BREAKING: Maryland AG launches criminal investigation against Carhart
UPDATE 2/13 3:27p: I have made a slideshow of photos of some of Carhart’s illegally dumped items, adding a few more photos than I originally posted yesterday.
2/13 12:37p: An investigator with the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Maryland Attorney General’s Office has notified Maryland Coalition for Life that his department is launching a criminal investigation against late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart’s clinic.
The call to MCFL’s executive director Michael Martelli came yesterday in follow-up to a complaint lodged by Martelli’s group in November 2012.
That complaint alleged Carhart’s clinic was illegally dumping medical and biohazardous waste, patients’ medical records and private information, medications, and syringes.
It would seem not coincidental that this investigation was announced four days after the death of a mother following an abortion at that same clinic.
Operation Rescue is today reporting the investigator, David Williams, also contacted Janet Kotowski, manager of Germantown Pregnancy Choices, who lodged the complaint.
Operation Rescue first filed a complaint and reported on the illegal dumping in July 2012:
Between August, 2011, and May, 2012, trash generated by Germantown Reproductive Health Services was inspected and photographed by pro-life activists working in conjunction with Operation Rescue….
“In light of new clinic regulations that are set to go into effect on July 23, we are asking the Maryland Board of Physicians and the Department of Health to fully investigate Carhart’s dumping practices… and take whatever disciplinary action is necessary to protect the public,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-life Nation.
When no state agency took action, Maryland Coalition for Life filed a second complaint this past November.
“We submitted a laundry list of reasons why the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene should not license Carhart and should inspect him,” Martelli told me.
That same month the state enacted abortion clinic regulations. Ironically, the day before Jennifer McKenna Morbelli died last week on February 7, DHMH licensed 17 abortion clinics, including Carhart’s – without ever having inspected them.
The investigator told Martelli yesterday his department was specifically interested in the medical and biohazardous waste found and cataloged by Martelli’s group from Carhart’s dumpster.
“He reiterated four times that they were launching a criminal investigation,” Martelli relayed. Cheryl Sullenger of OR also spoke with Williams yesterday, who confirmed this a “very serious criminal investigation.”
Following is a slideshow of just some of the photos of illegal waste found in Carhart’s trash between August 2011 and May 2012 that were submitted with the complaint….
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I hope some justice comes off this. Too often these types get away unpunished even when investigations are launched against them.
I have to honestly wonder if Jennifer being the daughter of a detective is what is getting this investigation going so fast. I posted on another thread that I thought that law enforcement would be after Carhart in short order and why. Not that I have an issue with it, who among us would do different if Jennifer was our daughter and we knew the “right” people to talk to and the strings to pull to get something done? More power to her father and any influence he may have, and I strongly suspect does. This time Carhart isn’t outmaneuvering the family of a mentally challenged rape victim killed by his appalling negligence. He’s not dealing with the frightened women who come to his rathole of a “clinic” in Nebraska.
If Carhart doesn’t wind up in prison, and my money is on it that he won’t, then I hope the police will persecute this lowlife to the end of his years. I hope he ends up in the gutter after spending every last dime on attorney fees, trying to get the police off his back.
I wish we didn’t have to wait for a mother to die before an investigation happens.
Gosnell, Ghali, Singh, Carhart….. There was plenty of warning and evidence against these doctors, enough to prosecute or at least pull their licenses, before their patient/victims were killed.
Wow. A beautiful young well-connected white woman gets killed, and crap happens.
How many black women have died at the hands of these butchers who get off scott-free?
Also, wtf is that paper that says “No money. No husband. No future.”?!
These people are MONSTERS. Sounds like intimidating thug-speak.
Hi X,
As I said, I am convinced its her father’s police connections that are getting this investigation going so fast. Tragically it takes someone with the “right connections”. Apparently a dead white DS rape victim and a young black single mother aren’t going to generate much concern.
But then, what were their “connections”?
Xalisae, could that paper be notes from a “counseling” session?
That first picture I actually find the sickest. The price of a little one’s life…
As I said, I am convinced its her father’s police connections that are getting this investigation going so fast. Tragically it takes someone with the “right connections”.
Land of the free,
Home of the brave
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That first picture I actually find the sickest. The price of a little one’s life…
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No kidding.
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The butcher’s bills.
Hi Hippie, 2:50PM
I hear you, but it is what it is. I don’t know this for a fact, I’m speculating, going on my own experience as the sister of a police officer and what he and another former officer told me. My brother’s words always stayed with me: “we[the police] take care for our own”.
It was only yesterday I posted on another thread why I thought law enforcement would go after Carhart in short order. Faster than I thought. But as I said, no complaints from me. Whatever it takes to finally get Carhart.
On a lighter note, my family and I got out of a few speeding tickets by mentioning my brother’s name. Not fair, I know, but when you have “connections” you use them.
