Kenyon International, "under an agreement with the US Government and the Department of Homeland Security" has deployed a mobile morgue to Louisiana. "The mobile morgue includes equipment for search and recovery, victim identification, and pathology." Kenyon International Emergency Services is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Houston-based Service Corporation International.
You may remember Service Corporation International, SCI, as it was part of the case against confirming Alberto Gonzales due to his involvement in the Texas and Florida scandals known as Funeralgate. As we covered back in February, Service Corporation International was "recycling" graves, removing the bodies that were there originally and throwing them in the woods to use the space to house new customers at two Jewish cemeteries in Florida.
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Service Corporation International, the world's largest funeral service company, is headed by Robert Waltrip, a longtime friend and generous financial patron of the Bush family. Eliza May was head of the Texas Funeral Services Commission when it began receiving complaints about unlicensed embalmers, and sued when she was fired. Gonzales kept Bush from testifying in this case and was also under scrutiny when a memo surfaced that was sent to his office when he was Bush's gubernatorial counsel. The memo suggested possible improprieties by two funeral commissioners with ties to SCI and Joeseph Allbaugh, Bush's former chief of staff in Austin, 2000 presidential campaign manager, who now serves as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA.). The case was suddenly settled in November 2001. The Menorah Gardens case in Florida , involving 72 families, was settled in Oct of 2004.
And once again, Kenyon International is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Service Corporation International.
The Corporatization of Katrina goes on and on. Knowing the past improprieties of SCI, I am not at all comfortable with FEMA's "request" that "no photographs of the deceased be made by the media." Not only is it impossible to reflect the scope of the disaster without the pictures, it's also possible to minimize the numbers of victims which I would not put past this Administration at all.
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