NY - Ted Ammon, 52, murdered in his East Hampton home, 20 Oct 2001

[lisafremont]

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21179.htm

"I'M TESTIFYING"

by Kieran Crowley

Defiant murder suspect Danny Pelosi pulled a bizarre fast one that startled the judge, prosecution, jurors and apparently even his own lawyer in court yesterday by suddenly putting himself on the stand — for barely 60 seconds.
Pelosi lasted long enough to brashly answer just six questions from his lawyer in the Long Island courtroom by dramatically repeating two words.

"Mr. Pelosi, on Oct. 20, 2001, were you in the town of East Hampton?" defense lawyer Gerald Shargel asked his client, who is accused of murdering banking millionaire Ted Ammon at his mansion there over the weekend of Oct. 20-21, 2001.

"Absolutely not," Pelosi replied. ...

 

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/260062p-222734c.html

Pelosi stands up
and denies it all

BY ROBERT GEARTY and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS


Daniel Pelosi faces his lawyers Gerald Shargel (r.) and Paul Bergman yesterday on witness stand in Suffolk County Court, where he strenuously denied murdering Ted Ammon. Courtroom sketch is by Candace Eaton.

In a courtroom stunner that caught prosecutors off guard, Long Island electrician Danny Pelosi took the witness stand in his own defense yesterday - providing the latest twist in the wild Ted Ammon murder trial.
Asked by his attorney whether he killed the Wall Street mogul, Pelosi dramatically declared, "Absolutely not!"....

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/08/nyregion/08pelosi.html?oref=login&pagewanted=all

In Surprise, Pelosi Testifies at His Trial in L.I. Killing
By PATRICK HEALY

RIVERHEAD, N.Y., Dec. 7 - With his own lawyers poised to wrap up his defense, Daniel Pelosi surprised a packed courtroom here on Tuesday and took the witness stand, saying he did not kill the Manhattan financier R. Theodore Ammon.

Mr. Pelosi, 41, wore a navy suit and blue tie and had a confident expression, but his voice quavered during his brief testimony. His lead lawyer, Gerald Shargel, asked just six questions about the October 2001 night on which Mr. Ammon was beaten to death in his East Hampton home, and Mr. Pelosi used one phrase to answer each time: "Absolutely not."

Prosecutors have said that Mr. Pelosi, a Long Island electrician, romanced Mr. Ammon's estranged wife, Generosa, and killed Mr. Ammon to get at his $80 million fortune. Mr. Pelosi has denied any role in the killing, but until Tuesday afternoon, had not been expected to testify in court.

"Did you murder Ted Ammon?" Mr. Shargel asked.

"Absolutely not," Mr. Pelosi said.

 

[lisafremont]

I was just thinking this morning how very coincidental the facts of this case are if Danny Pelosi didn't do it. And how very convenient it was that Ted Ammon should suddenly die. Bitter divorce? Moot. Big estate? Generosa's and Danny's. (Remember they married 3 mos. after the murder.) Custody of the twins? Generosa's.

Whoever killed Ted Ammon knew about the surveillance system and knew where the hard drive was hidden. Danny knew. No stranger would. I just can't believe that Ted Ammon turned off the surveillance, found and hid the hard drive on the same night he happened to be murdered by a stranger.

And then there are the many people that Danny Pelosi made incriminating comments to. Are they all lying??

Nah. Danny's guilty. Today's a big day. The DA cross examines him. Wish I could see it.

 

[Sherlock]

I was just thinking this morning how very coincidental the facts of this case are if Danny Pelosi didn't do it. And how very convenient it was that Ted Ammon should suddenly die. Bitter divorce? Moot. Big estate? Generosa's and Danny's. (Remember they married 3 mos. after the murder.) Custody of the twins? Generosa's.

Whoever killed Ted Ammon knew about the surveillance system and knew where the hard drive was hidden. Danny knew. No stranger would. I just can't believe that Ted Ammon turned off the surveillance, found and hid the hard drive on the same night he happened to be murdered by a stranger.

