "Were Terri's civil rights violated? When I looked at this case, she never... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1435933/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:58:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1431109/posts Oh! Well, it's OK to have Murdered Her Then. Mr. Thogmartin has told us that, after fifteen years of a patient lying in bed recovering, Terri Schiavo might have fully recovered from any abuse she endured. Miraculously he was also unable to see whether or not this person had, fifteen years ago, a heart attack or not. Of course, I’ve never met anyone whose cardiologist was ever unsure, say 24 hours after the incident, that a heart attack had occurred or not. No, in my experience cardiologists can tell you precisely how many nano-seconds the heart attack lasted. Continuing, the... FarRockaway http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1431109/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:27:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1428031/posts Terry, a nationally known abortion opponent and spokesman for Terri Schiavo's parents this year, is scheduled to announce today he will run to unseat King next year. He had previously announced he was considering a run. Terry says the district has no room for moderation and that he can better represent Republican principles. "I want a smaller government, lower taxes and more respect of life and marriage," he said Tuesday. King helped lead a group of nine Republican senators who blocked a bill aimed at saving Schiavo, sealing the brain-damaged woman's fate. She died March 31, and autopsy results released... Florida Times Union http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1428031/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:15:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1427101/posts Terri Schiavo's husband buried her cremated remains in a Clearwater cemetery Monday, inscribing on her bronze grave marker that ``I kept my promise.'' David Gibbs, an attorney for the woman's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, said inscribing the marker that way was a nasty political statement by Michael Schiavo, who held the service and burial Monday before telling her family. ``Obviously, that's a real shot and another unkind act toward a grieving mom and dad,'' Gibbs said. After earlier announcing plans to bury his wife's ashes in their native Pennsylvania, Michael Schiavo instead interred them at Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park... Sun-Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1427101/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:40:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1426324/posts Dr. William Hammesfahr, nominated for a Nobel Prize for his work in Medicine, has been recognized by agents for Medicare, the federal government, and others for new approaches to helping the brain injured. Dr. Hammesfahr has been identified in helping patients with chronic brain injuries from many causes actually leave long term disability, and return to work. Dr. Hammesfahr was identified the first physician to restore deficits caused by stroke. Dr. Hammesfahr has released the following statement in response to the autopsy report on Terri Schindler Schiavo: We have seen a lot on the autopsy of Terri Schindler Schiavo in... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1426324/posts#comment Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:04:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424025/posts . . .People of goodwill may disagree about Terri Schiavo's case. Yet as our society strays from its traditional belief in the essential dignity of every human life, we all must grapple with the implications of the notion that some lives are "not worth living." Today, assisted suicide is lawful in Oregon. In the Netherlands, according to the New York Times, prosecutors no longer pursue cases against doctors who kill severely impaired babies after birth. The temptation to deal with the defective and incompetent by eliminating them is likely to grow as our society ages. Today, approximately 4.5 million Americans... Minneapolis Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424025/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:53:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424226/posts While Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin suggested yesterday that his autopsy of Terri Schiavo had cleared up most of the questions raised by critics of the court-ordered decision to starve her to death, renowned homicide detective Mark Fuhrman insists that key aspects of the case remain in doubt. Fuhrman, whose book on the Schiavo case, "Silent Witness," is due out on June 28, told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity yesterday that the most glaring mystery about the case remains unsolved: What was the cause of Schiavo's initial collapse on the night of Feb. 25, 1990? ..... (cont'd).... ..... "We [still]... NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424226/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:27:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423371/posts LARGO, Fla. -- An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday. It also found no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused. But what caused her collapse 15 years remained a mystery. The autopsy and post-mortem investigation found no proof that she had an eating disorder, as was suspected at the time, Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin said. Autopsy results on the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman were made public Wednesday, more than two... Washingtonpost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423371/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:18:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1423332/posts Terri Schiavo did not suffer any trauma before her 1990 collapse and her brain was about half of normal size when she died, according to results released Wednesday of an autopsy conducted on the severely brain-damaged woman. Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin concluded that there was no evidence of strangulation or other trauma leading to her collapse. He also said she did not appear to have suffered a heart attack and there was no evidence that she was given harmful drugs or other substances prior to her death. He said she would not have been able to eat or drink... