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To: Lucretius who wrote (290122)	6/30/2004 5:07:50 PM
From: Tom Swift	Respond to of 436258

Hospital sued over photo of man's genitals 31 minutes ago DENVER (Reuters) - Two Denver hospital workers took a photograph of a man's genitals while he lay unconscious in an emergency room after being mugged, his attorney has said. Gregory Bradford, 35, was taken to Denver Health Medical Centre in February last year with a cracked skull after being attacked outside a gay bar. According to Bradford, a hospital employee pushed his blanket down and took a picture of his genitals with a small digital camera that Bradford had used to take pictures of his friends at the bar. "They disrobe him and put him on display. People are coming in and out (of the emergency room) to see him," Bradford's lawyer Dan Caplis said on Wednesday. "Then somebody gets the bright idea to take a photo of him and leave the photo on the camera," Caplis added. "They left the picture of him to humiliate him." Bradford has filed notice of intent to sue. A hospital spokeswoman said the incident had been investigated immediately and two employees alleged to have used the camera were no longer working for Denver Health. News of the incident surfaced a week after Denver Health Medical Centre announced it had fired five paramedics and disciplined 12 others for harassing or bullying patients in unrelated cases.

To: Lucretius who wrote (290122)	6/30/2004 10:25:05 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Got calls on HAL? This looks bullish msnbc.msn.com The Pentagon has already awarded Halliburton, the controversial military contractor, deals worth up to $18 billion for their work in Iraq. But now former Halliburton insiders have come forward with new allegations of massive waste of taxpayer money. Marie deYoung, a former Army Chaplain working for Halliburton, was so upset by attacks on the company, she e-mailed the CEO in December with a strategy on how to fight the "political slurs." But today, after five months inside Halliburton's operation in Kuwait, deYoung has radically changed her opinion. "It's just a gravy train," she said. DeYoung audited accounts for Halliburton's subsidiary KBR. She claims there was no effort to hold down costs because all costs were passed on directly to taxpayers. She repeatedly complained to superiors of waste and fraud. The company's response, according to deYoung was: "We can be as dumb and stupid as we want in the first year of a war, nobody's going to care." DeYoung produced documents detailing alleged waste even on routine services: $50,000 a month for soda, at $45 a case; $1 million a month to clean clothes—or $100 for each 15 pound bag of laundry.