That's a great article! There was this excellent site where I got all my case info from, but it's gone down just recently it seems...
Don't know what's up with that. It was this one
http://mjjr.net/content/mjcase/
I'm the owner of MJJR.net, and although the site is no longer maintained I have republished it in an archived format for future reading. The Veritas Project is not my own work but does serve as a great source of case information. In addition, a couple in-depth pieces I wrote about the 1993 civil settlement misconceptions and the 2003 case can be found at
http://mjjr.net/content136.html and
http://mjjr.net/content7.html.
Lastly, I'll have to correct you on Jackson's bedroom habits. He only ever slept with male children. Never girls. I know this because in another life I was the Los Angeles correspondent for the Daily Mirror and covered the case involving Jordy Chandler back in the 90s. I have seen all the legal testaments as well as Chandler's harrowing 110 page statement - and the LA child protection unit's file on ***** is horrifying. The man was a peadophile. That's why he paid Jordy Chandler $28million not to testify against him in court.
This tabloid hack couldn't possibly be more wrong in his false assumptions. It was well established during the 2005 trial that girls, boys, mothers, fathers, cousins, and others were free to come and goes as they pleased in Michael's two-story bedroom whenever Michael was around, and it was fully established that girls did indeed sleep in Michael's bed. Here is one such piece of testimony from Joy Robson (the mother of Wade Robson) in May 2005 who talked about her stays at Neverland.
Q. All right. Now, do you recall when you first visited Neverland Ranch?
A. I do.
Q. And approximately when was that?
A. This was ‘89. I was ten years old.
Q. And do you remember who was with you?
A. Yes. When we first went, it was my entire family. My grandparents, my father, my mother, Wade and myself.
Q. Okay. And do you remember where you stayed at Neverland?
A. I stayed in Michael’s room.
Q. Okay. And was anyone else in there with you?
A. Wade was and Michael was.
Q. And how many nights did you and Wade stay in Michael Jackson’s room on that occasion?
A. Two nights.
Q. Do you recall anything improper ever going on in that room?
A. Not at all.
Q. Okay. What -- what did you and Wade and Michael do during those evenings you stayed in his room?
A. We just hung out. Watched cartoons.
Watched videos. Played games. You know, what normal kids do. Hang out and have fun.
