At what point did Gerald say “Tough Shi%@*!”? I remember Ford Shelley appearing on Greta Van Susteren’s On The Record on Fox numerous times beginning shortly after the break in of Horizons with copies of tapes, pictures, emails etc. I believe I remember that Ford Shelley and his wife Gina even invited Greta Van Susteren’s on a tour of their home in South Carolina proudly showing it off and which rooms Anna Nicole Smith her son Daniel Smith and Howard K. Stern had stayed in during the Christmas holidays of 2005. Didn’t Shelley and his family, Laurie Payne and didn’t even Ben Thompson appear on at least of one of Geraldo’s shows? Then there is the March 31, 2007 hour long show that towards the end Ford Shelley told Howard K. Stern to “Bring it on”, I guess Lin Wood took Shelley up on that and it would appear if Shelley’s deposition is to be believed that Shelley cried like a baby to try to keep Geraldo from showing some tape on one of the shows, would that be the Oct. 2007 show? I also remember Shelley saying smugly that Howard [K. Stern] would be surprise when he learned how many copies of the hard drives had been made and who had them. I guess that surprise is now NOT one.

So is Ford Shelley and father-in-law G. Ben Thompson throwing one of their attorneys Susan M. Brown under the bus or would that be an eighteen wheeler?

Ford Shelley refers to both Danny Santiago, his boss lady, Ford Shelley and “for him, [Shelly], Susan Brown. Frankly I don’t see anything wrong with that, would most people who could afford an attorney have one present during a recorded statement to be used by the California DOJ or the California Bureau of Narcotics. It appears from Shelley’s June 2, 2009 deposition that is what he is saying and that it was Susan Brown and not one of his criminal attorneys he asked to be present during that taped statement.

Ford Shelley goes on to say he “avoid Agent Santiago calls until his lawyer Tommy Brittain told Shelley that he “needed to meet with [Santiago]” …”My lawyer in Florida set it up.” Both lawyers were top criminal attorneys that Shelley retained right after arriving back in the U. S. from Horizons after Anna Nicole Smith’s death. Mr. Brittain if I remember correctly went with Shelley to turn in the items taken from Horizons to the Horry County Sheriff’s department on the afternoon of February 12, 2007 and it was Shelley’s attorney in Florida, Walter “Skip” Campbell, Esq., if I am not mistaken that talked Dr. Perper into holding up the autopsy results to late in March 2007 on Smith pending that Shelley wanted Dr. Perper to look at some evidence on some computer that Shelley and his Florida attorney thought would implicate Howard K. Stern and that was all in Feb. and March 2007.

What is up with this tape of Ben Thompson on Fox about being a pedophile that Neil McCabe allegedly called about and then wanted to talk to Shelley about “did I [Shelley] find the tape?” What tape is Shelley referring to in this part of his deposition? That last conversation with McCabe occurred two weeks or mid May 2009 with Shelley if Shelley’s memory was finely alert enough to remember who and when he talked to any of these people. Before that it had been about a year ago, [May 2008], when “they came to town. ..John O’Quinn, Neil McCabe, Don Clark and WV [and] “that was to see the Clown Video”. Didn’t Ford Shelley appear at the burial proceedings in February 2007 as a witness for O’Quinn and didn’t Shelley authenticate and offer into evidence a segment of that now infamous clown video?

Some of the other highlights from Ford Shelley excerpt of his deposition on June 2, 2009 that caught by eye are the following:

“I didn’t feel comfortable…. I didn’t feel comfortable just in general. I mean, I didn’t – other than that meeting they [Neil McCabe, Don Clark and WV], asked to speak. Susan Brown set it up. … [Meeting] lasted a couple of hours maybe.” … There was nothing to tell. My issue through all of this is just about ownership of the house, not — not being drug into accusing anybody of anything because I have no knowledge of that. My issue is with the house and I don’t want to be involved in the other parts of this thing….on October the 27th of 07, on Geraldo’s show, which — I said it, Anna — when Geraldo referred to Anna in her drunken stupor and those things, it upset me. And I even clarified him and said, “No, she wouldn’t have done anything to her my child ever”, okay? and I know that. …and Howard is — he’s cold hearted. …I’m mad that it’s been drawn out this… My bitch is about the money I spent for the house and I’m being drug into these other things and what I found used against others and I don’t like it. ..No, but I’m going to say this. If she thought it was in our best interest, [Ms. Brown handing over copies of tapes to be copied], or she was served, then she has my authority to release it if that was required. …”

Here are some of the highlights that caught my eye from Ford Shelley’s excerpt of his deposition on June 3, 2009:

(Q) Did you tell Larry Birkhead that you would not return the clown video to him because it showed your daughter Riley on it and so you were therefore asserting ownership of the clown video?

(A) I told Larry Birkhead that — yes, Sir, I did…Because I meant it and I said it. And I turned it over to the California Department of Justice when I was required.

(Q) Have you talked wit her [Susan M. Brown], about why she would have given Don Clark of Neil McCabe or Anna Nicole Smith’s hard drive so that they could copy those hard drives?

(A) I called her yesterday and asked her. …She said it was part of a lawsuit that was in — with Virgie Arthur. And I told her that I don’t know and I don’t remember — I haven’t signed anything agreeing to be a party to a lawsuit. And she said “Well, I have to find out,” I said, “I *wasn’t*

(Q) So this was news to you, what she told you yesterday?

