Il discorso di Mark Geragos
Mark: "Hi, my name is Mark Geragos, I've got with me Matthew Geragos and Brian Cabiteck Uh.. We called this Press Conference today... yesterday it came out.. or was publicly reported that there had been some video cameras that were installed on the jet that was chartered by my client, Michael Jackson's company.. that took us back and forth from another location to Santa Barbara. It was disclosed that those two video cameras which also apparently had audio on them, were surotisiously placed in there, were recording attorney/client conversations... and THEN somebody had the unmitigated Gaul to shop those tapes around the media outlets in order to sell them to the highest bidder. In response to that, this morning, Mr. Cabiteck and Matthew went into a Los Angeles courtroom downtown, Judge David Yaffe's Courtroom, and obtained a temporary restraining order against that company, XtraJet. That temporary restraining order prohibits them from doing anything with that tape, with that confidential attorney/client communication... and they can not show it to anybody, they cannot duplicate it, they cannot sell it. That also...they have been restrained from doing anything with that airplane at this point. Until we have a chance to inspect it and get to the bottom of exactly who did.. what we believe is not only a violation of federal criminal law, the state penal code and an assortment of California causes of action. We've also filed suit this morning against the airline company and we reserve the right to file suit against anyone and everyone who is remotely connected with this, what I think is one of the most outrageous acts that I have ever seen in my 20 years of practicing criminal law.
The Press Conference today is not going to be question and answer. I have besides that, and announcing that, because we've been innogated with inquiries about this tape at the office. I also want to make one other statement and make it unequivocally clear. Michael Jackson is not going to be abused. Michael Jackson is not going to be slammed, is not going to be a pinatta for every person who has financial motives, for every person who thinks that they can get, as the lawyer for the Charter company said today, we had a lottery ticket and we thought we were going to do something with it. This is not the lottery, this is this man's life, this is his family's life. This is scurrilous accusations. We are going to, and I've been given full authority... We will land on you like a ton of bricks. We will land on you like a hammer if you do anything to bismurch this man's reputation, anything to intrude on his privacy in anyway that is actionable... we will unleash a legal torrent like you've never seen. We.. I believe, will put XtraJet out of business for this outrageous act, anybody who is connected with it we will put, and seek to do everything else to put them out of business. Michael Jackson is NO longer going to be somebody who is on the receiving end of every scurrilous accusation known to man. There are people out there speaking who claim to know Michael Jackson, claim to have worked for Michael Jackson who have never laid eyes on him. The press puts them on..without...unblinkingly. That is not going to go on anymore... we will demand that any outlet, that any person who comes out shows their bonifidies before they're allowed to just repeat these scurrilous actions and we will meet any accusations that's made with every legal avenue and we will not sit back and allow him to be abused...and that's what's actually going on here. If anybody doesn't think, based upon what's happened so far, that the true motivation of these charges and these allegations is anything but money and the seeking of money then they're living in their own Neverland. Thank you.
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