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Whittemores cause arrest of Mikovits
November 18, 2011
The Whittemores have caused Judy Mikovits to
be arrested today. Max has not been heard from
for 48 hours and Amy, who also works in the
lab, is also missing. They are key witnesses in
Dr. Mikovits' defense.
Such tactics are outrageous! Dr. Mikovits is now
represented by counsel and authorities could
easily have contacted them in order to resolve
the matter.
Lilly Meehan was met at the door by police
officers with a search warrant, and her home was
searched from the attic down. This is a
outrageous abuse of process.
It is very hard to imagine the depth to which the
Whittemores are willing to go, while they
continue to make public posts and threaten
patients with libel and other threats. It sounds
like extortion to me. They are trying to silence
patients.
THEY WILL NOT SILENCE ME!!!
PS: Isn't it interesting that this is happening
just before Dr. Mikovits is scheduled to speak
at Dr. Enlander's meeting on Sunday.
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bakercape
Re: Whittemores cause arrest of Mikovits
This is a powerful family. It has been reported
they have gotten enviromental protection areas
changed for endangered species and weakened
laws for worker rights in the state of nevada
through lobbying influence wirh the state
legislature.
Do not underestimate that politics can and has
influence the law and legal process many times
and continues to do so in this nation.
I don't know if it has here but let's not be naive
that it does happen in this country especially the
more local the politics becomes.
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bigbluefeeling
Another fact to add to facts thread .
As for arresting people if they're so powerful
couldn't they arrest Reeves and Wessely?!
Pretty please.
This is just getting more bizarre. How the
Whittemore's can think any good can come from
this (and beyond that, enough good to offset the
harm already done) is impossible to figure...
What they get out of having police rifle through
Lily's house is... what?! It's just ridiculous and
unjust and again this would totally make me
relapse big time. Sending good wishes to Lilly
also.
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Science
ScienceInsider
November 2011
Controversial CFS
Researcher Arrested and Jailed
by Jon Cohen
19 November 2011
Judy Mikovits, who has been in the spotlight for
the past 2 years after Science published a
controversial report by her group that tied a
novel mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue
syndrome (CFS), is now behind bars.
Sheriffs in Ventura County, California, arrested
Mikovits yesterday on felony charges that she is
a fugitive from justice. She is being held at the
Todd Road Jail in Santa Paula without bail. But
ScienceInsider could obtain only sketchy details
about the specific charges against her.
The Ventura County sheriff's office told
ScienceInsider that it had no available details
about the charges and was acting upon a warrant
issued by Washoe County in Nevada.
A spokesperson for the Washoe County Sheriff's
Office told ScienceInsider that it did not issue the
warrant, nor did the Reno or Sparks police
department. He said it could be from one of
several federal agencies in Washoe County.
Lois Hart, one of Mikovits's attorneys, says her
client is being held for extradition to Reno,
Nevada, in relation to a civil lawsuit against her
filed by the Whittemore Peterson Institute for
Neuro-Immune Disease (WPI).
Mikovits worked as the research director at
WPI, a nonprofit in Reno, for 2 years until she
was fired by its president, Annette Whittemore,
on 29 September.
On 4 November, WPI filed suit against Mikovits,
alleging that she had wrongfully kept her
laboratory notebooks and other information
about her work for the fledgling institute on her
laptop, in flash drives, and in a personal e-mail
account.
A preliminary injunction in the case is set to be
held by Nevada's Second District Judicial Court
on 22 November. On that same day, Mikovits
has a hearing in Ventura County, California,
where she can contest extradition, Hart says.
Annette and her husband Harvey Whittemore,
who has worked as a high-profile attorney for
the gaming industry and a major real estate
developer, started WPI to help find causes and
treatments for CFS and other neuroimmune
diseases like Gulf War syndrome and
fibromyalgia. Their adult daughter has CFS.
Hart strongly denied the charges against her
client. "She does not have the notebooks, nor
any 'proprietary items' from WPI," Hart wrote
ScienceInsider in an e-mail. "She is entitled to a
copy of the information she created."
On 7 November, a judge from the Nevada court
granted a request for a temporary restraining
order against Mikovits to prohibit her from
"destroying, altering, disseminating, or using trade
secrets and confidential information."
The order contended that "immediate and
irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to
WPI if it does not get this relief."
But the order does not explicitly forbid Mikovits,
who lives in Ventura, California, from leaving the
state of Nevada.
After Mikovits and her research team's Science
study appeared in October 2009, many other
groups around the world reported that they could
not find the mouse retrovirus, dubbed XMRV, in
people who had CFS.
Mikovits and colleagues subsequently
participated in a multilab study that resulted in a
September Science Express paper describing
how none of the teams could reliably find XMRV
in blinded samples from CFS patients. One lab
Mikovits collaborated with in the 2009 Science
report simultaneously retracted its contribution
after discovering that a contaminant explained its
XMRV findings.
UPDATE, November 19, 7:39pm EST:
Annette Whittemore, president of the Whittemore
Peterson Institute, has issued the following
statement:
"The Whittemore Peterson Institute was required
to report the theft of its laboratory materials to
law enforcement authorities. These authorities are
taking the actions that they deem necessary."
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