Re: "Cleaning Up the Burke"

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

On Thu, 04 May 2006 17:32:04 +1000 John Scanlon
<riversleigh@outbackatisa.com.au> writes:
> 
> There is too a Statute of Limitations - I think, though I haven't 
> seen it
> personally; everybody's seen it on TV, standing there in New York 
> harbour.
> You can even walk up inside, apparently.


The Statute of Limitations is directly across the street from the Church
of Perpetually Lowered Expectations in downtown Newark, N.J..  I visited
both places last year when I took the Society of Apathists' tour of
mediocre and/or unfullfilling national historic spots.

The tour is not recommended.  The Statute is incomplete above its head,
and the Church has a basement but it lacks a 1st floor (in fact, no it
has floor at all).  I'm taking the tour again next year (or whatever, I
guess, maybe, I just don't know).


To drag this thread kicking and screaming back to its subject header:

There are recent alleged actions that occured at the Burke that fall
within the time limit of the Statute of Limitations, so criminal
litigation still remains a possibility.  These most recent allegations
were reported in earlier issues of  the _Seattle Weekly_ magazine.

And to clarify:
The current investigation is primarily a non-criminal, internal/external
investigation, and that is what we are reading about in the various
_Seattle Weekly_ articles.   OTOH, a *criminal* investigation (if there
even is one taking place, and that is a big "if") will be kept out of the
news until either the case is dropped or when charges are formally filed.

<pb>
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