Did Coroner’s Office Sell Jackson Information?
People love to cash in on controversy. The employees at the LA Coroner’s office seem to be no exception, and now it looks like they may get in trouble for it. Last week, reports surfaced that a handful of unauthorized people at the coroner’s office had viewed Michael Jackson’s now-infamous death certificate. Now the sheriff’s office has started questioning whether these same employees exploited that information for personal gain. Did they leak or sell details about Jackson’s body? We’ll know more as the inquiry continues. Read it from Fox here:
Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators have begun an inquiry into whether coroner’s employees illegally leaked or sold private information related to the investigation of Michael Jackson’s death.
Investigators spoke to the coroner’s office Friday and will handle the inquiry with the district attorney’s office, according to sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore. The department was asked to conduct the probe by county supervisors, he said.
“It’s an inquiry, not an investigation, and it is very preliminary,” Whitmore said. “We’ve just made a couple of calls. We want to find out if we need to proceed, if this requires an investigation.”
On Wednesday the coroner’s office said Jackson’s death certificate was improperly viewed by at least a half-dozen employees who had no role in investigating the cause of his death.