32 – James Dewey Milam
James Milam was another witness/informant re the Mena drug operations. Dr. Fahmy Malak, the medical examiner of the state of Arkansas at the time, ruled the deaths of Don Henry and Kevin Ives accidental. He also ruled the death of James Milam due to natural causes, that the head had been eaten off by Milam’s small dog. Later, the cleanly severed head was found in a trash can nearby.
No further information about Milam has of yet been found.
However, please consider the relationship between then Governor Clinton and ME Fahmy Malak. James Risen and Edwin Chen of the LA Times write:
Gov. Bill Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, refused for several years to dismiss a state medical examiner whose controversial decrees included a ruling that helped Clinton’s mother, a nurse-anesthetist, avoid scrutiny in the death of a patient, according to Arkansas officials and state records.
The medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak, “was sort of protected by the governor and the (state crime laboratory) board,” state Rep. Bob Fairchild, a Democrat from Fayetteville, told The Times. Fairchild is the author of unsuccessful legislation to reform the laboratory board, which has authority over the state medical examiner. Clinton appoints the board members.
Clinton, Malak and Clinton’s mother, Virginia Dwire Kelley, 68, deny any connection between Malak’s longevity in his job and his ruling involving Kelley. Malak, through his attorney, says he did not know that one of his findings had benefited Kelley until years after he issued the ruling.
The governor and his board declined to fire Malak despite more than four years of public criticism of Malak’s work. The record shows that Malak testified erroneously in criminal cases, that his rulings were reversed by juries and that outside pathologists challenged his findings. In one instance, he misread a medical chart and wrongly accused a deputy county coroner of killing someone. In another, he based court testimony on tissue samples that DNA tests later indicated had been mixed up with other tissue samples.
