Businessman Offers $1 Million To Keep Woman On Life Support [just a feeding tube; 'life support' is misleading] - Gloria Allred's Law Firm Holds Money In Trust Account
March 10, 2005
By webstaff@nbc4.tv and
the Associated Press.
Los Angeles, California - Attorney
Gloria Allred said she would hold a news conference with one of her
clients Thursday afternoon to make an announcement regarding the
case of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose feeding tube is
scheduled to be removed on March 18.
Allred said the client is a businessman who has deposited $1 million
into her law firm's trust account to offer Schiavo's husband,
Michael, if he agrees to certain conditions to keep his [brain
damaged but not] comatose wife alive after the feeding tube is
scheduled to be removed.
Meanwhile, the state of Florida is moving on two fronts to try to
block the March 18 removal of the feeding tube keeping brain-damaged
Terri Schiavo alive.
The Department of Children and Families wants to intervene in order
to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect by the woman's
husband. And in Tallahassee, Republican lawmakers crafted a bill
requiring that Schiavo and other incapacitated people be afforded
water and nutrition unless a living will directs otherwise.
The husband has a court order to stop her artificial feedings. A DCF
attorney told a judge Wednesday that the court cannot impede an
agency investigation. But the husband's attorney argued that the
agency's last-minute attempt to intervene is politically motivated,
especially because dozens of previous complaints to DCF have failed
to yield any evidence of abuse.
The attorney told reporters that the agency is simply acting as an
arm of Governor Jeb Bush's office to try to undo a court order [it
doesn't] like.
Copyright 2005, NBC4.tv. The Associated Press contributed to this
report.
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