Bratton made his announcement after he came back from vacation is what I recall, I could double check with a link, but was staying on during transition. I did see that Wikipedia said he stayed till Oct 31. Which makes perfect sense, people give notice & stay on. It was reported that it was unexpected - his wife Klieman has a career that is connected to Hollywood. They are late 50's I am guessing, susrprising to move, he was reported to have at least 3 years on his contract, but people do I suppose. From interviews I have seen, there are some even on the net, they like to be involved in policy, their integrity & reputation is very important to them. I am actually a big fan of Rikki Klieman, she is always good on CTV. There has been criticism of the crime scene of MJ's house not being handled correctly. Leiweke knew MJ was in serious condition at 12:30 according to his own words, LAPD was contacted at 1:00 before MJ went to the hospital is my memory, according to reports. I have links for it too. What was Leiweke exactly told? He said it was their worst nightmare.
I'm sorry, but who are Weitzman, Fields and Ovitz?
This Pellicano you mentioned as well is the same detective involved in 1993 allegations?
Yes, Pellicano worked for Weitzman & Fields, MJ lawyers in 93. He was convicted in 2008 on conspiracy charges along with another lawyer, phone company employee, fed agent. He double, triple dealed on his clients, lawyers etc. using wiretap information. They came close to indicting Fields & Ovitz. Fields hired Barresi, that should tell you something. Fields, Ovitz & others are being sued for their involvement in the illegal wiretapping by Geragos & other lawyers. Weitzman was on TV I think 5 times, at least once with Klieman as she was on CTV, he was Pellicano's lawyer, & he was always saying Pellicano would never roll on his clients or lawyer. An odd defense, don't you think? It was expected to be really big, there are many articles on it, although on the internet over time things do disappear. DD did several investigative pieces on it with the help of Barresi. It is my belief that Barresi was part of DD's "investigative" team & was sent by someone to make sure she did not find out too much. I still have her on tape with Kat Pellicano, I think she did a story following Fields. Kat Pellicano was basically saying I'm going to write a book & my husband told me everything. I think it would be threating to some, now she's getting a reality show. My belief is its a payoff as she remarried Pellicano right before he was sentenced. Wierd.
I think Pellicano did double dealing in 93 too, maybe before. He worked with the lawyers & they knew - he worked with the tabloids. This is what I believe Weitzman & Fields needed to hide, they needed MJ to settle to keep it out of court. They did a horrible job ion 93.
I find it very scary that Geraldine Hughes went to Pellicano with her info on Rothman & the Chandlers.
Pellicano had an extensive wiretapping setup, faxes can be intercepted too. You can find out alot of business info. This is my opinion, I find it impossible to believe he did not come across business info - contract info, bids - worth money IMO. Branca now has Weitzman as his attorney. Weitzman brought Pellicano to LA. Hmmm.
I don't believe in coincidences. Over the last 15 years there has been alot of trouble. Why?
Here are some interesting links:
http://www.royblack.com/tv/transcripts/abrams_dec3_03.html
Abrams questions whether Pellicano gave MJ bad advice
ABRAMS: Yes, which they say it is. All right, let's move on. Case two, moving on to Mark Geragos' other big client, Michael Jackson. Defense sources telling me that they're doing a number of things. They are beginning their investigation. One of the things they're doing is they're looking into private investigator Anthony Pellicano now serving time in a federal prison. Now we've known that this was going to come up because he was retained by Jackson back in 1993 when another boy made accusations of molestation. That case was settled. It will probably come up in the new case. The D.A. today saying he expects that it will and now they're investigating whether Pellicano may have given Michael Jackson some bad advice and whether he might have had a motive to do that. Roy Black, they going to make any hay out of this? Could they make any hay out of this?
BLACK: Well Dan you know I've heard the same thing that you have. I find it hard to connect that to the particular case. Let's fact it, Pellicano is pretty down right now and everyone is kicking him. The thing I would be worried about if I was on the Jackson side is whether Pellicano would cooperate in order to get some type of sentence reduction.
