Doctor target of anthrax probe Works at UPMC McKeesport(PA)

[RamboLiberal]

Holy sh*t - that's my hometown and hospital is about 2 miles from my house! BTW, the interim CIA director McLaughlin is also from McKeesport - we're not all that big - honest. Just a little former Mon Valley Steel town.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04220/358165.stm

The doctor whose homes in upstate New York and on the Jersey shore were searched by FBI agents investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks is a family physician and self-styled bioterrorism expert who works in the UPMC McKeesport emergency department.

Dr. Kenneth M. Berry, 48, is employed by Emergency Resources Management Inc., a subsidiary of UPMC that provides staffing for emergency rooms in 10 hospitals in the region. A UPMC McKeesport emergency room employee acknowledged he worked there.

On Thursday, federal agents searched two homes in Wellsville, N.Y., where Berry lives or has lived, as well as his parent's cottage in Ocean Beach, N.J. An FBI spokesman said the searches by agents from the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service were part of the anthrax probe, though he declined to say what the agents were seeking or identify what was seized.

From 1996 to 2001, Berry worked in the emergency department at Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville and was medical director of the department for a time. But he resigned in October 2001 and no longer has privileges at the hospital.

[Dover]

1. The FBI is stalling.....and don't seem to be investigating other people.

I still contend that the anthrax scares and deaths early on were directed at Dems and certain media sources to scare them into silence, perhaps to gain access to Dem headquarters during clean up, and to advance the need of a Homeland Security. This, imo, was the work of our own government.

[wabeewoman]

2. Maybe, or

... if not the government some deep cover repug operatives like Nixon used. My question: does this mean they have given up on the scientist that has been the primary suspect before?? Last I heard his reputation was ruined and he couldn't find work?

[DBoon]

3. He was Steve Hatfill

and you are right, his career was ruined.