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

[KatzHome]

This trial sounds like it really should be interesting ~ thanks Lisa!

 

[lisafremont]

Sunday 26 Sept. Newsday

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/l...,0,7910531.story?coll=ny-topstories-headlines

LEGAL STARS SQUARE OFF IN PELOSI TRIAL

BY JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
Staff Writer

Defense attorney Gerald Shargel stood outside a Riverhead courtroom in April with a cardboard box full of evidence from the district attorney's office and playfully kicked it.

"It doesn't look like much," he said of the box's contents after a brief discovery hearing.

With the closed box at his feet, he grinned smugly in front of a gaggle of reporters following every development in the murder case against his client, Daniel Pelosi.

He displayed the same air of confidence when he showed up in court weeks earlier for Pelosi's arraignment on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of East Hampton millionaire Theodore Ammon.

 

[lisafremont]

Sept 26 Newsday

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lialb26,0,1383306.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines

ALBERTSON KNOWN FOR FEROCITY IN COURT

...It was a typical Albertson moment -- a biting dismissal of a defendant's argument, backed by the facts in evidence and the blunt force she uses to make her case. Even some of her colleagues in the Homicide Bureau said she went too far that time -- but they said she cheerfully spent the next few months trying to convince them otherwise.

Albertson, 42, the deputy chief of the Suffolk district attorney's Homicide Bureau, is considered by both colleagues and adversaries to be one of the most ferocious and respected prosecutors in the region. She will try the case against Daniel Pelosi, the man charged with killing Manhattan financier Theodore Ammon in East Hampton. The trial begins this week....

 

[tezi]

Thanks for the updates Lisa. I will be watching this thread in the coming weeks!

 

[lisafremont]

Here's more background, an article from NEW YORK magazine

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/n_8941/

The War for Ted Ammon's Children
It’s been nearly two years since financier Ted Ammon was bludgeoned to death in his East Hampton home, in the middle of “the worst divorce in the world.” But only now is a grand jury weighing charges, as his estranged wife fights cancer, and his sister fights to keep the nanny from winning custody of their twins

 

[lisafremont]

Another article from NEW YORK

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/n_9162/index.html

Generosa's Legacy
Danny took her ashes to a bar. Now does he want the kids?

By Robert Kolker

Dan Pelosi could be a cold-blooded killer or just a hopelessly naïve palooka—or maybe both—but last week, with one breathtaking picture in the Post, the electrician turned murder suspect instantly upgraded from Long Island lowlife to tabloid immortal. There he was, cigarette in mouth and beer in hand, taking his wife’s ashes out for a memorial Cosmo on the rocks, her favorite drink.

 

[lisafremont]

CBS news 48 HOURS has done stories on the Ammon murder

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/10/48hours/main599326.shtml

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/10/48hours/main599465.shtml

 

[mistytigress]

Old article of interest:






Second man charged in millionaire's death
Authorities accuse electrician of assisting in slaying of financier
Ryan Gowing and Phil Hirschkorn
CNN
Thursday, April 1, 2004 Posted: 3:38 PM EST (2038 GMT)



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(CNN) -- A second man has been charged in connection with the October 2001 beating death of Long Island multimillionaire Ted Ammon.

Christopher Parinno, 36, a Long Island carpenter and electrician, Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges that he was an accomplice to the crime and was expected to post $50,000 bail.

He was indicted Wednesday on charges of criminal facilitation -- allegedly engaging "in conduct which provided" the killer the "means or opportunity" to commit the murder -- and hindering prosecution for allegedly "suppressing physical evidence that might aid in the discovery or apprehension" of the killer.

Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota has charged Daniel Pelosi, 40, also an electrician, with committing the crime, striking Ammon in the head 31 times with a blunt object. Ammon was found dead in the bedroom of his mansion in the tony Long Island beach town of East Hampton.

Pelosi pleaded not guilty on a single charge of second-degree murder on March 23 and is being held without bail. If convicted he could receive 25 years to life in prison.

If convicted of aiding Pelosi, Parinno could be sentenced to a maximum of 15 years in prison.

"We've always maintained that we have no complicity in the murder," Parinno's attorney Ray Perini said in a telephone interview. "When we get this in front of a jury we are confident he will be found not guilty."



http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/01/ammon.second.arrest/

 

[lisafremont]

Thanks for finding and posting that, mistytigress. Either this fellow and Pelosi are going to be tried separately, or else he's turned state's evidence because I don't think he's in the dock for this particular trial. And it's beginning this week. Fasten your seat belts!

 

[lisafremont]

NY Daily News, Monday 27 Sept. 2004

http://www.nydailynews.com/09-27-2004/news/story/236030p-202671c.html

PELOSI CONFIDENT ON EVE OF SLAY TRIAL

BY ROBERT GEARTY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

There's no murder weapon or eyewitness and the lover he allegedly killed for is dead.
Now, more than three years after the slaying of financier Ted Ammon, Long Island electrician Danny Pelosi is set to go to trial.

The brash Pelosi, who installed a security system in Ammon's $10 million estate and married Ammon's widow shortly after the murder, predicted he will be exonerated....

