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 Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject: MULTIPLE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST |
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http://www.theempirejournal.com/030105091_schiavo_judge_greer_su.htm
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Greer’s list of campaign contributors show multiple conflicts of interest. Michhel Schiavo’s attorneys contributed to keep Greer on the bench and the Schiavo case as did Richard La Belle, member of the board of directors for the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, an agency statutorily charged to investigate allegations of abuse.
According to a news release issued in October, 2003, by ACPD announcing its entry into the Schiavo case, it is their federal mandate pursuant to 29 USC Section794(a) and 42 USC Secton 1504 3(a)(2)(B) as the designated Protection and Advocacy Agency for the State of Florida to investigate complaints of abuse and/or neglect against persons with disabilities.
But the ACPD investigation dead-ended, with La Belle recently quoted as saying that the group needed Michael Schiavo’s permission to examine Terri and that Schiavo had refused. La Belle said that although the agency had reviewed court files and other medical records that were available, the investigation could not go forward because the medical expert needed to examine Terri before rendering any decision if she had been mistreated.
Greer allegedly raised one of the biggest war chests ever in a judicial campaign with contributions over $144,000.
The contributors included members of the Michael Schiavo legal team, Hamden Baskin III, $500; Deborah Bushnell, $250; Felos and Felos of which lead Schiavo attorney George Felos is a principal, $250; Gynethe S. Stanley, $150 and $250; Steven Nilsson, $250 and $250.
The maximum contribution allowed by an individual is $500.
Felos is also the former chairman of the board of the Hospice of Florida Suncoast, owners and operators of the Woodside Hospice where Terri resides although not in a terminal illness—not terminal except by the judicial homicide decree of Judge Greer. Felos resigned his position after he and Michael Schiavo were successful several years ago in having her moved there. Although the recipient of over $1.5 million from medical malpractice claims including $750,000 earmarked for the rehabilitation of his wife, Michael Schiavo asked Greer to place Terri on Medicaid and Greer approved. Schiavo and his fiancé each drive Mercedes sedans and reside in an above average home with their two children.
Also contributing to keep Greer in office and on the Schiavo case were Kay Dillinger, $250, wife of Bob Dillinger, the Pinellas County public defender who allegedly violated state statutes by allowing employees of his office, assistant Paula Shea, and the prestige of the office to be used in Greer’s campaign in Greer’s political TV commercial; James Hellickson, $150, assistant state attorney from the office of Bernie McCabe, state attorney of Pasco/Pinellas Counties who has stonewalled any investigation of alleged criminal wrongdoing in the Schiavo case including the DCF investigation; http://www.theempirejournal.com/02240541_schiavo_judge_ad_flap_c.htm and http://www.theempirejournal.com/02230590_schiavo_judge_tv_commer.htm
Anthony Battaglia, former chief assistant U.S. attorney, and his law firm, Battaglia, Ross, Dicus and Wien each contributed $250 to Greer’s reelection.
Battaglia has served as chairman of the Judicial Nominating Commission for Pinellas/Pasco Counties, charged with nominating judicial candidates to the governor for appointments to higher judgeships.
Kelly Crabb, a principal in the Battaglia law firm, is past chairperson of the Hospice Foundation of Florida Suncoast and Hospice board member.
For a complete list of contributors to George Greer’s 2004 campaign, see http://election.dos.state.fl.us/campfin/contrib.asp#both . For expanded coverage on the Schiavo case, see http://www.theempirejournal.com/greer_schiavo_articles.htm
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