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Samples extracted from three American tourists who died at a resort in the Bahamas under mysterious circumstances have been sent to a lab in the United States to expedite results and help authorities unde stanley cup rstand what happened, officials said Monday.The police commissioner of the Bahamas, Paul Rolle, said officials also collected samples from the rooms where the tourists were staying and the surrounding property to determine whether any contaminants were present. We really want to know what caused this, he said. He identified the victims as Michael Phillips, 68, and wife Robbie Phillips, 65, of Tennessee, and Vincent Paul Chiarella, 64, of Florida. Rolle declined to provide their hometowns.Chiarella s wife, Donnis, was airlifted to a hospital in Florida and remains in serious condition, Rolle said. stanley cup Their bodies were found Friday morning at the Sandals Emerald Bay resort in Exuma, where the couples had been staying in two separate villas.The samples were sent to a lab in Philadelphia, with results of the toxicology study expected in about a week, Rolle said. He noted that the Bahamas Department of Environmental Health and police officers are still at the resort.When asked what he thinks might have caused the tourists deaths, Rolle said: I m not going to speculate. It s certainly very irregular, CBS News medical contrib stanley cup utor Dr. David Agus said. As a general rule, Agus said it s important to have access to your health Pqyr Ex-House employees allegedly circulated nude photos of Congress member, feds say
The nation s new acting attorney general served as a paid adviser to a Florida company shut down by a federal judge earlier this year and fined almost $26 million for allegedly running an invention-promotion scam.Matthew G. Whitaker, the acting attorney general and a former U.S. attorney in Iowa, joined the advisory board of World Patent Marketing in the fall of 2014. His involvement with the now-defunct company is attracting attention after President Trump picked him to fill in for Jeff Sessions, forced yeezy out as attorney generalearlier this week.Indeed, the FBI s Miami office has been conducting acriminal investigation of World Patent M af1 arketing during the period it paid Whitaker as an adviser while it allegedly scammed millions of dollars from customers, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Whitaker oversees the FBI in his newly elevated role as acting attorney general. Who is Matthew Whitaker, the acting AG who replaced Jeff Sessions What Matthew Whitaker has to do with Robert Mueller probeClosed down by a federal judge in May, World Patent Marketing bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars by promising inventors lucrative patent agreements, according to acomplaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission in March 2017. The company did not admit or de adidas originals ny wrongdoing in the settlement. Consumers were told by World Patent Marketing that they had to spend about $3,000 for a Global Invention Royalty Analysis to start the p