X-Message-Number: 22502 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:45:07 -0400 From: Subject: Charles Platt, Please Explain ... News reporters seldom get everything right; some get few things right. So it is up to Charles Platt to confirm if the below is true, that he wrote the 27-page document that has been elsewhere characterized as a petition. And if so, it is up to him to now fully address the obvious questions that arise from this. He is brilliant enough to know what they are, before people start asking in public. (URL for the complete article is <http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0910alcor-ON.html> ) The Arizona Republic (excerpts from article) Sept. 10, 2003 07:25 PM ...... Dr. Jerry Lemler, president and CEO of Alcor Life Extension Foundation, told the non-profit foundation's board of directors Aug. 10 that he will step down in December for health reasons. He is being treated for lymphoma. Lemler's move followed a blistering 27-page memo to the Alcor board that was critical of his management of the business, which freezes people and pets for the remote possibility of re-animation in the future. ..... The July 30 memo to Alcor directors blasting Lemler was penned by Charles Platt, a former Alcor executive and now a consultant. Platt charged that Lemler was an ineffective manager, awarded himself and family members excessive bonuses, spent lavishly in Scottsdale restaurants and botched supervision of the operating room when the body of "a high profile patient" was prepared for cryonic suspension. Johnson has identified that patient as Ted Williams. ............ Platt describes the scene in the Alcor operating room with a surgeon waiting, scalpel in hand, to remove the patient's head. Still photographs and videotape recorded the event, Platt said. "Many people photographed the subsequent surgical procedure," Platt wrote. "None of them signed any non-disclosure form . . . We do not know what happened to all these people with their cameras and photographs." ......... Lemler will continue as president and CEO through the end of the year, while a search is on for his replacement. Lemler will then serve as Alcor's medical director and spokesman. .......... Lemler earned $92,719 last year as Alcor's CEO, according to the foundation's publicly disclosed tax returns. Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22502