Over the last year or so I was interviewed by Marty Lasden, the editor of California Lawyer Magazine, who did a huge story on Pellicano and an even larger photo lay out of me (the best part of Marty’s story!). And through the months I have spoken to numerous news agencies and given them my insights about P.I.s and the Pelican. And I told all of them of my encounters with Anthony Pellicano and his reign of bullshit. I even told a few that I had received a letter advising me, as only Anthony could do, that I was to do this and that and this…LMAO. I was told that at one time he told a very famous boxer that I was an extortionist and this kid believed him for awhile…now this is real funny looking back, comparing what Pellicano did and what I do (thank god this same boxer surrounds himself with great investment people for good advice, and not the big Goombah). Oh sure, I have had my issues with people and places, and you know what? It comes with the territory…like my daddy always told me, when you run across a cow field you are going to step in shit….and he was right! I have even been accused of using a police Captain’s business card on my dash for parking at the court house…hogwash, at the time the guy was a Lt.

Read the rest of John J. Nazarian’s article and read the letters at the below link.

http://desperateexes.com/2008/09/15/the-pellicano-letters/

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Arrived a little late this morning to the Christensen…

The Christensen legal team is kicking ass and it is Patty Glaser taking the lead. Folks, this is one investigator that is very impressed, and as many of you know it is not easy to impress John J. Nazarian. She was again on top of her game today as she made Mr. Lopez, the “Asset Protection investigator” from AT&T/SBC/shit service phone company, wish he was anyplace else but sitting in that box staring at this woman (Glaser), and he now wishing she would evaporate. She did not — she only got stronger and she made Mr. Lopez look pretty silly as to his not following up on several critical areas that should have been of huge interest to him. Such as were did the tap go? This was not a concern to Mr. Lopez…go figure, he could have done a great deal to locate where these phone lines went that were tapped by you know who and his gang… but he did nada.

Terree Bowers and Glaser are doing an incredible job in trying to get Christensen off the “cross.” The only thing I feel that Christensen has done wrong is that he trusted someone with no honor and got double-crossed. Pellicano taped his calls with Mr. Christensen 34 times…why does anyone record his own guy 34 times? Terree Bowers is no sleeper here either folks, a former U.S. Attorney, one time Chief Deputy City Attorney for L.A. and now a partner with Howrey, LLC…talk about a class act! And thank god that his style is different than Patty’s, otherwise the Feds would need ambulances parked out front to take some of these flakey participants (ie, witnesses) to a hospital. I have always said that if you want to be a witness and testify…well here you are…having fun yet?

No one can look at this story and not feel a little sorry for Terry Christensen. He practiced law for many years in this town and if you had the money he was a go to guy. I have been quoted many times that I don’t play nice and I don’t think you are supposed to when you are gathering information. And powerful law firms exists for powerful people who choose to pay the fees and expect results. Is Terry Christensen guilty? Maybe or maybe not…what is very sad is that this is a classic example of “selective enforcement.”

…Anthony Pellicano was very “giddy” today, he laughed and smiled like he had a bunch of misplaced feathers stuffed in his behind. What gives? Terry Christensen is fighting for his professional life as well as his freedom and the guy who caused all of this is acting like he is going to a dance, and right in front of Terry (if I was Terry I would pick up the heaviest thing I could find and smack this silly bird with it). Anthony needs to sit and shut up and let the Christensen defense team “tune up” the jury. …

To read the rest of John Nazarian’s unique view on the Pellicano trial click the link below. Also remember you can download all of the important court papers on the Pellicano trial in our download section of the main site:

http://desperateexes.com/2008/08/14/power-duo-glaser-and-bowers/.

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The Pellicano Trial, the Sequel picks up with the case against Terry Christensen, high-powered Hollywood attorney and the ONLY ONE of many Pellicano attorney-clients to be indicted (for allegedly paying the Pelican 100,000 sardines to wiretap Lisa Kerkorian, ex of his billionaire client Kirk Kerkorian). My very good friend Robert Iafolla, a reporter and writer for the Daily Journal, has been kind enough to keep me in the mix as to the goings-on in and around Judge Dale S. Fischer’s courtroom until I can get back there myself.

