Eddie Castaing

Eddie Castaing was Lori Budo’s attorney in the Memorial Medical Center case. The available account of him centers on his efforts to secure legal protection for nurses and on a later recollection of a meeting with investigators—an episode in which his stated diligence in taking notes collided with the discovery that no notes existed.

Role in the Case

Castaing represented Lori Budo, one of the nurses under scrutiny in the investigation of patient deaths at Memorial Medical Center. His role placed him within the legal response to the case, where the stakes included not only the exposure of individual nurses to prosecution but also the possibility that their cooperation with investigators could carry legal risk.

The Meeting and the Immunity Request

Castaing later said that a meeting with investigators had been organized to arrange interviews with Memorial employees. He said he requested either a blanket non-prosecution agreement or immunity for all the nurses from Memorial, but did not obtain either form of protection. His account makes the meeting more than a logistical exchange: it was also an attempt to establish safeguards for a group of employees being drawn into an investigation whose consequences were still unfolding.

Recollection and Missing Notes

In later accounts, Castaing said he had taken notes of the meeting “religiously.” After he was told that an investigator had made notes within days of the meeting, he checked for his own records and reported that he had taken none. The contrast between his confident description of note-taking and the absence of notes is a concrete limit on what his recollection could document; the account does not establish why the notes were missing.

Castaing also confirmed Cathy Green’s recollection of a meeting with him. That confirmation supplies a point of agreement between his later account and Green’s, while the surviving description does not provide enough detail to reconstruct the full exchange. Beyond his identification as Budo’s attorney, his request for blanket protection, and these later statements about the meeting, the available evidence offers little biographical information.