http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199071,00.html
Jackson Lawyer Rips Up Subpoena
Monday, June 12, 2006
By Roger Friedman
Don’t expect Michael Jackson in Los Angeles Superior Court next Monday for his court case with former associate F. Marc Schaffel. I am told that last month, both on the record and on videotape, Jackson’s lawyer Thomas Mundell ripped up a subpoena handed to him by Schaffel’s attorney, Howard King, and refused to let his client be served at a London deposition.
Not only that, but Mundell announced at the deposition that Jackson would simply not be attending the trial at all. Schaffel is suing Jackson for $4 million, and Jackson is countersuing Schaffel, claiming he stole art from him and took fees he wasn’t owed.
But in two depositions—one given last September in London and the other just last month—Jackson is said to have conceded that he didn’t know about anything Schaffel had done to him and, moreover, wasn’t clear about whether Schaffel had been his business partner or his employee.
Jackson, in fact, could not recall who his actual representative were and couldn’t name them, according to sources knowledgeable about the questioning. He did admit, however, that he didn’t like the artwork of Romero Britto, the artist who was commissioned to do several pieces for him. “It’s not my taste,” Jackson told lawyers under questioning.
He prefers, of course, portraits of "The Last Supper," in which he is featured with Disney characters.
Jackson v. Schaffel is due to start next Monday with or without Jackson. Mundell, who apparently only met Jackson the day before the May deposition, has little background of the long-running soap opera that has brought all concerned parties to this date. He has said he will win the case using forensic accountants and the trail of paperwork connecting Schaffel to Jackson.
But much of what Jackson has said in his videotaped depositions contradicts testimony from last year’s child molestation trial about his own finances. Sources say that Jackson’s reponses to questions about his own finances indicate that he either willfully lied under oath in the depositions, or paid no attention at all to testimony he made in the earlier case. The latter is pretty hard to believe, since he was present for all of it.
The new case should prove to be interesting, because Jackson hopes to defend himself by painting Schaffel as a producer of gay pornography, who doesn’t deserve reimbursement because he’s a “bad man.” But regardless of his vocation, Schaffel is known to keep meticulous records of his financial transactions. Indeed, his records were responsible for helping get Jackson acquitted last year of conspiracy when the government claimed he’d held a family against their will.
Schaffel’s bookeeping will show dozens of e-mails, memos, cancelled checks and records of wire transfers he sent to Jackson. There will be many letters and contracts presented by Jackson which he signed. In the video depositions, Jackson will be shown these documents and asked to explain how his signature got on them—even as he feigns no knowledge of them.
Jackson, by the way, despite being represented by Mundell, claims to be residing in Bahrain. According to sources, Mundell said that Jackson is now “the wealthiest homeless person in the world.” But when Jackson was asked who his Bahraini attorney was, he replied “Ahmed. I can’t remember the last name. It’s something Arabic.”
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