…The Fed’s witness list is under tight wraps… Or will it be Ms. “I need 323 G’s a month to live right”…girlfriend, I agree with you! And as is very evident from reading Mr. Iafolla’s stories, Judge Fischer is not taking any BS from this high profile billing machine AKA Christensen, Glaser, Fink Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro…Hmmm, has anyone spoken to Phil Specter as to how his refund is coming?

Patricia Glaser is one very talented lawyer – so talented that she has never handled a criminal defense case and now she is defending her firm’s “holy father” himself, Terry! I have to say that I have spoken to Terry and I liked him, and was amused hearing him on tape ask the Pelican, “are you yelling at me?” He is someone that powerful people trusted and I bet still do! Patricia’s comment to the jury about her “Southern accent,” cute, is she trying that bullshit “Southern Belle” routine? LMAO…she has brought both honey and vinegar to the courtroom with her…old, sour vinegar. That “Southern” thing is hilarious for those of us who have seen Ms. Glaser at work! Hmm, when I see Glaser in the courtroom, I see Leona Helmsley (I liked Leona and respected her)…anyone else?!

And to add to the courtroom antics we have Robert Shapiro, always dressed well, and of course tanned! What can we say about Robert Shapiro…

The whole gang from the “Slaughter of the Pelican” are coming back, lovely Tarita Virtue, the experts, Lily LeMasters and of course record mogul Robert Pfeifer (tiny tears). Robert Iafolla reports that Pfeifer stated, “It seemed to me I was just hustled” NO SHIT STUPID!…

There are 34 taped conversations with Terry and the Pelican and Anthony sits there like a dunce…folks this is all a part of the plan…the defense is going to pull all the feathers off the Pelican and then make him do the chicken dance, and he will dance and dance until they tell him to stop…this is the Sicilian way to save face after what he has done to Christensen…the Pelican is going to eat rotten fish and like it!

Judge Fischer has made it clear to the defense that she is on to their games and will not play it. …

Then here comes Stephen A. Kolodny, Lisa Bonder Kerkorian’s attorney who she was not all that thrilled with and did at one point seek other counsel….enter Lisa Helfend Meyer, Esquire, founder of Meyer, Olson and Lowy of Century City…….that would have been my suggestion…Oooops I almost forgot, it was my suggestion! …

Patricia Glaser, Esquire tells the jury in her opening to ”Listen for the con”…this whole defense is a “con.” Terry and others made a huge mistake and he is the one being offered for sacrifice. Is it fair? No way. Is it happening? You Betcha…but “Listen for the con!”

John Nazarian will be back with us beginning next week for his unique and humorous take on what went wrong in Hollyweird. To catch up we suggest you read some of Jhan Nazarian’s articles on his site Desperate Exes.

Also remember you can download all of the important court papers on the Pellicano trial in our download section of the main site, open to ALL not just members of Rose Speaks.com.

Read the rest of John Nazarian’s take on the second round of Anthony Pellicano, via Terry Christensen trial at the below URL

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It has been passed around in court filings from last June in California, to Florida, to New York that Mark Speer(s), a/k/a Speer, Spear and Spears, seems to have almost as much connection to all of the lawsuits in differing jurisdictions as does Wilma Vicedomine, which leads to the question of why?

In the California dueling banjos of the Birkhead sues Opri sues Birkhead cases there are a few facts they did agree on. The main one being that a disagreement over money given to Opri on or about March 2, 2007, which ended up in her client trust fund, caused a disagreement on March 13 following a hearing in California.

After that the tale gets hazy, Larry Birkhead has always claimed he fired Opri on March 13, Opri has maintained she fired Birkhead on March 15 and released a statement stating that right before a hearing in the Bahamas on the morning of March 16, 2007.

Court Filings by Opri shows she filed on March 20, 2007 to be released as Birkhead’s attorney of record in California and that the court granted that on April 23, 2007.

We have many allegations if you all remember of whether Rita Cosby secured Opri for Birkhead and if Opri then released confidential information to Cosby as a thank you for the high profile client. That is a lot of he said, she said, except that Cosby does say in her book she did introduce them but did not know of any financial arrangements. Greta of Fox, during a L. A. Times article on the woes of Debra Opri did recount a conversation she had with Birkhead in September 2006 in which she said Birkhead told her Opri was going to represent him free. Opri, Cosby and Paul Barresi all agree they met and became friends during the Michael Jackson Criminal Trial in California in 1993.

