Friedman: A year before the trial, the FBI found nothing against Michael

On Tuesday, Roger Friedman wrote about the released FBI documents:

The prosecutor even got help from the FBI. They, while examining all the computers stolen from Neverland in April 2004—ten months before Michael Jackson’s trial—were looking for child pornography films and images, and they found nothing. There is nothing in their papers. Michael’s defense attorney, Thomas Mesereau, expressed his surprise at the FBI documents for me yesterday:

“I had never seen them. Shouldn’t they have shown them to me before the trial?”

But it doesn’t matter. Mesereau, with skill, took control of Michael’s trial, and he was acquitted of all charges.

But why, when the FBI had no evidence against Michael, did the prosecutor still continue the case?

Mesereau told me:

“They were hearing all the stories. They were reading the stories that were written in tabloid letters. And there was also the 1993 case. They had to keep going. In addition, after prosecutor Tom Sneddon’s failure in his case against Michael in 1993, he changed the criminal laws in such a way that the case could not be stopped.”

And he kept doing it because he knew Michael Jackson was cleared of all those accusations.

Many people came to Michael’s aid. Two of them were Frank Tyson and Winnie Ameen, who worked for Michael in the winter of 2003. After the documentary Martin Bashir: Living with Michael Jackson aired on ABC, Michael assigned them to take care of the Arvizo family (the family of the accuser) and to provide for their livelihood. All the trouble started only because Michael said in that documentary that sleeping with children in the same bed is not a problem. And then the chaos began.

Prosecutor Tom Sneddon, who had become Jackson’s goddess of revenge since 1993, was determined this time to destroy him. He contacted Janet Arvizo (the mother of the boy who later became the accuser) and asked for help. But he didn’t know that she was a scammer, a sick liar, and completely insane. In the witness stand at the trial, Mrs. Arvizo told Michael’s defense attorney, Tom Mesereau, that she believes Michael Jackson intended to put her children into a big balloon and kidnap them.

After that, no testimony was worth anything. We who were present at the Santa Monica courtroom knew that Michael went from the courthouse to his home, Monrovia? (Monrovia). Free as a bird—and with full merit.

In the early part of that same year (2005), I wrote in my old column that when Frank and Winnie returned Janet from Neverland to their apartment in Los Angeles, Sneddon’s business card had fallen under her house door. She called the number on the card. Sneddon invited her. And then the FBI got involved. The result of all these events and efforts is found in the newly released FBI papers. All that power was mobilized for nothing. Michael was innocent. But he was guilty like other people too—such as Chris Tucker—because he had fallen for Arvizo.

In fact, the feud between Jackson and Sneddon was fueled by Michael himself. After the case of the Chandler accusations against Michael in 1994–1993, Michael attacked Sneddon in his song (D.S), and that was a mistake.

In the FBI documents, it is clear how Sneddon used Diane Diamond’s television news against Michael. He even sent someone to New York to encourage Jardi Chandler to testify. Chandler refused and threatened to take legal action against the subpoena they had sent him. It was said that during the trial he had left the United States.

Sneddon and his colleagues had little chance of subpoenaing people whom they claimed had participated in a conspiracy by Michael Jackson to kidnap the Arvizo family. Winnie kept all the receipts related to hosting the Arvizo family. In the end, everything became clear in court: the Arvizo family had not been kidnapped; they had been taken to the cinema, clothes had been bought for them, they had stayed at a hotel, and they had also had water therapy. Sneddon knew all these things. He was only pretending not to know. Thanks to Michael, Janet Arvizo received a full body epilation. The FBI was also made a fool of.

Source: eMJey / Showbiz411.com