OK... the plot thickens. And I need to make a clarification.
PNJ is reporting today the same story that CBS "broke" on July 16th.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/16/cbsnews_investigates/main5166742.shtml
CBS claimed to have obtained "documents" from a deposition that LP Jr. gave to J Jenkins, defined in the article as the 'criminal defense' attorney in which LP Jr. revealed he was a "paid informant" and paid $150K for his work.
This launched a huge speculation that LP Jr. was a paid "fed" - NOT SO at all. CBS NEVER revealed WHO paid him and they implied that the "criminal defense attorney" was representing LP Jr. Maybe he was - but Jenkins was representing someone else... someone very important when you read the story from PNJ today...
(((I really wish CBS revealed more info on July 16th - it would saved a lot of useless speculation... they really didn't do a good job giving us all the facts. Nonetheless... ))))
PNJ gives us MUCH MORE DETAIL to the same deposition:
http://www.pnj.com/article/20090728/NEWS01/90728029
- as supsected, LP Jr. was full of crap - he was not a "paid informant" as in the "fed" sense - he was hired by some rich lady - whom he met in Nov. 2007 - she hired him to tail her exhusband and agreed to pay him $1 million if she could find something that would land her ex in jail. (And later wanted him to investigate her CURRENT husband, but I digress...). She was paying LP Jr. by making "payments" to Project Fightback, which got too suspicious for her money people...
So......
If you look at the time line.. LP Jr. suddenly opened "UDT - Ultimate Defensive Tactics Institute"... in January 2008.
http://www.gobignetwork.com/profiles/Patrick-Poff.aspx
So "rich lady" made payments to UDT! But since he didn't give her want she wanted, she only paid him $150K. Which I assume is where the relationship soured... because.......
Jenkins was NOT LP Jr.'s criminal attorney - Jenkins was the attorney representing that
woman's exhusband. So how did LP Jr. end up talking to Rich Lady's exhusband's attorney....???
At some point, the relationship "soured" between LP Jr. and "his client" when HE CLAIMS she wanted him to plant drugs on her ex. LP Jr. supposedly refused. (I doubt that - he probably screwed it up.) Anyway, things went south... and LP Jr. CONTACTED her EX ... and was put in touch with J. Jenkins... the attorney representing Rich Lady's EX.... not necessarily LP Jr.
Also note, LP Jr. describes his UDT business (in the above link) as services for traveling business people. In the PNJ article, he claims his business was to help women investigate husbands... PNJ also reports that LP Jr. claims he traveled around the country following this guy... "a traveling business person" - what a coincidence... anyway...
I just found the whole thing laughable. It seems like LP Jr. has a history of going through extreme lengths to be something he's not.
Further evidence that LP Jr. is full of it:
snipped from PNJ...
"Through his school, known as Project FIGHTBACK, he claimed to have taught martial arts to more than 11,000 children, as well as self-defense awareness to thousands of women. In a recent court appearance, Gonzalez upped that number to 20,000."
Amazing isn't it? From 11,000 in Oct. 2008 to 20,000 in July 2009. Where did he find the time to train 9,000 more people in 9 months?
At least ONE month of that time was rehearsing his plot to invade the home and slaughter the parents of disabled children?
I hate him more and more every day.