Then there are all of those people in all of these suits, especially the lawyers of Cosby, Opri, Arthur tend to keep mentioning the Marshall monies Dannielynn might get one day, which seems to be an ongoing current in all of these cases and with all of these people.

In Opri’s filings, and statements made by both Ford Shelley and Ron Rale there was a meeting in Rale’s hotel room between Shelley, Birkhead and Howard K. Stern about funeral arrangements for Anna Nicole Smith as well as attempting to reach agreements on all disputed facts including Horizons and a private DNA test for Larry Birkhead. This meeting occurred the night of the last day of hearings in Florida in February 2007. However, until Cosby’s book was published that is the only meeting anyone has ever talked about other than Opri thanked Stern on the last day of hearings for Stern agreeing to allow Birkhead permission to see Dannielynn during Birkhead’s next visit to the Bahamas.

In Court Filings in California, Opri seems to “believe and states” that Birkhead and Harvey Levin of TMZ.com were “good friends”. Larry Birkhead bragged about that per Opri’s filings, including releasing her bill to TMZ.com, and it does appear that TMZ.com had the exclusive following Birkhead’s ten-hour deposition this week. So perhaps that allegation is true, after all it would appear that possibly TMZ.com might have bought some of Birkhead’s celebrity pictures over the years to me, what do y’all think?

Then comes the surprise why did John O’Quinn’s law firm claimed “privilege” on all third party correspondence that ended up with Wilma Vicedomine to “check out” but not those that ended up with the rest of the firm including Don Clark. Thus, the law firm released the long rambling email of Carolyn Herring, which several thought was hiney einy of Florida only after reading that email it is clear that Ms. Herring lives in Texas in the Dallas Fort Worth area. There is a long rambling correspondence with a Howard Lynn, which is just that. Then there are emails from a Joyce Cornwell of Florida that is interesting, as well as a nurse from Denton Texas offering her service “pro bono” to Virgie Arthur. Many of you have pointed out the interesting email from someone claiming to be with the Montel Williams show, which is interesting only in that Cosby ended up on that show with Don Clark and others selling her book in the fall of 2007.

There is a fan email from Marilyn Williamson of Fenandina Beach Florida, dated March 28, 2007. Ms. Williamson is proud to say she figured out John O’Quinn’s strategy in getting Howard K. Stern to file a slander suit against O’Quinn for the “m” word so O’Quinn could get jurisdiction over Stern in Texas, now that is an interesting email since it now appears to have a ring of truth to it.

However, I found three emails of particular interest, one from Virgie Arthur’s Bahamian lawyer, Debra Rose. That email states to Don Clark the following:

“Debra Rose wrote:

Don,
We are aware of the Bahamian connection; add to that the son of Roger Gomez, Roger Gomez, Jr., was recently an associate of the law firm of Lockhart and Munroe, Howard Stern’s attorneys.

DEBRA”

You have to wonder why O’Quinn did not claim attorney-client privilege on that one for Virgie Arthur.

But then there are some interesting letters and two very interesting emails, the letters are to and from Brian Cavanagh in Florida as well as the FBI in Miami asking for a more thorough investigation into Anna Nicole’s death.

The letter to the FBI states in part the following:

Dated April 16, 2007

“[A]n expert, Mr. David Liebman, a two time president of the National Association of Document Examiners, says the signature appears to be a forgery is also enclosed. Additionally I [Clark] have enclosed a copy of a magazine article that identifies the expert who says he believes the signature of the Will is a forgery.

Based on the investigation conducted by this law firm, the media and private citizens, we strongly believe that Anna’s death was anything but an accidental overdose. We believe that there should be a thorough investigation into Ms. Smith’s death, which would not be complete without including the circumstance surrounding the death of her son, Daniel smith, who died in the Bahamas on September 10, 2006 under almost identical circumstances…

Don Clark then names both DEA agents and telephone numbers in California that are conducting an investigation, Lisa Troncoso and Alma Tongson, as well as Jon Genens an “investigator” for the State of California Medical Board, are investigating the methods of procuring prescription drugs”.

