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...Aizenhawar Marrogi, a former colleague of Gerber's, does not quite believe he is dead. An Iraqi immigrant named after Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marrogi was once a star of Gerber's department, bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars in research grants and computerizing the department's billing system. But Marrogi and Gerber were soon quarreling over the billing system, with Gerber setting up his own balance sheet and issuing accounting statements that Marrogi and other physicians disputed. The dubious statements included payments for services at Charity Hospital, a public facility where Tulane doctors work with indigent patients. Marrogi believes...
...late Dr. Michael Gerber, former chairman of pathology and laboratory medicine at the center, of embezzlement and other financial wrongdoings and implied that his (and his wife's) death in an automobile accident was staged. The story is based largely on allegations by a disgruntled former employee, Dr. Aizenhawar Marrogi, who is currently in litigation with the medical center. These allegations are wholly without basis...
...Marrogi's departure from Tulane was initiated by a committee of his peers. Their judgment was based on his academic and clinical record. At Dr. Marrogi's request, a second, different faculty committee examined the decision and found no basis for his complaints. All these facts were available to TIME...
Charges of financial impropriety at the center raised by Dr. Marrogi were examined by internal auditors last spring and re-examined after your article appeared. No basis in fact was found in the allegations. There was no unapproved billing system for the pathology department and no excessive billings for meals or travel. No evidence of a life-style insupportable by Dr. Gerber's income has been found. The article greatly exaggerated the cost of Dr. Gerber's home. Medical-center accounting records reflected all of Dr. Gerber's professional financial transactions. None were found to be out of the ordinary...