Is Geraldo's Prod Co Paying For the Def? UPDATED 1-09 Entertainment Deal Allegations

[kageykaren]

After reading all post from this thread it has me asking some questions. Maybe whoever is funding this and requiring confidentiallity signitures is not a person but a corporate entity higher than main news channels. Who owns the globe magazine is a question that has crossed my mind. I know made for tv movies can bring in alot of money but the possible apprpriations of money seem to be on a larger scale.

 

[passionflower]

I went to splashnews.com and it sure has the income to do this.......doubled profits in 2008!

 

[Wudge]

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If the DEFENSE team is in fact paid by the same ones pimping her GUILT how can the legal system allow it? :waitasec:

Speculation alone should be enough to warrant an investigation no?

Crimetainment poisons jury pools. It destroys the presumption of innocence.

It would be fitting and proper to field the best possible defense thanks to crimetainment.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

I went to splashnews.com and it sure has the income to do this.......doubled profits in 2008!

Now that is interesting.

 

[PaddieAB]

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If the DEFENSE team is in fact paid by the same ones pimping her GUILT how can the legal system allow it? :waitasec:

Speculation alone should be enough to warrant an investigation no?

I agree with you, and if this is the case, I trust this is only the beginning to the end. Somehow the essence of these allegations seems to be distorted at this time. :waitasec:

The question is, IS THE DEFENSE PIMPING CASEY ANTHONY - not who's the customers.

Whether Geraldo, Ng or Moby Dick buys a story, or pays for photo rights is not the real issue. It's whether or not her defense team is financing their representation of Casey by way of profits from the media. That's clear conflict of interest - they would have every reason to drag this case out as long as possible, rather than allow Casey to confess (if she wanted to). When lawyers will not disclose their source of payment, nor will they allow their clients to speak with family members privately (and LE will), that has to be cause for "what's going on".

There would be no customers if there were no PIMPS!

 

[SleuthyMama]

FYI:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/08/ng.01.html

NANCY GRACE

Court Hearing on Caylee Autopsy Photos

Aired January 8, 2009 - 20:00:00 ET


GRACE: Out to Natisha Lance.

Natisha, you know, we have victim`s families on all the time. We have never, to my knowledge, paid a licensing fee.

Explain to me who got all that money? We know over $200,000 have been paid, but to whom?

NATISHA LANCE, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Well, allegedly $200,000 was paid to ABC News. Allegedly Jose Baez was trying to set up a $500,000.

GRACE: Wait, wait, wait. Did you say paid to ABC News? Is that what you just said?

LANCE: I`m sorry. Paid from ABC News.

GRACE: To who? That`s what I`m asking. I`m asking to whom.

LANCE: Well, we don`t know who the exchange was with, but allegedly it went to Jose Baez and some of this money was allegedly used for Casey`s defense fund. Now also allegedly, Jose Baez was trying to get a $500,000 interview with Casey Anthony.
And then there was also the $6500 that was paid to Larry Garrett and the former spokesperson for the Anthony family from NBC News. And there was also allegedly a $5,000 licensing fee from NBC News.

The NBC was when CA went and spoke on the Today show

The funniest part of this whole possibility is that that anyone would want to pay any amount of money FOR AN INTERVIEW WITH A PROVEN LIAR. She hasn't told the truth about squat yet.

 

[DotsEyes]

IIRC both JB and Henry Lee said they were working pro-bono on the case. We know JB most certainly was doing so in the beginning because KC hasn't got gas money, much less money to pay for her legal defense. The gaggle of "big shots" that waltzed through town when Caylee's remains were found have disappeared from the scene. They may not be on board anymore, but it seemed to me that they too were donating services.

As for the licensing fees for videos and photos. All the media outlets which report on this case make money from it. NG, for instance, had almost 6 months of uninterrupted KC coverage and it still continues to take up a chunk of her show time. That translates into a huge pile of cash. So should NG, or any other media person/outlet make money from Caylee's death but not those who own the images y plastered all over the screen everynight?

NG doesn't get to use those photos for free. They belong to someone and her show or the network had to pay to use them. Just like music, you have to pay to play. So, NG isn't kidding anyone.

ABC allegedly paid $200K for the licensing of photos. I assume the photos belong to KC as it appears that JB negotiated the deal on her behalf. When the check is paid through an attorney's effort, it is made out to the attorney and the client and requires both signatures to cash it. I would think that, as normal, JB took what was owed to him at that time and perhaps deposited a nice fat retainer into his escrow account for future services. Makes perfect sense to me. I hope he is getting paid and his expenses are covered. It takes a lot of money to run a law firm. A lot.

I really do not care one bit who, if anyone, is paying for KC's defense and it does not matter at all. If GR is tossing tidbits to KC and/or JB for photos, videos and appearances, so what? I am not at all sure this is even something that I need or want to know as I fail to see it's importance in the case.

 

[Bev]

The most likely person to fund this would be Larry Garrison who brought LP on board and furnished the money for the bail bond of 50K - his co. Silver Creek Entertainment is probably paying expenses for many of the attorneys and experts and also paying those experts who are fee based.

 

[cajun]

The most likely person to fund this would be Larry Garrison who brought LP on board and furnished the money for the bail bond of 50K - his co. Silver Creek Entertainment is probably paying expenses for many of the attorneys and experts and also paying those experts who are fee based.

I know he was knee-deep in the Holloway case, but I think outside of what little work he did for the grandparents he is not involved with this case anymore.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

I don't ever remember JB stating that he was working Pro Bono. I believe he indicated he was being paid, but didn't come right out and say it.

