Isn't the Chinese cave school stunning. More pictures after the jump.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Dongzhong Cave School
Isn't the Chinese cave school stunning. More pictures after the jump.
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Haleigh Cummings Update 31 March
Haleigh's mom is getting closer and closer to saying that Misty was having an affair and that the other man is responsible for Haleigh's disappearance. It seems like a plausible theory to me. There is something about her story that just doesn't add up.
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Sandra Cantu
The Carole Sund/Carrington Foundation has joined the effort to locate a missing Tracy girl that Tracy Police believe is still alive.
The foundation is offering $5,000, bringing the total reward amount to $7,000, for information leading to the return of Sandra Cantu, 8, who has been missing from the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park since Friday night.
Tracy Police Chief Janet Theissen said at a Monday afternoon press conference that she was very thankful for the foundation's efforts.
"Information from the public is absolutely vital to solving complex cases such as this particular situation,'' Theissen said. "The rewards the foundation provides have been instrumental in closing many, many cases, and it is our hope the Carole Sund/Carrington Foundation's involvement will help us develop information that will lead us to the safe return of Sandra Cantu.''
Scott Webb, the executive director of the foundation, said rewards are often the catalyst for increasing interest and generating investigative leads for cases like Sandra's.
"Rewards not only offer hope to the family, who find themselves in this desperate situation, but they also provide a crucial element in the cases of missing persons, bringing home loved ones,'' Webb said.
Federal, state and local law enforcement, along with the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and hundreds of volunteers from throughout the area have searched north Tracy on foot and using all-terrain vehicles, horses and helicopters to find the Jacobsen Elementary School second-grader.
Tracy Police Sgt. Tony Sheneman said they have received more than 150 tips so far, with investigators believing that a handful of them are credible.
"We have no evidence to indicate she's been harmed and is not alive,'' Sheneman said. "So it is our belief that she's alive and unharmed.''
Cadaver dogs picked up a scent Sunday morning along a river north of Tracy, Sheneman said. Divers searched the water while others searched along the water line. He said there was no sign anyone had been there and nothing was found.
Police continue to question residents and search vehicles at Orchard Estates where Sandra was last seen at 4 p.m. Friday. They have expanded the search area beyond the girl's neighborhood and are concentrating on the area between 11th Street and Interstate 580, Sheneman said.
He said they've also questioned all the registered sex offenders in the area.
Unfortunately, many of the volunteers who were able to help search for the missing girl over the weekend returned to work Monday morning, leaving only 20 to 30 people available on Monday.
Sandra is 4 feet tall with brown hair and brown eyes and weighs 45 pounds. She was last seen wearing a Hello Kitty T-shirt and black leggings.
The foundation is named after Carole and Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso, three sightseers who were missing and later found murdered near Yosemite National Park in February of 1999. While they were missing, Carole Sund's parents, Francis and Carole Carrington, at the request of the FBI, posted rewards both for their safe return and for information leading to the whereabouts of their rental car. The Carringtons believe that the posting of these rewards and the media attention they received helped lead to the first break in the case. (They also helped with the reward for Lacy Peterson and many cases you haven't heard of.) This is a local case and reminds me that bad things can happen to children anywhere. Will someone please tell the Tracy police that just because they don't have proof that bad things have happened to Sandra doesn't mean that she is safe. Eight year old girls don't normally run away. So someone probably has her, and why would someone kidnap and eight year old if they aren't up to no good. Every second that she is gone she is danger. And the Tracy police need to remember that.
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15 Hospital Workers Fired For Looking At Suleman Medical File
Fifteen hospital workers have been fired for looking at medical records of octuplet mother Nadya Suleman without permission.
Kaiser Permanente spokesman Jim Anderson said Monday the violations of health care privacy laws were reported to the state Department of Public Health.
He says another eight employees were disciplined for accessing the files at Kaiser's hospital in Bellflower, where Suleman gave birth to the octuplets on Jan. 26.
Hospital officials say they do not think any information was shared with the media.
Suleman's attorney says she doesn't plan to sue the hospital for the breach of privacy.
Two of the eight infants remain in the neonatal intensive care unit.
I bet she will sue once Radar stops paying her story and she needs another way of using her children as a source of income.
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Kaiser Permanente spokesman Jim Anderson said Monday the violations of health care privacy laws were reported to the state Department of Public Health.
He says another eight employees were disciplined for accessing the files at Kaiser's hospital in Bellflower, where Suleman gave birth to the octuplets on Jan. 26.
Hospital officials say they do not think any information was shared with the media.
Suleman's attorney says she doesn't plan to sue the hospital for the breach of privacy.
Two of the eight infants remain in the neonatal intensive care unit.
I bet she will sue once Radar stops paying her story and she needs another way of using her children as a source of income.
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Victoria Beckham With Her Sons
Am I the only one shocked to see Victoria "Posh" Beckham in flip flops. But at least she's still rockin the Birkin.
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Halle Berry and Nahla
Nahla is so cute that she makes my ovaries hurt. She probably looks cranky because tulle itches like crazy. More pictures below.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
This Costs How Much?
I am all for wasting money (I consider myself something of an expert at it.), and I love J.Crew. But $98 for a cotton romper. Are they smoking crack? Who would spend that much a child's romper that is too trendy to be passed on more than once.
Haleigh Cummings Update 30 March
Ronald Cummings' defense team continues to fight back against Crystal Sheffield as the search for their missing 5-year-old daughter Haleigh continues.
Yesterday, the lawyers from Kimball & Snider, P.A., fought back against Sheffield's allegations of child abuse.
Today, the legal team is refuting statements attributed to Ronald Cummings, Jr., Haleigh's younger brother.
Citing an interview with Crystal and Junior conducted in early March by Craig Rivera, the lawyers say "shabby journalism" is what led to reports of 'Junior' saying a black man came into the house the night Haleigh disappeared.
They say the statements were made by the young boy while he was in his mother's arms, and that she coaxed his answers by putting them in her questions, and that the boy's response was "mystification and/or passive agreement" to what he was being asked.
Specifically, the lawyers say terms used by the 4-year-old such as "squeaking shoes" and "dressed in black" are not normal language for a child of that age.
Kimball & Snider also say that they have heard speculation that Crystal Sheffield received "a substantial amount of money" from Geraldo at Large, the show for which Craig Rivera conducted the interview. They add that they do not know any of that to be fact.
Have these people forgotten that their daughter is missing?
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Yesterday, the lawyers from Kimball & Snider, P.A., fought back against Sheffield's allegations of child abuse.
Today, the legal team is refuting statements attributed to Ronald Cummings, Jr., Haleigh's younger brother.
Citing an interview with Crystal and Junior conducted in early March by Craig Rivera, the lawyers say "shabby journalism" is what led to reports of 'Junior' saying a black man came into the house the night Haleigh disappeared.
They say the statements were made by the young boy while he was in his mother's arms, and that she coaxed his answers by putting them in her questions, and that the boy's response was "mystification and/or passive agreement" to what he was being asked.
Specifically, the lawyers say terms used by the 4-year-old such as "squeaking shoes" and "dressed in black" are not normal language for a child of that age.
Kimball & Snider also say that they have heard speculation that Crystal Sheffield received "a substantial amount of money" from Geraldo at Large, the show for which Craig Rivera conducted the interview. They add that they do not know any of that to be fact.
