Yes I just plagiarized Clinton’s “It’s the Economy Stupid”, but after watching the debate last night it just seemed like a good take off on a title for this article.

In filings on September 25, did the John O’Quinn legal team blindside the court and Howard K Stern’s legal team? Originally, O’Quinn’s lawyers asked for an extension of time to turn over the financial paperwork due to Hurricane Ike. In that, “Motion to Extend Time”, O’Quinn’s legal team never mentioned a “Motion for Protection” looming in the future in place of the documents that they had pled successfully the week before to extend the time by a few days.

Then we have the assault on both Howard K. Stern and Lin Wood and the ability for ANY Court to trust either of them with “confidential information”. The Motion goes on to request that the Powell Goldstein law firm NOT share any of that information with their client Stern. The Motion for Protective Order as well is asking that O’Quinn and his law firm not having to provide the financial information until 30 days prior to trial; because the existing Agreed Confidentiality Order is not strong enough to make sure, O’Quinn’s worth is not released to the media.

In other words the lawyers can see them, an expert can see them but the client can’t because both Stern and Wood have ALLEGEDLY lied in the past and had proven to Court’s they both had been dishonest and had “leaked” papers. HUH??? The legal team is making this allegation for John O’Quinn who barely escaped from the clutches of the Texas A. G. in 2002 after years of skating on the edge of legal ethics. Including being fined, tried, sued, etc. and being probably the most instrumental reason Texas passed sweeping tort reform in Civil Suits against the type of companies O’Quinn became a billionaire suing.

My prediction is that we will see Lin Wood, the head of Stern’s legal team, become deadly serious this coming week. This is no longer just a fascinating case of watching two Titans fight in my opinion this is going to become very personal for Wood. I expect a methodical but potential deadly response to be filed in the Florida Court this coming week.

On Friday, with Wood presumably in New York for the pre-trial conference on the Howard K. Stern vs. Rita Cosby and Hachette books, another lawyer on Stern’s legal team filed a letter with the court. That letter forced Robert Klein to admit to the court that papers had not been turned over that had been previously reported to the court as having been turned over to Stern’s lawyers. Klein’s letter was in regards to the fact that O’Quinn’s legal team, when they stated in the September 15 Ex Parte Hearing that those papers had been handed over, now they are admitting that it was not quiet true. Wood wrote a letter to the court requesting those be addressed on September 12, now the legal team of O’Quinn had to admit that they were not factual in their representation on September 15 to the court but they had now handed over those “missing documents” as of September 24.

Then there is the Dawna Kaufman emails approximately eight of them to and from Don Clark and Wilma Vicedomine of which O’Quinn’s legal team told the court on July 21 they had goofed and those needed to be handed over because they had wrongfully claimed “work product” on them and had caught their own mistake. However, now O’Quinn’s legal team is asking that those same emails be looked at “in camera”. I have to wonder what is in those emails that they would fight handing them over since they are only in relations to the tabloid media that O’Quinn himself said if you believe the tabloid media then “you be stupid” cause no reasonable person would ever believe tabloid articles and/or shows.

The most stunning filing though was on September 25, the Affidavit of Rusty Hardin, Jr. Many have asked over the last 18+ months was this really all along about the Marshall money and nothing else? Many of us could never connect the Marshall attorney, Hardin, to John O’Quinn and now O’Quinn appears to have connected those dots together for all of us. You have to wonder why show that part of their hand at this point? Which led to the title of this article, “It’s the Money Stupid????”

The Affidavit of Hardin included what appears to be one page of a partial transcript of a hearing in Texas that was not authenticated or even dated. I notice that Hardin also left off listing the date of that time period in his Affidavit. So help me out here folks, for someone that never followed the saga of Anna Nicole Smith’s life, when did that hearing take place in Houston?

Do you think this connects the dots and is it about the Marshall money and not about Virgie Arthur? It left me pondering a lot about that.

This next week I expect Wood to come out with cold steel resolve in his Response to this latest alleged roadblock to gain production of documents. We also have the little fact that under the Civil Rules this Motion for Protective Order should have been filed within 14 days of service, this was instead filed on the date the Court had extended the discovery to be due because of Hurricane Ike. I did note that in the Court’s Order for Expedited Briefs Response and Replies, Stern was given to “no later than Friday, October 3, 2008”; O’Quinn was then given “no later than Tuesday, October 7, 2008, at 5:00 p.m.” to Reply to Stern if they choose to file a Reply. Could the Court be giving us a hint that the Court does not want any more filings after the court closes on the dates those filings are due?

I keep seeing that First Protective Order and Memorandum of Law by the New York Court filed over and over again in other court proceedings to slam L Lin Wood, his honesty, including that he leaks like a ship going down. However, I know of two sites other than Art Harris who had those papers in the morning well before the telephone hearing in Houston in connection to Wilma Vicedomine’s Motion to Quash and well before Wood stated he sent them to Harris after 5 P. M. The first time I read that Memorandum by the Court in New York, I did not know whether these other web site owners should take that as an insult or a compliment that they hunt through PACER and have records almost as soon as they hit the press. The judge specifically stated that because of the 275 pages filed it was very unlikely that any site could have had those and had them up without Wood’s help. Neither of the sites, I know about having the papers by 11 A. M. had ANY help from Wood and both sites “allegedly” are very heavily visited. Did Judge Chin give those sites high grades for finding the papers early in the morning of that day, or did he not realize how fast those watching this case find those little tidbits? Something I have been pondering since the Memorandum was first released. Added to that another site owner seems to continue to brag that the lawyers sit on that site almost all day long. I would think if that is true then the lawyers from all sides follow who has what and when, I would if I were them to get a feel for the public consumption about all things still related to any lawsuit about Anna Nicole Smith.

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I will also have an article up about the Howard K. Stern vs. Rita Cosby and Hachette Books and I am going to go out on a limb in that article and make some predictions as to what I think will happen before the trial date in the New York Southern District Federal Court.

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September 27, 2008
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