Jackson-AEG trial: Detective saw money as motive in singer's death
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Jackson-AEG trial: Detective saw money as motive in singer's death
by Admin Thu May 02, 2013 3:20 am
Jackson-AEG trial: Detective saw money as motive in singer's death
By Jeff Gottlieb
April 30, 2013
When he began investigating Michael Jackson’s death in 2009, Los Angeles Police Det. Orlando Martinez at first concluded that the cause was accidental or natural.
But when the detective discovered the deep financial straits of Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, he shifted his thinking and pondered whether he had discovered a motive for the pop star’s death — “financial gain.”
Martinez was the second witness called Tuesday in a wrongful death lawsuit that Jackson’s mother and three children filed against Anschutz Entertainment Group, accusing the entertainment giant of negligently hiring and supervising Murray.
AEG says it was Jackson who employed Murray, and that the $150,000 a month the company was supposed to pay the doctor was an advance to the singer, much like the money it had loaned him to pay for his Holmby Hills mansion and production costs for the upcoming “This Is It” concert series in London.
On the witness stand, Martinez said that he learned that Murray’s Las Vegas home, on which he owed more than $1.6 million, was worth just a little more than $1 million and was in foreclosure.
The doctor owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax liens, child support and other debts, and he had closed his office to work with one patient — Jackson, tying his financial future to him, Martinez said.
Martinez said Murray’s deep financial distress led him to believe "that he may for this easy money, the $150,000, he may break the rules, bend the rules to do whatever he needed to get paid. It might solve his money problems.”
The detective said that when he interviewed Murray with two attorneys present, the doctor made up a story to protect himself.
“He was not being honest and forthright,” Martinez testified.
Martinez’s testimony was part of the Jackson family’s lawyers’ strategy to show that Murray was more concerned with getting himself out of his financial hole than caring for his patient, and that AEG should have checked him out.
Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 for giving Jackson a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to help him sleep. He is completing a jail sentence.
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By Jeff Gottlieb
April 30, 2013
When he began investigating Michael Jackson’s death in 2009, Los Angeles Police Det. Orlando Martinez at first concluded that the cause was accidental or natural.
But when the detective discovered the deep financial straits of Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, he shifted his thinking and pondered whether he had discovered a motive for the pop star’s death — “financial gain.”
Martinez was the second witness called Tuesday in a wrongful death lawsuit that Jackson’s mother and three children filed against Anschutz Entertainment Group, accusing the entertainment giant of negligently hiring and supervising Murray.
AEG says it was Jackson who employed Murray, and that the $150,000 a month the company was supposed to pay the doctor was an advance to the singer, much like the money it had loaned him to pay for his Holmby Hills mansion and production costs for the upcoming “This Is It” concert series in London.
On the witness stand, Martinez said that he learned that Murray’s Las Vegas home, on which he owed more than $1.6 million, was worth just a little more than $1 million and was in foreclosure.
The doctor owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax liens, child support and other debts, and he had closed his office to work with one patient — Jackson, tying his financial future to him, Martinez said.
Martinez said Murray’s deep financial distress led him to believe "that he may for this easy money, the $150,000, he may break the rules, bend the rules to do whatever he needed to get paid. It might solve his money problems.”
The detective said that when he interviewed Murray with two attorneys present, the doctor made up a story to protect himself.
“He was not being honest and forthright,” Martinez testified.
Martinez’s testimony was part of the Jackson family’s lawyers’ strategy to show that Murray was more concerned with getting himself out of his financial hole than caring for his patient, and that AEG should have checked him out.
Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 for giving Jackson a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to help him sleep. He is completing a jail sentence.
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Conrad Murray Chatted On The Phone With His Girlfriend As He Accompanied Jackson To Hospital
by Admin Thu May 02, 2013 4:21 am
Conrad Murray Chatted On The Phone With His Girlfriend As He Accompanied Jackson To Hospital
May 1, 2013
A Los Angeles homicide detective took jurors in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial back to the day the King of Pop died in court on Wednesday and recalled the suspicions he had over the late star’s physician, Conrad Murray.
Det. Orlando Martinez told the jury Murray, who is currently serving time behind bars after being convicted of administering the dose of anesthetic that killed his former client, spent over two minutes chatting on the phone with his girlfriend on the ambulance trip from Jackson’s rented home in Holmby Hills to the hospital.
He stopped short of going into detail about what the doctor was talking about when the jurors were dismissed early so one member could attend a funeral.
The detective also told the court that he believes Murray was prone to “break the rules” and “do whatever he needed to get paid” after investigating the medic’s finances and realising he had many money problems.
Jackson’s mother Katherine has accused promoters at AEG Live of hiring the doctor to make sure her son was well enough to perform onstage as they made plans for a 50-date comeback residency in London in 2009.
The King of Pop died just days before he was due to fly to England for the This Is It concerts.
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May 1, 2013
A Los Angeles homicide detective took jurors in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial back to the day the King of Pop died in court on Wednesday and recalled the suspicions he had over the late star’s physician, Conrad Murray.
Det. Orlando Martinez told the jury Murray, who is currently serving time behind bars after being convicted of administering the dose of anesthetic that killed his former client, spent over two minutes chatting on the phone with his girlfriend on the ambulance trip from Jackson’s rented home in Holmby Hills to the hospital.
He stopped short of going into detail about what the doctor was talking about when the jurors were dismissed early so one member could attend a funeral.
The detective also told the court that he believes Murray was prone to “break the rules” and “do whatever he needed to get paid” after investigating the medic’s finances and realising he had many money problems.
Jackson’s mother Katherine has accused promoters at AEG Live of hiring the doctor to make sure her son was well enough to perform onstage as they made plans for a 50-date comeback residency in London in 2009.
The King of Pop died just days before he was due to fly to England for the This Is It concerts.
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Re: Jackson-AEG trial: Detective saw money as motive in singer's death
by ljmissmj Thu May 02, 2013 3:21 pm
anything anything
anything for money
Michael sang about it.....
anything for money
Michael sang about it.....
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