- (Note - Our thanks to John Lea for sending
this in. Remarkable reading... the web has so many connecting strands.
-ed)
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- http://www.tmc.edu/tmcnews/10_01_01/page_01.html
Vol. 23, No. 18
October 1, 2001
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- ..."In 1979, after graduating from
Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, Dr. Carter was on to medical
school at HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE in Washington, D.C. To
pay for school, she considered taking out loans or a public health scholarship,
but some of these types of funds require students to focus on one particular
area of medicine, like primary care. This wasn't for the doctor-to-be.
She knew she wanted to do forensics.
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- "I went with one of my classmates
to a job fair while we were still undergraduates," she said. "I
already knew I was going to medical school at Howard; I just hadn't thought
about the pay issue. While at the fair, I HAPPENED TO RUN ACROSS THE AIR
FORCE. The recruiters were talking about scholarships, and I thought, 'Hmmm
... I could go to medical school, I would be an officer, I'll accrue time,
and they will pay my way through school, buy all my necessary equipment,
plus pay me a stipend to attend. THAT'S NOT A BAD DEAL.' So that's what
I did."
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- Dr. Carter received a United States Air
Force Health Professions Scholarship in 1979, and graduated from Howard
in 1983. SHE STAYED WITH THE AIR FORCE UNTIL 1992, where she last held
the post of Major, U.S. Air Force Medical Corps, and was the chief physician
and a forensic pathologist.
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- Dr. Carter prematurely left the Air Force
in 1992 to take a job as the CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER FOR THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA. She was the first female to have held this position, and consequently
became the first black female to become a chief medical examiner in the
United States.
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- After four years on the job, Dr. Carter
decided she needed a change of scenery. The Washington, D.C. infrastructure
was in disarray. As her office environment declined, Dr. Carter said it
put a strain on the employees. For example, the office didn't have hot
water, and employees were using their own money to pay for gas and the
changing of tires on city vehicles.
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- "I just finally said, 'If I can't
do quality work, I need to go somewhere where I can.' The information about
Harris County had come around, and I thought `Now here's a "LAW AND
ORDER" place. Let's head down there.' So I threw my hat in the ring,
and as it turned out, I was SELECTED and I came in 1996."......
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- Copyright 1997
American City Business Journals Inc.
http://www.jfa.net/VOJ/July97.html
JFA MEMBER'S MEETING: May1997
Guest Speaker Dr. Joye Carter, Chief Medical Examiner, Harris County
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- By Kim Hall
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- Dr. Joye Carter was a wonderful speaker
and educated JFA members on the duties of the Medical Examiner's office.
Prior to assuming this position ten months ago, Dr. Carter served as Chief
Medical Examiner for the District of Columbia. Working in the Washington
D.C. area was a challenge because although it is 10 times smaller then
Harris county, their murder rate is twice as high. Dr. Carter has wanted
to be a medical examiner since she was 14 years old. It takes a special
person to do this work and she is an asset to the profession.
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- She explained the difference between
Coroners and medical Examiners. Harris County does not have a Coroner.
Coroners are elected by the public where Medical Examiners are appointed.
IN HARRIS COUNTY, THE MEDICAL EXAMINER IS APPOINTED BY THE COMMISSIONERS
COURT. SINCE OUR MEDICAL EXAMINER ISN'T ELECTED, SHE DOES NOT HAVE TO PLAY
THE POLITICAL GAMES THAT OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS DO...
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- http://houston.bcentral.com/houston/stories/1997/07/14/list.html
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- Positions in Harris County (Ranked by
Annual Salary) Superintendent Spring Branch Independent School District
Harold D. Guthrie Ed.D. 191,007
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- Superintendent Houston Independent School
District Roderick Page $182,437
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- President and chief executive officer
Harris County Hospital District Lois J. Moore $177,133
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- Superintendent Spring Independent School
District Dr. Gordon M. Anderson $154,922
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- Chief Medical Examiner Harris County
JOYE M. CARTER $153,000
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- http://www.crashingbull.com/samples/revconference/bios/lay.htm
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- ....Kenneth L. Lay is Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Enron..... He is a member of the Board of Trustees
of HOWARD UNIVERSITY......
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- County Judge Eckels Delivers
His State of the County
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- By Burt Levine
HoustonReview.com
3-4-01
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- Harris County Judge Robert Eckels was
in Washington in January for THE INAUGURATION OF HIS FRIEND GEORGE W. BUSH
LAST MONTH visiting with another friend, US Secretary of Education Rod
Paige. He began his Annual State of the County address last week adamant
in his commitment to strengthen Harris County and the Houston region, not
to move away.
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- "There is biting wind there. It
is cold. The traffic is horribly worse than Houston and getting even worse.
Dr. Paige told me of the sticker shock he,s experienced searching for a
place to live and my wife told me there is no way we,d move there,"
he said.
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- Eckels is chief executive of America,s
third largest county. His responsibility includes an area with more than
three million people, making it bigger than 24 states. Eckels told the
Greater Houston Partnership and League of Women Voters meeting,s county
government and business leaders at his February 22 State of the County
talk at the George R. Brown Convention Center that the more he travels
across America, the more he appreciates Houston.