And then there are the many people that Danny Pelosi made incriminating comments to. Are they all lying??

Nah. Danny's guilty. Today's a big day. The DA cross examines him. Wish I could see it.

Unlikely, I know, but he could have hired someone. But one would think that he would have, at this point, pointed the finger for a plea.

Sherlock

 

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/l...09,0,3025188.story?coll=ny-top-span-headlines

Pelosi, prosecutor spar at murder trial

BY ROBIN TOPPING
STAFF WRITER

December 8, 2004, 2:21 PM EST

During more than two hours of verbal sparring on the witness stand with prosecutor Janet Albertson, Daniel Pelosi continued to maintain his innocence and never lost his composure.

"I never in my life wanted that dead man's money," Pelosi testified.

Confronted by Albertson with various admissions he allegedly made to other witnesses, Pelosi denied them all. He did acknowledge that he had once asked his father, Robert, where he could hide something so that no one could find it. But Pelosi denied that he asked his father that question just hours after the murder in October 2001. Instead, he testified, he asked the question two-three weeks before Ted Ammon was killed....

 

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lipelo1209,0,3025188.story?coll=ny-homepage-big-pix

Cool Pelosi maintains his innocence on stand

BY ROBIN TOPPING
STAFF WRITER

December 8, 2004, 8:43 PM EST

He joked. He fought off tears. He sometimes used colorful language and rambled so much that the judge finally shouted at him to shorten his answers.

He talked to the jury like they were folks he had just met in a bar. And at one point, when he grew frazzled, told them, "I need a drink."

Daniel Pelosi took control of the courtroom Wednesday for five hours on the witness stand, presenting himself as an innocent man who had been desperate to tell his story.

"I had nothing to do with Ted Ammon's murder. I have been waiting three years to tell that to a jury of my peers," proclaimed Pelosi, in a theme he repeated often. "Ask me any question Mrs. Albertson," Pelosi insisted to prosecutor Janet Albertson during cross-examination, with a folder filled with documents at his side. "I have nothing to hide," he said.

"I never in my life wanted that dead man's money," said Pelosi of Theodore Ammon's fortune.

Mostly, he kept his composure. Albertson cited a psychologist's report on him that depicted him as angry and sadistic....

 

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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/36034.htm

DAN DRAGS 'SLAY PLOT' GENEROSA FROM GRAVE

By KIERAN CROWLEY and MARSHA KRANES

December 9, 2004 -- Accused murderer Danny Pelosi yesterday claimed in bombshell testimony that the late Generosa Ammon had once asked him to whack her estranged millionaire husband Ted — but he refused.
"Generosa wanted to know if I knew anybody who could kill her husband — or if I could do it myself," Pelosi told jurors at his Suffolk County trial.

Did you agree to help, asked defense lawyer Gerald Shargel.

"Not at all." ...
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Read what Andrea Peyser has to say:
http://www.nypost.com/commentary/36054.htm
THIS NINNY SOUNDED MORE LIKE THE NANNY

 

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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/260383p-222956c.html

Danny: 'Generosa wanted to know' if I'd kill hubby for her

BY ROBERT GEARTY and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Danny Pelosi dropped a courtroom bombshell yesterday - claiming his rich lover asked him to whack her banker husband.
After the slaying of Ted Ammon, Pelosi went on to marry widow Generosa Ammon, who died last year - leaving her unable to defend herself against yesterday's stunning testimony....

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/09/nyregion/09pelosi.html?oref=login

Cross-Examination Leaves Pelosi Denying Guilt Steadfastly
By PATRICK HEALY

RIVERHEAD, N.Y., Dec. 8 - Under a searing cross-examination on Wednesday, Daniel Pelosi glared at prosecutors and adamantly denied killing the Manhattan financier R. Theodore Ammon in October 2001, testifying that it was Mr. Ammon's estranged wife who had wanted him dead.

Mr. Pelosi, who had been having an affair with Mr. Ammon's wife, Generosa, said she flew into a rage in August 2001, throwing Mr. Ammon's desk out a window and burning his clothes and a cappuccino machine in a bonfire. The Ammons were in the midst of a bitter divorce at the time.

