Here is an exclusive for Rose Speaks.com, on November 12 at 10:00 A.M. at
The Roybal Federal Court House in Los Angeles; these are my predictions for the ‘end’ of the Pellicano saga. 16 to 20 years for the ‘Big Bird’.

I am not so sure for all of the ‘Co-Ds’, Former Sgt. Mark Arneson, the DISGRACED former Los Angeles Police Sgt…..20+. My reason for this prediction is that he never apologized, he never showed any remorse and he did it all in front of Federal Judge Dale Fischer! Judge Fischer has to put ‘Sarge’ under the prison plane and simple. This will be as an example to all law enforcement throughout the United States that behavior such as Mark Arneson’s has high rewards but don’t get caught. For it is behavior such as this that will take your freedom away and leave you and your family destroyed. Funny, actually, when you think of it, for it was Mark Arneson who gave Anthony Pellicano the ability to destroy other people’s lives and now he will pay for it with his freedom. Oh sure he has a pension and that is a substantial monthly payment, as when the feds were getting ready to arrest Mark, he retired. (Will this be attached for his victims through judgments?)

Then we have ‘Little Abner’, he is already a convicted felon and he too showed no respect to the court during the trial. He took naps and would arrive late, it was almost comical. I would also bet that the millions he and his brother took are very safe and he will one day get a chance to spend much of that money. ‘Happy Ray’ and ‘The Computer Geek’ I have no idea….again will Judge Fischer make examples of these two for the rest of the world to see…..we will see.

Meanwhile all of the ‘victims’ of ‘The Pelican & Crew’ are all posturing to get paid. And why not! This is the American way, right? All I have to say is that the real winners will be the lawyers; one in particular, if all goes well will get BIG chunks of cash off the backs of some of these victims. Many of those who paid Anthony to do the ‘deeds’ will settle quickly others will enjoy the contest of not giving in, after all was it not this very arrogance that got them into this to begin with? For the very rich, it is the arrogance that keeps their miserable little hearts pounding. Why you ask? Well, when you are so rich and miserable paying for lawyers to handle problems is as bothersome as brushing your teeth.

What is still up in the air is why? Why did Anthony just sit and not once did he ever cooperate with the government. This had to have driven the prosecution crazy! Anthony went about interviewing his victims as they sat on the stand and without question enjoyed every minute of it! Will his family be taken care of? And by who? Any financial gain will be swept away in all of the pending judgments against him. In addition, will Kat, his wife show up for the final ‘good bye’……………we will all know soon enough!

PS: And for all of the Networks News Agencies who review my writings don’t be bashful call me directly for comments…you won’t be disappointed!

For John J. Nazarian’s complete coverage of the Pellicano trial as well as other thoughts and writings by Mr. Nazarian, visit his site, DESPERATEEXES.COM.

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A little observation: Yesterday it was getting close to saying good night at the courthouse and Judge Fischer asked the jury if they wanted to stay for an additional hour or so. (So that Saunders could finish as is custom when the defense finishes he gets to have the last word.) It was agreed that they would stay and Mr. Saunders would be able to present his rebuttal to what Ms. Glaser had just stated. Well it all looked just ‘ducky’ when after a few minutes the judge announced that the jury did not want to stay……could it be that there is a few
personality issues with the ‘12’?

Well I was just notified that there maybe another big problem in that 2 or 3 jurors have sent a note to the judge and it appears that there might be trouble in paradise AKA the jury room….not sure at this point but not surprised……stand by for updates!

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Richard “Dickie” Scruggs Reported to prison on August 4 in Ashland Kentucky his son David “Zach” Scruggs will report to a different prison, Low Satellite Camp, in Forest City, Arkansas by 2 PM on August 15.

In a stunning and almost impossible to grasp turn of events, Zach Scruggs was sentenced to fourteen months in prison for not turning his daddy in. The prosecution had recommended that Zach Scruggs get probation, but the court threw out the recommendation and instead sentenced Zach to fourteen months.

