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

[lisafremont]

ok..can't help it...Lisa...the murder weapon and forensic evidence against Mr. Pelosi were......help me understand since you seem to know....

I know only what I have read and heard. And here's a list of reasons why Danny Pelosi is guilty, IMO:

1.Danny Pelosi had a motive.

2.He had the opportunity.

3.He had the means.

4.He admitted to the jury that he was a sadist and he liked the "fun" of hurting people with his stun gun.

5.He denied wanting Ted Ammons' money. Oh, come now!

6.He was surveilling Ammons' home. The night of the murder the surveillance was abruptly ended and the plug in the house was pulled. That was the way he would turn off the system when he and Generosa were there.

7.The surveillance hard drive went mysteriously missing the night of the murder. Danny was one of few people who knew where it was located and that it even existed.

8.He married the dead man's now wealthier widow 3 mos. after the murder.

9.Danny claimed on the stand that he was contesting Generosa's will that gave him only $2 million (which he used on his defense) in order to get her money for the children. (Absurd. They already were willed the money.)

10.Her lawyer has come out and said that Generosa told him that Danny told her he killed Ted. Michael Dowd has also said that the children who formerly supported Pelosi have come to believe that he killed their father.

11.The day before the murder, Generosa got a letter from Ted's lawyers which informed her that he only had $46 million and that he was offering her half which enraged Generosa and Danny.

12.Robert Pelosi testified that his son Danny asked him within hours of the murder how to get rid of something. Danny admitted asking his father that but said it was earlier.

13.Danny's girlfriend, drinking buddy, the children's nanny and fellow inmate all testified that Danny made incriminating remarks to them. Are they all lying?

14.Danny's sister, Barbara Lukert, testified she felt two hard objects under his jacket when she hugged him the night of the murder. Danny testified it was his cell phone and a box of marijuana.

15.Ted Ammon was savagely beaten. Every one of his ribs and his skull shattered, which would support the idea that this was a rage killing.

16.Jurors saw Pelosi's temper when his father testified.

17.Danny tried to pin the murder on his dead wife. He wanted the jury to believe that 5'2" Generosa beat 6'3" Ted to death.

18.Pelosi claimed that Generosa asked him to kill Ammon and he refused.

19.Danny testified on his own behalf. The jury did not believe him.

Can you dismiss all that??

 

[lisafremont]

More to read:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/261907p-224252c.html

Pelosi's testimony worked against him, jurors say

BY RALPH R. ORTEGA, LAURA WILLIAMS and BRIAN KATES
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

In the end, "it all came down to money, money, money."
That, said juror Rose Marie Brady, was the weight that tipped the scales of justice against Danny Pelosi in the murder of banker Ted Ammon.

"It was a very hard decision for all of us to make," added Brady, a 53-year-old teacher from Dix Hills, L.I. "I wish we could have found him not guilty."

But jurors said they ultimately had no doubts - especially when they considered Pelosi's own testimony.

"There were too many inconsistencies," said juror Patricia Campbell, 53, a hospital technician from Huntington, L.I. "I think he was incriminating himself."

She added that Pelosi's reaction to the verdict convinced her she had made the right decision....
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/261904p-224237c.html

Know-it-all Danny cooked own goose

Legal experts said Danny Pelosi should have learned one lesson from his murder conviction: Follow your lawyer's advice.
Pelosi's insistence on testifying on his own behalf backfired - a foolish move that his attorney, Gerald Shargel, advised against.

"I'm not surprised by the verdict, but I was surprised when he testified," said Kevin Canfield, a seasoned Manhattan defense lawyer. "It obviously didn't help."

"Ultimately, it's always the client's decision whether to take the stand," said Stacey Richman, a busy Bronx attorney who represents rap stars and others.

Canfield said the problem with Pelosi testifying is that it shifted the burden of proof in an emotional way for the jurors so that instead of deciding who made the best case, they would think "who do we like. ... It becomes a challenge of wills and personalities."...
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/261859p-224224c.html

Generosa & Danny: Fairy tale gone bad

Messy marriage, millions - and murder

BY BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


Ammon family photo: Ted and Generosa with their children, Alexa and Gregory, adopted from Ukraine in 1992.

Danny Pelosi was Generosa Ammon's man with a tool belt, and he once said that dating the willowy, blond socialite was like hitting the Lotto.
But their union ended up a violent perfect storm, a topsy-turvy adventure funded by the fortune of her estranged husband, Ted Ammon.

