Man Seeks $3.3 M from Jackson Estate

(AP)  A Los Angeles man is seeking $3.3 million for the city from Michael Jackson's estate to cover the cost of the King of Pop's public memorial.

Jose F. Vallejos filed a creditor's claim for the money on Wednesday, stating he is entitled to seek reimbursement of the memorial's public costs as a taxpayer.

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Los Angeles paid for police overtime and sanitation costs for the July memorial held at Staples Center.

Vallejos' petition claims the estate benefited from the use of public resources and that it amounted to an illegal gift of public funds. The filing states the money should be returned to the city treasury.

City leaders have wrangled for months with how to try to recoup some of the money from AEG Live, which owns the venue.

[DeborahFfrench]

The question I hear no-one asking in the press or blogland in general is - 'why' was Michael Jackson using? What made a relatively fit man known for abstention from the early part of his career until the late 1990's, end his days in a made-to-measure trauma room?

To truly understand why, I believe we must look not only Michael's death, but also the peculiar and tremendous pressures he lived under from the beginning of his life to its end. British journalist Charles Thomson?s clear analysis of the recently released FBI files which can be viewed at:

http://charlesthomsonjournalist.blogspot.com/2010/01/fbi-files-support-jacksons-innocence.html#comments

- finally and absolutely debunks the myth of Mr Jackson as child molester. His point by point breakdown of the files reveals; not only the inabilty of both the FBI and the LAPD to provide any evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Mr Jackson in an investigation that spanned over fifteen years, but also the continuing inference by the media of exactly the opposite of this.

It is important to note that there is a profound difference between the FBI compiling stating X and Y were alleged, and the FBI saying we investigated X and Y and found X and Y to be proven. Thomson's review of the files is thus required reading for any who wish to seperate the facts from the soundbites which have largely dominated media reporting on them.

Because the truth is, after the most thorough investigation the American taxpayer's money could buy, one of the foremost intelligence gathering agencies in the world and the LAPD came up with precisely - nothing. Instead we were served a collage of cut-out articles from a UK tabloid, the whitterings of an unverifiable woman on a train, and two ex-employees who only came forward after the 1993 allegations broke who, were coincidentally, also hawking a tell-all book to anyone who would listen.

Long before Murray ever wrote his first dodgy prescription, a lie of epic proportions was to set in motion a cataclysmic series of events that brought Michael to the state of profound depletion we saw in 2005. Evan Chandler, a known brutalist and Janet Arviso, a proven welfare cheat and compensation-chaser manipulated the American Criminal system and a willing media to bury Michael under the worst label society has determined exists. No proof was required, the suggestion was enough. And the world watched on the edge of their seats, as the obvious perjury and coaching of the witnesses was overlooked in the stampede to crucify a man previously so celebrated.

And now: Katherine Jackson who must be using every bit of strength she has just to keep going for her grand-children, does so knowing in just a few months she will have to endure the horror of the Dr Murray?s impending trial which will replay her son?s dying moments in the media for months, whilst those same people who stood by and let this travesty happen continue to deny her son?s value as a human being in print and TV specials all over the States.

Where were the voices now wailing about 'wasted resources' and the rights of taxpayers when Tom Sneddon authorized the use of millions of dollars of Federal money to pursue Michael Jackson in his deeply personal and blinkered 'takedown' of the, then - 'biggest pop star on the planet?'

Michael Jackson didn?t bankrupt the City of Angels, they fell all by themselves. For a country that can shine so bright when it decides to:- what America did to Michael Jackson stands as one of the most shameful example of engineered cruelty and unmitigated persecution to be witnessed in modern times.

[DeborahFfrench]

The question I hear no-one asking in the press or blogland in general is - 'why' was Micheal Jackson using? What made a relatively fit man known for abstention from the early part of his career until the late 1990's, end his days in a made-to-measure trauma room?

To truly understand why, I believe we must look not only Michael's death, but also the peculiar and tremendous pressures he lived under from the beginning of his life to its end. British journalist Charles Thomson?s clear analysis of the recently released FBI files which can be viewed at:

http://charlesthomsonjournalist.blogspot.com/2010/01/fbi-files-support-jacksons-innocence.html#comments

- finally and absolutely debunks the myth of Mr Jackson as child molester. His point by point breakdown of the files reveals; not only the inabilty of both the FBI and the LAPD to provide any evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Mr Jackson in an investigation that spanned over fifteen years, but also the continuing inference by the media of exactly the opposite of this.

It is important to note that there is a profound difference between the FBI compiling stating X and Y were alleged, and the FBI saying we investigated X and Y and found X and Y to be proven. Thomson's review of the files is thus required reading for any who wish to seperate the facts from the soundbites which have largely dominated the media?s reporting on them.

Because the truth is, after the most thorough investigation the American taxpayer's money could buy, the world?s premier intelligence gathering agency and the LAPD came up with precisely - nothing. Instead we were served up a collage of cut-out articles from a UK tabloid, the whitterings of an unverifiable woman on a train, and two ex-employees who only came forward after the 1993 allegations broke who, were
'coincidentally' also 'shopping' a tell-all book to anyone who would listen.

For this meagre ?evidence?, Mr Jackson was systematically humiliated and stripped of his dignity and spirit for over 15 years. Long before Murray ever wrote his first dodgy prescription, a lie of epic proportions was to set in motion a cataclysmic series of events that brought Michael to the state of profound depletion we saw in 2005. Evan Chandler, a known brutalist and Janet Arviso, a proven welfare cheat and compensation-chaser manipulated the American Criminal system and a willing media to bury Michael under the worst label society has determined exists. No proof was required, the suggestion was enough. And the world watched on the edge of their seats, as the obvious perjury and coaching of the
?witnesses? was overlooked in the stampede to crucify a man previously so celebrated.

And now: Michael?s mother who must be using every bit of strength she?s got just to keep going for Michael?s children, does so knowing in just a few months she will have to endure the horror of the Dr Murray?s impending trial which will replay her son?s dying moments in the media for months, whilst those same people who stood by and let this travesty happen continue to deny her son?s value as a human being in print and TV 'specials' all over the States.

Where were the voices now wailing about 'wasted resources' and the rights of taxpayers when Tom Sneddon authorized the use of millions of dollars of Federal money to pursue Michael Jackson in his deeply personal and blinkered 'takedown' of the, then - 'biggest pop star on the planet?'

Michael Jackson didn?t bankrupt the City of Angels, they fell all by themselves. For a country that can shine so bright when it decides to:- what America did to Michael Jackson stands as one of the most shameful example of engineered cruelty and unmitigated persecution to be witnessed in modern times.

[pickaguitar1]

RIP Michael