Have these people forgotten that their daughter is missing?
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Beach Ball Invitations In Containers
The weather in California is getting nice enough to start planning pool parties. This is just the invitations for those parties. You can write on the beach ball in permanent ink and then give it in the container. $12.99 for 12.
Caylee Anthony Update 30 March
And here A Lake County man, serving a 15-year prison sentence in the death of a toddler, wants his manslaughter and child-abuse convictions overturned, citing judicial and prosecutorial misconduct and the "defectiveness" of his defense lawyer, Jose Baez.
Baez is better known these days as Casey Anthony's lawyer. But last spring and summer he was busy defending Nilton Diaz.
Diaz, 31, says he did not kill or harm 2-year-old Noeris Vazquez, granddaughter of legendary Puerto Rican prizefighter Wilfredo Vazquez.
Diaz says he lost his freedom because of Baez's trial performance, strategy and failure to disclose evidence to prosecutors, a tactical decision that prevented jurors from viewing a defense video.
is the rest of it.
The video, created by a biomechanical expert, would have shown the jury how the toddler's skull fracture could have been an accident, according to new court filings.
In documents filed this week seeking a new trial and other post-conviction relief, Diaz said, " ... Mr. Baez wanted to surprise the prosecution, and the surprise blew up in the defense's face."
Baez was not surprised by Diaz's motion, a common post-conviction strategy that often cites defense mistakes to win a new trial, said the lawyer's spokeswoman, Marti Mackenzie.
"He doesn't let his ego into the way," Mackenzie said of Baez. "If this kind of motion helps an innocent man get a new trial, he hopes it's successful."
After Diaz's conviction in May, Baez was hired to represent Anthony, 23, who faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie. The toddler was reported missing July 15 — a month after her mother said she disappeared. Her skeletal remains were discovered Dec. 11 in a wooded lot near her grandparents' home in southeast Orange County.
Diaz, a time-share salesman and part-time conga drummer, was accused of causing the fatal head injury to "Noni" Vazquez, the daughter of his live-in girlfriend, Samaris Bobe Silva, and the boxer's son Noe.
Lake County sheriff's detectives say the injury occurred Feb. 11, 2006, while Diaz was alone with the child.
Silva, who met Diaz while working in housekeeping at a Disney-area resort, had left Diaz alone with the child for 10 minutes.
Diaz remains in state custody at the Taylor Correctional Institution in Perry.
The motion for a new trial was filed on behalf of Diaz by Alfonzo A. Russi, who provided Lake Circuit Judge Mark Nacke with a letter linking the imprisoned man with the Human Rights Eye Watch Agency, a Texas-based organization. The documents repeat many arguments Baez cited last summer when he urged the judge to toss out the verdicts, which he called "inconsistent" and suggested were the result of confusing jury instructions. Jurors decided Diaz did not cause the toddler "great bodily injury" but also found he caused her death.
The filing contends that Nacke, who presided over the trial, and Assistant State Attorney Bill Gross, who prosecuted the case, entered into a "silent pact ... to inflict the most severe punishment allowable by law" on Diaz for rejecting a pretrial plea-bargain offer. Nacke would not comment. Gross, however, said Diaz's claims were baseless, including those disparaging the judge and Baez.
"He should have started his motion with 'Once upon a time,'" Gross said.
Gross said Baez provided "more than effective counsel" for Diaz, challenging the state's case with arguments, experts and testimony.
Diaz testified that he was innocent and suggested that the toddler's mother may have hurt the child because she feared the Vazquez family would take Noni away.
With no eyewitnesses, the state's case focused on medical testimony, which ruled out an accidental fall.
Now Diaz is asking for a new lawyer, a new trial and conditional release from prison.
Casey Anthony will be singing the same song in about five years if she loses this case. Except that she will also be whining about an inappropriate romantic relationship, citing all those times that jail guards had too warn them about being too close.
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Baez is better known these days as Casey Anthony's lawyer. But last spring and summer he was busy defending Nilton Diaz.
Diaz, 31, says he did not kill or harm 2-year-old Noeris Vazquez, granddaughter of legendary Puerto Rican prizefighter Wilfredo Vazquez.
Diaz says he lost his freedom because of Baez's trial performance, strategy and failure to disclose evidence to prosecutors, a tactical decision that prevented jurors from viewing a defense video.
is the rest of it.
The video, created by a biomechanical expert, would have shown the jury how the toddler's skull fracture could have been an accident, according to new court filings.
In documents filed this week seeking a new trial and other post-conviction relief, Diaz said, " ... Mr. Baez wanted to surprise the prosecution, and the surprise blew up in the defense's face."
Baez was not surprised by Diaz's motion, a common post-conviction strategy that often cites defense mistakes to win a new trial, said the lawyer's spokeswoman, Marti Mackenzie.
"He doesn't let his ego into the way," Mackenzie said of Baez. "If this kind of motion helps an innocent man get a new trial, he hopes it's successful."
After Diaz's conviction in May, Baez was hired to represent Anthony, 23, who faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie. The toddler was reported missing July 15 — a month after her mother said she disappeared. Her skeletal remains were discovered Dec. 11 in a wooded lot near her grandparents' home in southeast Orange County.
Diaz, a time-share salesman and part-time conga drummer, was accused of causing the fatal head injury to "Noni" Vazquez, the daughter of his live-in girlfriend, Samaris Bobe Silva, and the boxer's son Noe.
Lake County sheriff's detectives say the injury occurred Feb. 11, 2006, while Diaz was alone with the child.
Silva, who met Diaz while working in housekeeping at a Disney-area resort, had left Diaz alone with the child for 10 minutes.
Diaz remains in state custody at the Taylor Correctional Institution in Perry.
The motion for a new trial was filed on behalf of Diaz by Alfonzo A. Russi, who provided Lake Circuit Judge Mark Nacke with a letter linking the imprisoned man with the Human Rights Eye Watch Agency, a Texas-based organization. The documents repeat many arguments Baez cited last summer when he urged the judge to toss out the verdicts, which he called "inconsistent" and suggested were the result of confusing jury instructions. Jurors decided Diaz did not cause the toddler "great bodily injury" but also found he caused her death.
The filing contends that Nacke, who presided over the trial, and Assistant State Attorney Bill Gross, who prosecuted the case, entered into a "silent pact ... to inflict the most severe punishment allowable by law" on Diaz for rejecting a pretrial plea-bargain offer. Nacke would not comment. Gross, however, said Diaz's claims were baseless, including those disparaging the judge and Baez.
"He should have started his motion with 'Once upon a time,'" Gross said.
Gross said Baez provided "more than effective counsel" for Diaz, challenging the state's case with arguments, experts and testimony.
Diaz testified that he was innocent and suggested that the toddler's mother may have hurt the child because she feared the Vazquez family would take Noni away.
With no eyewitnesses, the state's case focused on medical testimony, which ruled out an accidental fall.
Now Diaz is asking for a new lawyer, a new trial and conditional release from prison.
Casey Anthony will be singing the same song in about five years if she loses this case. Except that she will also be whining about an inappropriate romantic relationship, citing all those times that jail guards had too warn them about being too close.
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Nadya Suleman Tries To Spin Stripper Past
Octomom Nadya Suleman played coy about reports she once worked as a stripper in a new interview.
