Federal Agents Raid Houston Office of Michael Jackson's Personal Physician - Celebrity Gossip | Entertainment News | Arts And Entertainment - FOXNews.comFederal Agents Raid Houston Office of Michael Jackson's Personal Physician
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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Michael Jackson's cardiologist, Dr. Conrad Murray, is seen in this July 7, 2006 photo.
Michael Jackson's cardiologist, Dr. Conrad Murray, is seen in this July 7, 2006 photo.
The Drug Enforcement Agency raided the Houston office of Michael Jackson's personal physician on Wednesday, a law enforcement official told FOXNews.com.
Officials descended upon the office of Dr. Conrad Murray, likely in search of medical records pertaining to Jackson, whom Murray was assisting on June 25 at the time of the singer's death.
The raid began shortly after 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, when several DEA vehicles accompanied Houston and Los Angeles police departments to the scene.
The LAPD, which has been in charge of the investigation, was serving a warrant to Murray's office at the Armstrong Medical Clinic in Houston.
The Armstrong Clinic is owned by Davill Armstrong, who has had previous trouble with the state medical board. In 2006, his license was suspended due to "concerns about Armstrong's judgment, competency, and general medical knowledge," before being reinstated in May. In 2008, he was fined $2,000 for allowing his wife to prescribe medication from the office while his license was suspended and no physician was present.
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On Tuesday, FOXNews.com learned that federal authorities were conducting an investigation in Las Vegas, where Murray also has an office, to follow up on leads indicating that at least one of the drugs that contributed to Jackson's death originated there.
Police questioned Murray twice shortly after Jackson's death, which is being treated as a homicide.
A law enforcement source told FOXNews.com that investigators are using the results of preliminary toxicology reports, which have not yet been released to the public, to track down the sources of the drugs found in high concentrations in Jackson’s system.
Investigators have also been tracking down all drugs recovered from Jackson’s rented Holmby Hills mansion in the days following the singer's death.The investigative team received assistance from members of local enforcement and spent the day conducting interviews at medical facilities, the source said. The team was expected to return to Los Angeles by Tuesday morning.
FOXNews.com has also learned that the Medical Board of California has started proceedings that could strip Murray of his license to practice medicine.
The Medical Board of California has informed Murray that he is the subject of a malpractice investigation, a law enforcement official told FOXNews.com.
Murray is licensed to practice in California, Texas and Nevada.
The Texas Medical Board and the State of Nevada Board of Medical Examiners are assisting in the California investigation.
Miranda Sevcik, a spokeswoman for Murray’s legal team, said, "We have no information on any investigation by the state medical board."
She says Murray continues to cooperate with police
July 22, 2009
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Elvis, your e-passport is ready! | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com
Elvis, your e-passport is ready! | Storage Bits | ZDNet.comE-passports not only threaten your personal safety traveling, the RFID chips are easy to clone and fake. How easy? Here’s the picture of Elvis Presley’s e-passport:
The photo is taken from a passport scanner at a Dutch airport - no alarms or errors. But let’s look on the bright side: some salesman is making millions and some former bureaucrats have cushy gigs with RFID consultants.
Feel better now?
The Hacker’s Choice, that gen’d up the Elvis passport chip, tells you how to do it. The fake e-passport chip business is just starting: get in on the ground floor!
But wait: it gets better!
In theory the RFID passports improve security - uh-huh - and are faster to process. The first is laughable; the second not much better. Why?The e-passport still has to be opened to confirm that what the chips says is also what the printed passport says. How is that faster?
What is faster are the new RFID chipped ID cards for border crossings: they broadcast their unencrypted info for 10 meters or more. Wow!
And you know the nifty key Speed Pass that buys gas? They’ve been hacked too.
But for the larcenous nothing beats RFID credit cards. They can be hacked for $8 from a foot or more away.
The Storage Bits take
RFID are great for their original application: tracking goods in a warehouse. But they are horribly insecure for financial and identity applications.There may be some workarounds. If the immigration agent’s terminal queried a central database that brought up a 2nd photo not on the passport, then we could be fairly certain that it wasn’t a forgery.
Another alternative: optical - not radio - data storage and encryption. A bar code scanner on a microscope could read tiny barcodes embedded in your photo - a concept not unlike the Dataglyphs developed at Xerox PARC.
The larger point is that RFID passports, drivers licenses, credit cards and other identity documents are a Bad Idea. We KNOW that techno-criminals are ripping off people on the web. Why won’t these same people move on to RFID when the economics make sense?
And when there are hundreds of millions RFID documents circulating, we won’t be able to issue a patch and fix the hole in a few weeks. No, these holes will be open for years. Good luck with that.