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- "I remain convinced there,s nowhere
in America where quality of life and opportunities to build a better community
with strategic partnerships with talented and committed leaders can combine
to make a job like this the most challenging and rewarding in the nation,"
Eckels said.......
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- RE: Judge Eckels' father....
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- http://www.texasbestseminars.org/GBUSH22.htm
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- ...During the mid-1980's, MOSBACHER reportedly
lined his pockets to the tune of $40 to $50 million through a scam called
the Houston Grand Parkway. Mosbacher's gains derived from the TEXAS TRANSPORTATION
CORPORATION ACT, which provided for the de facto privatization of highway
building in conformity with the ideological tenets and fast-buck mentality
of the Reagan-Bush economic climate. Local landowners were empowered to
set up "transportation corporations" which would solicit donations
of the rights-of-way of new roads, and which would fund the engineering
studies for the roads. If right-of-way and design plans were approved,
the state would proceed to actually build the roads.
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- In practice this became a gigantic speculation
at the center of which lay Mosbacher's Cinco Ranch, a property he had acquired
for $5 million in 1970. One provision of the bill was that many small landowners
in the general area of the proposed rods would be hit by special road assessment
tax levies of up to eight times the value of their property. MOSBACHER
cashed in by selling off his CINCO RANCH for $84 million, the highest price
in Houston's history. The leap in the value of the land was made possible
by the GRAND PARKWAY passing right through the center of Mosbacher's ranch,
a route that had been designed by a MOSBACHER OLD BOY NETWORK THAT REACHED
INTO THE TEXAS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT. [fn 19]
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- Mosbacher's network for the HOUSTON GRAND
PARKWAY CAPER included Harris County Commissioner ROBERT Y. "Big Bob"
ECKELS, whose personal friendship and close POLITICAL TIES with George
Bush were well known. [fn 20] Eckels was a landowner who stood to benefit
from the new road-building projects permitted under the new law. Eckels
was also a dedicated GOP activist who MADE THE HARRIS COUNTY GOVERNMENT
INTO A DE FACTO ARM OF THE REAGAN-BUSH CAMPAIGN IN 1984. In 1985, Houston
press reports showed that BIG BOB ECKELS HAD DEPLOYED COUNTY GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES, county government telephones, and county computer equipment
to organize and service a group calling itself National Conference of Republican
County Officials which, according to Roanoake County, Virginia Treasurer
Fred Anderson, functioned as "a working arm for the White House and
the national [Republican] party." [fn 21] Eckels later admitted that
he had also spent at least $20,000 of his own funds for "a world"
of mailings for the Reagan-Bush ticket and had not reported these expenditures
to the Federal Election Commission. ECKELS WAS CONVICTED ON MISDEMEANOR
CHARGES of accepting a gift from a county contractor in the form of a road
on his AUSTIN COUNTY TREE FARM. ECKELS HAD BEEN INDICTED SIX TIMES WHILE
STILL IN OFFICE, on various charges.
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- By June, 1989, Eckels was in semi-retirement
on his tree farm, BUT WAS TELLING THE PRESS THAT HE WAS WORKING ON HIS
AUTOBIOGRAPHY WHICH HE ASSURED A REPORTER WOULD NOT BE JUST A "MUCK
RAKING DEAL." [fn 22] This book project was widely viewed in Houston
as an attempt by Eckels to develop a retaliatory capability to ward off
possible further attacks by his own former partners.
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- BIG BOB ECKELS MAY HAVE BEEN SERVING
GEORGE BUSH IN OTHER WAYS AS WELL. In the spring of 1985, Houston attorney
DOUGLAS CADDY says he was told by RICHARD BROWN of the International Intelligence
Network Corporation that "A SECRET REAGAN-BUSH CAMPAIGN FUND"
with "$1.5 million in it" had been uncovered following the 1984
presidential campaign. Caddy alleged that Brown told him the FUND WAS "CONTROLLED
BY HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONER BOB ECKELS." According to CADDY, BROWN
FURTHER ALLEGED THAT "IRS CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE KNOWS ABOUT IT."
According to Caddy, BROWN WAS A PERSON WITH LINKS TO BOTH THE FBI AND THE
IRS. Caddy also asserts that a report of the existence of the secret fund
was also repeated to him by private investigator Clyde Wilson. [fn 23]
During May 1988 and June 1989, Caddy wrote to the FBI and the FEC on the
matter. The FEC declared the allegations Matter Under Review (MUR) 2925,
but later decided in February 1991, despite "reason to believe"
Caddy's charges, to take no action. [fn 24] DURING 1989, CADDY WAS HIT
BY AN INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AUDIT WHICH LED TO AN IRS ASSESSMENT OF
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF PENALTIES AGAINST HIM, a lien on his
property, and other measures. In Caddy's view, this audit was a retaliation
against his having raised the issue of the $1.5 million Reagan-Bush campaign
fund.
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- FURTHER INVESTIGATION OF THIS POTENTIALLY
EMBARRASSING COMPLEX OF ALLEGATIONS WAS GREATLY HINDERED BY THE DEATH OF
ROBERT Y. ECKELS ON DECEMBER 24, 1989.
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