"The only thing I'm going to say is we all have a past," Suleman said in an interview Thursday on ABC Radio Networks' syndicated show, Big Boy's Neighborhood, "and I don't want to resurrect the dead . . . It's dead...but no, not like as a career or job. Not like that."
Suleman's comments came in response to a National Enquirer report that the mother of the 14 had once worked as a stripper.
The magazine quoted a close friend of Suleman's revelation of her past.
"I was 18 and at a very investigative stage of my life . . . I had not even kissed a boy," Suleman had allegedly confided in her friend, according to the Enquirer. "But I entered a dance/lingerie contest in a club near my home. I danced and paraded in lingerie. Then, when I was 19, I went to a gentleman's club and performed as a topless dancer."
She reportedly realized that closer physical contact with patrons was expected, and balked.
"I only did it one night," Suleman reportedly said. "I quit when I found out I was expected to perform lap dances on the customers."
On Thursday's radio interview, Suleman talked about her state of mind when she decided to add eight babies to her brood that already included six children.
"I was thinking with my heart, not my head," Suleman said to host Big Boy.
When asked if her friends and family thought her choice was wise, Suleman responded, "Everybody, even the donor, he was like, are you crazy?"
She quickly clarified: "Crazy in the sense that I'm doing something out of the norm. Not crazy like mentally ill or anything. Just crazy like you're different from everyone else. Why would you do that?"
Later Thursday, Suleman brought two more of her octuplets home from the hospital. The arrival of Makai and Jeremiah brings to twelve the total number of children in Suleman's care at her four-bedroom home.
The scene was markedly calmer than that which met her last week when she brought her first two babies home. In contrast to the throngs of photographers and curious onlookers, Thursday's trip home from the hospital drew only three photographers, La Habra police Lt. Tom Dutton told the Associated Press.
"The first time we were not notified and were taken a little off-guard by the media frenzy," Dutton told the AP. "We finally had dialogue with a representative of the family, an attorney, and were able to prepare for this."
Dutton told the Associated Press police closed Suleman's street, "so we didn't have any paparazzi jumping on her vehicle."
That crazy cow is full of it. And she is starting to believe that she is really a celebrity, instead of a freak show.
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"The only thing I'm going to say is we all have a past," Suleman said in an interview Thursday on ABC Radio Networks' syndicated show, Big Boy's Neighborhood, "and I don't want to resurrect the dead . . . It's dead...but no, not like as a career or job. Not like that."
Suleman's comments came in response to a National Enquirer report that the mother of the 14 had once worked as a stripper.
The magazine quoted a close friend of Suleman's revelation of her past.
"I was 18 and at a very investigative stage of my life . . . I had not even kissed a boy," Suleman had allegedly confided in her friend, according to the Enquirer. "But I entered a dance/lingerie contest in a club near my home. I danced and paraded in lingerie. Then, when I was 19, I went to a gentleman's club and performed as a topless dancer."
She reportedly realized that closer physical contact with patrons was expected, and balked.
"I only did it one night," Suleman reportedly said. "I quit when I found out I was expected to perform lap dances on the customers."
On Thursday's radio interview, Suleman talked about her state of mind when she decided to add eight babies to her brood that already included six children.
"I was thinking with my heart, not my head," Suleman said to host Big Boy.
When asked if her friends and family thought her choice was wise, Suleman responded, "Everybody, even the donor, he was like, are you crazy?"
She quickly clarified: "Crazy in the sense that I'm doing something out of the norm. Not crazy like mentally ill or anything. Just crazy like you're different from everyone else. Why would you do that?"
Later Thursday, Suleman brought two more of her octuplets home from the hospital. The arrival of Makai and Jeremiah brings to twelve the total number of children in Suleman's care at her four-bedroom home.
The scene was markedly calmer than that which met her last week when she brought her first two babies home. In contrast to the throngs of photographers and curious onlookers, Thursday's trip home from the hospital drew only three photographers, La Habra police Lt. Tom Dutton told the Associated Press.
"The first time we were not notified and were taken a little off-guard by the media frenzy," Dutton told the AP. "We finally had dialogue with a representative of the family, an attorney, and were able to prepare for this."
Dutton told the Associated Press police closed Suleman's street, "so we didn't have any paparazzi jumping on her vehicle."
That crazy cow is full of it. And she is starting to believe that she is really a celebrity, instead of a freak show.
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David Henrie Misbehaving Again
I think David Henrie is a cute kid, but not very smart. He doesn't seem to realize that his fan base is composed of ten year olds and their worried mothers. What are they worrying about...sex and partying. So maybe he should think before he is photographed out with girls who skirts are so short their butts are hanging out, and a drink in his hand.
Disney needs to send someone to babysit him in Puerto Rico before the mothers of his fan base decide he is too risky for their children to look up to.
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Jessica Alba With Family
Don't these pictures seem a little staged. It all seems very Heidi and Spencer.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Haleigh Cummings Update 27 March
New photos have been released in the Haleigh Cummings case by Haleigh's father's attorney.
The pictures come in response to allegations of child abuse against Ronald Cummings, Haleigh's father.
The law office of Kimball & Snider, P.A., is representing Ronald Cummings.
It released Thursday, via email, a press release and time-stamped photos of Haleigh -- before and after she fell at a school playground in November 2008.
Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield has said she believes Ronald Cummings abused their 5-year-old daughter, Haleigh, and their 4-year-old son, Ronald Jr.
A couple weeks ago, Sheffield's attorney, Kim Picazio, released pictures of Haleigh with a black eye and scratches on her face and her little brother with marks on his leg. Picazio said the photo she released was of Haleigh during a visit with her mother on November 16, ten days after the playground incident.
In Thursday's press release, Cummings' attorneys said on November 6th, according to Haleigh's school records, she was injured on the playground and cut her nose.
The attorneys provided a photo taken by Haleigh's paternal grandmother the day before the playground incident. The attorneys say it shows no injuries.
In the next photo provided, time-stamped almost two hours after the playground incident, Haleigh has scrapes on her nose and face.
Cummings' attorneys said Haleigh's paternal grandmother, Teresa Neves, took Haleigh to the hospital for the injury and that the staff there reported the girl had swelling and superficial abrasions. Cummings' attorneys wrote, "emergency room physicians and staff are extensively trained in recognizing, treating and reporting child abuse and it is clear there were no such concerns."
The next day, November 7th, a photo shows Haleigh's injuries were getting worse and a black eye was developing.
Two days later, November 9th, a photo shows a black eye which appeared to be worse and scrapes still on Haleigh's nose and face. Cummings attorneys wrote that the photos "show the natural progression and continuation of her response to the injury."
Then there are two pictures dated November 14th, five days later. Haleigh's injuries appeared better. Cummings' attorneys wrote, "all the swelling had subsided, with no visible lacerations or bruises."
Cummings' attorneys say he is unaware of the injury to Ronald Jr. shown in the photos released by Picazio.
Ronald Cummings' lawyers say, "The biological mother's assertion the injuries depicted exist due to abuse by Ronald Cummings is false and unsubstantiated, made recklessly without any effort to obtain all relevant information. The result has been the slander and libel of Ronald Cummings."
Cummings' lawyers also are fighting back against Crystal Sheffield's credibility, saying she had falsely accused Cummings of violence previously, but it was thrown out by the judge due to lack of credibility.
