Videographer testifies

Also testifying Tuesday was Hamid Moslehi, who worked as Jackson's personal videographer between 1996 and 2003. He said he met the accuser and his family three times, beginning in 2000 when he filmed the accuser and Jackson at Neverland. He also made a video of the accuser's brother at the ranch and filmed the family for the singer’s rebuttal video on Feb. 19, 2003, at his home in Los Angeles.Under cross-examination, Moslehi admitted telling prosecutors last weekend that he had given the accuser's mother a loan of $2,000 because he felt sorry for her. "You called it a loan but you didn't expect to be repaid did you?" asked Mesereau. "I did," he said. "And has she ever repaid it?" asked Mesereau. "No," he replied. The mother's efforts to obtain money from celebrities and others have been a major part of Jackson’s defense. She refused to testify about alleged welfare fraud and admitted lying in a suit against a department store in which she obtained a settlement. Moslehi said that Dieter Wiesner and Ronald Konitzer appeared to be Jackson’s managers at the time and they had promised him a percentage of the net profits for the rebuttal video. Both Wiesner and Konitzer have been named by prosecutors as unindicted co-conspirators. However, Moslehi said he had only received a small part of $250,000 due to him and has a suit pending against Jackson. At one point Mesereau asked whether he knew that Wiesner and Konitzer had stolen almost $1 million from Jackson. The judge ordered him not to answer following an objection from prosecutors. However, when the question was repeated without the dollar value, he answered “no”. Moslehi is expected to return to the stand Wednesday. Source: AP/CNN/eMJey