Clark thanks SSA Patrick G. Brodsky, for taking the time and meeting with him [Clark] on “April 11, 2007 to discuss what I [Clark] believe to be severe mis-steps and incomplete investigations conducted by the Seminole Police Department”, (OUCH!), “surrounding the death of Anna Nicole Smith. I am available to provide you with any assistance I can to ensure justice is done as it relates to Ms. Smith’s death and the death of her son Daniel. I can be contacted at any time at the below numbers…”

Don Clark sends a CC to Valerie Parlave, Assistant Special Agent In charge, FBI, Miami Division.

Then we have the letter dated August 2, 2007 from Brian T. Cavanagh to Don Clark that states in part:

“August 2, 2007

From Brian T. Cavanagh

“…letter dated July 23, 2007, and our follow-up telephone conversation this week with a “representative of your firm”.”

No date but in response to the August 2, 2007 letter Don Clark makes some interesting statements.

Don Clark says in part “…However, I and others in the law firm do believe that the investigations was not conducted in sufficient depth to determine actual motives and more detailed actions of the individuals surrounding Ms. Smith from prior to her travels between the Bahamas and the Hard Rock Hotel on the Seminole Reservation. I [Clark] believe that a more detailed look into individuals associated with Ms. Smith and the actions of each of the individuals prior to her clinical time of death will produce different results.

…Frankly sir, we don’t question the coroner’s conclusion that Ms. Smith died of an overdose of various drugs, but we do question that her death was accidental. We find it extremely unbelievable that a person in Ms. Smith’s mental and physical condition, which has been established by witnesses and according to Howard Stern, was never left alone, could have the quantity of drugs found in her body as a result of ingestion or by using a syringe herself.

Below, is a partial list of individuals and what information they should provide. Some of the witnesses may require subpoenas. However, I believe their information is key to developing the whole truth surrounding Ms. Smith’s death.

Witness number 1 is Mark Speer.

Now in August of 2007 we seem to have a different story from Tas including “information regarding computers and cell phone activities”, as well as Moe, [which goes to Moe Moe tell us it ain't so did you sell out prior to Cosby's book], Dr. Khris and the Bahamian nannies…”

Don Clark goes on to say he is, “now prepared to meet with you and your staff for the purpose of providing you with additional information, names of potential witnesses and some pertinent documents, which I believe will provide sufficient probably cause to re-open the investigation into the death of Anna Nicole Smith.”

My question is if Mark Speer was so crucial to the investigation into the death of Anna Nicole Smith why throw Mark under the bus now in July 2008?

We have Mark Speer, connected to all things California, Florida, the Bahamas, and New York as a source for Cosby’s book and now when it appears he is not needed tossed under the bus to fend for himself. You ask why we know this happened to Mark? I suggest you pull the 2 emails from Mark Wilson dated March 20, 2007, the date that Opri filed to be removed as Birkhead’s lawyer in California, very interesting timing. Both emails from “Mark Wilson” are desperate to reach John O’Quinn to tell him he worked free with Opri and Birkhead and that he has important information for O’Quinn about a “SECRET MEETING”. In the second email dated the same day the “SECRET MEETING” is added as occurring at “HORIZONS” and that Dannielynn might be in danger and what he is willing to do and for free… WOW so many working free here. However, it is that secret meeting at Horizons, which found its way into Cosby’s book. Not to mention at her New York book signing party there was Mark Speer with Don Clark, John O’Quinn and Virgie Arthur all big smiles for the photo ops.

What is interesting is Mark Wilson also goes by Mark Speer, a/k/a Mark Wilson Speer etc., and that Mr. Wilson/Speer has been a member of Rose Speaks.com from almost the beginning or Rose Speaks.com. Even after we were hacked into in November and December 2007, Mr. Speer joined quietly again on January 22, 2008 under the name of Marcus, Ooooooopppppppppss we need to add that name to the many names of Mark Speer(s). On another interesting note, it appears we had or have a pending member that is actually Wilma. These things make you all snuggly to know these people want to be close to us including trying to join our new forums, doesn’t it?

Therefore, with this article the main site member list is NOW CLOSED to all except admins. That said we welcome both Mark and Wilma. Although I must say I would have more respect if you had joined with your “real name” like John Nazarian did, just my opinion. Oh and Mark, you have my email address feel free to contact me if you would like to chat.