Concluding their argument, Cummings lawyers say, "Most importantly, the focus has been taken off the search for Haleigh by this tawdry and inexcusable publicity stunt."
Sheffield's attorney, Picazio, responded to the press release and photos released by Cummings' attorneys.
Picazio told First Coast News that Ronald Cummings may be able to "explain away" one incident or injury, but he will not be able to explain away all the other injuries and eyewitness accounts she has learned about.
Picazio reiterated that she has provided the Florida Department of Children and Families all of the information given to her by Sheffield and people in the community.
DCF confirms it is investigation the allegations of abuse.
Haleigh disappeared from her home February 9th in Satsuma.
If you know anything that could help find her, call CrimeStoppers at 1-888-277-TIPS (8477).
The mother does seem more interested in smearing the father than finding her daughter. Now isn't the time to be airing dirty laundry in the press. If she believes her children she should go to the police. They can help her, last time I checked Nancy Grace couldn't.
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Caylee Anthony Update 27 March
The attorney for Casey Anthony in her civil case this week filed paperwork, saying the 23-year-old mother should not have to answer questions while her criminal case is pending.
Every question proposed is "inextricably intertwined" with her first-degree murder case, wrote Fort Lauderdale-based attorney Jonathan Kasen in the four-page document.
Casey Anthony invoked her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent through nearly all the 29 written questions posed in the defamation case.
Lawyers for Zenaida Gonzalez, the Kissimmee woman suing Casey Anthony, want Orange Circuit Court Judge Jose R. Rodriguez to force Casey Anthony to answer the questions. They issued the written questions earlier this year.
Gonzalez is suing Anthony for more than $15,000 in damages. She claims she lost her job and suffered humiliation and public embarrassment after Anthony told investigators that a baby sitter by the same name took her 2-year-old child, Caylee Marie.
The toddler's remains were found six months later in December in a wooded area near Casey Anthony's family home. Kasen wrote in the motion filed Wednesday that Casey Anthony told detectives that Gonzalez the one suing her is not the baby sitter. Detectives showed her a picture of Gonzalez and Casey Anthony reported that she had never "seen that lady in her life."
Casey Anthony described the baby sitter as being around 24 years old and having no children. Gonzalez the one suing her is a 38-year-old mother of six.
Gonzalez's attorneys haven't questioned the detectives a move they should have done before attempting to question Casey Anthony, Kasen wrote.
And, Casey Anthony's brother, Lee Anthony, who was questioned by attorneys under oath, said Gonzalez the one involved in the lawsuit is not the woman described by his sister.
Kasen is asking the judge to stop Gonzalez's attorneys from getting the questions answered while the criminal case is pending. No hearing date has been set.
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Suleman Octuplet Update 27 March
In the continuing adventures of Octomom, the National Enquirer reports that Mother of the Year Nadya Suleman did some pole dancing before she had 14 kids.
Back when she was 18, Suleman was in an “investigative” stage of her life and thought she’d try out exotic dancing.
“I had not even kissed a boy. But I entered a dance/lingerie contest in a club near my home. I danced and paraded in lingerie,” she told a close pal.
“Then, when I was 19, I went to a gentleman’s club and performed as a topless dancer. But I only did it one night. I quit when I found out I was expected to perform lap dances on the customers.”
That’s totally believable.
In other Octomom news, since she’s not stripping down anymore, the cash-flush celebrity serial mother is certainly dressing better!
The woman who sent pediatric nurses packing earlier this week went on a $1,500 shopping spree at Bebe Sport the other day, TMZ.com reports. Nadya bought T-shirts, tank tops, a sexy-fit metallic cami, a woven cargo dress, crystal heart sweatsuits in two colors and sports bras to show off her postpartum figure.
Hey, if you are donating to Suleman this is where your money is going. First a thousand on make-up, now another fifteen hundred on clothes. And she's still getting Medi-Cal to pay her hospital bills (Her lawyer admitted that on Dr. Phil) . Have a look at Bebe and see how much the clothes are going for, you may just want to give your money to the Red Cross.
And before you say oh it's just a story in the National Enquirer, remember that the Enquirer is owned by the same company that owns Radar Online.
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Back when she was 18, Suleman was in an “investigative” stage of her life and thought she’d try out exotic dancing.
“I had not even kissed a boy. But I entered a dance/lingerie contest in a club near my home. I danced and paraded in lingerie,” she told a close pal.
“Then, when I was 19, I went to a gentleman’s club and performed as a topless dancer. But I only did it one night. I quit when I found out I was expected to perform lap dances on the customers.”
That’s totally believable.
In other Octomom news, since she’s not stripping down anymore, the cash-flush celebrity serial mother is certainly dressing better!
The woman who sent pediatric nurses packing earlier this week went on a $1,500 shopping spree at Bebe Sport the other day, TMZ.com reports. Nadya bought T-shirts, tank tops, a sexy-fit metallic cami, a woven cargo dress, crystal heart sweatsuits in two colors and sports bras to show off her postpartum figure.
Hey, if you are donating to Suleman this is where your money is going. First a thousand on make-up, now another fifteen hundred on clothes. And she's still getting Medi-Cal to pay her hospital bills (Her lawyer admitted that on Dr. Phil) . Have a look at Bebe and see how much the clothes are going for, you may just want to give your money to the Red Cross.
And before you say oh it's just a story in the National Enquirer, remember that the Enquirer is owned by the same company that owns Radar Online.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Babyface With Peyton
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds with daughter, Peyton and girlfriend Nicole Patenburg. Does every celebrity have an official stroller pusher? It doesn't take three people to take out one immobile baby.
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Kimora Lee Simmons' Family Day At The Park
Kimora Lee Simmons seems much more down to Earth now that she is dating Dijmon. It's like she is less about diamonds and Bentleys, and more soccer mom. Even though she was always crazy about those girls.
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Return Of A Classic
Look what I found in the grocery the other day? Nabisco has brought back Mother's classic Circus Cookies. The little pink and white cookies that people mourned the loss of just a few months ago are part of Nabisco's Classics line, and are called Iced Animal Cookies of all things. Kellogg bought the trademarks and recipe of the cookies so I don't know why they don't just call them Circus Cookies.
The cookies also don't taste the same. At first I couldn't figure out what they tasted like but slowly it came to me. The cookies now have a mild, but distinct, lemon flavor. But after a few cookies I started to like the flavor. Or maybe I was just so happy to have back a piece of my childhood that I didn't care about the taste.
Suleman Octuplets Update 26 March
The nurses from Angels In Waiting learned what the rest of the world already knew...Nadya Suleman is more concerned about the press. And they also noticed that Suleman spends a lot of time away from home for someone with four newborns at home.
Infamous octuplet mom Nadya Suleman is more interested in feeding the cameras than feeding her babies, the lawyer for a group that had attempted to help care for Suleman’s 14 children has alleged.
“How can she succeed if she is subjecting her babies to potential risks of harm? If she doesn’t even come into the nursery to feed her own babies, to hold them, to bathe them, to change them, to love them, to bond with them, except when the cameras are rolling?” Gloria Allred told TODAY’s Lester Holt Wednesday from Los Angeles.
“There’s only a few hours beyond the time when the cameras were rolling that she actually came into the nursery when she was there to care for her babies, and that’s wrong.”
Allred represents Angels in Waiting, a not-for-profit group that initially had an agreement brokered by television psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw to provide around-the-clock nursing care and developmental specialists for Suleman’s octuplets as well as the six children under the age of 8 she already has at home.
