EXTORTION INVESTIGATION WIDENS AS GIBSON EX ANNOUNCES OPRAH INTERVIEW

10-6-2010 UPDATE: Make that Gibson Ex CANCELS Oprah interview, on advice of counsel. (Hat tip: Kelley Green.)

Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators are widening their investigation into whether Mel Gibson was the target of an extortion plot, the Los Angeles Times is reporting.

"Sheriff's officials have spent weeks probing suggestions that someone close to Mel Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his child, Oksana Grigorieva, was attempting to extort money from Gibson. No suspect has been formally named, but detectives have interviewed people involved in the couple's messy separation.

"Now detectives plan to interview two lawyers who represented Grigorieva. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said that one of the attorneys is Eric George, who formerly represented Grigorieva in her child custody case with Gibson. George did not immediately return a message on his voice mail seeking comment. The other attorney was not named."

Read the Los Angeles Times story here.

Meanwhile, entertainment website UsMagazine.com reports that Grigorieva will open up about the troubled relationship in an upcoming TV interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

She certainly is milking her 15 minutes of fame, but it is hard to see a monetary settlement from Gibson at this point—or a shot in the arm to her singing “career” which was pretty much DOA despite Gibson sinking big bucks to produce her CD that sold all of about 300 copies.

JUDGE’S TIT IN THE RINGER FOLLOWING COURTROOM TV AUDITION

"We don't offer Vaseline for that."


California’s judicial-watchdog-agency has formally charged a rookie San Diego judge with multiple counts of misconduct after she snagged an audition with the producers of a Peoples Court style realty show—and then clowned for the cameras set up in her courtroom for the audition.

According to the complaint, the California Commission on Judicial Performance—who has the power to remove a judge from the bench—alleges that Judge DeAnn Salcido had her courtroom proceedings filmed as an audition for a television show and on camera and off clowned for the show’s producers in her own courtroom, without telling defendants and their counsel what was going on.

The two bizarre days in Judge Salcido’s courtroom were preceded by her email to an entertainment lawyer admitting that she had been "setting my more interesting defendants and those with substance abuse issues" for a certain day she said would be a good day for the show’s producers to drop by and see her honor in action.

What the show’s producers saw and heard was, among other things, the following statement by Judge Salcido to a defendant:

“What that means is don't come before the court on another case ...'cause you will definitely be screwed and we don't offer Vaseline for that."

Talking a page from Jerry Springer’s playbook, Judge Salcido repeatedly encouraged audience participation in her courtroom – by having them chant slogans such as "woo woo woo", for example when she accused a defendant of being high on marijuana.

Her honor also got laughs from the courtroom gallery by throwing out one liners, such as the Jamie Foxx classic "Blame it on the a-a-a-a-alcohol."

Not even Judge Salcido's colleagues on the bench escaped her sarcasm, at one point targeting fellow judge Peter Gallagher:

“Ah, Judge Gallagher, aka assistant public defender ... Is that ridiculous that Judge Gallagher did that. I mean it's a sex offender case. Yeah, whatever, you know. A DV statute says it's mandatory but, you know,
we're the judge, we can do what we want. Quote. Justice be damned."

Pulling no punches in her naked attempt to leverage her election to the bench into a high paying television career, her honor even had a defendant cuffed and taken to jail, on-the-spot for allegedly being in contempt of court.

Other courtroom outtakes referenced by the CJP its complaint included:

“When a defendant appeared in court wearing an Oakland Raiders jersey, you remarked, "You did not come in here with that shirt," and asked, "Which door do you want to go out with, that's the Charger door [the public exit], that's the Raider door [the door for defendants going into custody]?" You then said, "Chargers door? Raiders door? Chargers door? Raiders door?", and repeatedly asked the defendant which door he wanted to go through when he left. You remarked, "365 days of the year I'm a Chargers fan. Hello, we don't take a break." You asked a woman present in the courtroom who was connected with the case, "Would you say he's smart, coming here in a Raiders shirt? No? What does that say about you, Dena, and the kind of men you pick?"

