Subject: (Kelly) New Carlo controversy (fwd)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 220809 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Hi everybody:
......Libbey has forwarded a very interesting report about Mr.
Carlo and his Wireless Technology Research (WTR) organization....
My (military intelligence/political background) suspicious nature
continues to lead me to 'speculate' about how "convenient" all of this
is for the Telecom industry..... You see, as I suggested before,
once Carlo "got religion" and started having some doubts about the
safety of the cell phones (which in all probability he had actually
been hired to defend) ... then, the industry had to either "get rid
of him" ... "debunk and discredit his reputation" -- or both!!!
There is some evidence of both in the report which follows....
My advice to "George" is: Keep an alert "eye" on all who are about
you -- particularly those who are in position to stab you in the back....
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
rbeavers@llion.org.......
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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 18:30:05 -0700
From: Libby Kelley
To: rbeavers@llion.org,
Subject: Fwd: FYI: New Carlo controversy
Subject: FYI: New Carlo controversy
June 4, 1999
Controversy follows WTR to the end
By Jeffrey Silva
WASHINGTON-The close of the six-year, $27 million Wireless Technology
Research L.L.C. program has re-energized a public debate about whether
mobile telephones cause cancer or pose other health problems to the
nation's 70 million wireless subscribers.
Indeed, WTR Chairman George Carlo claims new studies suggest a possible
mobile phone-cancer link. While saying the results do not rise to the
level of a public-health problem, Carlo insists the findings demand
serious attention of the federal government and wireless industry.
Carlo's research is no less controversial than the man himself. There have
been fights with scientists, lawyers and industry leaders over a host of
issues. Congress and the Food and Drug Administration have even dabbled
in the crossfire at times. And now, Carlo believes his reputation has wrongly
come under fire.
But Carlo's travails are not just about Carlo and WTR. The fireworks that
erupted during the past six years underscore the complexities in addressing
scientific issues in a highly political public forum and doing so without
creating hysteria in the media and public.
Mobile phone carriers around the country continue to meet resistance to
antenna siting because of concerns over the impact of towers on health,
aesthetics and property values.
In the end, Carlo indeed delivered research-though not as much as some
believe $27 million could buy and certainly not the kind of research the
cellular industry wanted to see. Of the total, about $2 million went to
resolving interference from mobile phones to medical devices.
Behind the scenes, as WTR wraps up its work and Carlo prepares to officially
announce results of his cancer studies at a conference later this month in
Long Beach, Calif., a different controversy has erupted out of the public
eye.
This flare-up, like so many others before it, has come to symbolize the rocky
tenure of George Carlo.
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, which hired Carlo and
publicly stood behind him for the past six years, was served with two
subpoenas in connection with two of several lawsuits filed against Carlo in
Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
One subpoena sought all documents related to CTIA funding of WTR and the
other requested testimony from a CTIA official.
None of that sat well with CTIA President Thomas Wheeler, who, according
to Carlo, confronted him about the subpoenas. Carlo said he assured
Wheeler the allegations were baseless, but it appears drawing CTIA into the
lawsuits all but killed any chance Carlo had of conducting follow-up cancer
research or market surveillance for the trade group.
Carlo, for his part, said it would have been a logical next step to continue
his work for CTIA in light of WTR results and his heavy investment in WTR
projects.
The lawsuits involve in one form or the other George Carlo and his wife,
Patricia, equal business partners in WTR's sister company, Health &
Environmental Services Ltd. WTR and HES share the same facilities and
personnel.
In addition to HES and WTR, Carlo heads a number of other public-health
projects.
The Carlos, who are in the midst of a nasty divorce, have accused each other
of misappropriating funds and other improprieties in a lawsuit in the
Superior Court for the District of Columbia that was headed for
dismissal late last week. The plaintiffs moved to drop their claims
against George Carlo. In exchange, George Carlo is dropping all counter
claims in the same lawsuit.
Patricia Carlo, through her attorney, declined comment. She oversees
financial matters for HES.
Glen Franklin Koontz, the lawyer who originally brought the lawsuit on behalf
of HES (before HES was dismissed as a plaintiff) against Carlo and Thorne
Auchter, former head of the Occupational Safety & Health Administration in
the Reagan administration, has vowed to rekindle allegations in the near
future against Carlo that could implicate WTR.
''WTR is basically an instrument of George Carlo. He has used it for his own
purposes,'' said Koontz. ''There will be more lawsuits.''
Carlo said Elizabeth Hughes, an attorney for Patricia Carlo, sought to
withdraw the lawsuit against Carlo because it was a weak case.
''Mr. Carlo and his attorneys are whistling past the grave and I wouldn't be
too confident that that surmise is correct,'' said Koontz. Hughes, for her
part, declined comment.
Koontz said CTIA cooperated and complied with the subpoenas, noting the
association had no knowledge of the alleged misconduct by Carlo and WTR.
CTIA says all WTR audits to date have come back clean and that a final
audit will be conducted now that WTR has finished its work.
Koontz has his doubts. ''There's a good possibility that the audits may not
be kosher and we're looking into that,'' he said.
WTR and CTIA, despite nagging questions about how Carlo spent the $27
million, have steadfastly refused to release the audits.
Carlo said all WTR expenditures were approved by an audit committee.
The lawsuits appear to have taken a toll on Carlo. Carlo said Koontz lacks
legal standing, and is using the legal process to harass him into giving
up as much marital property as possible. In doing so, Carlo said Koontz
is destroying his reputation in the scientific community.
''I unequivocally deny every allegation that has been made in every one
of the lawsuits,'' said Carlo. ''I am sickened by the fact that this has
been taken out of the courtroom and into the public by Mr. Koontz.''
This week, Carlo said his attorneys plan to file a lawsuit against Koontz for
defamation of character, misuse of process, fraudulent misrepresentations
and tortious interference with business relationships.
Libby Kelley
Executive Director
Ad Hoc Associaiton of Parties concerned About the FCC's Radiofrequency
Radiation Health and Safety Rules
aka Council on Wireless Technology Impacts
Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org
Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html