The arrangement with the group didn’t last long. On Monday, with four of the 58-day-old octuplets home and four more still gaining strength in Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, all parties confirmed that Suleman had told Angels in Waiting that their services were no longer needed.
Suleman attorney Jeff Czech said the relationship started badly between Suleman and Angels in Waiting, which has been training nannies paid by Suleman at the family's La Habra home.
“It started out adversarial and never really resolved itself,” Czech told The Associated Press. “Nadya felt that she was being judged wrongfully, and she didn't need it. All it did was make a difficult situation worse.”
Allred confirmed that the group, headed by Linda Conforti, had filed three complaints with child welfare officials about Suleman. The first alleged that the home Suleman was then living in with her mother was unsuitable for 14 children. Suleman is no longer living in that house, and is now in the La Habra home.
The attorney said the nurses were only doing their jobs. “Nurses are mandated reporters under the law. If a nurse sees that a baby or a child is endangered, neglected, abused or in any way potentially harmed — at risk of great harm — they are legally required to report that to authorities,” Allred told Holt.
Suleman has been posting daily blogs and providing video for the RadarOnline.com Web site. She also reportedly sold pictures of the birth of her octuplets, and says she is paying for her own nannies. She says the nannies are being trained by specialists from Kaiser Permanente, where the babies were born.
The single mother complained online that Conforti made her “nauseous” with continuous warnings that her babies would be abducted because of a lack of security at her home, which is located in what was formerly a quiet residential neighborhood but is now paparazzi central. When Suleman brought the first two infants home, hordes of reporters, photographers and cameramen besieged the SUV carrying her and the children, trying to pursue it into the home’s garage.
Inside, camera crews from RadarOnline were in the nursery filming. Angels in Waiting contends the camera crew and their equipment present a risk of infection to the infants.
“Our nurses were rightfully concerned about security,” Allred said. “After all, Nadya had told the world where she lives. She told the world when those babies were coming home, and as a result, hundreds of reporters came.”
The attorney said that on two occasions intruders entered the backyard of the home. Suleman asked a nanny to call 911 on the first occasion, Allred said, saying Suleman didn’t want to call herself because she feared she had already made too many calls to local police.
“Then a nanny came onto the property without showing any identification,” Allred continued. “The nanny herself indicated to our nurse that the baby could be abducted. She could have walked out with the baby in her purse. And [Conforti], the nurse, attempted to talk with Nadya about that.”
It all came to a head Sunday night, Allred said, when two infants were being brought home.
“It was a dangerous situation, a situation that was out of control inside the house as well as outside of the house,” she said.
Suleman called 911 that night to ask police to come and remove Allred from her house. Allred told Holt that Suleman then told police there wasn’t a problem and apologized to Allred, who remained until 1:30 a.m.
But by Monday, Suleman had ended her agreement with Allred and Angels in Waiting.
Allred, who is scheduled to tell more of her story on Dr. Phil’s show, repeated that Suleman is not responding to the security concerns.
“Look, we need security here for these babies. Yet, instead of providing security, she puts in her own Jacuzzi instead of hiring security guards,” she told Holt.
Is anybody actually surprised that Nadya is selfish? This is a woman who implanted six embryos even though she couldn't support the six children she already had.
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Infamous octuplet mom Nadya Suleman is more interested in feeding the cameras than feeding her babies, the lawyer for a group that had attempted to help care for Suleman’s 14 children has alleged.
“How can she succeed if she is subjecting her babies to potential risks of harm? If she doesn’t even come into the nursery to feed her own babies, to hold them, to bathe them, to change them, to love them, to bond with them, except when the cameras are rolling?” Gloria Allred told TODAY’s Lester Holt Wednesday from Los Angeles.
“There’s only a few hours beyond the time when the cameras were rolling that she actually came into the nursery when she was there to care for her babies, and that’s wrong.”
Allred represents Angels in Waiting, a not-for-profit group that initially had an agreement brokered by television psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw to provide around-the-clock nursing care and developmental specialists for Suleman’s octuplets as well as the six children under the age of 8 she already has at home.
The arrangement with the group didn’t last long. On Monday, with four of the 58-day-old octuplets home and four more still gaining strength in Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, all parties confirmed that Suleman had told Angels in Waiting that their services were no longer needed.
Suleman attorney Jeff Czech said the relationship started badly between Suleman and Angels in Waiting, which has been training nannies paid by Suleman at the family's La Habra home.
“It started out adversarial and never really resolved itself,” Czech told The Associated Press. “Nadya felt that she was being judged wrongfully, and she didn't need it. All it did was make a difficult situation worse.”
Allred confirmed that the group, headed by Linda Conforti, had filed three complaints with child welfare officials about Suleman. The first alleged that the home Suleman was then living in with her mother was unsuitable for 14 children. Suleman is no longer living in that house, and is now in the La Habra home.
The attorney said the nurses were only doing their jobs. “Nurses are mandated reporters under the law. If a nurse sees that a baby or a child is endangered, neglected, abused or in any way potentially harmed — at risk of great harm — they are legally required to report that to authorities,” Allred told Holt.
Suleman has been posting daily blogs and providing video for the RadarOnline.com Web site. She also reportedly sold pictures of the birth of her octuplets, and says she is paying for her own nannies. She says the nannies are being trained by specialists from Kaiser Permanente, where the babies were born.
The single mother complained online that Conforti made her “nauseous” with continuous warnings that her babies would be abducted because of a lack of security at her home, which is located in what was formerly a quiet residential neighborhood but is now paparazzi central. When Suleman brought the first two infants home, hordes of reporters, photographers and cameramen besieged the SUV carrying her and the children, trying to pursue it into the home’s garage.
Inside, camera crews from RadarOnline were in the nursery filming. Angels in Waiting contends the camera crew and their equipment present a risk of infection to the infants.
“Our nurses were rightfully concerned about security,” Allred said. “After all, Nadya had told the world where she lives. She told the world when those babies were coming home, and as a result, hundreds of reporters came.”
The attorney said that on two occasions intruders entered the backyard of the home. Suleman asked a nanny to call 911 on the first occasion, Allred said, saying Suleman didn’t want to call herself because she feared she had already made too many calls to local police.
“Then a nanny came onto the property without showing any identification,” Allred continued. “The nanny herself indicated to our nurse that the baby could be abducted. She could have walked out with the baby in her purse. And [Conforti], the nurse, attempted to talk with Nadya about that.”
It all came to a head Sunday night, Allred said, when two infants were being brought home.
“It was a dangerous situation, a situation that was out of control inside the house as well as outside of the house,” she said.
Suleman called 911 that night to ask police to come and remove Allred from her house. Allred told Holt that Suleman then told police there wasn’t a problem and apologized to Allred, who remained until 1:30 a.m.
But by Monday, Suleman had ended her agreement with Allred and Angels in Waiting.
Allred, who is scheduled to tell more of her story on Dr. Phil’s show, repeated that Suleman is not responding to the security concerns.
“Look, we need security here for these babies. Yet, instead of providing security, she puts in her own Jacuzzi instead of hiring security guards,” she told Holt.
Is anybody actually surprised that Nadya is selfish? This is a woman who implanted six embryos even though she couldn't support the six children she already had.
