Rabbi Shmuley: Dr. Murray Isn't the Only Guilty One in Michael's Death

By Rob Shuter Posted Jan 13th 2011 09:20AM

Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, learned on Tuesday that he will face trial on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the pop star's death. One person, however, has already decided that he's guilty: Michael's longtime friend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

"Here is a doctor, who essentially acted as a pusher, now denying any and all responsibility for dispensing to Michael a truckload of prescription drugs that eventually killed him," the rabbi tells me. "Bodyguards have already testified that as emergency workers came to try to save Michael's life, Murray was gathering bottles of pills and removing them from the scene of the tragedy."

Boteach is convinced that Murray isn't the only person who needs to go to jail for Michael's death.

"I am still amazed that a year-and-a-half after Michael's death, we have still heard nothing about anyone else who facilitated his self-destruction," Boteach says. "Professionals who were on his payroll had a responsibility to protect him from harm, both from others and from himself. Instead, they pursued the opposite, content to allow Michael to indulge his growing dependency on piles of prescription drugs."

And why, Michael's friend asks, did the singer's so-called friends let him down?

"Because if they gave Michael what he wanted, you could stay on the inside, continue to get their big salaries and remain in the retinue of the world's biggest star."

Source: popeater / MJ-Upbeat