"Generosa wanted to know if I knew of anyone who would murder her husband, or if I would do it myself," Mr. Pelosi told his lawyer, Gerald Shargel, during redirect testimony in State Supreme Court. "I had nothing to do with Ted Ammon's murder whatsoever. I've been waiting three years to tell a jury of my peers this."

And for nearly four hours on Wednesday, jurors got their first full glimpse of the many sides of Daniel Pelosi, from glowering and fierce to jocular and earnest. A day earlier, he had made a surprise decision to testify, but answered only six questions from his lawyers. He was on the witness stand for about a minute, and flatly denied any role in the killing.

A more complete picture emerged on Wednesday, as Mr. Pelosi presented himself as a blue-collar New Yorker who had stumbled into otherworldly wealth when he began an affair with Ms. Ammon after helping renovate her Upper East Side town house in 2000....

 

[lisafremont]

So Generosa asked Danny to kill Ted but he refused. And all those people who said he confessed to doing it? They are lying or mistaken. Getting the car cleaned and detailed? It smelled fishy.

It ain't the only thing that smells fishy. This guy who spent money like water. Who had declared bankruptcy and had a big gambling jones, he didn't want Ted Ammon's money? Right.

And he could have gone earlier to do the deed. Time of death of Ted Ammon doesn't exonerate Pelosi, IMO.

Danny Pelosi's testimony doesn't change my opinion. He's guilty.

 

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/l...,0,2566428.story?coll=ny-topstories-headlines

Some final words in Pelosi trial
Closing arguments in murder case expected

BY ROBIN TOPPING
STAFF WRITER

December 8, 2004, 8:43 PM EST

Lawyers in the Daniel Pelosi murder case will have their last chance to speak to the jury Friday.

Prosecutor Janet Albertson and defense attorney Gerald Shargel must present closing arguments that tie all the evidence together, from their vastly different perspectives, and also touch on the surprise testimony of the defendant this week.

Albertson has presented a largely circumstantial case with no confession, no eyewitness and no murder weapon. But she has put on several witnesses who say Pelosi admitted beating Theodore Ammon to death in October 2001.

Perhaps her most powerful witness, Pelosi's father, Robert, testified that his son asked him where he could hide something so no one would find it, just hours after the murder....

 

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/260733p-223253c.html

Danny as villain and victim

BY ROBERT GEARTY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Danny Pelosi will be cast as both a cold-blooded killer out for a huge payday and as an innocent man being railroaded when closing arguments begin in his sensational murder trial today.
Defense attorney Gerald Shargel and prosecutor Janet Albertson will get their final shot at the jury of nine women and three men, who will decide the Long Island electrician's fate....

 

[lisafremont]

THERE IS ALSO A POLL AT THIS SITE. On Sat. it's running 2- 1 in favor of guilt.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lipelo1210,0,2566428.story?coll=ny-homepage-big-pix

Pelosi jurors hear former girlfriend's testimony again

BY ROBIN TOPPING
STAFF WRITER

December 11, 2004, 1:47 PM EST

On their first day of deliberations, the jurors on the Daniel Pelosi murder case asked to hear a readback of one of the prosecution's most damaging witnesses.

The jury, which is sequestered, heard the testimony of Tracey Riebenfeld, a former girlfriend of Pelosi, who said he admitted to the murder of Theodore Ammon in October of 2001.

"I bashed his --- brains in and he begged for his life and cried like a ---," Riebenfeld testified. When she asked Pelosi why he killed Ammon, Riebenfeld testified that Pelosi told her "I have a monster in me."

The jury did not ask for defense attorney Gerald Shargel's cross examination of Riebenfeld. But parts of the testimony jurors heard tend to support the defense case, such as Riebenfeld's testimony that Pelosi repeatedly told her Generosa Ammon was framing him for the murder....

 

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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32644.htm

LAWYER KNOWS WHO DONE IT!

