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Nursing Home Owners Indicted
Posted by Raven on September 20th, 2006
It’s about time.
CHALMETTE, La. (AP) – The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
Salvador and Mabel Mangano were initially arrested about two weeks after the Aug. 29, 2005, storm. The Louisiana attorney general booked them on negligent homicide charges, but a grand jury was unable to convene for months because the court system was hobbled by damage to government buildings and the displacement of residents.
The couple owned St. Rita’s nursing home in St. Bernard Parish, a coastal suburb of New Orleans badly flooded by Katrina. They remained free on bond.
Attorneys in the case were prevented from commenting by a gag order.
Free on bond as so many died as a direct result of these slimebat owners NOT taking responsibility for their residents.
More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against the couple by patients injured at the nursing home and the families of people who died there.
In a lawsuit filed last month, the couple sued the government, saying federal, state and local officials failed to keep residents safe and evacuate vulnerable citizens as the storm approached.
The Manganos have argued that their hurricane plan – to keep frail residents in place with food, water and generators rather than risk moving them – was a responsible course of action, and if the levees had held, the tragedy would have been avoided.
Yeah. Just blame the goverment for Mother Nature’s acts. What a defense. There is always a risk with everything. These people were offered help with evacuating their residents; they declined that help. Every nursing home must have a plan for disasters. The idea behind these plans is to FOLLOW them. When help arrives for the process of evacuation, take it. Don’t send it away as these people did.
Now all the sappy ass apologists will come here and tell me I don’t know what it was like; that I haven’t been in the situation. I don’t want to hear it. It’s all excuses and it’s time to end that and take responsibility here. People died who did not have to.
September 21st, 2006 at 12:29 am
PRESS RELEASE:
Help us publicize the REVOLUTION in Tom DeLay’s old Texas district #22.
HISTORIC LIBERTARIAN VICTORY AHEAD IN NOVEMBER
“Mr. Smither Goes to Washington”
Check out the “You Tube” video on http://www.smither4congress.com
BOB SMITHER will win because:
1. NO Republican on the ballot in a strong Republican district (Bush won #22 with 64% in ‘04)
2. NO incumbent (Tom DeLay’s old district)
3. Democrat is a carpetbagging, pro-union, big spending, Nancy Pelosi liberal from across the state (Beaumont, not even in the district)
This is a FAIRY TALE of Revolution that will come true in November.
Be the first to publicize the coming tidal wave
Lloyd Laughlin
Smither for Congress
cell: 214.636.0000 laughlinou@yahoo.com
http://www.smither4congress.com
September 21st, 2006 at 8:52 pm
HEY this is what I call SPAM. I won’t delete this but be fucking warned- don’t drop comments here that are irrelevent to the post. Butt brain!!:x