Zach Scruggs reports to prison on August 15 to begin serving his 14-month sentence, just two months before his wife is expecting their third child.

Both Richard “Dickie” Scruggs and son David “Zach” Scruggs have been disbarred. While the attorney who set up the “sting” has still not been sentences and is expected to get probation.

On August 4, 2008 after Zach Scruggs made a touching plea to the court to be closer to home, since his father was denied the Pensacola Florida prison, was granted. In part Zach Scruggs’ request to be at the Arkansas Federal prison to be closer to his mother who is listed in the paperwork as “his health embattled mother Dianne Scruggs”, and to be closer to his wife and children.

Zach Scruggs is expecting his third child in October and will not be there. I hope that his mother’s health will improve and she will become the matriarch of the family and allow Zach Scruggs’ wife to lean on her through these horrible fourteen months. I hope her grandchildren give Ms. Scruggs a reason to go on and make it through this part of her son being in prison. This is Zach’s last weekend with family before reporting to the Arkansas prison. His father is in prison in Kentucky, which sadly means he is far enough from home to make weekend visits almost impossible for his ailing wife.

To date everyone sentenced to prison has been assigned to where they requested to be closer to family except for Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, who has been sent to prison far enough from home to make it almost impossible to be visited by family and friends.

After this turn of events when I talked to the family member we have been talking to through all of this, the sadness had been changed to anger at the obvious political forces involved in this and the personal vendetta they described as seeing through this process. The family member quoted a recent article in the Sun Herald of Biloxi Mississippi, which stated in recent depositions the court had refused to keep them out of the paper. In one deposition, all of the defendants had to take the 5th amendment as is required in these depositions. There was only question asked that “Dickie” Scruggs was allowed to answer by his attorneys because it was a very personal slam at Dickie Scruggs. One of the other attorneys when addressing him as his name of “Mr. Hood” to which Mr. Scruggs did answer saying “Sir, I am not Mr. Hood”.

The family member went on to say there was still a fishing expedition about an extended family member ex-Senator Trent Lott. This family member feels like much of what has happened is political pay back for the millions that Dickie Scruggs received in tort litigation over the years and mused if this same fate might one day catch up with a certain Texas law firm of very rich and very powerful lawyers.

The family member’s voice only quivered once and that was at the lost of Zach Scruggs license to practice law, they had hoped until the end he would only be suspended and would resume practicing once out of prison. His one dream for his whole life, the boy who loved to “play trial” while growing up will never be able to do that as a profession. A life’s ambition cut short not because the son was part of the bribe, but because the son refused to tell on his daddy. This family member felt that Dickie Scruggs had pled guilty and had elected not to fight an extended court battle to try to save his son, now in hindsight that was for naught.

Once someone pleads guilty no matter the turn in the sentencing or the things that follow, they cannot withdraw their plea of guilty. That leaves the question of do you think Dickie Scruggs was “screwed” on pleading guilty to save his son?

I really recommend you download and read the June 25, 2008 Memorandum of Law in the Sentencing of Dickie Scruggs it is actually a real read of his life and his accomplishments.

There is also Memorandum of Sentencing of Zach Scruggs by Zach Scruggs that outline his role in the charge he pled guilty too.

Then the heartfelt request on July 22, 2008 Zach Scruggs Request of Review of Prison for him to serve his sentence.

I want to thank the family member who has given us an exclusive look into a very rich and powerful family now laying in ruins, and grieving with many questions of why all of this for a $50,000 bribe.

After August 15, the court documents relating to the both Dickie and Zach Scruggs will be removed to make room for more case files. If you want these files for your records, please download them before August 15.

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In a brief article picked by the Houston Chronicle reporter, Brian Rogers stating in part, “HPD Sgt. A. Washington and Officer C. Foster were no-billed today, said Donna Hawkins, a spokeswoman for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.

Roland Carnaby was fatally wounded on April 29… Carnaby, 52, of Pearland was stopped for speeding… He showed the officer an identification card that he claimed came from the Central Intelligence Agency, but fled after police learned he had a license to carry a concealed weapon.