“You commented that defendant Tyrone McCoy was smiling, and then remarked to him that "they might like your smile in jail," to which the audience responded with a loud "oooo" and then laughter.”

“Daniel Lopez appeared before you in custody and admitted a probation violation. You gave him the option of an immediate 60-day jail sentence or reenrolling in a program, but facing a longer jail sentence if he failed to
complete that program. After the defendant said that he wanted to reenroll in the program and his counsel requested a moment to confer with his client, you remarked to the courtroom audience, "You guys know he doesn't want to do that don't you? Yeah. Does he need to call the lifeline? Try to tell him. Let's make a deal. I think he needs to call the lifeline. Yeah. Want to poll the audience? What should he do? Take the deal, take the deal, take the deal. The audience says, of course, the audience isn't going into custody. Really easy for you to tell him to take the deal because you're going to go home tonight and sleep on your pillows." You and the courtroom audience repeatedly laughed at your comments.”

To Judge Gallagher we say: Your 15 minutes of fame are up; please go away now.

NYC JUDGE’S “CLOWN” INSULT WINS CARJACKER A NEW TRIAL

"Would you behave like a professional, please, and not a clown?"


The panel of appellate judges did not dispute the evidence against the defendant, who attempted to steal a driver's car at gunpoint. Nevertheless, the appellate court reversed a NYC carjacking conviction due to the demeaning manner in which the trial judge overruled defense counsel’s objections—including at one point referring to the public defender as a “clown”.

Judge Robert Neary, a former prosecutor, declined comment: "I can't comment on an [those clowns in the appellate court]. It wouldn't be appropriate."

May we have some clown music please?

LAWYERS FLEE MEL GIBSON EX AS EVIDENCE OF FABRICATION MOUNTS

OK—let’s get this out of the way: On day-one of the media feeding frenzy surrounding the Russian Gypsy grifter who hustled Mel Gibson on a pregnancy scam after pulling the same game on British actor Timothy Dalton (and screwing then discarding a succession of men to get within "reproductive range" of the James Bond actor, like the common hustler she is) who then released alleged (we now know ALTERED) audio tapes featuring “Mad Mel"—who told you she was lower than gutter scum and had manufactured the entire sad saga even before she met Mel Gibson and blatantly scammed him?

HELLO, WE TOLD YOU SO.

We mean, really, Russian, no indoor plumbing, ambitious to marry Dalton, told friends (in the Ukraine where she originated from) that she would marry Dalton, screwed her way through a succession of older and younger men to meet and have her shot at bagging Dalton--and the "media" was still willing to give this gyftos the time-of-day?

As a signpost for the Mel Gibson scam, the Russian grifter immediately gets pregnant by Dalton, presses Dalton to marry, Dalton says “no problem, just sign this prenup”, and the Grifter, realizing she has been out-foxed, decamps to happier hunting grounds in LA.

Coincidence of coincidences! Of the scores of men this Russian adventurer has bedded to get out of the Ukraine, and to get to the UK to meet (and bed) Dalton, and then when she gets to Hollywood and beds Gibson—the ONLY TWO MEN IN THE UNIVERSE that this slut-gifter-con-artist gets pregnant by are the only two rich and famous men she has bedded?

OK, here is the punch line: The first set of lawyers this Gypsy-grifter hired quit, and now the second set of lawyers hired by this completely discredited scam artist have quit, including Eric George (see our prior posts, scroll down.)

And that is not all.

Rumor has it that the Los Angeles police have determined that the Russian grifter FAKED the photos of her alleged facial injuries (as we also predicted here) and are interviewing the her ex-lawyers to gather evidence in the mounting EXTORTION case against the slut. (HELLO!, a blow to the face hard enough to break off teeth is going to create visible soft-tissue damage and no black-eye was visible in the faked-tooth photos--later embellished to include the faked black-eye!)

It is also being reported in the tabloid press that the Ukrainian grifter who fled a dirt floor hovel with no indoor plumbing to the UK to hustle Tim Dalton in a pregnancy scam CANNOT PAY her huge Rodeo Drive bills she ran up in apparent anticipation of the riches she would reap in her latest scam.