By KIERAN CROWLEY and MARSHA KRANES

December 11, 2004 --
The butler did it.
Or the estranged wife.

Or the two of them together.

Or perhaps it was a frightening gay man.

But it certainly wasn't Danny Pelosi — the estranged wife's lover — who brutally murdered mega-millionaire banker Ted Ammon in the master bedroom of his East Hampton mansion in October 2001. ...

 

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/260978p-223515c.html

Danny: She did it!

BY ROBERT GEARTY
and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Danny Pelosi's attorney brazenly cast his client's dead lover yesterday as the murderer of her millionaire husband - even as a prosecutor trashed the claim as a self-serving fantasy.
The dueling closing arguments capped the sensational three-month trial and left the Long Island jury with conflicting versions to ponder as they begin deliberating the Long Island electrician's fate today....

 

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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/36277.htm

AMMON WITNESS IGNORED

By KIERAN CROWLEY
December 12, 2004 -- EXCLUSIVE

A secret witness who claims he saw two men sneaking out of millionaire murder victim Ted Ammon's driveway in the dark before Ammon's body was found was never called as a witness by either side in Danny Pelosi's murder trial, The Post has learned.

The witness, whose name is being withheld by The Post, failed to pick murder suspect Pelosi out of an array of photographs shown to him by homicide detectives, sources said.

But in a subsequent viewing, the witness said one of the men lurking near the murder scene resembled a friend of Pelosi's, the sources said.

"If they [the jury] let [Pelosi] go, they're out of their f- - - ing minds," the witness told The Post. "That's all I'm going to say." He refused further comment....

 

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/l...,0,7064301.story?coll=ny-topstories-headlines

Pelosi deliberations to resume Sunday




BY ROBIN TOPPING
STAFF WRITER

December 12, 2004

In their first day of deliberations, the jurors on the Daniel Pelosi murder case appeared to be digging in, asking for several key pieces of evidence as well as the testimony of one of the prosecution's most critical witnesses.

Jurors, who are sequestered, spent more than seven hours deliberating and reviewing the testimony of Tracey Riebenfeld, a former girlfriend of Pelosi who said he admitted to her that he had killed East Hampton financier Theodore Ammon. In notes to State Supreme Court Justice Robert W. Doyle, they also asked for phone records, letters between Pelosi and his father, Robert, the post-nuptial agreement between Pelosi and Generosa Ammon, and all versions of Generosa Ammon's wills.

One item they asked for but did not receive was the autopsy report of the murder victim, Theodore Ammon. The report was not part of the trial record....

 

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/261258p-223754c.html

Pelosi's fate now up to the jury

BY ROBERT GEARTY
and DON SINGLETON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

After a three-month murder trial that was one of the most sensational in Long Island's history, Danny Pelosi's fate was finally placed in the hands of the jury yesterday.
Pelosi, an electrician, is charged with the fatal beating of millionaire banker Ted Ammon, estranged husband of Pelosi's lover, Generosa Ammon, on Oct. 21, 2001.

The jurors, nine women and three men, began their deliberations promptly at 9:20a.m. and ended the day without reaching a verdict.

They sent four notes to the judge. The first came less than an hour into deliberations, asking for exhibits and a reading of the testimony of key prosecution witness Tracey Riebenfeld, Pelosi's ex-girlfriend....

 

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/l...,0,7064301.story?coll=ny-topstories-headlines

Pelosi jury to resume this morning
Deliberating jurors ask for readbacks of testimony of Pelosi, sister; also rehear murder charge defined

BY ROBIN TOPPING
STAFF WRITER

December 13, 2004, 7:50 AM EST

Jurors are scheduled to meet again this morning after they ended almost 21 hours of deliberations in the Daniel Pelosi murder trial last night, after asking for a wide assortment of evidence, ranging from Pelosi's testimony about his alibi to crime scene photos.

Deliberations were scheduled to resume at 9 a.m.

The sequestered jurors, in a second day of deliberations yesterday, heard a readback of the testimony of Pelosi's sister, Barbara Lukert, at whose house Pelosi slept the night of the murder....