"I didn't know what interest she had in him," Pelosi's father, Robert, testified as his son went on trial for the murder of Ammon, a Wall Street mogul with movie-star looks and an estate once estimated to be worth more than $100 million.....
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/261972p-224319c.html

He confessed, but Generosa didn't believe him



BY BARBARA ROSS and ADAM LISBERG
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Danny Pelosi once confessed to Generosa Ammon that he killed her husband, Ted, her attorney revealed yesterday - but she refused to believe the big-mouthed murderer.
"She said, 'Mike, Danny told me he killed Ted,'" lawyer Michael Dowd said yesterday, breaking a year-long silence about the bombshell conversation in the spring of 2003.

"She didn't really believe it," Dowd said. "Her subsequent conversations with me, not directly on point, made me think she didn't believe he'd done it."....
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/261971p-224317c.html

Prosecutor kept focus & heat on



BY DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


Janet Albertson, high-energy Suffolk County assistant district attorney, smiles after Pelosi conviction, all the sweeter after Pelosi had publicly belittled her case.

Danny Pelosi boasted of a string of love interests, from Long Island barflies to married-to-a-millionaire Generosa Ammon.
But in the end, the most significant woman in his life was a deceptively fierce prosecutor who made it clear she took his murder case very, very personally....

 

[lisafremont]

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/l...,0,2894113.story?coll=ny-topstories-headlines

Attorney wonders where he went wrong

BY ROBIN TOPPING
STAFF WRITER

December 15, 2004

As Daniel Pelosi sat in the Suffolk County jail on suicide watch yesterday, his defense lawyer contemplated where his case went wrong in the two-month-long trial that ended with a murder conviction.

"I'm a very self-critical, self questioning person," said Gerald Shargel in a phone interview from his Manhattan office. "I always think about how it could have been different ... Obviously, the decision for Danny to testify looms large."

Against the advice of his attorneys, Pelosi took the stand and the chance he could win over jurors. But Pelosi's decision to testify backfired and he was convicted of killing multi-millionaire Theodore Ammon.

"Reading the jurors' comments in the press this morning, well, it graphically illustrates that problem," Shargel said.

Jurors told reporters that Pelosi's five hours of testimony over two days helped convict him. While prosecutor Janet Albertson did not catch him in any major gaffes, he still came across as greedy, they said, manipulative and potentially violent....

 

[kato]

It went wrong cuz Danny was "stone cold" guilty that's why and the jurors concurred.

 

[lisafremont]

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/32794.htm

MACABRE SLAY EVIDENCE

By KIERAN CROWLEY, IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON and MARSHA KRANES

December 15, 2004 -- No Tiffany money clip for multimillionaire Ted Ammon — the night he was killed he had a wad of nearly $1,000 held together by a metal binder clip, worth about 10 cents.
Piles of evidence in the three-month murder trial of Danny Pelosi were on display for members of the media to sift through yesterday, including the stun gun Pelosi used to immobilize Ammon before bludgeoning him to death.

Among the items introduced into evidence by the prosecution were pictures of wires disconnected from the security system of the East Hampton mansion where the 52-year-old banker was killed and a 9-foot-long scale model of the house's second floor.

On the night of his murder, Ammon had in his wallet a photo of his tow-headed adopted twins — and in his briefcase, an autographed children's book he had intended to give them....

 

[lisafremont]

front page of today's paper:

http://www.nydailynews.com/

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/262309p-224514c.html

Scene of his vile deed

Prosecution displays bloody evidence that did Danny in

By ROBERT GEARTY and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


Among the prosecution's exhibits on display were blood-soaked mattress in Ted Ammon's L.I. home.


The attack was so brutal that Ammon didn't get chance to press panic button in night stand.


Picture of Ted Ammon's adopted twins, Alexa and Gregory, and the Wall Street financier's frayed driver's license were found in his wallet.

The blood-stained mattress serves as a vivid and gruesome testament to the brutality of Danny Pelosi - and is part of the evidence that doomed the killer.
It is where multimillionaire banker Ted Ammon was lying when Pelosi shattered his skull with 30 savage blows.

A Taser stun gun sits in a plastic box, a sadistic reminder of how Pelosi zapped his defenseless victim in the darkened bedroom of the banker's East Hampton mansion.

From divorce records and handwritten notes, to the clothes the dead man last wore, the evidence was laid out yesterday in the very same Riverhead, L.I., courtroom, where the Long Island electrician was declared guilty of murder Monday....

 

[lisafremont]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/nyregion/15pelosi.html?oref=login&pagewanted=all

In the End, Pelosi's Own Words May Have Sealed His Fate
By PATRICK O'GILFOIL HEALY

Daniel Pelosi hired a team of high-priced defense lawyers to avoid being convicted of murdering his lover's financier husband. But lawyers and jurors said yesterday that Mr. Pelosi had thrown it all away for a chance to testify in his own defense.