The CIA maintains that Carnaby was not involved with the agency.”

When we contacted Susan Carnaby’s attorney, Randall L. Kallinen, for a comment, he said he was not surprise at this.

We also briefly touched on the subject that slowly Mrs. Carnaby is making progress in federal Court with the latest Order that the Estate was entitled to an imaged copy of the complete hard drive of the laptop computer that Roland Carnaby had with him at the time of his death. Likewise, Mrs. Susan Carnaby was entitled to any Blackberry PDA’s, any cell phones to have the data retrieved the data, and to have any print out of any data previously printed out by any agency in possession of those items.

The City of Houston and Mrs. Carnaby has also agreed to, submitted and the Court has signed into Order the joint agreed schedule with the jury trial now scheduled for August 3, 2009.

When ask if Mr. Kallinen felt he was beginning to make progress in the case and chip away at the objections raised in filings by the City, he did feel like slowly the truth would continue to come out.

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This article was supposed to go up at the beginning of the week, but alas, as many of you know Rose Speaks.com took a slight different turn temporarily on July 15.

So here now is the news about Rose Speaks.com; what is new; where Rose Speaks.com is heading for our readers, and ending with answers you have about the emails looted earlier this week.

What’s New:

We will be having two guest authors we know about coming for your reading pleasure on some big trials in California. One is an old friend of Rose Speaks.com and we know you always love to hear from John Nazarian. The other is a new guest author and we will be so excited to bring her take on some of the most high profile trials happening. There will be a biography up for her soon. Daniel DiCriscio will be returning with some great innovative articles for you, with new ideas guarantee to capture and hold your attention. We will also be bringing you more interviews that are exclusive and one of those exclusive interviews will be up by tomorrow.

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Some site announcements. We are committed to making this site more interactive, as secure as possible and hopefully enjoyable for all of you. With that, we have a few announcements.

As Rose Speaks.com continues to grow, we have added two additional administrators, Roxanne and Heath. We have global moderators in the new forums of Daisy and Peppermint. The new forum software allows you to volunteer to moderate a topic and we welcome and encourage you to volunteer. This means the site administrators will be Roxanne, Heath, Lyndal, Ken and Rose. We hope that helps you reach someone while we continue to go through our growing pains and get any problem you encounter with the site resolved in a much shorter time period. Remember all administrators and moderators are volunteers so be gentle with them. There is a new administrator in the chat as well, Febbie. We want to thank all of these wonderful people who have donated their time to make Rose Speaks.com one of the best sites and which with their dedication the different areas of the site will continue to grow and provide hours of enjoyment for all of you. The volunteer staff and what areas they can help you with will be posted on the front page of the main part of Rose Speaks.com.

We will be making some big announcements about Rose Speaks.com the first part of August. So stay tuned and check back frequently.

On the main part of the site, http://www.rosespeaks.com the following changes are going to occur this weekend or at the latest by the first of the week. We are going to make the main part of the site accessible to more people. The calendar is open to all, the main site news, web links, announcements of documents are open to all, and the documents relating to any of the trials we are covering will be open to ALL, not just members of Rose Speaks.com. The forums on the main site are going to be closing except for those of the old articles that had to be put back up after the server was hacked, and this site including this blog section were down for part of November and December 2007. The only documents that will not be open to all for now is the debunking of the blond ambitious Rita Karen Cosby’s book; however when the trial starts in September that will be open to all to read as the trial proceeds. The ONLY two advantages of being a member of the main site are to download the debunking of Ms. Cosby’s book and to send messages to other members. Since our new forum software allows sending private messages to other members with more ease and safety for all of you. We suggest you join the new forums at http://www.rosespeaks.com/rose-forums.

