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Jackson's personal doctor was in financial trouble
当莫里医生成为杰克逊的私人医生时，他的财务状况一团糟。这位拉斯维加斯的心脏病医师欠至少78万美元以解决他的商业问题，未偿还房子的按揭付款，拖欠助学贷款、子女抚养和信用卡费用。那还不包括拖欠生意伙伴达6.8万美元的能量饮料的货款。
法庭的记录显示莫里在拉斯维加斯的困境（在这个城市警察搜查了他家，作为过失杀人调查的一部分）有助于解释为什么——有机会接触一位名人——莫里会抓住机会让这位巨星在一系列伦敦演唱会中保持健康。但不止这样，如果对他提出指控的话，莫里财政上的压力可以帮组检查机关确认他的动机。“在这里，护理一位全世界最有名的人物，他将会有非常大的压力去做迈克尔杰克逊所希望的，给他想要的药物，按照迈克尔杰克逊的意愿去护理他，甚至在不需要使用丙泊酚的时候”，刑事辩护律师和Pepperdine大学法学院的兼职教授Steve Cron说。调查人员相信莫里给杰克逊注射了一剂致命的麻醉剂丙泊酚以帮助他入睡。丙泊酚通常用于外科手术，并不能作为促进睡眠的药物用于私人家庭。因为它强大的效力，只能在受过麻醉专业训练的人才能使用，并且病人必须得在不间断的监测之下。南加州大学的法学教授及前任保健欺诈案件联邦检察官Rebecca Lonergan说，如果公诉人提出指控，莫里的财政困境可以为潜在的基于经济原因的犯罪动机提供证据，包括在不需要药物的情况下开处方药。
莫里在5月成为杰克逊的医生，当时他的财政状况一团糟。他已经被法庭要求偿还超过36.3万美元的心脏诊所的器材费用以及7.1万美元1980年代的助学贷款，那项判决是今年4月份做出的。在内华达法院两项指控控告他欠着24万美元器材费用。并且，莫里那5268平方英尺的住宅将不会再是他的庇护所，他从去年12月就没再支付每月15000美元的供房款，可能在11月会失去这所房子。Stewart Title公司负责回赎的职员Mary Hunt说。
莫里的律师Chernoff说，杰克逊和AEG公司都没有付这两个月的薪酬给这位医生。“因为这次的调查，莫里医生已经没有谋生能力了。”Chernoff说，“他的希望是他能阻赎取抵押品权力被取消直到他作为医生重新开始工作。”
莫里的财务困境与他过去的财务问题是相吻合的。他于1992年宣告破产，并在1993年至2003年 有一系列的从萨克拉门托和圣贝纳迪诺县到马利柯帕郡，亚利桑那州的税收留置权 。同样的，一位前合作伙伴说莫里欠了他6.8万美元。
John Thomas，Pit Bull饮料的批发商说在2005年和2006年莫里有权在特立尼达和多巴哥批发这种饮料，在他1980年代来到美国学医之前，他一直在这个加勒比海岛国工作和生活。这种饮料一直在当地不受欢迎，莫里付清了第一批货物的账单，然后他就没有付接下来三批货物的账单了， Thomas 说。
Dr. Conrad Murray was in dire financial shape when he signed on as Michael Jackson's personal physician earlier this year at $150,000 a month.
The Las Vegas cardiologist owed a total of at least $780,000 in judgments against him and his medical practice, outstanding mortgage payments on his house, delinquent student loans, child support and credit cards.
Court records chronicling Murray's woes in Las Vegas, where authorities searched his home this week as part of a manslaughter investigation into Jackson's death, might help explain why - beyond the chance to get close to a celebrity - Murray seized the chance to keep the pop star healthy through a series of concerts in London.
But more than that, the financial pressures on Murray could help prosecutors establish a motive if he ends up facing charges.
"Here he is, dealing with one of the most famous people in the world. There may have been a great deal of pressure to do what Michael Jackson wanted, give him the drugs he wanted, treat him the way Michael Jackson wanted to be treated, even if it wasn't in keeping with medical protocol," said Steve Cron, a criminal defense attorney and adjunct professor at Pepperdine University's law school。
Authorities investigating Jackson's death at his rented Los Angeles mansion believe Murray gave the star a fatal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol to help him sleep, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still going on.
Propofol is commonly used for surgery and is not meant as a sleep agent or to be given in private homes. Because of its potency, only trained anesthesia professionals are supposed to administer it, and patients are supposed to be constantly monitored.
If prosecutors bring charges, Murray's financial trouble "does potentially provide evidence of good motive for financial-based crimes, including prescribing when there is not a medical necessity," said Rebecca Lonergan, a University of Southern California law professor and former federal prosecutor of health care fraud cases.
Murray, 56, has not spoken publicly since Jackson's June 25 death. His lawyer, Edward Chernoff, has said the doctor did not prescribe anything that "should have" killed Jackson.
Murray was hired through Jackson's promoter in May, as his bleak financial picture threatened to worsen. He was under court orders to pay more than $363,000 for equipment for his heart clinic, and was ordered in April to repay $71,000 in student loans dating to the 1980s. Two lawsuits claiming he owes $240,000 more for unpaid equipment are pending in Nevada courts.
Also, Murray's 5,268-square-foot home near the 18th hole of a golf course is in "pre-foreclosure" after he failed to make payments on his $1.66 million loan, records show. He stopped paying the $15,000-per-month mortgage in December and could lose the home by November, said Mary Hunt, the foreclosure officer handling the case.
Neither Jackson nor AEG Live, the promoter for the London concerts that was prepared to pay him $150,000 a month, paid Murray for the two months the doctor worked for the pop star, according to Chernoff.
"Dr. Murray has lost the ability to make a living as a result of this investigation," Chernoff said. "His hope is he can forestall foreclosure until he can once again begin working as a doctor."
Murray's cresting financial woes fit into a history of money problems. He filed for bankruptcy in California in 1992 and had a string of tax liens in California and Arizona between 1993 and 2003. Also, a former business partner in an energy-drink distribution venture claimed Murray owed him $68,000.
John Thomas, distributor of a drink called Pit Bull, said that in 2005 and 2006 Murray had the rights to distribute the product in Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean island nation where Murray lived and worked before coming to the United States in the 1980s to study medicine.
The drink never gained popularity there. Murray paid his bill for a first shipment, then didn't pay for three subsequent shipments, Thomas said.
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