Posts Tagged ‘ fraud ’

Questionable Charges at Missouri Cemetery

By Bob

15 October, 2008

In September, 2007, Jeff Palmore, owner of Bell Funeral Home in St Louis, arranged a burial at Pacific City Cemetery. To save the family the $525 fee the cemetery sexton was charging, he offered to dig the grave himself. Sexton Alan Bruns refused, saying there was a city ordinance that only allowed sextons to...
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Florida FH Investigated for Fraud

By Bob

12 October, 2008

The Florida Division of Funeral, Cemetery & Consumer Services is investigating Rubin Memorial Chapel near Boynton Beach, Florida, for the third time in as many years. After audits in 2006 and 2007, both triggered by employee complaints, the state found that Rubin Memorial Chapel had overcharged customers at least 9 times, and was slow...
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Tri-State 2?

By Bob

28 March, 2008

The owner of Seepe Funeral Home & Crematory, in Jackson, MS, is under investigation for desecration of a corpse. At least two former employees have come forward with evidence that Mark Seepe had given cremains to one family before their family member was cremated, as well as photos of bones from multiple cremations mixed...
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It’s Bad Up North, Too

By Bob

29 February, 2008

About a year ago, the Central Ohio funeral industry was shaken by a pair of fraud and theft investigations that closed one funeral home, and sent two funeral directors to prison. Now it’s spread to Canada, apparently. I supposed that’s not correct. It’s not a disease that can be spread. It’s just…what? Bad morals?...
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