Here in the blog section the following is going to happen. There will be seven articles on the first page of the blog, and one of them will be password lock for those of you who felt strongly that your ability to express yourself without fear of any chilling effects occurred a couple of months ago when a whole blog article with 459 comments was copied and put in court documents. We suggest your read our article on the Chilling Effect to get a better understanding of what happened. We cannot prevent the open parts of the site being “mined” for articles and information on articles with open blogging and used in discovery process including depositions or court filings in any of the cases we are following. Be aware that even the password locked blog will never be totally safe as we all learned this past week when a disgruntle member went into a password locked blog, copied your posts and then reproduced them on Topix and private invite only sites. That is going to happen at times and is just part of life, and part of blogging. With each new article put up there will be a link with it to the most current password locked blog. Like wise when articles are put up the link to them will be put in the password locked blog. By doing this in the future if we learn that, someone has violated our Terms of Use or our Privacy Policy it will take far less time for us to change the password and get it out to you.

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Tomorrow we will have three articles up one to explain what happened this week involving the Rose Speaks.com email server and how we are addressing that. There will be another regular article up about the blond ambitious Rita Cosby as well as an exclusive interview.

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Richard “Dickie” Scruggs had it all, a beautiful wife, a son following in his footsteps, lots of money and even a movie made about his sensational ability to take on the “big guys” and win for the small guy.

This icon had a movie made about him taking on the big tobacco companies, The “Insider” movie from 1999 with Al Pacino and Russell Crowe chronicled Dickie Scruggs taking on the “tobacco companies” in the 1990’s wining and getting a $206 billion settlement.

Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, 62, the brother-in-law of former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott earned hundreds of millions of dollars from the tobacco industries and other high profile cases and became one of the wealthiest tort attorneys in the country during a legal career that took him to the top of his profession.

The case of the icon and rich lawyer falling from grace was a result of Timothy Balducci, an attorney and associate of Scruggs, whom went to see the judge, hoping their friendship could gain favor for Scruggs. There was no money offered to the judge until the FBI told the judge to ask for $40,000 in cash and then set up surveillance at the courthouse. Balducci was arrested after dropping off the last payment. Balducci agreed to cooperate with the FBI and returned to Scruggs’ office. Balducci told Scruggs the judge wanted more money, discussed the way the judge’s order should read and captured it all with a hidden recorder. Timothy Balducci was promised a far lesser charge for helping to set up his friend and colleague.

This morning, June 27, 2008, Richard “Dickie” Scruggs received the maximum sentence of 5 years in prison, a $250k fine and after serving, his prison time would be followed by 3 years parole, reported a member of the family today in our exclusive interview. Dickie is to report to prison by August 4.

Per an AP article today, Scruggs’ son, Zach Scruggs, pleaded guilty “to misprision of a felony”, meaning he knew a crime was committed but didn’t report it. He will be sentenced next week. However, this might not be the end of Scruggs’ legal problems. His former defense attorney, Joey Langston of Booneville, has pleaded guilty to trying to influence another judge and has implicated Scruggs in that case.

Those are the facts, but we have the exclusive interview with a family member about the family’s grief of a hero and icon’s fall from grace. Because of the request for privacy the family member who agreed to give us this look into a once powerful family now laying in disarray on the condition of anonymity.

I thought back to Greta On The Record show where at the end of that hour, she said she could feel the pain of Howard K. Stern, I could feel the pain of the person on the other end of the phone about the Scruggs case and the impact on the family. There were words like surreal, numb, disbelief. There was no “excuses” made for Dickie, just a lot of pain in the voice of the person on the other side of the phone.

I knew this would be one of the hardest interviews I have ever asked for and been granted. At times as we went through the questions and the answers given me, you could hear the quiver of emotion coming through as the person struggled for composure.

I asked how a lawyer as rich, famous, and considered among his peers to be a powerhouse attorney in the country end like this facing prison and disbarment. In a wavering voice full of emotion came the answer of, “That perhaps over the years, Dickie’s ego led to greed, which led to being cocky and thinking he was beyond the reach of the law”, which sadly now we know is untrue. There had been years of rumors of possible wheeling and dealing but Dickie was also the guy who did a lot of Pro Bono work, was kind and would give you the shirt off of his back.

