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DK: When you started working for him, did it take you long to notice that?
GH: I noticed it kind of instantly. We had a receptionist and it was like he needed someone to badger on a daily basis and he used to beat up on her pretty badly on a daily basis. He kind of left me alone because he couldn’t afford for me to just up and walk out on him. He could lose a receptionist.
DK: That had to be hard to work for someone like that.
GH: I became friends with the receptionist and part of the reason I hung in there was to keep her encouraged. Under normal circumstances, I would have bailed out from that environment long past.
DK: It’s good in a way that you didn’t though because of what you were able to witness. You actually witnessed the extortion? What did you see and hear?
GH: Well, they started out negotiating. When I say they, Chandler, Evan Chandler, and Barry Rothman who was representing him, they started out negotiating with Michael’s representative, who was Anthony Pellicano, who was the private investigator. What they did was they went to him, he (Evan Chandler) wanted him to fund a $20 million movie deal, he wanted to make another movie and he needed the money for it, so he first went to Michael’s team, not saying anything about, you know, seeing him molesting his child. He went to him asking for a $20 million movie deal, for him (Michael) to fund it and he had a hypothetical letter that he obtained from a psychiatrist saying well, you know, "my son is hanging out with this male guy and they’re doing sleepovers and, what do you think? You think something wrong is going on?" (The psychiatrist) sent a letter back telling him that minus talking to the boy, he can’t say conclusively, and "just hypothetically speaking, I would have a concern about impropriety," that was it. So he (Evan Chandler) took that hypothetical letter that he got from the doctor after posing a hypothetical question and he used that letter as a bargaining tool to Michael’s team that if he (Michael) didn’t pay the money, that they were going to use that letter to ruin him.
DK: You don’t agree that Evan Chandler gave his son a truth serum and then Jordie Chandler admitted molestation?
GH: No, I think that’s their story on how they found out. I really believe that the whole thing was plotted and planned and the words were given to him to say because I actually witnessed the 13 year old in my attorney’s office without any supervision of his parents and he was kind of snuck in there, it was like no one in the office knew he was in there. He was behind closed doors with my attorney for several hours, and I kind of believe that is where he was being told what to say. I can’t say that I actually witnessed him being told, but I did witness that there was a meeting between my attorney and the 13 year old accuser for several hours. Actually it was a meeting that nobody in the office was supposed to know even existed and the only reason that I found out (was because) I was on my way out of the office and we were under threats of death about just walking in his office without even knocking or without announcing, and I was just rushing so I opened up the door and when I opened up the door I saw the boy in his office and I was kind of shocked. We didn’t even know he was in there and he had a startled look on his face and the attorney blasted me for coming in there unannounced.
DK: Soul Patrol.com chat. You dispute the sodium amytal theory….you said that you were the only one because you saw something entirely different take place and by that you are meaning what you witnessed as far as this plan coming into place?
GH: It’s just that there whole technique, their whole thing was planned. Even the plan was planned. All the issues were planned. Then when the father in the conversation, he said, "We’re moving according to a plan." He said it wasn’t his plan, but he said "We’re moving according to a plan. It’s not mine, but I’ve hired someone that’s mean, devious, nasty to move against Michael and he’s just waiting on my phone call." So, he put it like that. So, you know their whole MO was to make it look like something that it wasn’t. They made it look like they just happened to take the boy to the psychiatrist and that’s where he got the information, the psychiatrist got the information. Then I’m hearing the sodium thing, so I said, first you said the psychiatrist is the one that got the information and then now you’re saying, the father put him under a truth serum and I’m like, which one is it?
DK: When he meant he hired someone, he meant Barry Rothman?
GH: Oh, absolutely.
DK: Michael’s insurance company paid the settlement, not Michael himself?
GH: Right. They paid it not on negligence, they paid on there being a liability. They didn’t pay on negligence, because insurance companies will not pay on negligence. The fact that they paid the settlement, shows that he wasn’t negligent. If he was negligent…it’s just like if you get into a car accident. If you were the negligent party, they won’t pay. At least you won’t get anything out of it. You’ve got the insurance to cover the other person. But you can’t collect from an insurance company based on negligence.
DK: What does it mean that they paid on a liability?
GH: Just like if you go to a mall, you said you slipped and fell, and then you went to the doctor. Now, we don’t know if you really did or not, but there’s a liability in that you got a doctor, you got charges, it’s like you’re claiming you’ve created a situation, it hasn’t been proven, so therefore, they’ll pay it. You’re going to court to prove it. So the insurance company is like, :look, rather than pay all of this money on court costs, we’ll negotiate a settlement based on there being a liability." It doesn’t get proven unless you go to court. But they’re not willing to pay the money to go to court. They’re just saying, "well, look, you’ve created a situation, you’ve made a claim, let’s settle this thing, let’s negotiate for a settlement amount. We’re not saying right or wrong, good or bad, we just want to get rid of this."
DK: Thank you for explaining that, that makes more sense to me now.
GH: Settlement is the most desirable way of handling any kind of dispute. They would rather... the court requires mandatory settlement conferences. They’ll give you a trial date, but before that trial date hits, they make sure that these parties come together, negotiate, try and settle this thing, try and keep this thing out of court. That is mandatory. Oh absolutely. They don’t have enough judges. They don’t have enough man dollars to handle every dispute or claim that comes knocking at their door. So they try and settle it. If they can’t settle it, they’ll mandatorily send it for arbitration, send it for mediation, anything, but let’s keep this out of court.
DK: You had come forth to investigators with your information in 1993?
GH: Yes, Anthony Pellicano. That was Michael Jackson’s private investigator.
DK: When you found out what was going on, then you went to Mr. Pellicano?
GH: Yes. That was at the very onset. I think my meetings with Pellicano, it wasn’t longer than 2 weeks after the story broke that they were alleging child molestation for Michael the first time.
DK: You had witnessed Jordie Chandler coming in to your office and then the tape, that recorded phone conversation, etc. Do you know how long after that that these charges were brought against Michael?
GH: They launched the charges against Michael on the date that they had an Ex Parte hearing. They had a hearing, the father took the custody of the boy from his mom and it was during this time that I believe that all of the planning was going on, when I saw him in the office, negotiating with Michael, and he had the boy in his custody. Well, it was without the mother’s approval and permission because he was supposed to return him back to the Mom. So the mother filed an emergency custody hearing, an OSC (Order to Show Cause). We call it an Ex Parte hearing for custody, regarding custody, and Ex Parte means that you have to show up in court the very next day. You only get a one day notice on that. The real damaging piece of information against the Chandlers is that they went to court, in front of the judge (at this hearing, with no mention of child molestation concerns). They had been negotiating with Michael for a month, trying to get money out of him, claiming to use the allegation of inpropriety as their leverage, but then they go to court before a judge on the issue of custody and they didn’t say 2 words to the judge that there was a concern about the boy’s welfare, about him being molested, about any inprorietary. They didn’t say anything that there was a concern or any problem in that regard. The judge ordered that he return Jordie back to his mom.
Now, I’m in the office like, "Lord, what are they going to do next?" I was thinking, ha, she won. They’ve got to return the boy. Well, that’s the day they launched the allegation of child molestation. On the same day that they were ordered to return the boy back to the mother. On the same day! |
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