Michael Jackson: More incredible evidence of accuser's mother's lying & stealing

[Trauma-san]

Man, they are going to crucify this woman in court.  If you haven't read my other posts, the boy that accused Michael, has a mother who has a very incriminating past.  She's done all kinds of shit involving money, including suing J.C. Penny's for sexual harassment, and settling out of court for over a hundred grand... 2 years after the incident, after she started telling stories of harassment (which she never mentioned before).

The latest dirt:

Did Jackson Accuser's Mom Falsely Solicit Aid for Son's Treaments?

January 3, 2004

Even as embattled pop star Michael Jackson continues to offer words of appreciation for the support of his fans, "Celebrity Justice" has exclusively learned that the mother of the boy accusing Jackson of child molestation also went looking for support -- but in a very different way.

In 2000, when Jackson first met his accuser, an article appeared about the boy and his family in Mid Valley News, a community newspaper in the town of El Monte, just outside of Los Angeles. The story was an emotional appeal, detailing the boy's illness, the toll his treatment was taking on the family, and asking for readers' financial charity. "Our car has been repossessed" the mother was quoted as saying. "One chemotherapy injection costs more than $12,000."

Now, Connie Keenan, the editor of Mid Valley News, speaking exclusively to "CJ," has characterized the accuser's mother in a most uncharitable manner. "My gut level: she's a shark. She was after money," Keenan told us. "My readers were used. My staff was used. It's sickening."

In 2000, Keenan told us, the boy's mother approached the Mid Valley news and pitched her story: "She pleaded her case that her son needed all sorts of medical care and they had no financial means to provide it."

Keenan agreed to run the heartfelt story inviting readers to help, but recalled that, almost from the get go, there were red flags, including the fact that, according to Keenan, the mother, "Wanted the money sent to her in her name, at her home address."

And that was just the beginning. Keenan assigned the story to reporter Christie Causer, who was so moved by what she heard that, on Thanksgiving Day, she brought food to the family -- but, according to Keenan, "The mother, instead of being grateful that this woman brought her a complete Thanksgiving dinner, said 'I'd rather have the money. This is nice, but I'd rather have the money.'"

Keenan insisted that her paper would solicit funds only if the mother opened a trust account to receive them. Sources tell "CJ" that, nine days before the article ran, the boy's mother did open an account in her name for the benefit of the boy at a Washington Mutual bank on the Sunset Strip and deposited one cent -- but it was not a trust account.

The article gave readers a roadmap to make donations: the name of the bank, the account number, even the routing number. We've learned that, within the first three weeks after the article ran, $965 was deposited -- and $750 was promptly withdrawn. But Keenan told us that that absolutely wasn't enough for the mother: "She really wanted another story done on her son because they just didn't make enough money on the first article. And I told her -- and I can be a crusty old broad -- 'we're not doing another story on your son.'"

The mother's response? "'Well, I'll take it someplace else,'" Keenan recalled. "I said, 'Fine.'"

And as if all that wasn't enough, it turns out that the boy was being treated at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles, at absolutely no cost to the family. That's right, there were, in fact, no medical bills. All treatments were covered by insurance.

The boy's father was a teamster member who worked at a supermarket facility in the LA area. "CJ" spoke with Paul Kenny, heads of a teamster's union in LA, who confirmed that the teamsters negotiated a sweet deal when it came to health care coverage. "They're covered 100% under HMOs," Kenny stated. "Including Kaiser, which is an HMO."

"There was no cost to [the boy's father] out of pocket, at all," Kenny added. "Everything should be covered 100% under his contract. Everything. There is no exceptions."

When we asked Keenan if it was her impression that the family had to shell out for treatment, she told us, "Of course it was."

Two years after the article ran, when Santa Barbara County DA Tom Sneddon filed child molestation charges against Jackson, Keenan realized that the boy she wrote about was the accuser and made contact with Jackson's lawyer. "I just had this gut feeling that something was wrong here. So I sent a copy of the [Mid Valley News] to Mr. Geragos, who was representing Michael Jackson at the time," Keenan told us. "Because maybe there's a grain of truth to what Michael Jackson is saying -- 'I didn't do it' -- or maybe it's just to stop a shark."

Both Keenan and the article's writer reported they have recently been contacted by Jackson's defense team.

A source close to the mother spoke with "CJ" and insisted that none of the money collected was misspent but wouldn't say how the money was spent.
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Can we say SET UP

Also, there's this


Jackson Accuser's Family Has History of 'Angels'

Monday, January 03, 2005
By Roger Friedman

The mother of Michael Jackson's (search ) teenage accuser — let's call her Janet X — received monetary donations, Christmas gifts and school supplies from members of the Los Angeles Police Department in the late fall of 2001, according to a published story just discovered from that time.

On Dec. 21, 2001, a newsletter published by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Los Angeles reported how three generous cops and a whole police station chipped in to help Janet X and her children.

The family, pleading poverty, received a Christmas tree and gifts, ornaments and at least $200 in cash from the Hollenbeck division of the LAPD (search), the newsletter reported. The story, called “Chance Encounters with Cops Lead to Merry Christmas for L.A. Family,” was written by editor Bill Heard.