The voice than broke with soft sobs, saying “Why, why, and all of this for just $50k bribery of a judge, a mere drop in the bucket compared to Dickie Scruggs wealth”. The family member went on to describe Dickie as a very generous man whether to family members or just someone in need. The first thought from all of the family was this had to be a set up, Dickie would never gamble with his law career, but more importantly Zach’s law career for a mere $50k to bribe a judge. Dickie did not need to offer money, he was a great lawyer whom seldom loss in court, so again with a voice tearing up we came back to surreal, stunned, disbelief. “The family has just lost one of its icons, and it feels like a death”, this family member said.

The family member then turned to Zach, Dickie’s pride and joy and his son, a graduate of the University of Mississippi, who idolized his father. How proud both Dickie and Diane Scruggs are of their son Zach. The family member recounted that while the other kids played cops and robbers, with Zach it was always “trial” with him as the lawyer never the judge. His dream was to follow in his father’s footsteps and to make his parents proud.

Zach was the upcoming star in the family the good kid, and his daddy’s love for him was boundless. This family member felt sure that Dickie did not fight this but pled guilty in an attempt to save Zach and to distance Zach from the scandal and impending doom that surrounded Dickie.

The quivering voice of this family member for a moment came back strong with some pride left about Dickie saying, “Did you notice Dickie would make no deals?” That very well might have got him the maximum sentence because he would not turn federal witness on other pending cases.

The anguish the wife and mother, Diane Scruggs once the toast of the state, was apparent as the family member continued with this interview. Diane who has become a recluse, going to the extremes of dark sunglasses and sweatshirts with a hood to keep from being recognized the few times she has been seen out in public over the last six months.

Our interview then returned to Zach, “The love and loyalty he felt for his “daddy”, trapped him in all of this mess” the family member mused.

The family faces another sentencing of Zach next week, but the family member left me with a question, “Who could turn their daddy in? Who among us that was so close; idolized our daddy; wanted to be like him; spent his whole life only wanting to be a lawyer and work with his dad. Who among us would look the other way since we were not involved in the bribe and who among us would step forward and turn on their daddy?”

It was a question for which I had no answer, “Did the sins of the father doom the son?”

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June 27, 2008
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On June 7, 2008, Mrs. Susan Carnaby filed a Motion to Inventory the Remaining Evidence in the City of Houston’s possession that is not “disposed” of and to preserve the evidence in the City of Houston’s control or possession. Ms Carnaby presents as evidence as more in needed to preserve the evidence since the “dispose by date” was before the hearing on May 23, or in the morning before the May 23 hearing later in the afternoon.

The City of Houston has also intimated in open court that the United States Secret Services has taken control of probably the most important piece of evidence Roland’s Carnaby’s laptop computer which was in his vehicle at the time of his killing.

Mrs. Carnaby alleged in her filing that the City of Houston had already disposed of all of the evidence, and did not include critical relevant evidence of the videotapes and audiotapes of the chase and shooting, records of the call Roland made after the chase ended and the critical CIA evaluations of Roland’s CIA identifications.

The Motion furthered alleged that Roland Carnaby, age 52, frequently worked as a contractor for various federal agencies provided information and investigations into security risks to the interests of the United State for at least the CIA and the FBI and the Secret Service.

In his vehicle, Mrs. Carnaby alleged that Roland had sensitive information in his laptop computer and elsewhere regarding his national security interest investigations. Roland showed the officer his identification and the officer checked Roland’s background via the HPD squad car computers.

Although Roland Carnaby via the background checked showed that he was an upstanding citizen not wanted for anything the officers at the scene were told by an HPD superior to arrest Roland “for something” which would entail impounding the vehicle and its contents.

Mr. Carnaby allegedly became concerned if he was arrested and not permitted phone calls for several hours that sensitive information in Carnaby’s vehicle and computer could end up missing.

The Motion goes on to state that during the chase, the FBI contacted the HPD, confirmed Roland Carnaby’s status and asked HPD to call off the chase. HPD refused.

