- Psychologist, Dr Carol Nudelman, said she didn’t evaluate Orlando shooter Omar Mateen for his position at security firm G4S in 2007
- However, her name appears on the document in Florida’s state records that cleared him to carry a firearm as a private security guardÂ
- G4S officials called the discrepancy a ‘clerical error’ and said Mateen had been evaluated, but by a different psychologist
- Company didn’t move Mateen to unarmed position despite evidence that concluded comments he made were serious enough to transfer him
A doctor who is listed on the psychological evaluation for Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, said she did not see him and she was not even living in Florida at the time when G4S security firm ordered the evaluation.
Psychologist, Dr Carol Nudelman, who now lives in Colorado, said in a statement released through her attorneys to the Miami Herald that she never evaluated Mateen nine years ago for G4S, a security firm that was known as Wackenhut at the time.
However, Nudelman’s name appears on the document in Florida’s state records, which cleared Mateen to carry a firearm as a private security guard.
‘What I do know is that in September 2007, I was not living or working in Florida, I was not performing any work for Wackenhut, and I did not administer any type of examination to Omar Mateen,’ Nudelman said in the statement.
The G4S security firm has been under fire after it was revealed that they concluded that allegations about his inflammatory comments while an armed guard in 2013 were serious enough to transfer him to an unarmed position, according to NBC News.
The company called the discrepancy a ‘clerical error’ and said that Mateen, who was a G4S employee for 9 years, had been evaluated by a different psychologist.
G4S has had a series of problems occur in the past with former employees and later it was revealed that the company hadn’t properly vetted a man, who shot and killed two coworkers while on a security detail in Iraq, according to the Herald.
And the company came under fire again after its employee, Mateen, killed 49 people and injured 53 others at Pulse gay nightclub.
Mateen, who pledged allegiance to ISIS during the terror attack, had blamed US airstrikes for the deaths of ‘innocent women and children’, and wrote ‘now taste the Islamic state of vengeance’ the morning of the deadliest mass shooting in US history.