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Haleigh Cummings Update 26 March
Kim Picazio was already on her way to Satsuma from Miami Wednesday afternoon when she got our phone call. With a few hours left ahead of her on the road, Picazio shared new details about what she says happened the night Haleigh disappeared, and what she’s calling bad living conditions inside Haleigh’s home.
“Just your typical sex drugs and rock and roll life style that is not conducive to raising children,” said Picazio.
“Not one of the things I’ve heard about what goes on in the home would I even consider letting my child watch on TV, let alone exposing him to it.”
Picazio says after sifting through documents, seeing pictures and talking with family and friends, she felt compelled to seek state intervention and ask the DCF to investigate the Cummings household.
“I would be committing malpractice if I chose to hold off on bringing those allegations to the proper authorities,” said Picazio.
“Conditions of neglect to outright child abuse and to the conditions in the home which would not be conducive to raising any child.”
The Florida Department of Children and Families could not comment on the specifics of the investigation. A spokesman did tell us Picazio met with members of the DCF and presented them with documents alleging abuse and neglect. He also said the Department is reviewing the information she provided very carefully.
“The particular lifestyle that we believe is led by Misty and Ronald Cummings is one that essentially laid out the red carpet to something at some point happening to these children, and something did,” said Picazio.
The lawyer also shared with us new details about what she said happened the night Haleigh was taken. She says Ronald Junior, Haleigh’s brother, woke up when a man came into the house to see Misty Croslin, Ronald Cummings then girlfriend.
“What he stated to his mother was that he saw a black man in black clothing take Haleigh…she asked him, if you were asleep Junior how could you have seen that if you were asleep? And he said well I woke up because the man had squeaky shoes…and the couch was bouncing,” said Picazio.
“A lot of the times we hear things from 8 different people who did not know each other including eyewitnesses. And at this point we have a pretty solid timeline. We think we know what happened in that house up until about 10:30. There’s a wide gap in time from 10:30 till three in the morning and somewhere in that timeframe, Haleigh went missing,” said Picazio.
Ronald Cummings, Haleigh’s father, could not be reached for comment. His Grandmother tells us they have been advised by legal council to not speak with the media. A call to Ronald’s lawyer was not returned.
Sounds like Misty may have been cheating the night that Haleigh disappeared in Junior is to be believed. Maybe that is why she isn't cooperating.
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“Just your typical sex drugs and rock and roll life style that is not conducive to raising children,” said Picazio.
“Not one of the things I’ve heard about what goes on in the home would I even consider letting my child watch on TV, let alone exposing him to it.”
Picazio says after sifting through documents, seeing pictures and talking with family and friends, she felt compelled to seek state intervention and ask the DCF to investigate the Cummings household.
“I would be committing malpractice if I chose to hold off on bringing those allegations to the proper authorities,” said Picazio.
“Conditions of neglect to outright child abuse and to the conditions in the home which would not be conducive to raising any child.”
The Florida Department of Children and Families could not comment on the specifics of the investigation. A spokesman did tell us Picazio met with members of the DCF and presented them with documents alleging abuse and neglect. He also said the Department is reviewing the information she provided very carefully.
“The particular lifestyle that we believe is led by Misty and Ronald Cummings is one that essentially laid out the red carpet to something at some point happening to these children, and something did,” said Picazio.
The lawyer also shared with us new details about what she said happened the night Haleigh was taken. She says Ronald Junior, Haleigh’s brother, woke up when a man came into the house to see Misty Croslin, Ronald Cummings then girlfriend.
“What he stated to his mother was that he saw a black man in black clothing take Haleigh…she asked him, if you were asleep Junior how could you have seen that if you were asleep? And he said well I woke up because the man had squeaky shoes…and the couch was bouncing,” said Picazio.
“A lot of the times we hear things from 8 different people who did not know each other including eyewitnesses. And at this point we have a pretty solid timeline. We think we know what happened in that house up until about 10:30. There’s a wide gap in time from 10:30 till three in the morning and somewhere in that timeframe, Haleigh went missing,” said Picazio.
Ronald Cummings, Haleigh’s father, could not be reached for comment. His Grandmother tells us they have been advised by legal council to not speak with the media. A call to Ronald’s lawyer was not returned.
Sounds like Misty may have been cheating the night that Haleigh disappeared in Junior is to be believed. Maybe that is why she isn't cooperating.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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Suleman Octuplets Update 25 March
Were the Angels in Waiting really waiting for Nadya Suleman to make a misstep?
If so, it didn't take them long to start filing complaints.
According to their attorney, Gloria Allred, Angels in Waiting USA have reportedly already made three complaints to Child Protective Services about the octuplets' mom.
And Nadya has fired the lot of them, accusing them of unprofessional and unethical behavior, of frightening her about child abduction, setting her up to fail and not empowering her.
On two episodes of Dr. Phil, airing today and Thursday this week, AIW USA reps and Allred (and Suleman by phone on one segment) will talk about why the deal between the nonprofit organization and Suleman went sour.
Allred tells Dr. Phil: “I think the real reason that Nadya has not been able to continue with Angels in Waiting may be the fact that not one but three reports had to be filed with Child Protective Service by Angels in Waiting [who] are mandated reporters under the law.”
The complaints will be discussed in detail on Dr. Phil's shows airing today and Thursday.
Suleman talked to Dr. Phil by phone on one of the taped segments. “The primary issue was that myself [sic] and my nannies felt extremely uncomfortable. I personally felt like a stranger in my own home. The goal was to empower me as a mother, help me, train me. I'm open to that, I want that, I want to do the very best for these ... premature babies. I wanted them [AIW USA] to use their training and knowledge to help guide me. I felt that was never accomplished. I felt as though every time I tried to hold the babies, feed the babies, they would be observing and they were waiting for me to make a mistake.”
"I, I, I." Why is it always all about Nadya and helping her feel "empowered" and not about those babies?
Meanwhile, amid all the madness, Nadya found time to record her daily video with RadarOnline.com.
Keep reading for Nadya's accusations against AIW.
Check out the video interview with Nadya, who accuses the Angels of making her paranoid that her babies might be abducted. She describes an Angels official opening her purse and saying how easy it would be to stuff a baby in there.
Nadya talks about wanting to call the police for a restraining order because she was so fearful. She also describes feeling as if she was constantly being interrogated and how the Angels stopped talking whenever she entered the nursery.
Oh, they were also obsessive with the babies and they brought in "negative energy."
Just like she claims her mother does?
Right now, four of her octuplets are being cared for by nannies Suleman hired herself.
I think that Nadya's paranoia is getting beyond just simple everyday crazy and skipping quickly into clinical crazy. I wonder just how long it will take for the nannies to start quitting because they can't work with this woman.
Nadya will not put up with anyone coming between her and the profit that her babies will bring. First, her mother and now Angels In Waiting were disposed of because they wouldn't go along with the rosy picture she wanted to paint for Dr.Phil and RadarOnline. Yep, that's who she has sold her baby out to. A two-bit television "doctor" and a website owned by the company that owns the National Enquirer. You know something is wrong when TLC won't touch you with a ten foot poll.
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If so, it didn't take them long to start filing complaints.
According to their attorney, Gloria Allred, Angels in Waiting USA have reportedly already made three complaints to Child Protective Services about the octuplets' mom.
And Nadya has fired the lot of them, accusing them of unprofessional and unethical behavior, of frightening her about child abduction, setting her up to fail and not empowering her.