From where we sit:

1. Shame on you all for judging Mel Gibson on fabricated tapes; AND

2. The Gipsy-grifter is finally about to receive JUSTICE (if not JAIL)!

Read more: Here and here

Meanwhile, the Russian-pregnancy-scam-artist is is reportedly meeting with divorce firm Troup& Troup, who boasts "Over 400 years experience in Family Law"--Ha!--pretty amazing, since a) the United States is not 400 years old--let alone California; b) what we now call "Family Law" in this state is no older that 30 years!!!! (Or does the firm mean that COLLECTIVELY its attorneys are 400 years old? Ha!!!! As if 400 hundred lawyers with one year worth of experience is equal to one very talented and experienced lawyer? Ha, Ha, Ha! Clown law firm meets clown client!!!!!!)

It looks like a DESCENDING hierarchical spiral of successive lawyers looking to cash-in, and the Russian is nearing the bottom of the barrel!!!!! (AS IN ROCK BOTTOM!!!!!)

Related: Oksana Grigorieva Switches Lawyers (TMZ)

Also Related: Mel Gibson's ex "drops" legal team

Uh, pardon our cynicism--but we think Mel Gibson's Ex was "dropped" by her (former) excellent team of criminal attorneys and NOT the other way around. Maybe the "dropping" happened because she could not pay the bills, and maybe her legal team just got tired of her serial lies. But this Russian grifter is not going to imply to the tabloid press that these top tier attorneys who used to represent her were at fault for the "droppage"--not on our watch.

Nice (but ridiculous and ineffectual) try to spin this story without the publicist who dropped you as well, moron, but no "cigar".

UPDATE: KIDDIE PORN PEDETRICIAN JUMPS BAIL

We covered the relatively obscure story of the kiddie porn pediatrician reported in the Arizona Republic here, because we figured that this story had "legs".

We were--literally--correct.

All major news outlets are now reporting that Dr. kiddie porn cut off his ankle monitoring bracelet and legged it out of town, and is now a fugitive. Dr. Emilio Luna is now being hunted by the FBI and the United States Marshals Service.

Related: Pediatrician facing porn charges flees, leaves behind car and electronic device

Stay tuned folks!

We predict that he will not get far with his face plastered all over CNN 24/7.

PEDIATRICIAN RELEASED ON BAIL FOLLOWING CHILD PORN ARREST

We have covered a lot of lawyers and judges in trouble for committing some pretty despicable acts, as well has some pretty hilarious antics, but this physician’s on-line behavior is a crime—as in federal crime: Child pornography.

The fact that the physician in question is a pediatrician puts the creep factor of the story through the roof.

"A federal judge on Friday issued the release of a Sun City pediatrician accused of sharing thousands of pornographic images of children. Dr. Emilio Luna, 40, is charged with distributing child pornography in interstate commerce", the Arizona Republic reports.

Federal agents arrested Dr. Luna after a three month investigation into the physician’s alleged file sharing activities on-line under an anonymous user name associated with an IP address traced to his parents’ home—where he lives. (Why are we not surprised that he still lives with mom and dad after practicing medicine for 10 years?)

During a search of Luna's bedroom, investigators seized hundreds of DVD’s believed to contain kiddie porn images, multiple passports and $15,000 in cash—along with two laptops, a desktop computer, and four external hard drives.

Apparently, the Doctor was so overflowing with kiddie porn images, that two laptops, a PC, and four external hard drives were not enough to hold them—he also needed 300 DVDs! Yikes!

And this man has been treating children for ten years?

We have a feeling that the Doctor’s arrest is just the tip of the iceberg, and the good Doctor did not go into pediatrics to heal children.

Read more here.

BOGUS LAWSUIT OF THE YEAR: BODYGUARD SUES FOR SEEING BRITNEY SPEARS NAKED

This item does not, in our view, require much comment.

Granted, Britney has at time been a tad overweight—but how much money could it worth to be subjected to the “ordeal” of having the Brit wear a “see-through” dress in your presence or to see her naked as a jaybird?

If the lawyer for Britney’s former bodyguard Fernando Flores gets his way, a lot of money.

Read the lawsuit, filed yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court, here.