The two officers, along with Sgt. Eric Windham of the Hollenbeck division, were photographed for the newsletter standing in front of an ornamented Christmas tree as a reward for their generosity.

According to the newsletter story, this happened between October and December 2001, a year and several months after the family met Jackson and other celebrities through a summer camp program, received massive amounts of monetary assistance from them and was already being treated to the good life. This column has already reported that by early 2001 the family became such good friends with people like movie director Brett Ratner and comedian Chris Tucker (search) that they got to hang out on the set of the film "Rush Hour 2."

(Ratner told this column how Jackson's accuser quickly took advantage of the privileges extended to him, including refusing to vacate Ratner's director's chair on the set.)

In the MTA newsletter, Heard's story recounts how Janet X's kids were first spotted by the cops in Los Angeles' Union Station "on the same day she was having surgery." The two boys were said to be hanging around the station and crying. There's no reason given why they weren't in school.

According to the MTA newsletter, this meeting initiated a series of charitable acts on behalf of the cops, who were immediately told that the boy (who would eventually become Jackson's accuser) had had cancer but was in remission. The boy quickly showed them his scar from cancer surgery.

Strangely, the two boys' ages were reversed in the story, making Jackson's eventual accuser the younger of the two. A source tells me the mother often changed the boys' ages depending on how it would play to her advantage.

The cops — Edward Moreno and Diane Reyes — told Heard they came across Janet X six weeks later, making her way through the same subway station on crutches. She told them she was going to a job interview.

The kindhearted cops, wanting to do something for the family, went to their apartment and found a Christmas tree that had already been donated by other cops. The two officers then spent their own money to buy gifts and ornaments for the family, and proceeded to raise $200 more for them at their station house. They even bought the kids school supplies, according to Heard's story.

Heard's report does not indicate whether any of the police officers involved knew that the family was already being cared for by a phalanx of celebrities, or that the cancer-suffering boy had already been the beneficiary of an earlier fundraiser at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood.

The family had also been featured in the Mid Valley News, a newspaper in El Monte, Calif., a year earlier. A story in that newspaper documented the family's impoverished state and the boy's illness. That story also yielded funds that were donated to the family.


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Comedy Kings Used in Bogus Benefits for Jackson Accuser?

January 4, 2005

George Lopez and Chris Tucker are two of comedy's brightest lights, but now it seems that the funny men may have been used as pawns in a scam involving the family of the boy currently accusing pop singer Michael Jackson of child molestation.

"CJ" recently broke the story that the mother of the accuser got a community newspaper to run an article soliciting funds for the boy's cancer treatments in 2000, even though the family didn't have to pay a penny in medical costs because the father's insurance covered everything.

Lopez has strong ties to Los Angeles' comedy club circuit, including The Laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip, and "CJ" has learned that several non-celebrities have also had strong ties to Lopez and the club, including Jackson's accuser and his family. Lopez met the boy at The Laugh Factory's summer camp for underprivileged kids, and when the boy was diagnosed with cancer in 2000, Lopez joined Chris Tucker and others to raise money for the child.

"CJ" has learned that the family got tens of thousands of dollars from donations and various Laugh Factory fundraisers. In light of the fact that the family's insurance apparently covered the boy's treatments, the question remains: where did the money go?

"CJ" has also learned that the family recruited Fritz Coleman, TV weather personality for LA's KNBC and a stand-up comic in his own right, to do an on-air plug for a charity event for the boy held at The Laugh Factory on October 26, 2000. Though Coleman couldn't be reached for comment, we're told he believed the money was being raised for the boy's medical expenses and that he's extremely upset he may have been misled. We're also told that Jackson's defense team believes Lopez and Tucker were used as well.

Despite the boy's hospital bills being covered by the family's insurance, Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who was close to the accuser and his mother, has been quoted as saying, "Anything we raised we gave directly to the hospital, except for a couple of checks I wrote myself, which was for her apartment."

Lopez, Tucker and Fritz Coleman had no comment, but we're told all three have been contacted by Jackson's team. As for Masada, he would not comment on the statement that he gave the money to the hospital.


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This thing is going to get laughed out of court, in my opinion.

[KURUPTION-81]

props for the updates. Im looking forward to this going to court so MJ can be found innocent.

Did anyone in the UK see that prog about MJ's fans called wacko about jacko. It was descent.

[T-Dogg]

The fucked up thing about this whole MJ issue is (and I'm not taking sides here) that cases like this have forever branded him as a weirdo in some people's eyes. It's been a running joke & rumour for years, and it just got stronger with this case. Even if he is found innocent, some people will still continue to see him as that weirdo.

[Shallow]

The fucked up thing about this whole MJ issue is (and I'm not taking sides here) that cases like this have forever branded him as a weirdo in some people's eyes. It's been a running joke & rumour for years, and it just got stronger with this case. Even if he is found innocent, some people will still continue to see him as that weirdo.

People saw him as weirdo well before this or the last case. He was seen as a weirdo the second the cover for Bad was shown. Hanging out with Macauly Culkin and demanding he be introduced as the King of Pop didn't help.