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While Tulane dismisses Marrogi's suspicions as far-fetched, documents examined by TIME as well as interviews with witnesses who have testified to the IRS illustrate financial machinations that appear to have Gerber at their center and, at the very least, paint a portrait of a prestigious university shoddily run. Indeed, the school's officials and its legal counsel openly contradict one another. The vice chancellor for finance, Ray Newman, contends that doctors are due compensation for work at Charity Hospital (which produces revenues for the university of $20 million to $30 million in payments), even as general counsel John...
...Hospital is at the center of the financial dispute. Last week Dr. Samuel Parry, a plastic surgeon who had taught as a full professor at Tulane for 12 years, brought a class action charging that the university has systematically withheld fees earned by Tulane faculty members at Charity Hospital. Marrogi's suspicions about Gerber began over Charity billings--and compensation. "I started looking at what he was giving us, and I knew it was impossible," says Marrogi. One department memo claimed Marrogi had billed $9,000 to Charity over a year. But Marrogi had filed 1,100 lab reports that...
...joke that all you had to do with a federal tax ID number was to think up a name, and then you could collect as much money as you wanted." Jackson also recalls seeing one of the people who worked in Gerber's office randomly downsizing pay slips for Marrogi. "I actually saw her change the codes on the billing," says Jackson. "She said he was money hungry and didn't need that much...
...question Marrogi and other doctors began to ask themselves was what was happening to the money. They focused on Gerber's life-style. Earning $325,000 a year, Gerber had a $7,000 monthly mortgage on a $1.2 million home in an exclusive New Orleans neighborhood. A signed sketch by Picasso was placed eye-catchingly near the front door. He had two, possibly three, Mercedes-Benz, a $300,000 condo in Colorado and a $345,000 house in Florida. He also had more than $3 million in an investment fund and several hundred thousand dollars in a trust fund...
...impossible to know since the body was cremated before anyone outside the family could identify it. At least two private investigators as well as the IRS are looking into the accident. His daughter, who could not be reached for comment, identified the bodies as those of her parents. Nevertheless, Marrogi and his lawyers, Peter Butler and Christopher Beary, say they have tantalizing clues that Gerber could still be alive. When their private detective, Ted Hembree, showed mortician Fred Adomat a color photograph of Gerber, Adomat responded that the male in the picture "was not the male victim that...