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1423332/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:33:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1421155/posts The case for starving and dehydrating Terri Schiavo to death was built on hypocrisy and deception.The culture of death revealed its face in the propaganda campaign for Terri Schiavo’s demise. Perhaps the most noteworthy fact of the entire ordeal, other than the killing of an innocent woman by starvation, was how thoroughly the American people were lied to throughout the entire affair. Consider, for instance, the major media claim that death by starvation and dehydration is painless. According to the New York Times: “Patients who are terminally ill and conscious and refuse food and drink at the end of life... The New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1421155/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:33:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1421335/posts During the tumultuous final weeks in the life of Terri Schiavo, the young woman who died in a Florida hospice in April, press reports in the nation’s media typically focused on the bitter conflicts among members of her family over her treatment, disagreements among consultants over her state of consciousness, and the increasingly intense arguments in legislatures and the courts over her guardianship. Since her death, the case and the story of her death and dying have been mined for their bearing on our ongoing culture wars and for the debate over the place of “values” in our politics. In... Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1421335/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:17:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416995/posts "Too Late To Die Young: Nearly True Tales From a Life," by Harriet McBryde Johnson. About two years ago, Harriet Johnson appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine. If you saw her portrait, you probably haven't forgotten it. A thin woman in a wheelchair leans forward, a purple shawl draping one shoulder. Johnson describes it this way in her new memoir: "The portrait has been described as beautifully disturbing, and most nondisabled people seem to see it that way. I'd prefer to call it disturbingly beautiful, but I'll take it the other way around if I must."... The Tampa Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416995/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jun 2005 18:45:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1401087/posts Freerepublic.com has a super-sized archive regarding Terri Schiavo. The Dailies thread is a digest of breaking news, venting, ranting, photos, prayers, poetry, contact numbers and serve as a meeting place. The daily thread runs itself for the most part. Please put your links regarding justice for Terri on this thread or articles re: people who are waking up all the time and speaking because they've been given new treatments. Terri was denied a chance to eat by mouth at the end and she was denied new groundbreaking tests by Judge Greer. Instead, he stuck to his guns that she would... Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1401087/posts#comment Wed, 11 May 2005 17:11:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1411293/posts A federal judge who declined to review the lawsuit Terri Schaivo's parents filed to prevent her painful 13 day starvation death may have had a conflict of interest. Federal District Court Judge James Whittemore of Tampa was charged by Congress to take up the case and issue a temporary restraining order preventing Terri's death. He refused. However, it appears Judge Whittemore, who became the subject of condemnation from Congressional leaders after his decision, possible should have recused himself from the case. Whittemore served in the 13th Circuit Court of Hillsborough County, Florida from 1990 to 1999. According to a report... LIFE NEWS.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1411293/posts#comment Fri, 27 May 2005 00:50:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1411043/posts Fr. Pavone is meeting with Terri's parents this weekend. He wishes for us all to email them at: terri@priestsforlife.org Also,those interested in Priests for Life for the laity email: vocations@priestsfor life.org Priests' for Life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1411043/posts#comment Thu, 26 May 2005 17:32:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1409299/posts TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Jeb Bush was in daily contact with congressional leaders in March as court efforts to intervene on behalf of Terri Schiavo faltered, according to e-mails obtained Monday from the governor's office. The e-mails, released to The Palm Beach Post in response to a public records request, also show that state lawmakers persevered with legislative maneuvering to keep the severely brain-damaged woman's feeding tube intact, despite advice from Bush's top Schiavo attorney that such an effort was hopeless. Palm Beach Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1409299/posts#comment Tue, 24 May 2005 11:53:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398535/posts MIAMI - The family of a severely brain-damaged woman who died after her feeding tube was removed in March said Friday they still have not been told where her remains will be laid to rest. Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings, who waged a lengthy court battle over her end-of-life wishes, said on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" show that her husband is keeping her remains from them. "They were supposed to tell us, and we still have not heard from ... Michael Schiavo where Terri's been laid," said Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler. "Our family expected this. Michael has disobeyed court... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398535/posts#comment Sat, 7 May 2005 14:03:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404794/posts Weeks after Terri Schiavo's death, one protester continues to show signs of conviction. PINELLAS PARK - The sky was still dark Monday as Lisa Wilson walked quickly up 66th Street N toward her destination. She carried a sign with the words "Terri Schindler was murdered" and a single-minded purpose that even she struggles to explain. "I've never gotten up this early for a job in my life, but you do strange things when you love your job," said the 48-year-old woman as she took up her post at the intersection of 66th Street N and 102nd Avenue N at 6... The St. Petersburg Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404794/posts#comment Tue, 17 May 2005 13:26:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405501/posts Terri Schiavo's parents on Wednesday thanked Pope Benedict for Vatican backing in their failed campaign to keep their brain-damaged daughter alive and gave him a framed picture of her."I can't even tell you how I felt," Terri's mother, Mary, told Reuters in an interview with other family members in St. Peter's Square just minutes after meeting the Pope."When I gave it to him he said: 'I know, I know about Terri' to me. I couldn't imagine the Holy Father saying to me 'I know, I know about Terri'. It was the most I could have ever, ever hoped for," she... Yahoo News - Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405501/posts#comment Wed, 18 May 2005 13:01:54 GMT