The password protective blog is at this url: http://www.rosespeaks.com/rose-blog/?p=357.

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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.

Where are we Heading:

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.

The chat feature will be open more with more admins available for you there, also we will be having two schedule chats a week to drop in and talk to us, and tell us what you want, give us suggestions, or talk about the latest cases we are covering. At times, we will have guest speakers for you and we are excited about those coming events. We encourage you to continue to drop in and get to know each other. We can assure you that none of the logs are kept or sent to those of us or any administrator or moderator here at Rose Speaks.com. We want you to feel safe to just cut up and enjoy that feature. If anyone is caught copying a chat that is considered a violation of our Terms of Use and Privacy policies and you will be banned from the chat feature. You can find the link to the chat on the front page of the site, or in the side link section of the main page of the blog.

The new forums, we encourage all of you to join those at http://www.rosespeaks.com/rose-forums. There are the safest and the least likely to be mined for information. There is the ability to send private messages to each other in a much safer environment with software that will guarantee your right to privacy from every other member of the forum including admins and moderators. The software we have implemented states in part; “From the FAQ off the homepage of the company who makes the forum software we are running here. “Are administrators able to view their members’ PMs?” The software we use and was developed, “strongly emphasizes individual privacy”. For this reason, “this software does not provide an interface to allow anyone (including Administrators) to view other members’ Personal Messages.” If we find out anyone has attempted to get around this safety feature that person or persons will be immediately banned per our Terms of Use and Privacy statements. We have put in some fun avatars and animated emotions to enjoy posting and we hope you have fun while posting. Again, we invite you to join today. Some of the topics can be intense with many feelings involved including the political part. Remember to disagree with the subject and not the person when you are posting a response. Rose Speaks.com encourages differences of opinions but if you want a wild west knock down rude, crude forum there are other places out there that are probably better suited for those needs if you feel they are necessary in your life. Again, Rose Speaks.com will not tolerate hate, racism or bashing others on this site. Your input here is always welcome; however; there are many web sites out there that offer a large variety of mediums, forms, forums, and blogs. We hope you find several you feel comfortable with for your opinions. You do not have to belong ONLY to this site/blog/chat; in fact, we welcome those from other blogs as contributors. We get some of our best discussions by someone sharing something here they find a link, thought provoking reading or interacting with others elsewhere.

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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July 19, 2008
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Rita Cosby has filed her “Disclosure 26 witness list” but NOT in the New York Federal Court where she has been able to get the court to agree to a gag order on almost anything Hachette Books and she feels is going to expose her to embarrassment or public ridicule. The court did issue a new “Consent Amended HIGHLY Confidential Order” as the lawsuit goes forward and while asking some witnesses to, now after the fact of the book, give Rita Cosby and Hachette Books very sensitive and personal information as the objection filed in California by Larry Birkhead’s lawyer, Michael Trope shows. The Order also allows Howard K. Stern to play by the same rules. Again, I would add it would have been nice if Cosby had tried to vet her sources before the book instead of after the book, in what now appears allegedly as an attempt of saving her Azz so to say.

We had to dig to come up with the papers in California but come up with them we did, as well as a subpoena served on CNN in Atlanta Georgia by Howard K. Stern. Yes, we have to prowl through the national databases occasionally but as with these papers we found filed in California it is well worth it.

Now what does the witness list tell us about Rita Cosby’s defense? First, we noticed she has many of the same witnesses as Howard K. Stern. However, Cosby now tells us that Bruce Littlefield of New York, alleged friend of Cosby’s good pal; James Edstrom was her “ghost writer”. James Edstrom, whom by the way is NOT on the witness list, I wonder why when he brags about being Cosby’s official photographer for years. Perhaps he will be added to the gang of Cosby’s defenders, as the trial gets closer, isn’t that what good friends are for? Perhaps James Edstrom was never a long time good friend and like so many others in this tragic tale, just hung onto the coat tails of Cosby for a bit to get his own publicity. Any of you know how long Edstrom has been Cosby’s “good buddy”? I continue to say this book read so bad that you have to wonder who wrote it and how quickly, you would think an “award winning journalist” would have taken some writing classes to get her degree. Who is Bruce Littlefield anyway, did he do some garage sale shopping books?