One day after Mr. Pelosi was found guilty of murdering the Manhattan investment banker R. Theodore Ammon, even his lead lawyer, Gerald Shargel, said that Mr. Pelosi had sealed his own fate by insisting that he take the witness stand.

"It's clear that the decision to testify was a fatal mistake," Mr. Shargel said. "I strongly believed that he should not testify."

In five hours of testimony over two days, Mr. Pelosi, a self-described "good guy," was adamant in denying that he had murdered Mr. Ammon, who was in the midst of a bitter divorce from the woman Mr. Pelosi was romancing. He told jurors that he and a friend had been buying beer on the night in October 2001 when Mr. Ammon was beaten to death in his East Hampton home.

But several jurors said they saw a Long Island lothario trying to con them. They said Mr. Pelosi had looked dour and uncaring, had seemed to be concerned only about money and had provided an unbelievable alibi.

"When he testified, things just didn't ring true," said one female juror, who spoke on the condition that she not be identified. "It just closed up all gaps of doubt for me. I knew what I wanted to do."...

 

[lisafremont]

All this evidence which includes means, motive and opportunity, and a defendant who testifies for himself!

And yet some people say there was "no evidence" and that he's not guilty? I don't get it.

 

[kato]

All this evidence which includes means, motive and opportunity, and a defendant who testifies for himself!

And yet some people say there was "no evidence" and that he's not guilty? I don't get it.

I agree. Even if one has not been following this case closely they can't help but know the man is guilty just by reading. He did not do a very good job of covering his *ss. And he just couldn't keep his mouth shut. In my opinion this case was far easier than the SP case.

 

[KatzHome]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/nyregion/15pelosi.html?oref=login&pagewanted=all

In the End, Pelosi's Own Words May Have Sealed His Fate
By PATRICK O'GILFOIL HEALY
..."When he testified, things just didn't ring true," said one female juror, who spoke on the condition that she not be identified. "It just closed up all gaps of doubt for me. I knew what I wanted to do."...

Not only his words, Lisa ~ but the alarm system too... that was too hokey... as well as his saying that she asked Pelosi to kill him ~ but Pelosi, being the sweet darling that he is ~ of course refused.... yeah, right....

 

[lisafremont]

Not only his words, Lisa ~ but the alarm system too... that was too hokey... as well as his saying that she asked Pelosi to kill him ~ but Pelosi, being the sweet darling that he is ~ of course refused.... yeah, right....

Before he testified, Katz, the number one piece of evidence in my mind was the secret surveillance system which was turned off just before the murder and the missing hard drive. Who else would know about those things?

His testimony contained a couple of claims that were really hard to swallow:

1) that he didn't want Ted Ammon's money
2) that Generosa asked him to kill Ted and he refused!

Beyond that, if Pelosi didn't do it then a lot of people lied when they said he told them he did.

 

[kato]

Lisa:

Primetime Live is going to have the Pelosi case on tonight.

 

[lisafremont]

Thanks, Kato! I was just going to post that! I happened to catch GMA this morning and discovered what's-her-face talking to DS about her report which includes a recent interview with Robert Pelosi (now there's a father with integrity. He didn't volunteer to testify but asked, told the truth.) and her pre-arrest interview with Danny Pelosi. Man! What did Generosa see in him? How sad! I hope the children get to stay together and with Ted's sister. Pay the nanny off and ship her off. Keep the kids, Sandy!!

 

[kato]

I just saw GMA also. Too bad about the dad and Danny telling him, "I hate you," after he took the stand.

I agree for some reason I don't like the nanny. Why the heck leave them with her when they have perfectly good blood relatives willing to take them in.

 

[lisafremont]

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lipelo1216,0,2959650.story?coll=ny-li-big-pix

Pelosi case turned personal
Days after murder conviction, prosecutor talks about strategy, defendant’s threats against her family




BY ROBIN TOPPING
STAFF WRITER

December 16, 2004

The trial of Daniel Pelosi became personal for prosecutor Janet Albertson when investigators showed up at her house and installed panic alarms.

They also swept her house for listening devices and questioned her about her children's schedule. While Albertson knew that prosecutors were investigating Pelosi for new crimes, she wasn't aware until shortly before the trial started that he allegedly had threatened her family.

"When I found out what was going on, it was very upsetting to me," Albertson said Wednesday, two days after winning the conviction against Pelosi for the murder of financier Theodore Ammon. "Initially I felt fear. It's a very disconcerting feeling when people say they need to know when your children take the bus."...