Mary and X, you are sadly, quite right.
How much does this whole grisly procedure cost, anyway? Will Carhart’s “compassion” kick in and will he do the contract killing for a reduced price if she doesn’t have the money?
I think we are on the wrong track here. This investigation is not related to Jennifer Morbelli’s death.
I’m just guessing, but it looks like someone who was aware of MCFL’s allegations contacted the Attorney General’s office and urged them to take some action — now that the public is looking for some action.
It is remotely possible that Jennifer’s family, with intimate knowledge of the criminal justice system, might have been looking for any open investigation to re-activate. But it is far more likely that some pro-lifer within the AG’s office and informed about Carhart’s case was already on it.
Hi Del 3:11PM
Again, we can only speculate, but I’m inclined to stick to my theory. Her father may have done nothing at all, if anything the poor man is in too much shock and grief to do much of anything, but police and law enforcement are very sympathetic and supportive to one of their own. They want to get Carhart.
How much does this whole grisly procedure cost, anyway? Will Carhart’s “compassion” kick in and will he do the contract killing for a reduced price if she doesn’t have the money?
Doubt it, phillymiss. That’s where the National Network of Abortion Funds shysters come in, though. I’m sure they take their fair share out of the funds for “arranging” the transactions, you see. We’d hate to make all those upper-class whites who donated their good money for The Cause have to look at any defectives or brown people. Or-heaven forbid-defective brown people.
I feel the same way about our POTUS, and the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and Supreme Court as (we all seem to) about Carhart. They’re ALL just as guilty as sin!
ANY DEAD BABY AND WOMAN matters. Do not play the ‘race card’ nonsense.
The important thing is that Carhart is now under the microscope, and it’s high time he was…so let’s pray that it took this poor woman and child’s death are not in vain and will finally bring Carhart to justice for ALL of the women and children he has killed and hurt.
Hi Rey,
Yes any dead woman and baby matters, except Christin and Tonya and their babies, and who knows how many babies that Carhart butchered and women he mutilated. Sorry it is what it is. For what its worth, I don’t believe anything would still be done, or at least not so quickly, were Jennifer not the daughter of a detective. That being said, let’s hope her and her child’s deaths are not in vain, that a butcher will be put in prison or hounded to the gutter, and lives saved and families spared great anguish.
Been a rough week for Leroy the Ripper.
Hey! What kind of state laws allow 17 clinics to open without recorded inspections? It’s crappy lower class healthcare brought to you by the sham pro-woman crowd.
All the hatred against Carthart is sad. For God’s sake, he is only the hitman, he didn’t order the hit, the Mother did. Have some compassion people, please!!
Jasper, you want us to have compassion for a hitman?
Carhart’s “career” is going down. That is my prayer anyway.
What’s up Jasper??
Carthart should be arrested and put in jail. Women have abortions because it’s legal and because of this many think it’s ok -if they don’t have the correct guidance. And they are not murderers and should not be jailed.
Agreed.
I don’t see any human remains – sure they were slovenly about the paperwork – evidently they need a shredder, but the chemicals aren’t dangerous and the other stuff is just used dressings. Nothing worse than used menstrual pads really. Why are you all moaning like banchees?
That complaint alleged Carhart’s clinic was illegally dumping medical and biohazardous waste, patients’ medical records and private information, medications, and syringes.
The Maryland AG is moaning like a banshee I guess. Enough to launch a criminal investigation.
There are strict guidelines and regulations for the management and disposal of regulated narcotics (under the U.S. Controlled Substances Act), in addition to guidelines regarding disposal of other prescription medications, which physicians offices and outpatient/ambulatory surgical clinics must follow, they can’t just go throwing medications in the trash. Personal hygiene items, such as menstrual pads & diapers in the home aren’t regulated waste, however OSHA at the state level regulates medical waste, that is the disposal of the large amount of medically biohazardous (infectious) waste (including sharps, human tissue & organs, bodily fluids, and human remains) coming from hospitals, labs, ambulatory surgical centers, and physicians offices, including Carhart’s clinic (Maryland medical waste definitions and regulations can be found here) There is a reason OSHA has these regulations which are put into place, and that is to reduce the contamination and spread of infectious disease in the general populace, which this clinic blantantantly disregarded. Also, not only are they “just in need of a shredder” but they blantantantly violated their patients confidentiality and put them at risk of identity theft by disposing of information from their medical records in such a manner. And that, Alison, is why we’re “screaming like banshees”
His (Carhart’s) patients, both mother and child, deserve better medical care.
Wouldn’t it upset you if it was your medical records thrown away in the trash for the public to see? And medical waste is regulated and best practices instituted in patient care for a reason, yet this is not the case at Carhart’s clinic. His patients, both mother and child, deserve better medical care.