Connecticut Probate Advocates Issues Kudos to Bridgeport Probate Judge Paul Ganim.

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 21, 2010 -- Connecticut Probate Advocates issues Kudos to Bridgeport Probate Judge Paul Ganim. Visit myctprobate.com for more on this story.Funeral director submits $64,632 bill for funeral. But last Monday an incredulous Judge Paul Ganim rejected her request.

"I have never seen anything like this," he said. "It's one thing to do something out of the kindness of your heart, but you want to profit from it," he told Ortiz.

Ortiz's lawyer, David Feliu, said they are considering an appeal. "It's not like I was selling him a Big Mac for the price of filet mignon," Ortiz said.

At Ganim's request, the state Department of Public Health has begun an investigation of the case.

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BRIDGEPORT -- When Myron Johnson died alone, with no known family or friends and $137,000 in the bank, a local funeral director thought she had stumbled on a pay day.

After all, the 68-year-old Johnson couldn't take it with him, so why shouldn't she get a large piece of it while giving him a send-off he would never forget, Brenda Ortiz said during a recent Probate Court hearing.

Ortiz, the director of Community Funeral Chapels on Park Avenue, had picked up Johnson's body from the Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner, where it had been stored for 10 months, and arranged a funeral for him that was fit for a king.

Stainless steel casket. Stainless steel vault. A wake. Flowers. Pall bearers. The whole works. Price tag: $64,632, with a profit of more than $30,000 for Ortiz.
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