ABRAMS: And when you say cooperate, you mean turn on his former client?
BLACK: Sure. That happens all the time. As soon as somebody gets in prison they're always looking for a way out and it would certainly be to his benefit to cooperate with the prosecution in Santa Barbara if they would allow the feds to reduce his sentence.
ABRAMS: Howard Weitzman, is this going to be a big issue or not?
WEITZMAN: Well listen, you may recall I'm responsible for Pellicano coming to Los Angeles. I hired him...
ABRAMS: Right.
WEITZMAN: ... (UNINTELLIGIBLE) case in 1982. I think the chances of Anthony turning on any of the lawyers or any of the clients is zero. I don't think that's his frame of mind. I represented Michael in 1993. I was part of the team when Johnnie Cochran was hired. To the best of my knowledge there was nothing inappropriate done by Pellicano or anyone in those proceedings.
BLACK: Well Dan you know I've heard the same thing that you have. I find it hard to connect that to the particular case. Let's fact it, Pellicano is pretty down right now and everyone is kicking him. The thing I would be worried about if I was on the Jackson side is whether Pellicano would cooperate in order to get some type of sentence reduction.
ABRAMS: And when you say cooperate, you mean turn on his former client?
BLACK: Sure. That happens all the time. As soon as somebody gets in prison they're always looking for a way out and it would certainly be to his benefit to cooperate with the prosecution in Santa Barbara if they would allow the feds to reduce his sentence.
ABRAMS: Howard Weitzman, is this going to be a big issue or not?
WEITZMAN: Well listen, you may recall I'm responsible for Pellicano coming to Los Angeles. I hired him...
ABRAMS: Right.
WEITZMAN: ... (UNINTELLIGIBLE) case in 1982. I think the chances of Anthony turning on any of the lawyers or any of the clients is zero. I don't think that's his frame of mind. I represented Michael in 1993. I was part of the team when Johnnie Cochran was hired. To the best of my knowledge there was nothing inappropriate done by Pellicano or anyone in those proceedings.
http://www.williampavelic.com/2007/...dealing-made-him-hollywoods-top-investigator/
“If you find dirt on a celebrity, then you go to the attorney, or directly to the client, and say, ‘Hey, there’s a story brewing with the tabs, we need to quash it: Most celebrities are not gonna hesitate, because a celebrity is the most naive, infantile person in the world. They get preferential treatment, but if boulders fall on their head in real life, they don’t know what to do, other than dig deep into their pockets,” says Barresi. “Pellicano was the master of getting them to do that–the celebrity never knew how simple it was to put a fire out, or that sometimes there was never really a fire in the first place. There would be a story brewing, but the reporter couldn’t nail it down. So Pellicano would light the fire. He was the arsonist—and then he’d come back and put the fire out.” http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/business/01pellicano.html
http://gawker.com/5031386/tom-cruises-aggressive-private-investigator
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056947/news
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/studio_film/pi_paul_barresi_takes_on_scientology_91137.asp
http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/archives/just_in_wrestling_with_cruise.phtml
http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com...ual_tom_cruise_and_more_scandal_chapter.phtml
http://books.google.com/books?id=n1...&q=Anthony pellicano, howard weitzman&f=false
“It was our hope that this would all go away. We tried to keep it as much in-house as we could.” Howard Weitzman
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewnews.asp?id=19104
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190789,00.html
Weitzman leaving Fields
http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-436.html
warrant for Pellicano
http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/anthony_pellicano.htm
http://sinhablar.com/blog/2006/04/18/pellicano-and-donald-re/
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-18/business/fi-36573_1_bad-cop
Weitzman hired by MCA, Ron Meyer connection
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/07/business/fi-36788
Weitzman, Meyer - Weitzman left Universal Studios
And let me see if I got you right:
You think this guy resigned because he knew the investigation would go further and deeper than expected involving Hollywood's big names?
I was just speculating it as a possibility. This is the IU. Joe did say he went to the police a week before MJ died. My ?'s are, was Bratton told? Did he tell Leiweke?