 

[mistytigress]

Thank you Lisa, for all the news and updates.

I'm looking forward to this trial.

 

[lisafremont]

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/l...,0,5539621.story?coll=ny-topstories-headlines

PELOSI JUROR EXCUSED AFTER CITING ANXIETY

BY ROBIN TOPPING
STAFF WRITER

September 28, 2004


A juror on the Daniel Pelosi murder trial case was excused yesterday after she told the judge she had become too anxious about serving on the high-profile case.

The woman, a homemaker from Oakdale, told State Supreme Court Justice Robert Doyle in Riverhead she had received several phone calls during the weekend from friends asking if she was a juror on the Pelosi trial....

 

[lisafremont]

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/30995.htm

MY KID WAS FRAMED, SAYS PELOSI'S MA

September 28, 2004 -- Danny Pelosi's mom says she believes the Long Island contractor was framed for the murder of millionaire Ted Ammon — and questioned why Ammon's sophisticated wife would want to take up with her high-school dropout son.
"As far as I'm concerned, he was set up for this," said Janet Pelosi, 67. "He was at the wrong place at the wrong time." ...


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What's interesting about an "I was framed!" defense is that it inherently concedes there is convincing evidence against you. Otherwise why would you say you were framed? It must look bad.

 

[kato]

Lisa, thanks for keeping us updated as I'm sure you're getting so much more local info. up there.

 

[lisafremont]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/236381p-202965c.html

MA: PELOSI DIDN'T DO IT

Long Island electrician Danny Pelosi finally goes on trial tomorrow for killing Wall Street mogul Ted Ammon, but his mother is already giving her own opening argument.
"My son didn't do this," 67-year-old Janet Pelosi said yesterday. "He had nothing to do with this."...

 

[bwelch]

Lisa, i think i saw on another thread that you aren't convinced of Daniel's guilt....how come?

 

[lisafremont]

What I said was that I could fairly sit on this jury. I don't have an opinion as to Pelosi's guilt or innocence. I don't know what evidence the prosecution has apart from the little I have read. And this is one high-profile trial that I approach without a "conviction." There are suspicions but I want to hear what evidence they have. So I am a fence-sitter.

Wish they were showing this trial rather than Pring-Wilson which doesn't interest me at all.

 

[lisafremont]

Wed. 29 Sept. Newsday

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/l...30,0,3942692.story?coll=ny-top-span-headlines



OPENING STATEMENTS IN PELOSI TRIAL TODAY
Prosecutors want to cross-examine murder suspect — if he takes the stand — about his criminal history


By Robin Topping
Staff Writer

Lawyers are expected to give their opening statements today in Daniel Pelosi's murder trial and prosecutors intend to cross examine Pelosi if he takes the stand.

Suffolk prosecutors want to question Daniel Pelosi about more than 15 criminal convictions dating to 1980, as well as a number of police complaints and pending charges, if he takes the stand during his murder trial in Riverhead.

While defense lawyers won't say if Pelosi will testify, prosecutors could be entitled to question him about his criminal history if he does. State Supreme Court Justice Robert Doyle Tuesday agreed to allow Paul Bergman, one of Pelosi's lawyers, and prosecutor Ming Liu Parson to submit papers about the issue....

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Sounds like Pelosi won't be testifying.

 

[lisafremont]

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/29362.htm

HISTORY HAUNTS PELOSI AS DA EYES OTHER RAPS

By KIERAN CROWLEY

September 29, 2004 -- Prosecutors trying Danny Pelosi on charges he killed a Long Island millionaire told a judge yesterday they'd like to grill him on his lengthy rap sheet — including fresh allegations — if he takes the stand.
Assistant District Attorney Ming Parson said Pelosi has "engaged in a continuing course of criminal conduct going back to 1980" before he was charged with killing millionaire financier Ted Ammon in his East Hampton mansion in 2003.

Pelosi was arrested more than a dozen times on charges including drunken driving, assault, burglary and violating his parole, Parson said.

He also allegedly wiretapped unknowing parties, committed domestic violence against both of his wives and menaced someone with a shotgun, the prosecutor claimed — allegations for which he has not been charged....

 

[lisafremont]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/236754p-203250c.html

DA: BOOZY PELOSI BEAT BOTH WIVES

BY ROBERT GEARTY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Prosecutors in Danny Pelosi's murder trial want jurors to hear evidence that the Long Island electrician beat his wives, including Generosa Ammon - the woman he allegedly killed for.
Violent acts by Pelosi, before and after financier Ted Ammon was bludgeoned in his Hamptons mansion, could help undermine his credibility should he take the stand, prosecutors said.

Prosecutor Ming Parson said at a court hearing yesterday that on more than one occasion, Pelosi physically abused Generosa Ammon "during his bouts with alcohol."

Parson said that Pelosi also was violent toward his first wife, Tamara, slapping her in the face during a fight in June 1996.

"He threatened to kill her, ruin her career and told her to watch her back wherever she was," said Parson.

Pelosi attorney Paul Bergman said Pelosi never laid a finger on Generosa Ammon. ....