russ_watters
Sep20-06, 01:23 PM
This comes up from time to time and is back in the news. I thought it had all been settled, but apparently it took 6 years to sort out what criminal charges could be filed. This is perhaps the most egregous case of not-listening-to-your-engineers negligence I've ever heard of.
http://kyw1060.com/pages/84328.php?contentType=4&contentId=206859 Eli Karetny and Michael Asbell are charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter, 43 counts of recklessly endangering another person, as well as risking a catastrophe and conspiracy.
The criminal case has been delayed for years, based on legal challenges of exactly what charges could properly be brought to trial.
The women's families were awarded $7.4 million each in civil damages from Asbell, Karetny and others, while another $7.4 million was divided among about three dozen injured victims. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/18/ap/national/mainD8K7EMVO1.shtml Warnings about the pier's state got increasingly dire, Conroy said. On the morning of the collapse, a crack in a wall and the floor doubled in size from 5 inches to 10 inches, Conroy said. An engineer told Asbell and Karetny the pier would collapse at low tide that night or the next morning. They were told by an engineer the day it collapsed that it would collapse that day and they didn't close the club. Unbelievable.
http://kyw1060.com/pages/84328.php?contentType=4&contentId=206859 Eli Karetny and Michael Asbell are charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter, 43 counts of recklessly endangering another person, as well as risking a catastrophe and conspiracy.
The criminal case has been delayed for years, based on legal challenges of exactly what charges could properly be brought to trial.
The women's families were awarded $7.4 million each in civil damages from Asbell, Karetny and others, while another $7.4 million was divided among about three dozen injured victims. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/18/ap/national/mainD8K7EMVO1.shtml Warnings about the pier's state got increasingly dire, Conroy said. On the morning of the collapse, a crack in a wall and the floor doubled in size from 5 inches to 10 inches, Conroy said. An engineer told Asbell and Karetny the pier would collapse at low tide that night or the next morning. They were told by an engineer the day it collapsed that it would collapse that day and they didn't close the club. Unbelievable.