Back to the witness list and who are on it and who is NOT on it which can be, I predict very telling about this blond ambitious “who dunnit” novel passed as fact to readers, in my opinion. We now know that many of the allegations of sure fire, yeppers we know it, stand behind it 120% no 200% is not quite there, it now appears.

Looking at the witness list we see that “grouping of people” we have suspected will tie this up with a Los Angeles, Houston, Florida and into New York of people with similar interests and agendas, in my opinion. After you read it be sure and give us your opinion on this “grouping of people” and if you think they were “reliable” sources for Cosby’s ambitious book. You can do that here on the blog or on the new forums, named “Stern Vs Rita Cosby, Hachette Books, et al”.

Let’s start with the Texas connection: We have some that both Rita Cosby and Howard K Stern listed including, Virgie Arthur, Don Clark a private investigator for the O’Quinn law firm and the biggest surprise, per Cosby list, once again Wilma Vicedomine listed as a PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. She is listed on Stern’s list as just a “witness”, not as a private investigator as she ranks on Cosby’s list. So all of you out there that said, she is not important and never passed herself off as a private investigator when we interviewed Pol’ Atteu and Patrik Simpson, they seem to be vindicated here. Why might you ask, simply because Cosby and Hachette both have listed Wilma as just that, a private investigator? I did not know Wilma had a Texas PI license, they are hard to come by. However, per Cosby and Hachette’ list we now know that in fact she claims to be just that, a private investigator; however as the O’Quinn law firm continued to state in December 2007 only for the cases of Virgie Arthur. Can one now get a P.I. license in Texas by the mere fact of knowing a “real” P. I.? Of course, she could be a “P. I.” in training “studying under” Don Clark. I bet some of you can check into the requirements in Texas to claim that special title and get back with us on when Vice accomplished this feat. However, it does appear Wilma is in fact a Private Investigator if Cosby is to be believed.

Then we have a surprise witness on Cosby’s and Hachette’s list, John O’Quinn, was he a source or did he only loan Cosby Wilma and Clark as sources? Is Cosby going to hang these Texas people out to dry so to say if it comes down to “outing” them as prime sources for her book? Did John O’Quinn ever meet Anna Nicole Smith or Daniel Smith? What could he have been a source for in Cosby’s book, other than then what he now claims? If you believe Rita’s past now cancelled show, just like Greta’s On the Record, you have to know that is not real news, and no one believes what is on those shows, called “infotainment. Wonder if he told Cosby that no one watching her now cancelled show on MSNBC would ever accept that as anything but “infotainment”. O’Quinn has gone on to continue to say that Greta and Cosby should never be believed, that has to make both women feel warm, snuggly and loved, NOT. If you doubt that about John O’Quinn’s opinion of Cosby just read the latest filings in the federal court in Florida. None of Anna Nicole Smith’s other family members or friends are listed on Cosby’s list, although some are listed on Howard K. Stern’s list filed publicly with the New York court back in November 2007. Which by the way is when Cosby filed this list, she just chose not to make it public, must have been one of those “confidential documents”.

Then let’s swing out to California, and we have Mark Speer (only now we “think” his name is Spears, or Speers, or Spear), he was “the security person”, working for Debra Opri, the long time good friend of Rita Cosby. Then as we peruse the list we see, some more interesting people on Cosby’s list, some that did and some that didn’t make it on Stern’s list. Cosby and Stern both agree that Mark and Jackie Hatten as well as Jack Harding are all important to this case. I wonder what Jackie Hatten said in her deposition and watching her in court during the trial should be great entertainment. We have all now had a good look at jailhouse Mark Hatten; did Cosby ever look into who this guy really was before interviewing him via phone in prison for her book? You would think that “award winning journalism” might have caused her to stop for a second or two to determine his “believability scale”.

