Casey Anthony New Attorney Todd Macaluso Under Investigation In Cali Federal Suit in NJ
San Diego, CA– Blink on Crime has learned that Todd Macaluso, newly introduced member to the Jose Baez Law Firm Defense Team, is under investigation for a check written on his behalf for 8, 000.00.
It is alleged the check did not clear funds available.
It is unclear if the check in question is a Client escrow account or a direct check from Macaluso’s professional or personal funds.
WFTV’s Kathi Belich asked Mac about the issue following the end of the Motions hearing today to which he replied “the matter is being resolved.”
As of 5PM EST today, no Pro Hac Vice motion has been submitted to Judge Strickland on Macaluso’s behalf, although he has given several interviews espousing the defense position on the case.
A lawsuit filed in Federal Court in July 2003 on behalf of a former litigant to a suit led by Macaluso, the former Cytodyne Technologies, currently operating under the name Nutraquest, Inc, alleges that Macaluso and a reporter for the San Diego Union Tribune conspired to slant their coverage to attract more Clients for Macaluso and defame Cytodyne.
The suit identifies Pennie Crabtree as the wife of Richard Pittner, a senior researcher at SanDiego based Amylin Pharmaceuticals, who is developing an anti obesity drug. The suit accuses Crabtree of a direct conflict of interest, in that Cytodyne and her husband’s company were potentially direct competitors.
Macaluso is slated to appear at a status hearing in front of the California bar in LA on March 24, 2009 on the check issue.
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Birds of a Feather!
Is this it Blink? The Macaluso case?
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-ordce/case_no-1:2008cv03059/case_id-88549/
Hiya Blink – a bit more here you might want to sleuth out:
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3450139&postcount=76
xo
PH Tator Tots with ketchup, (only way I like them, lol) I’m not sure it is the same issue, mostly as this in excess of$5MM, not easy to filter.
love and hugs to you ‘Tator
B
I wonder if he failed to pay Bechler parents correctly after winning the case against the drug company? Huge pay-out? 5MM not so much in that perspective.
Another interesting tidbit:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/parapolitics/message/504?l=1
http://apps.statebarcourt.ca.gov/calendar/dayview.aspx?d=20090324
Hearing March 24th listed as a “status hearing”
Bumpin Gilly’s “tidbit”
NEWARK, N.J., July 29 /PRNewswire/ — A San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper
reporter and a San Diego personal injury attorney are accused of conspiring
to develop news stories that slandered and defamed a nutritional supplement
company that was being sued by the client of lawyer Todd Macaluso in a court
case covered by reporter Penni Crabtree.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/parapolitics/message/504?l=1
they all deserve eachother, he should fit right in with the rest of the loony tunes involved in this case, including the whole lying anthony family, yes lee included
With the co called defense team she has, she is gonna fry…What a bunch of gypies,tramps and thieves for god sake…..and these are suppose to be top notched lawyers? Yeah sure…..Any top notched lawyer worth his salt, isn t toughing this case with a 10 foot pole….its a NO WIN CASE……Baez is so over his head its sad. I love to see the state hammer away at him…Casey needs to cop the best plea she can……how does one expect to win a case when your client claims a NON EXISTING nanny did it….? To late to change the story now..Every friend and relative has said THERE WAS NO NANNY…my god…they all are gonna go down in flames….LMFAO
That lawsuit was filed in July 2003 not this July. I have emailed Ms. Crabtree to ask about it but she hasn’t gotten back to me yet. I’ll try calling her if she doesn’t respond.
http://www.cfac.org/Attachments/ut_reporter_sued.html
Gilly, thanks for that, the article had the current date on top but none within so I assumed it was current.
Also, see the bar update.
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON WITH THIS HORRIBLE SITE? THERE ARE 8 OVERSIZED FLASHING ICONS AND SCREENS? I love Blink but not enough to withstand a visual terroristic act. BLINK, COME ON, PLEASE GET RID OF ALL THE FLASHING SCREENS; IT MAKES IT ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE TO READ YOUR PAGES!
#14, lol. Do you have your phishing filters on? I know they are an eyesore even for Vegas standards, but there is some sort of timing glitch at the ad co being worked out on their end.
I’ll try to reguest monotone or earth colors
B
So many intelligent postings and all the contributors are so brilliant, sharp and have great insight—but sadly it’s all lost on the blinking message alert boxes and the ‘congrats, you’re a winner’ flashing, animated, stomach-churning, 8 oversized boxes that make the page impossible to read. BLINK, HELP, REGAIN CONTROL OVER THIS PAGE AND YOUR SITE! SEIZURE ALERT!
Blink, I love you. I think you are THE most brilliant writer and commentator on the web, but this timing glitch you’ve referred to in post 15 is out of control. I have every safeguard for my postings and I’m online-savvy, but truly, this blinking eyesore who/which has control of your page has gone way beyond whatever permission you may have first granted. Please, please demand control over your pages and boot their blinking-arses off! I want to devour your words and your beautiful writer’s words—but alas–I will be seizuring instead.
Save me Blink, save me. I love you. Fading now, only see the blinking, yellow triangles with exclamation points!!!
Right, cannot read anything with the two (or even one) flashing red stop signs, so I first, move the browser window over to the left so these are cut off. Reading stories without doing this is like trying to drive into glaring sun. But content of Blink’s stories are worth the little adjustment, but they are more than simply distracting.
F.Lee Bailey was disbarred for misuse of client funds. I guess Todd hasn’t heard the phrase “The Buck Stops Here.”
If you lay down with the dogs, you wake up with the fleas!! One word..KARMA!
Last comment, #20, was on 8-23-09. This issue is new to me and wonder what happened to situation and the lawyer, firm, drug producers involved.
Comment from ChiTown lady about lawyers can apply to most “professions” in our country today. Who can be trusted? ChiTown again stamps it’s proof of judicial thuggery controlling “all things Chicago and now National” by “waving” the good ship Blago back into political sports with flying colors. Whodathunkit.
Who can be contacted with important information that must be held as confidential and used confidentially in search for a disappeared child who would be disposed of if the line of discovery was shared with others involved in the search, or leaked to reporters? Police? FBI? Priest? Religious Organization? No way… especially if Politicians are involved. DANGER ZONE.
Who can be trusted not to work the information in their “favor” – to milk it for what THEY can get in money, networking, promotions, leverage? Should be a game show. It would be popular.
Who Can You Trust.