Why would H. Lee be the only one on the defense expert team that is doing this for free?! Makes no sense.

 

[Recovering-Lurker]

The most likely person to fund this would be Larry Garrison who brought LP on board and furnished the money for the bail bond of 50K - his co. Silver Creek Entertainment is probably paying expenses for many of the attorneys and experts and also paying those experts who are fee based.

I've never heard that Larry Garrison brought LP on board and supplied the bail bond money. Do you have a link?

 

[Bev]

The who is funding LP? LP doesn't have that kind of money, he didn't have the 50K to post as bond. Garrison was the one who hooked up LP with Jose Baez, he's the only person involved who has a production company. Just because he isn't the Anthonys' spokesperson it doesn't mean he isn't still involved.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

I believe you are mistaken about LG and LP. Unless you have something to back that up...it is a rumor.

 

[cecybeans]

IIRC both JB and Henry Lee said they were working pro-bono on the case. We know JB most certainly was doing so in the beginning because KC hasn't got gas money, much less money to pay for her legal defense. The gaggle of "big shots" that waltzed through town when Caylee's remains were found have disappeared from the scene. They may not be on board anymore, but it seemed to me that they too were donating services.

As for the licensing fees for videos and photos. All the media outlets which report on this case make money from it. NG, for instance, had almost 6 months of uninterrupted KC coverage and it still continues to take up a chunk of her show time. That translates into a huge pile of cash. So should NG, or any other media person/outlet make money from Caylee's death but not those who own the images y plastered all over the screen everynight?

NG doesn't get to use those photos for free. They belong to someone and her show or the network had to pay to use them. Just like music, you have to pay to play. So, NG isn't kidding anyone.

ABC allegedly paid $200K for the licensing of photos. I assume the photos belong to KC as it appears that JB negotiated the deal on her behalf. When the check is paid through an attorney's effort, it is made out to the attorney and the client and requires both signatures to cash it. I would think that, as normal, JB took what was owed to him at that time and perhaps deposited a nice fat retainer into his escrow account for future services. Makes perfect sense to me. I hope he is getting paid and his expenses are covered. It takes a lot of money to run a law firm. A lot.

I really do not care one bit who, if anyone, is paying for KC's defense and it does not matter at all. If GR is tossing tidbits to KC and/or JB for photos, videos and appearances, so what? I am not at all sure this is even something that I need or want to know as I fail to see it's importance in the case.

I agree, it does not really matter who is footing the bill AS LONG AS it is not in their best interest to prolong the judicial process to profit. If this party stands in some way to benefit or profit from a defense strategy that is long and drawn out then that also places an unfair cost and burden on the state of Florida and its tax-paying citizens. If JB has created a situation in which it can be shown he has prevented or delayed his client from confessing or taking a plea in order to extend this case and trial, and another entity would benefit from this strategy, then this is at the very least a conflict of interest and deserves intense scrutiny.

 

[debs]

AIM Productions owns Press Corps Media, which represents major clients like Disney and ABC...and ABC owns Lifetime. There are suggestions that JB took a deal for upwards of $200,000 from 20/20 for ........ something.

I have always wondered if LG was fired because he brokered a deal with NBC, against the ABC connection and took payment of $6500.00. Isn't an agent usually entitled to 10%? That would make George and Cindy's haul at about $65,000.00. In any case, we haven't seen much of this case played out on NBC anymore.

Or maybe I'm just not looking.

 

[whiteangora]

The most likely person to fund this would be Larry Garrison who brought LP on board and furnished the money for the bail bond of 50K - his co. Silver Creek Entertainment is probably paying expenses for many of the attorneys and experts and also paying those experts who are fee based.

I never heard about Garrison bringing in Leonard, but I DO remember that
Todd B was involved in movie production and famous criminal cases.
It seems that Baez hired a PR Firm, (Todd B) almost as soon as he started working on the case. Why would an unknown like Baez even need a PR person?

 

[Bev]

Sorry, no link - Greta Van Susteren first brought it up on her show.

 

[ecs5298]

Crimetainment poisons jury pools. It destroys the presumption of innocence.

It would be fitting and proper to field the best possible defense thanks to crimetainment.

I agree with your first sentence but I don't understand your second sentence. Are you saying it's ok for a defense attorney to sell exclusive interviews, unpublished photos or documents, etc to the media to raise money to be able to provide the best defense possible? If this is true then it would behoove the defense attorney to create the largest media circus possible to drive up interest in the case to drive up the price. No?

 

[whiteangora]

AIM Productions owns Press Corps Media, which represents major clients like Disney and ABC...and ABC owns Lifetime. There are suggestions that JB took a deal for upwards of $200,000 from 20/20 for ........ something.

I have always wondered if LG was fired because he brokered a deal with NBC, against the ABC connection and took payment of $6500.00. Isn't an agent usually entitled to 10%? That would make George and Cindy's haul at about $65,000.00. In any case, we haven't seen much of this case played out on NBC anymore.

Or maybe I'm just not looking.

Bold=me
Well, there ya go! Press Corps Media + T. Black!

 

[bunnyphoenix1]

The who is funding LP? LP doesn't have that kind of money, he didn't have the 50K to post as bond. Garrison was the one who hooked up LP with Jose Baez, he's the only person involved who has a production company. Just because he isn't the Anthonys' spokesperson it doesn't mean he isn't still involved.

IIRC some serious allegations were made back and forth between him and the As when they parted ways. They accused him of pocketing $6000 and he apparently gave LE info about Cindy providing them with the wrong hairbrush. I really think that relationship is over.