Now getting back to the ever changing tales of Jack Harding the P. I. who did talk to Daniel Smith but only briefly met him for coffee at Starbucks with Ray Martino; Jack Haring whom as the weeks following Anna Nicole’s death “story” grew and evolved kind of like Pinocchio’s nose. Jack Harding, remember him, the P. I., whom we were able to debunk on this site, using his multitude of ever changing interviews. Jack went from saying there was “one brief” meeting to having “several meetings”, from being told Daniel Smith had a previous prescription problem to saying that Don Clark had contacted him and offered to pay his expenses to the Bahamas for the Inquest. Which brings up the question, why didn’t someone as important as Jack Harding not make it on the Bahamas officials “main” people who needed to testify list, but did make it on Don Clark’s list? Jack Harding ended up, it appears, being a major source of information for Cosby’s book, did she not pick up that this guy’s story kept changing? She based almost a whole chapter on what Jack Harding had to say, including having to save John Nazarian from being treed, ah I mean fenced by Harding’s dogs.

Both Cosby and Stern continue to agree in California that Ray Martino is important; Larry Birkhead whose lawyer is trying to reign in the broad reaching subpoena with Cosby and Hachette’s lawyers to see if the new “Consent Amended Order” is enough for Cosby to be able to go through all things concerning Larry Birkhead. If I had the money to make a bet, I bet that “fishing expedition” into Birkhead’s life will be severely limited by the federal court in California if Birkhead and Cosby’s lawyers cannot reach an agreement. I might add here that Cosby and Hachette are “beefing” up their list of Pro Hac Vice lawyers to appear if a court hearing is needed in California.

Stern and Cosby both have Anna Nicole’s ex-assistant, Kim Walther on this list; as well as Ron Rale, Anna’s lawyer and ex-law partner of Howard K. Stern and still friends with Howard K. Stern. On Cosby’s list he is just listed as a friend to Howard K. Stern. Is Ron Rale the attorney close to Stern and Birkhead that Rita said in interviews that she had several conversations with before and during her writing of the book? Everyone in all lawsuits, in all states wants the ET employees, especially Bonnie Tiegel and Mark Steines; it appears they are listed in this lawsuit as well as the Houston Texas federal suit and the Florida federal suit. Am I the only one here seeing overlapping players in all three federal suits?

Both lists have Dr. Kapor and Dr. Khris listed. However, with Cosby bragging about how her book got all of the investigations kicked back into high gear, Florida and the Inquest in particular, I wonder if she can get either doctor to appear. I know we continue to lose our Constitutional Rights, but last I heard if these doctors are still being investigated by anyone then I doubt Cosby is going to get any “good and spicy” testimony from them to back up her and Littlefield’s books claims.

Now we have some interesting developments in all of this: First Pol’ Atteu and Patrik Simpson, they are listed on Stern’s witness list but NOT on Cosby’s witness list. However, we might note that making a full disclosure to us for their deposition that stated they had dinner with Cosby, her lawyer and her lawyer’s assistant in New York in mid-March and then received a subpoena in April by Cosby’s people. Remember that Pol’ and Patrik swears to us in their “full disclosure” that they only talked about raising children, and Pol’ and Patrik were “curious” about Rita so decided to take her and her lawyer up on an offer for dinner. Second, during our interview with Nathan Collins, he said up front that Hachette’s private investigators had interviewed him; he is on Stern’s list as possibly having information about Cosby’s book but not on Cosby’s list.

Then we have two surprises on Cosby’s list, John Nazarian, again why didn’t she talk to him while writing her book she put his email addy in the book so we all could email Mr. Nazarian? By the way, thanks Rita for doing that, after your book came out we emailed him and he ended up writing about the Anthony Pellicano trial for us. However, I have to wonder how many idiots emailed him thanks to you putting his email address in your book. Bottom line is that Cosby really could have contacted him if she had wanted. He would not have talked to you about any clients, like Birkhead and Stern, but I bet he could have talked to you about being treed (ah fenced) by Harding’s dogs and then saved by Harding himself. However, if Cosby had done that homework about vetting her sources that “intimidation chapter” about Mr. Nazarian would have probably had to end up on the editor’s floor.

Drum roll here, we then have Debra Opri listed as a witness. Am I the only one seeing a pattern of lawyers or ex-lawyers as key players end up on Cosby’s list of people who can vouch for her “who dunnit” book? Can Opri discuss an ex-client like Birkhead? I mean she did that June 6, 2007 filing that became almost the entire bases for chapter 12 of Cosby’s book. It is just a “minor fact” that the June 6, 2007 filing by Opri had been stricken by the California Court before the book was published, perhaps she can testify as to why she filed that in the first place. I am willing to bet that little filing has cost Ms. Opri some television appearances, some clients, but she did get a new Hollyweird term named after her, the “I’ve been Opried”.

