Law firm to exhume remains of Louis and Clara Feinberg on Wednesday, March 10 in continuing Menorah Gardens investigation and suit

Law firm to exhume remains of Louis and Clara Feinberg on Wednesday, March 10 in continuing Menorah Gardens investigation and suit

Ted Leopold, attorney and partner in the law firm of Ricci~Leopold, P.A., as well as a team of experts will be onsite at Menorah Gardens Cemetery - 9321 Memorial Park Road - Palm Beach Gardens on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 at 9:15 a.m. Leopold as well as forensic and other experts will work together to exhume the remains of Louis and Clara Feinberg. Barbara Clark, daughter of the Mr. and Mrs. Feinberg is suing Menorah Gardens and Service Corporation's (SCI) its parent company.

More than 60 area families represented by Ted Leopold and the firm of Ricci~Leopold, P.A., have filed suit against Menorah Gardens SCI.

Human remains have been found in the woods adjacent to the cemetery in Palm Beach Gardens. Our investigation will continue. Steps are being taken with each individual family to learn what Menorah has done in each case. What we are finding is a continuing pattern of fraud. Even Menorah's statements to the media are not truthful. They have something different to proclaim to every media outlet. The facts are in front of us, and the evidence against SCI will continue to mount, as we proceed with this pre-trial investigation.

The Feinberg-Clark family has been under great stress and has dealt with an unyielding burden of not knowing the disposition of their loved ones. In our investigation on Wednesday we will be attempting to get honest answers for the family. The civil suit that Ricci~Leopold, P.A. has filed on behalf of the more than 60 families states a number of claims against Menorah Gardens/SCI which include secretly breaking and opening burial vaults and dumping remains in a wooded area where they may have been consumed by wild animals; burying remains in locations other than those purchased by families; crushing burial vaults in order to make room for other vaults; burying remains on top of the other remains rather than side-by-side; secretly mixing body parts and remains from different individuals' secretly allowing plots owned by one party to be occupied by a different person; secretly allowing graves to encroach on other plots; selling plots so narrow that the grave could not accommodate industry standard burial vaults; desecrating graves and markers while failing to exercise reasonable care in handling the plantiff's loved ones remains.

Most recently, Leopold filed amended complaints with the courts on behalf of a number of families asking for claims for punitive damages to be added to a number of the matters. Families believe that a clear message of punishment should be sent to Menorah and SCI for what has occurred here. There continued lack of response in providing honest answers and resolution to these cases, as well as the stress they have put on these families needs to be addressed by the courts on a number of levels.