Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal:FBI says bones|not to be DNA tested-YourFuneralGuy

There will Be No DNA testing on 1,100 discarded bones at Burr Oak cemetery

There will Be No DNA testing on 1,100 discarded bones at Burr Oak cemetery. The Chicago office of the FBI has stated that the bones recovered from Burr Oak Cemetery will not be tested.

This will come as a disappointment to many families would like to know whether or not there deceased relatives were among those who were dug up.The relatives of those desecrated are the victims.

We will never know the identities of many that were taken out of their graves. Approximately1,100 bones were recovered.

Assistant Special Agent Trautmann Director of the Chicago FBI office stated on August 7th 2009 :

“Even if we could’ve obtained the DNA profile from bones … then we have the problem of who we compare that to, not knowing who those bones belong to”

Cook County Sheriff Dart stated:

“For those individuals who are looking for every part of human remains that were disinterred to be recovered, that is not going to occur, it cannot occur,”

DNA testing on 1,100 Bones recovered in Burr Oak Grave Robbing Scandal is not to happen

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You can get some help here: Cook County Sheriff’s website:www.burroak.net

Burr oak cemetery pic from religion dispatches.org

Source: The Huffington Post

Funeral Arrest, Indictment|National Prearranged Services President-Your Funeralguy

Arrest in Funeral Scam

The former President and Chief Financial Officer Of National Prearranged Services was indicted on mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. The National Prearranged Services multimillion dollar scheme used insurance to extract millions from the pre-need trust fund. Insurance policies combined with the tools found in every office, white out and cross outs.

Yes the man Randall Sutton directed his staff to white out and cross out to change preneed documents and insurance terms. This was quite effective in exracting millions from people’s funeral  funds.

An  insurance scheme was also a part pf the Illinois Funeral Directors  Pre need Ponzi scheme but the tools were different, key man insurance policies.

From www.stltoday.com on 8/7/2009

The president and CFO of a now-defunct prearranged funeral services company was arrested this morning….Customers who signed applications for life insurance policies and made full payment had their applications altered by NPS employees so that it appeared that they had only partially paid the expenses, prosecutors said. NPS pocketed the difference.

NPS also altered documents to remove the customer or their funeral home as beneficiary of the policies, instead inserting the NPS name.

Then NPS used those policies either to get $65 million in loans without the customers’ knowledge or converted those policies from whole life policies to renewable policies to extract more than $40 million in cash, the indictment claims.

NPS also took money from accounts that was supposed to be invested and backed by insurance policies, and sent fake account statements to funeral homes to cover it up.

Sutton and others at NPS also siphoned off over $50 million through promissory notes, the indictment says.

Sutton did not even keep his state insurance license current. He had his secretary take a test every 2 years to renew his insurance license. The indictment came on Thursday and the arrest came on Friday. This is different from the civil suit filed in Federal Court.

There is more here.

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National Prearranged Services 600 mil. Funeral lawsuit-Yourfuneralguy

The owners of National Prearranged Services (NPS) are facing  a Federal  Lawsuit for 600 million dollars.  The 150,000  funeral accounts are estimated to be worth over 1 billion dollars. The Cassity family based in Missouri were the owners of National Prearranged Services.

State Insurance Guarranty Programs have been paying for these funerals. The lawsuit wants recovery of  funds spent by seven states  paying for the funerals through insurance guaranty, including Illinois and Missouri.

The Missouri Scandal is perhaps the largest pre-need, prepaid, pre-arrangement  insurance scams in the United States.

More on this here:

Funeral Guy Used White Out in multimilion$$ Funeral Crime-YourFuneralGuy

It serves as a strong warning to the consumer: Do not pay for a funeral in advance. This scandal alone is reason not to have peace of mind about it.

This will help you come in under the average cost of a funeral.

From stltoday.com

“A federal lawsuit was filed alleging the Cassity family of St. Louis “preyed on consumers and funeral homes to perpetuate a multimillion-dollar, nationwide scheme from the sale of ‘pre-need’ funeral services and merchandise.”

The suit seeks to recover costs expended by the plaintiffs — seven state insurance guaranty companies, including in Missouri and Illinois, which have stepped into the void to honor most of the pre-need contracts.”

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