Q. Did you fall asleep on his bed?
A. Yes, we did.
Q. How many times do you think you’ve been in Michael Jackson’s room?
A. I’ve probably been there a lot of times, just sort of in and out. I’ve slept there four times.
Q. When you slept in Michael Jackson’s room, has your brother Wade always been there?
A. Yes.
Q. And any of those occasions, have you ever seen anything improper go on?
A. Not at all.
Q. Ever seen Mr. Jackson molest your brother Wade?
A. Not at all.
Q. Ever seen Mr. Jackson touch your brother Wade in an improper way?
A. No.
Q. Ever seen Mr. Jackson abuse your brother Wade?
A. No.
Q. Were you ever suspicious of any touching Mr. Jackson may have done with Wade?
A. Never.
Q. Has Mr. Jackson ever hugged you?
A. Yes, he has.
Q. Have you hugged him?
A. Yes, I have.
Q. Ever been suspicious of the way he hugged you?
A. Not at all.
Q. Has Mr. Jackson ever kissed you?
A. Yes, he has.
Q. Have you kissed him?
A. Yes, I have.
Q. Ever been suspicious of the way Mr. Jackson kissed you?
A. No.
Q. Ever seen Mr. Jackson hug Wade?
A. Yes.
Q. Ever been suspicious of the way Mr. Jackson hugged Wade?
A. No.
Q. Have you ever seen Wade hug Mr. Jackson?
A. Yes, I have.
Q. Have you ever been suspicious of the way Wade hugs Mr. Jackson?
A. No.
Q. Have you ever seen Mr. Jackson kiss Wade?
A. Yes. 9310
Q. Have you ever seen Wade kiss him?
A. Yes.
Q. Ever been suspicious of any of this kissing?
A. No.
Q. Ever thought any of it was sexual in nature?
A. No, it was just a friendly kiss on the cheek.
In 1994, two grand juries from two seperate jurisdictions spent months hearing from prosecution-based witnesses about the Chandler case, they did not incict Michael Jackson. Los Angeles and Santa Barbara invested millions to find any evidence proving Michael was guilty, they found nothing. The very same witnesses that Tom Sneddon called to testify about the "past bad acts" were declared non-credible by the Los Angeles DA in the 1990s because their stories changed each time they sold them to the tabloids--the more money they got the more graphic the stories became. Tom Sneddon's team traveled to several different countries in the 1990s to try and locate other victims, they found none. Tom Sneddon also extended Jordan Chandler's time available to testify in the criminal case and gave him more than a decade to do so--both as part of the 1993 case and the 2003 case--yet he refused. No other "victim" has ever been given so many opportunities spread across so many years to testify than Jordan Chandler, usually statute of limitations prevent this.
As a reminder, Evan Chandler quietly filed another CIVIL suit against Michael Jackson in the mid-1990s, this time asking for $60 million and his own musical album. That case was tossed out of court and the few media outlets who reported on it at the time were appalled by Chandler's money-driven motives. Again, this family had every legal right to testify criminally against Michael Jackson and to help secure his conviction. Jordan Chandler could have testified as a child or as an adult. They could have kept the money that they received in the civil settlement and still testified criminally to convict the person they claimed abused Jordan. They did nothing of the sort!
Below is an excerpt of a verbatim transcript of a 1994 audio recording between Anthony Pellicano and Jim Mitteager as obtained by Aphrodite Jones. It is believed these recordings were used in an unrelated criminal case against Anthony Pellicano.
September 1994
PELLICANO: You have to understand something. I have nine kids. Michael [Jackson] plays with my baby. They crawl all over him. They pull his hair. They pull his nose. Sometimes he wears a bandage across his face. If I let my own kids (unintelligible) do you think there’s a chance?
MITTEAGER: Well, all things being equal, I would say, no.
PELLICANO: Not only that. If you sat this kid [Jordie Chandler] down like I did, as a matter of fact, he couldn’t wait to get up and go play video games. I said, "you don’t understand how serious this is. Your dad [Evan Chandler] is going to accuse Michael of sexual molestation. He going to say all kinds of stuff." He [Jordie] says, "Yeah, my dad’s trying to get money." As a matter of fact, I (unintelligible) for 45 minutes. Then I tried tricking him. I mean, I want you to know, I’m a vegetarian. I picked this kid with a fine tooth comb. So we’re there (unintelligible) with this kid... and If you sat down and talked to this kid, there wouldn’t be any doubt in your mind either. And I said Michael is all upset. We went over and over. I tried to get him to sit down and he wants to play video games while I’m sitting there. I’m sitting there with the kid’s mother [June Chandler] and David Swartrz walks in and (unintelligible) what’s this all about? And [Barry] Rothman (unintelligible) asking questions. There is no question that Rothman (unintelligible) what this is all about."
The recording of Evan Chandler is legitimate but likely couldn't have come into evidence directly due to the manner in which is was recorded. Evan's brother Ray confirmed the recording was legitimate while trying to downplay its significance and claiming it was taken out of context.
When Thomas Mesereau spoke at Harvard University in 2005, he stated:
"
Now the one you're talking about never showed up. He's the one who got the settlement in the early 90s. And, my understanding is prosecutors tried to get him to show up and he wouldn't. If he had, I had witnesses who were going to come in and say he told them it never happened and that he would never talk to his parents again for what they made him say. And it turned out he had gone into court and gotten legal emancipation from his parents. His mother testified that she hadn't talked to him in 11 years. So, you know, there was a problem there as well."
There was as much if not even more wrong with the 1993 case than the 2003 case (which in many aspects was just a cheap copycat case to begin with).
Katherine Jackson said it best: "
If Michael molested your son, would you ask for money? Would you? No, if Michael molested your child, you wouldn't ask for money. What you would do--the first thing a man would do is beat the heck out of him, and then call the cops."