The South Carolina, Florida and the Bahamas list of people are also overlapping in the lawsuits. However, Cosby gives us two surprises here, it appears we now know the name of the boat handyman she based so much of her book on, Todd Smith. The other person that seems to be very absent from Cosby’s list is the “male employee confidante” from the Bahamas that so much of Cosby’s book about Stern mistreatment of Anna Nicole was based on. Which brings up my next question, is it cool to put a character who is perhaps fictitious into a “non-fiction book” even though it reads like a “who dunnit” novel? Perhaps L. Lin Wood and Howard K. Stern were right in their interviews about saying this guy never existed.

I suggest you pull Stern’s witness list and the Cosby and Hachette witness lists and compare them side by side. For me it was all of the same people gathering in all of the different jurisdictions from sea to sea and to foreign countries. It seems to be a close-knit circle of “friends-enemies”, and a lot of “who dunnit” alleged theorists.

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Lots of people have been asking me for more on the Pellicano story. …Anthony prided himself not only on being a top private investigator, he saw himself as a “negotiator.” This being Hollywood, and dealing with the human nature of all that comes with that, no one really wants to play fair. Oh, for sure there are the air kisses and the “darlings” and “loved your show”…Guess what? No one really cares! They are all competing. And many of them will sell their grandmothers for a competitive edge.

Negotiating can be a real art form — bringing opposing parties together in a way that everyone feels they won something. But negotiating is not that tough when you know all the cards everyone is holding. I have learned also that negotiating and extortion are sometimes one and the same. Thanks to his “unorthodox methods,” Anthony Pellicano was very good at knowing what offer to make… …Anthony had the ability to work for both sides at the same time and get paid by both sides! Now how cool is that? …So along comes the ultimate Goombah, Mr. Omerta, and he too had the market cornered! He could convince one side and the other that they were in trouble, and that he could take care of it. If it did not go as he planned, he would orchestrate some turmoil and rumor. There are tapes out there, and there he is working the tabloids too!

And then this: when Anita Busch was targeted, some big nitwit said, “Get Pellicano!” LMAO! That’s right…bring Pellicano in to investigate himself! Can you imagine those fools looking back at that now? Why not get Nazarian, I was already there! But I was not a “contributor,” you know, how Anthony could drop little gems of insider secrets from his treasure trove to ingratiate himself. “He never left the office” it was mentioned during the trial….why should he, he had the world right at his ear! And with the help of “his” lawyers he worked these rich folks like a bunch of $3 hookers — I am not saying that there is anything wrong with a $3 hooker, as long as you got some good ampicillin or the like! But Anthony took them to the bank and to the cleaners, and in the end some of their secrets were made public. All that money and what did they get? Well, the really rich ones got satisfaction and maybe even a pound of flesh. Yes, the rich and powerful want their flesh, after all they are rich and they like being treated special! And some were even treated special during the government’s investigation.

Many of the people who got worked over by Anthony still don’t realize fully what he did. Hell, I sat in that courtroom for weeks and I know we didn’t hear it all, and we know the government didn’t find out everything. It does make you think twice about what you talk about. I had a meeting just today with someone who asked if anyone could still do the “phone olympics,” I told him that the only guy that I knew was the Pelican and he is “booked” for the next 10 plus years! Can you imagine someone asking a question like that….not tough for me, I just went into my old fashion gumshoe routine. That is how I do it and maybe when I am going real nuts I will grab the garbage! That other stuff? Hmmm, who will be the next one and who will buy?

Who will be the next “Negotiator”? No one around at this time! Why you ask? It will be a little tougher to work it as when someone tells the feds, “I think I am being wiretapped!”, I think that they may take it a little more seriously. The technology is also changing rapidly…less home phones (hard lines), more cellular and along with that will come new technology and who knows what will happen.

I do have to give Pellicano a nod, he was the best there was for what will seem like a short time as he sits and waits, and waits. All during the trial, Anthony had the calm look of someone who knew something the rest of us didn’t. Maybe he still does! But for the Negotiator who’s used to knowing all the cards and beating the house, it looks like he’s finally holding a losing hand.

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