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When I began researching the work, Rest in Peace Insiders tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral, I was immediately confronted with Funeral Scandal. More than a year  has gone by since the work was published and Funeral scandal has gone from bad to worse in 2009.

Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral

Rest in Peace Insiders Tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral

Recently i was confronted in a Blog post that most funeral directors are honest, therefore we should not talk about funeral scandal. Most Funeral directors are not honest because they refuse to keep their leaders honest.  The boss at the funeral home has no one to hold their feet to the fire, no one to keep the funeral or cemetery corporation honest, no one checks up on the funeral regulator or association leader. This is why funeral scandal is  viral.

Here is how the conversation went:

“Out of all the funeral professionals in the USA at least 95% of them are honest and upstanding professionals. The examples you give probably make up the remain 5%. You make it sound like the whole industry is scamming and it is simply not true, but again these are the only things that get published publicly and that is the problem.”

via www.connectingdirectors.com

Here is my response:”Provide the basis for your numbers.-What you are quoting is a Funeral Industry myth to explain away a perpetual state of Scandal!

“It is the leaders who have blown it not those in the profession. Funeral Directors have allowed their leaders to be crooked. Many others in and outside our profession have called those mentioned here fraudulent . What you mention is a standard funeral industry myth. Not all industries have poor/bad leaders.

Look what happened to the banking industry because of poor wall street leadership. GM poor leaders-Ford good. To cliche your way around the funeral industry decline is not a valid way way to argue.”

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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
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If the Funeral Industry crashes will President Obama give a bailout? Probably not to Service Corporation International....Close ties to the Bush Administration.

If the Funeral Industry crashes ......

The funeral industry is in decline. This can be seen by the latest numbers from Service Corporation International, SCI, NYSE:SCI. Worlds Largest Funeral Corporation loses millions again.

Millions and tens of millions of Service Corporation loss in dollars , in almost every category. SCI showed profits in the third quarter  by laying people off
and not paying overtime.

Revenue loses total about 19 million.

Revenues decreased to $497.2 million from $516.4 million last year. Analysts expected revenue of $480.73 million for the quarter.

via www.rttnews.com

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Friday, November 6th, 2009
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Revealed here are the details in the Eden Memorial Park  Lawsuit. There is also a link here to  a copy of the actual lawsuit. The lawsuit is a class action. It is against Service Corporation International, SCI, NYSE:SCI. At Eden Memorial Park up to 500 Graves were desecrated.

iStock_000004869181MediumThese are the charges:

Intentional Emotional Distress,

Negligence

Tortuous Interface with the right to dispose of remains.

Tortuous  Interface with dead bodies.

Violations of Business and professions code 1700.

A COPY OF THE LATEST SCI LAWSUIT IN CALIFORNIA CAN BE VIEWED HERE

Violation of Consumers Legal Remedy Act

Breach of Fiduciary Duty

Equitable Injunction Relief

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Monday, September 14th, 2009
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Funeral Scandals need to be reported in order to save you money

Funeral Scandals need to be reported in order to save you money

Funeral scandals need to be reported because it helps the consumer come in under the average cost of a funeral.It also makes the consumer aware  of ways they can keep funeral directors honest. Researching funeral scandal is quite a boring task . The bottom line is funeral scandals are good for you if are not a victim.

Service Corporation has had  an extraordinary amount of  scandals this year. There are excellent SCI Funeral Directors out there. Some are my friends. Reports in the press and other places indicate a corporate cultural problem at SCI. It may be in the core culture of SCI Management.

The problem  some believe goes to the outdated  business model as reflected in recent numbers. The problems need to continue to be reported and brought to public and funeral directors attention.

It will be a great day when the company corrects the problem or funeral directors through self or State Regulators make the corrections needed.

The Illinois funeral Directors Association Preneed Ponzi scheme (IFDA) and the National Prearranged Services fraud have been blogged about because reporting on preneed scandals makes folks aware of the perils of preneed.  It helps people lower their

Dont throw your Money down the grave-Avoid funeral scandal.

Dont throw your Money down the grave-Avoid funeral scandal.

funeral costs and come in under the average cost of a funeral.

For these  reasons, it is best to make folks aware of reports in the press.

SCI 5 Scandals reported in the press this year

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Saturday, May 30th, 2009
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Roland Burris Has Declared his innocence in the ILLINOIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION SCAM

Roland Burris Has Declared his innocence in the ILLINOIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION SCAM

State of Illinois Senator Roland Burris has declared himself innocent in the Illinois Funeral Directors Ponzi Scheme. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen.  It  seems that  Senator Roland Burris thinks that a mistep(Fraud?) 30 years ago may not apply to him today.

But the fact of the matter he lobbied for the Preneed Trust Scam in 2oo7. That is not 30 years ago. The fund which lost and misappropriated funeral funds has losses estimated between 59 and 100 million dollars.

Here is a quote from the State Journal Register Interview with  Roland Burris about  his role in the Illinois Funeral Scam.

*Burris said he had no improper role with a pre-need trust fund formerly overseen by the Illinois Funeral Directors Association.

“Burris was state comptroller when the IFDA was given authority to oversee the trust fund and later acted as lobbyist for the group.

After the trust fund ran into financial and legal difficulty, current Comptroller Dan Hynes stripped the IFDA of its trust fund role.

“I don’t have any reason to discuss that issue,” Burris said. “I was comptroller 30 years ago.”

Asked if he offered any solutions to problems with the fund when he was lobbying for the group, he said, “No, I was just giving them access to the government people. That’s all I was doing.”

Certainly in the name of honesty Roland Burris has reason to discuss this issue. Citizens of the state want him to talk on this Scandal.  Illinois Senator Roland Burris refuses to declare his role or how he was paid by the scam, perpetuated by the  Illinois Funeral Directors Association.

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Friday, May 29th, 2009
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