 

[lisafremont]

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/36573.htm

HEAT ON PALS OF PELOSI

By KIERAN CROWLEY

December 16, 2004 -- Convicted killer Danny Pelosi may have had accomplices who could be tried for the murder of Ted Ammon, prosecutors said yesterday.
Jurors said they believed Pelosi's girlfriend, Tracey Riebenfeld. She had testified that Pelosi told her that three people were all with him at the murder: his pal, Christopher Parrino; his nephew, Jeff Lukert; and Ammon's wife, Generosa.

"We are acutely aware of what [Riebenfeld] said" on the stand, said John Collins, chief of the Suffolk County DA's Homicide Bureau.

"I would say we can't rule it out," Collins said, when asked if others might be targeted for prosecution. "We're still in the process of evaluating the testimony that came out at the trial." ...

 

[lisafremont]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/262623p-224769c.html

Pelosi kicking out
lover to sell home

BY RICHARD WEIR and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Still desperate for money, convicted killer Danny Pelosi is selling his Long Island house - leaving his fiancée and baby son with nowhere to live, the Daily News has learned.
The harsh news was broken to Jennifer Zolnowski and 4-month-old Nicholas, as Pelosi's father, Robert Pelosi - a prosecution witness - said in a TV interview that his son hates him because "I guess he expected me to lie."...

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I feel sorry for the baby who had no choice in being fathered by a then-suspect in a murder case, a man with a lot of wreckage in his wake. I feel absolutely no sympathy for Zolnowski who CHOSE to involve herself with Pelosi and to subject a child to all this and being fatherless which was surely predictable.

 

[kato]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/262623p-224769c.html

Pelosi kicking out
lover to sell home

BY RICHARD WEIR and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Still desperate for money, convicted killer Danny Pelosi is selling his Long Island house - leaving his fiancée and baby son with nowhere to live, the Daily News has learned.
The harsh news was broken to Jennifer Zolnowski and 4-month-old Nicholas, as Pelosi's father, Robert Pelosi - a prosecution witness - said in a TV interview that his son hates him because "I guess he expected me to lie."...

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I feel sorry for the baby who had no choice in being fathered by a then-suspect in a murder case, a man with a lot of wreckage in his wake. I feel absolutely no sympathy for Zolnowski who CHOSE to involve herself with Pelosi and to subject a child to all this and being fatherless which was surely predictable.

Right on about the mom. She can sleep in the park for all I care. It's the poor baby. What do these women see in him. He's the poster child for "trash".

 

[KatzHome]

Before he testified, Katz, the number one piece of evidence in my mind was the secret surveillance system which was turned off just before the murder and the missing hard drive. Who else would know about those things?

His testimony contained a couple of claims that were really hard to swallow:

1) that he didn't want Ted Ammon's money
2) that Generosa asked him to kill Ted and he refused!

Beyond that, if Pelosi didn't do it then a lot of people lied when they said he told them he did.

Exactly. There is NO question of his guilt. You listed my exact thoughts.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lipelo1216,0,2959650.story?coll=ny-li-big-pix

Pelosi case turned personal
Days after murder conviction, prosecutor talks about strategy, defendant’s threats against her family
...December 16, 2004

...The trial of Daniel Pelosi became personal for prosecutor Janet Albertson when investigators showed up at her house and installed panic alarms.

They also swept her house for listening devices and questioned her about her children's schedule. While Albertson knew that prosecutors were investigating Pelosi for new crimes, she wasn't aware until shortly before the trial started that he allegedly had threatened her family...

This is truly horrible ~ he should hang from his toes all the days he is in prison for this one ~ and if anyone was going to help him harm her family ~ I hope they find them ~ and they hang from their toes in prison too!

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/36573.htm

HEAT ON PALS OF PELOSI

By KIERAN CROWLEY

December 16, 2004 -- Convicted killer Danny Pelosi may have had accomplices who could be tried for the murder of Ted Ammon, prosecutors said yesterday.
Jurors said they believed Pelosi's girlfriend, Tracey Riebenfeld. She had testified that Pelosi told her that three people were all with him at the murder: his pal, Christopher Parrino; his nephew, Jeff Lukert; and Ammon's wife, Generosa.

..."I would say we can't rule it out," Collins said, when asked if others might be targeted for prosecution. "We're still in the process of evaluating the testimony that came out at the trial." ...

Very interesting ~ his buddy and his nephew must be real scared right about now ~ I wonder if they're in hiding or if the police know where they are.

 

[kato]

Well, all I can say is if Generosa did have anything to do with it she got her just desserts and has already met her maker and she has been judged once and for all.