Exotic dancer Greene wasn’t treated at DMC, hospital group says
Detroit — No woman named Tamara Greene or Tamara Bond was treated at any Detroit Medical Center emergency room in 2002, a lawyer for the hospital group said in a court filing today.
Tamara “Strawberry” Greene was an exotic dancer linked to a rumored party at the mayor’s Manoogian Mansion in the fall of 2002. She was shot to death in Detroit on April 30, 2003, and Greene’s family is suing former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and top city and police officials, alleging they obstructed a police investigation into her still unsolved killing.
Kilpatrick and the other defendants deny the allegations.
A central facet of the party rumor, as detailed in court filings in the case, is that Greene required hospital treatment after she was assaulted at the Manoogian party by Kilpatrick’s wife, Carlita. That’s why hospital records have become an issue in the case.
Charles Raimi, an attorney for the Detroit Medical Center, said recent subpoenas for medical records filed by Greene family attorney Norman Yatooma contain too little information for the hospital to respond to them while still complying with privacy laws.
“Plaintiffs’ Dec. 9, 2009, subpoenas to Detroit Receiving and Sinai-Grace provide nothing more than the names ‘Tamara Greene/aka Tamara Bond,’ ” Raimi said in a court filing. “Health care providers require, for a proper medical records search, such identifying information as a social security number, home address, date of service, etc.”
Greene’s son’s name is Jonathan Bond, and she sometimes used the last names Bond or Bond-Greene.
Raimi said an earlier records request filed by the Greene family attorneys in August 2008 provided a social security number and a birth date for Greene.
“A search using just the social security number … revealed no record of anyone using that social security number ever being treated at a DMC hospital,” Raimi said.
“A search of the names Tamara Greene and Tamara Bond … revealed no patient with such a name and a birth date matching the one supplied by plaintiffs’ counsel,” he said.
“A search for all records of all patients … revealed that no person named Tamara Greene or Tamara Bond was treated at any DMC emergency room anytime during the year 2002,” Raimi wrote. “The search did reveal other patients named Tamara Greene or Tamara Bond treated during the full period of the database across the DMC system, but the birth dates and treatment dates of those individuals make it clear they could not possibly have been the record of the Tamara Greene sought by plaintiffs’ counsel.”
Raimi said the DMC could do further checking if the social security number or date of birth provided in 2008 was not correct.
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