(A) You floored me yesterday, sir. … Your damn right. I didn’t know it. .. I did not know it. …So I had to back up and regroup and say, you know what, he was right to feel what he feels. His feelings are right too. He’s got feelings. And how he is taking this in matters. And I just don’t look at myself anymore. I’ve got to look at how he sees it, how I see it, but what really is the truth, and the truth is in the eyes of the beholder. There’s a happy medium. He wasn’t wrong and neither was I. We both said and did things. Truce I’m ready to go on…”

Is the “he” that Ford Shelley is talking about Howard K. Stern? If it is Howard K. Stern how will this deposition compare with the taped interview with Agent Danny Santiago? If the “he” is Howard K. Stern, how could this deposition and this last statement help or hurt the California criminal charges?

I was going to try to get this all in one article but there is just way too much. I suggest you pick up all eighteen documents filed on Monday as listed below and I will have Part 2 tomorrow which will be G. Ben Thompson and his son Gaither.

Here is a list of the documents:

July 13, 2009, The Estate of Anna Nicole Smith Response to attorney Susan M. Brown’s Motion to Quash Subpoena Duces Tecum filed in the Federal Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2199.

July 13, 2009, The Estate of Anna Nicole Smith’s Request for Oral Arguments on the Response to and request to Compel Susan M. Brown Motion to Quash Subpoena Duces Tecum.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2198.

July 13, 2009 Exhibit A – A Copy of the Original Suit in this case filed in the Federal Court in South Carolina; Court papers appointing Howard K. Stern as Executor and Special Administrator by the California Probate Court; Copy of Anna Nicole Smith’s Will; Copy of Injunction filed in the Bahamas against G. Ben Thompson and others not to interfere in the residence of Anna Nicole Smith at the house known as “Horizons”; Letter Dated March 30, 2007 from Lily Sanchez to Walter “Skip” Campbell, Esq. [Ford Shelley's criminal attorney in Florida], demanding the return of the “stolen items”; press release from Howard K. Stern from February 2007 about the items alleged stolen from the Bahamas residence known as “Horizons”; Letter Dated April 13, 2007 from Lin Wood to Walter G. “Skip” Campbell, Jr. Esq. “;. Letter Dated May 31, 2007 from Lin Wood to Thomas C. Brittain, Esq {Ford Shelley’s S. C. Criminal attorney} demanding the return of the “stolen items; Letter Dated June 21, 2007 from Lin Wood to Thomas C. Brittain, Esq. demanding the return of the “stolen items; Letter Dated July 25, 2007 from Lin Wood to Thomas C. Brittain, Esq. demanding the return of the “stolen items; Letter Dated October 30, 2007 from Lin Wood to Susan M. Brown (new lawyer for Ford Shelley in Georgia) demanding the return of the “stolen items; Letter Dated November 29, 2007 from Lin Wood to Susan M. Brown demanding the return of the “stolen items; and emails between Larry Birkhead and Ford Shelley.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2211.

July 13, 2009 Exhibit B – A Copy of the Declaration of Howard K. Stern filed in the Original Proceeding in S. C. federal Court.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2200.

July 13, 2009 Exhibit C Press Release about the alleged stolen items from “Horizons” issued by Howard K. Stern with a copy showing Fox picked it up online on February 13, 2007.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2201.

July 13, 2009 Exhibit D – Copy of Subpoena served on Susan M. Brown on June 30, 2009.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2202.

July 13, 2009 Exhibit E – Copy of Subpoena served on Susan M. Brown’s Law Office Custodial of Records on June 30, 2009.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2203.

July 13, 2009 Exhibit F part 1 – Motion and Memorandum of Law in Support to not cooperate with Rita Cosby nor respond to her Subpoena on G. Ben Thompson or Ford Shelley filed August 19, 2008 in the federal court in S. C.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2212.

July 13, 2009 Exhibit F part 2 – Exhibits filed with Motion and Memorandum of Law in Support to not cooperate with Rita Cosby nor respond to her Subpoena on G. Ben Thompson or Ford Shelley filed August 19, 2008 in the federal court in S. C. which are an exact replica of Exhibit A of these filings.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2213.

July 13, 2009 Exhibit F part 3 – Exhibits filed with Motion and Memorandum of Law in Support to not cooperate with Rita Cosby nor respond to her Subpoena on G. Ben Thompson or Ford Shelley filed August 19, 2008 in the federal court in S. C. which includes a copy of the Subpoena Deuces Tecum files by Rita Cosby on Ford Shelley and G. Ben Thompson and the letters back and forth between Luke Lantta and Susan Brown in the month of August 2008.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2214.

July 13, 2008 Exhibit G – Copy of Consented Agreed Order of Injunction prohibiting the compliance to the Subpoena Duces Tecum as issued by the federal court of S. C. on January 16, 2009.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2204.

July 13, 2009 Exhibit H – Pictures of two imaged of hard drives as they were delivered to Powell Goldstein now Bryan Cave via carrier in January 2009.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2215.

July 13, 2009 Exhibit I – Excerpts from Ford Shelley’s deposition dated June 2, 2009.

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2205.

July 13, 2009 Exhibit M – Excerpts from Ford Shelley’s deposition dated June 3, 2009

http://www.rosespeaks.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&op=getit&lid=2209.

The rest of the Exhibits will be referred to in tomorrow’s article are open to ALL to download not just members of Rose Speaks.Com.

What is Ford Shelley believable rating to you after reading through all of this?

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