Release of FBI documents related to Michael Jackson
On Monday morning in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, removed 300 pages out of 600 pages of police documents related to Michael Jackson from its archives. The remaining documents contain personal information about other people, and the police have withheld their release in order to protect them.
200 pages of these documents relate to the case of the “crazy man” who, in a letter in 1992, threatened to murder Michael Jackson and George H. W. Bush, the then-president.
He had written to the office of the Daily News newspaper that since nobody takes him seriously, he would go to the White House to kill George Bush. He also threatened that he would make many people victims at a Michael Jackson concert. The man was arrested, and in court in 1993, after confessing and accepting his guilt, he was sentenced to two years in prison.
According to a report written on June 22, 1992, by the Los Angeles city prosecutor’s office, Michael Jackson was aware of the threats and took them seriously. This letter also indicates the entry of the crazy man into California and his threats of committing murder.
The man, who was infatuated with Janet, Michael’s sister, on that same day rushed into the home of the Jackson family’s Ensign? (Ensign? likely “Encino”) and was arrested by police. He had previously been arrested once before on the grounds of the White House for illegal entry.
On July 6 of that year, the FBI archived the man’s letter as evidence. It said: “If Michael doesn’t give me my money, I will personally kill him.”
Another part of these documents is a request form from 1995 by the Florida Customs Office, which asked the FBI for help in investigating a mailed video tape. On the label of that video tape it was written: “Michael Jackson’s favorite compilations.” The FBI wrote in its documents that the film was so low-quality that investigators could not see anything on it.
The remaining released documents relate to the case of the prosecutor Thomas Sneddon’s accusations against Michael from 2003 to 2006. As everyone knows, Michael was acquitted of all charges on June 13, 2005.
During a brutal search of Michael’s home, even the furniture upholstery was torn apart in order to obtain a clue to prove the prosecutor’s claims. Police took 16 computers from Michael’s home. In the documents released on Monday, it is stated that nothing noteworthy was found on those computers.
Most of the released papers are administrative documents that have been tampered with so that the names inside them cannot be read. Many of these papers contain bizarre stories about Michael Jackson copied from English newspapers and/or tabloid scraps. And of course, because they were not real, they were not usable by the police.
These documents state that after Michael was arrested in 2004, the Santa Maria police district asked the FBI for help to assist them in their investigation. They thought that, due to the extensive media coverage, terrorists would attack Michael Jackson’s trial. At that time, Michael had hired members of the Islamic Party of America as security. Of course, later he dismissed them. The FBI added in these documents that at that time they faced no terrorist threats.
The FBI papers indicate that after the first charges were brought against Michael in 1993, they kept him under surveillance for a decade. Of course, no documents related to his personal life were released. During that decade, the FBI did not come across any evidence against him.
Thomas Mesereau, head of Michael’s defense team, said during the 2005 trial that the documents released by the FBI are proof of Michael’s innocence.
“He wasn’t a criminal. He wasn’t a sexual deviant. The fact that, despite numerous and extensive searches by different organizations, nothing was found against him is proof of his complete innocence.”
Source: eMJey / showbiz411.com / AP