On two episodes of Dr. Phil, airing today and Thursday this week, AIW USA reps and Allred (and Suleman by phone on one segment) will talk about why the deal between the nonprofit organization and Suleman went sour.
Allred tells Dr. Phil: “I think the real reason that Nadya has not been able to continue with Angels in Waiting may be the fact that not one but three reports had to be filed with Child Protective Service by Angels in Waiting [who] are mandated reporters under the law.”
The complaints will be discussed in detail on Dr. Phil's shows airing today and Thursday.
Suleman talked to Dr. Phil by phone on one of the taped segments. “The primary issue was that myself [sic] and my nannies felt extremely uncomfortable. I personally felt like a stranger in my own home. The goal was to empower me as a mother, help me, train me. I'm open to that, I want that, I want to do the very best for these ... premature babies. I wanted them [AIW USA] to use their training and knowledge to help guide me. I felt that was never accomplished. I felt as though every time I tried to hold the babies, feed the babies, they would be observing and they were waiting for me to make a mistake.”
"I, I, I." Why is it always all about Nadya and helping her feel "empowered" and not about those babies?
Meanwhile, amid all the madness, Nadya found time to record her daily video with RadarOnline.com.
Keep reading for Nadya's accusations against AIW.
Check out the video interview with Nadya, who accuses the Angels of making her paranoid that her babies might be abducted. She describes an Angels official opening her purse and saying how easy it would be to stuff a baby in there.
Nadya talks about wanting to call the police for a restraining order because she was so fearful. She also describes feeling as if she was constantly being interrogated and how the Angels stopped talking whenever she entered the nursery.
Oh, they were also obsessive with the babies and they brought in "negative energy."
Just like she claims her mother does?
Right now, four of her octuplets are being cared for by nannies Suleman hired herself.
I think that Nadya's paranoia is getting beyond just simple everyday crazy and skipping quickly into clinical crazy. I wonder just how long it will take for the nannies to start quitting because they can't work with this woman.
Nadya will not put up with anyone coming between her and the profit that her babies will bring. First, her mother and now Angels In Waiting were disposed of because they wouldn't go along with the rosy picture she wanted to paint for Dr.Phil and RadarOnline. Yep, that's who she has sold her baby out to. A two-bit television "doctor" and a website owned by the company that owns the National Enquirer. You know something is wrong when TLC won't touch you with a ten foot poll.
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Judge Asks Jose Baez To Explain Where The Money Is Coming From
Attorneys for Casey Anthony, accused in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, will not be forced to say publicly who is funding her defense, a judge decided Wednesday.
Asked in a hearing who, if not his office, is paying the tab for experts, defense attorney Jose Baez asked Orange County Circuit Judge Stan Strickland if he could answer behind closed doors.
The question, Baez explained, "puts us in a level of confidentiality" in which he preferred to answer privately.
After a brief, closed-door meeting with prosecutors, defense attorneys and Anthony in an adjacent room, Strickland emerged, saying: "As far as I'm concerned, the matter is resolved ... I think we've covered the bases."
The judge added that he had determined that no conflict of interest existed, but did ask defense attorneys to provide him with copies of their retainer agreements.
Tension between prosecutor Jeff Ashton and Baez ran high during the hearing. As it was concluding, Baez asked the judge to remind prosecutors that everything said in the meeting should remain private.
"We don't need to be reminded of our ethical obligations," Ashton retorted. "That's pretty ... I'm sorry. Yes, we understand."
He sat back down, and Baez asked him if he was all right. "No, I'm not," Ashton snapped.
"You know what, this is getting old," Strickland told the attorneys. "I'm getting tired of this."
Prosecutors had demanded that Anthony show how she's paying for an expensive team of lawyers and expert witnesses, without any known assets.
In a motion filed in Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida, prosecutors wrote: "... the defendant's seeming conversion from pauper to princess did not come from the sale of some tangible asset available to her prior to her initial arrest on charges related to this case.''
The document cited a bond hearing in July at which it was revealed that her parents, George and Cindy Anthony, had ''little, if any, net worth,'' and Casey Anthony had none.
Casey Anthony's only tangible asset, according to prosecutors, is her story ''or otherwise valueless items, such as photographs or video tapes, which have value only because of her story.''
Since Anthony, 23, is behind bars, prosecutors argued, she could not arrange to sell the photos or videos herself.
They say only her attorney, Baez, is in a position to make such deals. Prosecutors argued unsuccessfully thaat this could present a conflict of interest and possibly shape the way Baez handles the case to make the story more valuable.
The defense, in its filed objection, called for an end to "speculation" about how Anthony would pay her legal fees. Baez's retainer agreement ''does not contain any clauses allowing him financial gain based on selling the rights to Ms. Casey Anthony's ''story'', the document stated.
In a sworn affidavit, Anthony said her retainer agreement does not contain any clauses entitling Baez to sell her story or Caylee's.
In handwriting at the bottom of the affidavit, Anthony accuses prosecutor Ashton, of being vengeful
"I believe that Mr. Ashton is angry because I have refused to take a plea agreement for a crime that I did not commit,'' she wrote.
Anthony was arrested on July 16, while Caylee was still missing. The little girl's remains were found in December, wrapped in a plastic trash bag left in the woods near the Orlando home of her grandparents. Police documents say the skull was wrapped in duct tape.
Mr. Ashton isn't being vengeful. He knows that there is something shady going on and he just can't put his finger on it. If Jose Baez isn't marketing Casey's story then I bet that her parents are. They probably want to save Casey so that they can pretend that she didn't kill Caylee.
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Asked in a hearing who, if not his office, is paying the tab for experts, defense attorney Jose Baez asked Orange County Circuit Judge Stan Strickland if he could answer behind closed doors.
The question, Baez explained, "puts us in a level of confidentiality" in which he preferred to answer privately.
After a brief, closed-door meeting with prosecutors, defense attorneys and Anthony in an adjacent room, Strickland emerged, saying: "As far as I'm concerned, the matter is resolved ... I think we've covered the bases."
The judge added that he had determined that no conflict of interest existed, but did ask defense attorneys to provide him with copies of their retainer agreements.
Tension between prosecutor Jeff Ashton and Baez ran high during the hearing. As it was concluding, Baez asked the judge to remind prosecutors that everything said in the meeting should remain private.
"We don't need to be reminded of our ethical obligations," Ashton retorted. "That's pretty ... I'm sorry. Yes, we understand."
He sat back down, and Baez asked him if he was all right. "No, I'm not," Ashton snapped.
"You know what, this is getting old," Strickland told the attorneys. "I'm getting tired of this."
Prosecutors had demanded that Anthony show how she's paying for an expensive team of lawyers and expert witnesses, without any known assets.
In a motion filed in Circuit Court in Orange County, Florida, prosecutors wrote: "... the defendant's seeming conversion from pauper to princess did not come from the sale of some tangible asset available to her prior to her initial arrest on charges related to this case.''
The document cited a bond hearing in July at which it was revealed that her parents, George and Cindy Anthony, had ''little, if any, net worth,'' and Casey Anthony had none.
Casey Anthony's only tangible asset, according to prosecutors, is her story ''or otherwise valueless items, such as photographs or video tapes, which have value only because of her story.''
Since Anthony, 23, is behind bars, prosecutors argued, she could not arrange to sell the photos or videos herself.
