“While there has been much publicized about the incident, we want to take this opportunity to respond to the press and all the social media pundits and simply lay out the facts and what the actual evidence shows happened,” begins a press release from attorneys David E. Moore of Groesbeck and Mark Weitz of Austin.
Moore represents Amber Johnson on an ongoing criminal grand jury investigation in Freestone County, Texas.
Weitz represents The Luxe Medspa by Amber Johnson on board related matters regarding the untimely death of 47-year-old Jennifer Cleveland after receiving treatment at the Luxe Medspa in Wortham, Texas.
Cleveland is described as both a client and a friend to Medspa owner Johnson, who also promoted the business through her social media accounts.
Johnson has been fully cooperating with the ongoing grand jury process, attorneys say, including providing a written statement, recovering evidence, providing surveillance camera video from inside the Medspa showing the events as they happened and as they were recorded via motion detector cameras, securing the IV bag and locking Cleveland’s personal effects in a secure locked cabinet until the police were able to pick up the items.
The press release also provided a timeline of events.
“All Board matters with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation have been settled,” reads the release. “There are no pending board actions regarding this incident other than the Texas Medical Board involving Michael Gallagher, M.D. whose license was suspended without hearing and prior to obtaining the final autopsy and toxicology report.
According to the news release, the final autopsy report indicates Sudden Cardiac death of uncertain etiology, as well as the Postmortem toxicology being significant for Tramadol and Trazodone, neither of which were administered by Amber Johnson.
Just over two weeks prior to the incident, Cleveland had completed an Intake and Health History where she indicated she was not on any medications, did not have any chronic medical conditions, was not currently under the care of a physician, had not taken Accutane within the past year, was not taking any vitamins or supplements, and had not previously had Botox, and did not have any medical conditions that staff should be award of.
“It is regretful that this incident happened, but there is simply no criminal liability that can or should be attributed to Amber Johnson,” state attorneys Moore and Weitz.
The press release concluded that slanderous and libelous statements made on social media will not be “overlooked or tolerated,” suggesting that everyone “take a deep breath and wait on all the testing to be concluded before reaching an uninformed conclusion.”
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