Actually, he started his first 15 minutes of fame in this case BEFORE he got to Florida to bail her out: he put out a press release to the media of his intentions to bail her out and had media waiting on him when he landed at the airport. As a matter of fact, it was an unnamed media bigwig that got him involved in the first place, that he has yet to name. (I, along with others, thinks it was Geraldo... we could be wrong, but even LP has said it is a household name in the industry that contacted him first. That is one of the big mysteries I want answered with this case... who involved this charlatan.)
I know many think LP has a "good heart" and came into this case with the best of intentions, but in reality his actions speak of someone that will think nothing of lying in the gutter to make a dollar. Good for George calling LE on him, and shame on this show for giving LP one second of media attention... he needs to just go away, period. From lying to setting pedophiles free, LP does not care... if it is a dollar to be made then he is there. Case-in-point: his desire to BAIL OUT AND SET FREE INTO SOCIETY the pedophiles that kidnapped and impregnated Jaycee Dugard.
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/leonard-show/content?oid=1295271
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Earlier in the day, police announced that Dugard, kidnapped 18 years ago from her South Lake Tahoe home, had turned up alive in the Bay Area. Her alleged kidnappers, Phillip and Nancy Garrido, are now in jail, and Padilla is pondering the chance to spring the accused on bail. Even out here on the park bench, several hundred yards away from his office where a giant flat-screen TV blares CNN, the prospect excites him.
Ill pay the premium if you post the bonds, he barks into his phone. Its what? Three million on one, four on the other? Ill bet we can get $2.5 million for them.
Padilla clicks his phone shut and smiles.
I told my nephew Tony, Post the bond and Ill sell the interview to NBC or ABC.