Mrs. Carnaby further requested that she be allowed to inventory the evidence and copy the laptop, Blackberry and cell phone records.

On June 9, 2008 after reviewing Mrs. Carnaby’s Motion the Court Order that the City of Houston and the Houston Police Dept. respond to Ms. Carnaby’s June 7, 2008 filing within 10 days, by June 19, 2008.

On June 19, the City of Houston filed its Response bringing up many objections including that the D. A was now involved as well as the Probate Court and those matters in Plaintiff’s Motion should be denied.

The City of Houston in their filings said the first Order on May 23, 2008 was by agreement of Plaintiff, Defense and the Court and the Motion filed on June 7 by the Plaintiff amounted to “Plaintiff now wishes to have a second bite of the apple”. If the Court grants this then all of the work done by the Court and counsel on, the order already on file becomes for naught claimed the City of Houston Response.

The city then brought up in their Response that some items requested would be best purview in the Probate Court and a Probate of Roland Carnaby’s Estate had been opened in Brazoria County court at Law#3 Cause No. PR030380. Therefore, an Order for an inventory for probate purposes should come from the Probate court. The City went on to state that any information contained on the hard drive of the laptop the Blackberry and/or the cell phone(s) is not necessary for any probate inventory.

The City of Houston goes on to state that this matter is still under investigation by the District Attorney’s office. Defendants’ information in this regard is that it should be presented to a Harris County Grand Jury possibly by the end of July. Therefore, the Plaintiff should address those things in the custody of the District Attorney’s office regarding the requested inventor.

Upon reading the City of Houston Response to the requests made by Mrs. Carnaby,’s Motion the Court contacted both sides and set a hearing for the afternoon of June 23, 2008 for oral arguments on the Motion and Response before issuing any additional Orders.

The Minutes of that hearing on June 23, 2008 shows that the Court ordered an Amended Order with Changes were discussed on the record and will be entered. Further the Court ORDERS the disposed of date be removed or changed to some far off future date. The Court FURTHER GRANTS Plaintiff’s request for a two week extension to obtain a gun expert until 7-15-2008 to retain a gun expert. The Defendant will work with Attorney Koutes to review data, information and/or items in the custody of the Defendant. However, one of the most stunning outcomes is the Court Order following this Hearing for the first time mentions the CIA has having some of the evidence in their possession.

In an exclusive with Mrs. Carnaby’s lawyer, Randall L. Kallinen, who had just came off of a big win in the Civil Rights Violation case involving K-Mart which settled for about $800k.

Mr. Kallinen had some thought provoking comments including, “There is no doubt that Roland Carnaby held a position with a Government Agency. The CIA came to check Carnaby’s credentials and then the Houston Police Dept. basically dropped it. Nothing was ever said again about Roland being a fake afterwards. They would have talked about this if they had been fake.”

Mr. Kallinen went on to point out, “There is NO criminal investigation of Roland Carnaby since he is no longer here. Therefore, there is no reason to look at his computers have nothing to due with investigation into the shooting death of Roland Carnaby.”

Mr. Kallinen ended with a prediction that his will be a very high profile case in due time.

We here at Rose Speaks.com intend to follow this case to its collusion, but the question comes up why are the CIA, FBI, Secret Service all interested in Mr. Carnaby’s death and in that computer?

You can read through all of the latest Court Filings and Orders in our download section which is open to ALL not just members of Rose Speaks.com.

June 7 2008 Mrs. Susan Carnaby Motion to Preserve More Evidence.

June 9, 2008 Court Order giving the City of Houston 10 days to Respond.

June 19, 2008 the City of Houston and HPD Response to Mrs. Susan Carnaby’s Motion.

June 19, 2008 Court Order for Hearing to hear Oral Arguments for June 23, 2008.

June 23, 2008 Minutes from Court Hearing.

June 23, 2008 New Court Order on Evidence, including what the CIA has in its possession.

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June 25, 2008
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