A former Los Angeles mortuary employee was convicted in an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies of $1.2 million by faking deaths and funerals, the U.S. Attorney’s office said Monday. Jean Crump, 67, was found guilty of two federal counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud. Prosecutors said Crump, who worked at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘scandal’
30 Jun
Funeral Director Involved in Body Parts Ring, Denied Parole
Former Newark mortician Stephen K. Finley, one of several New Jersey funeral directors implicated in a multi-state ring that trafficked in stolen body parts for medical transplant, has lost his first attempt at parole. Finley, who has served just over a year of his five-year prison term, will be eligible for parole again in 17 [...]
25 Jun
Army Finds Problems With Records System at Arlington Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery officials with limited expertise in federal contracting regulations and scant outside supervision improperly paid millions of dollars to companies that failed to create a digital database of the cemetery’s records. As a result, the nation’s most hallowed military cemetery uses a flawed and antiquated paper system for tracking the whereabouts of thousands [...]
5 Apr
Chinese Lying About Funeral Materials, Are Importers Getting Ripped Off?
The following article displays information on how retailers in the Chinese funeral market are lying about the material used to make funeral products like Urns so they can charge a higher premium. This makes me wonder if they (the Chinese) are telling US importers the same false information? Is the product from China really what [...]
18 Mar
New “Green” Laws Raise Price of Cremation in UK, Could US Be Next?
NEW “green” laws look set to push up the cost of a cremation in Scarborough to more than £500. The extra cost is needed to deal with the environmental pollution caused when a body is cremated, according to a new report. Scarborough Council bosses want to introduce the £50 charge for all adult cremations at [...]
16 Mar
That’s My Corpse! Funeral Director Gets Minivan Towed…With Body Inside
On the road to eternal peace, a body left inside a funeral home minivan wound up at hell on earth: the city tow pound. The unscheduled stop came after a police tow truck hooked the illegally parked vehicle outside Redden’s Funeral Home on W. 14th St. The dearly departed was soon heading for a lot [...]
2 Mar
Service Corp. International Extends Keystone Deal… Again
Funeral home operator Service Corp. International really wants to buy Keystone North America Inc. The Houston company has pushed back the expiration date a second time for the acquisition of Tampa-based Keystone, also an owner and operator of funeral homes and which trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The new date is March 19. As [...]
23 Feb
Mortuary Technicians Play with Corpses?
New York – Ghouls are at play in the city’s morgues. The people employed to respectfully handle the remains of the deceased have instead turned cadavers and body parts into macabre playthings, The Post has learned. And they shockingly documented their depraved foolery in photos taken as keepsakes. Grinning mortuary technicians use corpses as props [...]
17 Feb
Dispute Unearths Grave Mistake as Man’s Casket Yields A Woman
As a cold wind blew across Forest Hill Cemetery on Whitten Road on Tuesday morning, Dr. Lisa Funte peered into a newly unearthed brown steel casket that just 30 minutes earlier had been 6 feet beneath a headstone marked “John G. Hughes.” Funte, an assistant medical examiner, then turned toward a small group of onlookers [...]
17 Feb
Audit of Funeral Company Reveals $22.6M Problem
Five years after accusing former Gov. John Waihee and others of illegally diverting tens of millions of dollars from funeral home trust accounts, the state attorney general is poised to try to collect the money. “They want scapegoats and a former governor is a good target,” said David Minkin, one of the lawyers representing Waihee [...]
