Bryan Burklow, President and CEO
Deaconess Associations Inc.

John Gall, President
The Heimlich Institute Inc.

Mr. Burklow, Mr. Gall:

Deaconess Associations is the parent organization of the Heimlich Institute Inc. According to this page on the Heimlich Institute’s website, all donations are payable to Deaconess Foundation:

As I have reported previously, the Heimlich Institute has had no employees since February 2005, as confirmed last year by Deaconess employee Jennifer Abdrabbo. This raises obvious concerns of fundraising fraud.

1) Please provide me with any substantive evidence that the Heimlich Institute is continuing “research into treatments for HIV/AIDS, cancer, cystic fibrosis, asthma” and the “many other health conditions” referenced in your fundraising appeal.

Another Heimlich Institute web page states:

2) Please provide me with copies of all these studies.

I look forward to your prompt reply.

Sincerely,

The Dean of Cincinnati

Cc:

Internal Revenue Service, Tax Fraud Division

Jim Petro, Ohio Attorney General

Monica A. Moloney, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Charitable Law Section

Phil Heimlich, Vice President, The Heimlich Institute Inc.

Barbara Lohr, Director of Corporate Marketing, Deaconess Associations

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1. R.A. Primero says:
   04 Feb 2006  at  08:37 am | #

   Heimlich Institute IRS 990, year 2004

   Deaconess Annual Report, year 2004, “Forging the Future”

   Heimlich Institute Board of Trustees
   John Gall, President
   Philip M. Heimlich, Vice President
   Joseph J. Dehner, Secretary
   Piotr Chomzynski
   Henry J. Heimlich, MD
   William Mashburn
   Tom Powell
   Richard Weiland
   Harry W. Whittaker
   E. Anthony Woods

   Jennifer Abdrabbo, Deaconess Foundation
   phone:(513) 559-2323
   Jabdrabbo@deaconess-cinti.com

2. Evil Kneivel says:
   04 Feb 2006  at  08:43 am | #

   Go get ‘em Deano!

3. WhoDat says:
   04 Feb 2006  at  11:11 am | #

   John Gall, President
   The Heimlich Institute Inc.

   I assumed Dr. Heimlich would be president of the Heimlich Institute.

   Who’s John Gall?

4. R.A. Primero says:
   04 Feb 2006  at  11:20 am | #

   Here’s John Gall helping to set up Heimlich’s horrendous experiments on African AIDS victims.

5. Lodestone says:
   04 Feb 2006  at  11:21 am | #

   Wow, Gall is well-named.

6. Bobo Brazil says:
   05 Feb 2006  at  10:41 pm | #

   I return again, only again to say, these people have no class, no character, and were raised by gorilla who taught them that you can pee on people as they watch you.  They will never answer, they will never reply.

7. Ping Pong Balls says:
   06 Feb 2006  at  09:14 am | #

   They will never answer, they will never reply.

   Unless a bigger gorilla steps in.

   Internal Revenue Service, Tax Fraud Division

8. says:
   10 Feb 2006  at  10:52 am | #

   Who would put research funds into the hands of a Heimlich?  The dad has been chastised by the entire scientific and medical community for his “malariotherapy” experiments on Chinese prisoners infected with Aids/HIV.

   http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/02/16/loc_heimlich16.html

9. Jasper Lamar Crabb says:
   11 Feb 2006  at  04:09 pm | #

   CincySue - Thanks for posting.

   FYI, here’s a bioethics site which has been tracking the Heimlich Institute and Deaconess Associations “malariotherapy” quackery. It’s an astounding compilation of articles and original documents.