Year: 2006

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Trial Review: King and Viner tell Judge about Feldman’s Confession – MB#316

Trial Review: King and Viner tell Judge about Feldman’s Confession – MB#316

AUGUST 1 2006 – It has been over a year since Michael Jackson was acquitted on all false charges of child molestation by a conservative Santa Maria jury on June 13 2005.  Believe it or not, there are still members of the public who are and have been completely in the dark concerning details of and around the trial.

The day before yesterday, I received an email asking “Hey didn’t Larry King have something to do with the trial?” The requester wanted more information. And apparently, he isn’t the only one. 

With that in mind, MJEOL will pick up its Trial Review series because there is just so much information that was shallowly covered by the mainstream media or not covered at all.

This trial review deals with the non-jury testimonies of CNN talkshow host Larry King and Michael Viner, both of whom were present when civil attorney Larry Feldman (yeah, that Larry Feldman), made some startling comments about the accuser’s mother, Janet Arvizo. At last check, Arvizo was scheduled to go on trial for perjury and welfare fraud.

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Man gets prison time for taping Jackson

[b]Man gets prison time for taping Jackson[/b] Arvel Jett Reeves sentenced to eight months for secretly taping pop star Updated: 9:25 p.m. ET July 24, 2006 LOS ANGELES – An air service businessman on Monday was sentenced to eight months in federal prison for secretly videotaping Michael Jackson as the pop star flew to Santa Barbara with his attorney to surrender in a child-molestation investigation. Arvel Jett Reeves also was ordered to spend six additional months in a halfway house that offers drug and alcohol rehabilitation treatment, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan Shallman. He also must pay a $1,000 fine. Reeves and co-defendant Jeffrey Borer admitted they installed two digital video recorders to record “a professional entertainer” and his lawyer on a private jet from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara in November 2003, according to their plea agreements filed last September.

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Phase Two in Jackson/Schaffel Civil Trial Set to Begin in Two Weeks – MB#315

Phase Two in Jackson/Schaffel Civil Trial Set to Begin in Two Weeks – MB#315 JULY 17 2006 – A split verdict in the Schaffel v Jackson / Jackson v Schaffel civil trial came down Friday (July 14). The jury awarded Schaffel $900,000 and Jackson $200,000. Before this lawsuit, Michael Jackson’s financial managers found that Schaffel had yet to be paid roughly $472,000 for his cut from the profits of two Jackson specials which aired in Fox in Feb 2003. Many observer of the trial were on the verge of being completely stunned that Schaffel would get a dime over the approx. $500,000 he was initially owed considering the evidence presented by Jackson’s attorney, Thomas Mundell, detailing what looked like Schaffel’s numerous financial illegalities. The Judge split the case up into two phases. As it turns out, only one of Jackson’s claims against Schaffel was heard by the jury in the first phase. The rest of Jackson’s claims for damages are scheduled to be heard in approx 2 weeks by the Judge during the accounting phase.