They say only her attorney, Baez, is in a position to make such deals. Prosecutors argued unsuccessfully thaat this could present a conflict of interest and possibly shape the way Baez handles the case to make the story more valuable.
The defense, in its filed objection, called for an end to "speculation" about how Anthony would pay her legal fees. Baez's retainer agreement ''does not contain any clauses allowing him financial gain based on selling the rights to Ms. Casey Anthony's ''story'', the document stated.
In a sworn affidavit, Anthony said her retainer agreement does not contain any clauses entitling Baez to sell her story or Caylee's.
In handwriting at the bottom of the affidavit, Anthony accuses prosecutor Ashton, of being vengeful
"I believe that Mr. Ashton is angry because I have refused to take a plea agreement for a crime that I did not commit,'' she wrote.
Anthony was arrested on July 16, while Caylee was still missing. The little girl's remains were found in December, wrapped in a plastic trash bag left in the woods near the Orlando home of her grandparents. Police documents say the skull was wrapped in duct tape.
Mr. Ashton isn't being vengeful. He knows that there is something shady going on and he just can't put his finger on it. If Jose Baez isn't marketing Casey's story then I bet that her parents are. They probably want to save Casey so that they can pretend that she didn't kill Caylee.
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Caylee Anthony Update 25 March
Did Casey Anthony do anything besides party and behave like a tramp? Radar Online has uncovered photos of the accused murderer passionately kissing another woman at a 2006 Halloween party.
"This wasn’t just a quick kiss," said an eyewitness. "Casey and the other girl were really making out like a guy and a girl would make out. Everybody at the party was standing there stunned, just watching them."
At one point, another of Casey’s girlfriends joined in and "all three of them were making out," the eyewitness said. "Casey then got on the floor on her back and the girl in the umpire outfit stood over her dancing."
The eyewitness is probably a former friend who is selling her out for a quick buck. And notice how all the women are behaving like strippers while the men are behaving like frat boys at a strip club. I bet there must be a bunch of proud mothers out there.
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Haleigh Cummings Update 25 March
The neighborhood where Haleigh Cummings lived and disappeared has returned back to normal.
But there is one man very visibly and actively out searching the area, a private investigator and bounty hunter from Miami who goes by the name of "Cobra."
William "Cobra" Staubs has been in Satsuma for more than a week. He is searching woods on his own and following up on leads. He says he is making progress.
"Investigators have five weeks working on this, I've had one week and I've caught up...now I have to connect all the dots," says Cobra.
Cobra visited the home of an accused sex offender Friday, and earlier in the week he asked Ronald Cummings and Misty Croslin Cummings to re-enact the night Haleigh disappeared.
Cobra is paid partly by an anonymous donor in Miami. He says he will stay in Satsuma until his money runs out.
Also Friday, the Putnam County Sheriff's office told First Coast News that deputies were involved in looking into allegations of child abuse or neglect by Ronald Cummings three times in the last four years.
None of the incidents led to criminal charges.
I guess bounty hunters everywhere have seen all the free publicity Leonard Padilla has gotten butting into the Caylee Anthony disappearance, and want a piece of the pie. Everytime a child's disappears and it makes the national news the bounty hunters are going to come out of the woodwork like roaches in the dark.
If I were that sex offender I would have told the Cobra to go to hell, and send the police out to question me. I'm sure they already have, and probably have cleared the pervert.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
More Detail On Suleman /Angels In Waiting Battle
Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman has fired a nonprofit group of nurses that helped care for her children, accusing the group of spying on her and reporting her to child welfare officials, her spokesman said Monday.
Suleman attorney Jeff Czech said the relationship started badly between Suleman and Angels in Waiting, which has been training nannies paid by Suleman at the family's La Habra home.
Last month an attorney for Angels in Waiting filed a complaint against Suleman with child welfare officials, seeking an investigation into whether the mother could provide a suitable environment for her 14 children.
Suleman later had several confrontations with the nurses, Czech said, and the situation grew unbearable Sunday when Suleman came to believe that Angels in Waiting founder Linda West-Conforti was allegedly filing a report against her with child welfare officials.
"It started out adversarial and never really resolved itself," Czech told The Associated Press. "Nadya felt that she was being judged wrongfully and she didn't need it. All it did was make a difficult situation worse."
Czech did not detail the complaint and lawyer Gloria Allred, who represents the nurses' group, refused comment Monday, saying more details will be released Tuesday.
A call to the Orange County Department of Children and Family Services was not immediately returned, but child welfare cases are typically kept private to protect the identities of the children involved.
Angels in Waiting had initially offered to provide around-the-clock care, to be paid for by public donations, but later scaled back its offer to only provide training to Suleman's nannies. Suleman has said the offer was changed because the group wasn't receiving donations, but Allred has denied that claim.
Czech said that Suleman will have her nannies trained by nurses from the Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, where the octuplets were born on Jan. 26. Kaiser spokesman Jim Anderson said the hospital sends out home health nurses to provide training and guidance to new mothers, and at least two such visits have been made to the Suleman home. Anderson said he was not sure how much the program costs.
Four of the octuplets are home from the hospital, and Suleman has six other children.
Someone who has those babies best interest in mind needs to be there. Suleman sees them as pooping paycheck. And the poop isn't a problem because she doesn't has to change the diapers. She probably is upset because she thought she was going to get around the clock free care. That way she could fake parenting when the cameras were there, bask in the adoration, and go about her business when she was alone with babies.
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Suleman attorney Jeff Czech said the relationship started badly between Suleman and Angels in Waiting, which has been training nannies paid by Suleman at the family's La Habra home.
Last month an attorney for Angels in Waiting filed a complaint against Suleman with child welfare officials, seeking an investigation into whether the mother could provide a suitable environment for her 14 children.
Suleman later had several confrontations with the nurses, Czech said, and the situation grew unbearable Sunday when Suleman came to believe that Angels in Waiting founder Linda West-Conforti was allegedly filing a report against her with child welfare officials.
"It started out adversarial and never really resolved itself," Czech told The Associated Press. "Nadya felt that she was being judged wrongfully and she didn't need it. All it did was make a difficult situation worse."
Czech did not detail the complaint and lawyer Gloria Allred, who represents the nurses' group, refused comment Monday, saying more details will be released Tuesday.
A call to the Orange County Department of Children and Family Services was not immediately returned, but child welfare cases are typically kept private to protect the identities of the children involved.
Angels in Waiting had initially offered to provide around-the-clock care, to be paid for by public donations, but later scaled back its offer to only provide training to Suleman's nannies. Suleman has said the offer was changed because the group wasn't receiving donations, but Allred has denied that claim.
Czech said that Suleman will have her nannies trained by nurses from the Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, where the octuplets were born on Jan. 26. Kaiser spokesman Jim Anderson said the hospital sends out home health nurses to provide training and guidance to new mothers, and at least two such visits have been made to the Suleman home. Anderson said he was not sure how much the program costs.
Four of the octuplets are home from the hospital, and Suleman has six other children.
Someone who has those babies best interest in mind needs to be there. Suleman sees them as pooping paycheck. And the poop isn't a problem because she doesn't has to change the diapers. She probably is upset because she thought she was going to get around the clock free care. That way she could fake parenting when the cameras were there, bask in the adoration, and go about her business when she was alone with babies.
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