NOTE: I WASN’T CHARGED WITH TELEPHONE AND EMAIL HARASSMENT. THE ACTUAL CHARGE WAS THE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE “INTENT TO ANNOY” WHICH IS NOT PROVEN BY SOMEONE SAYING THEY FEEL ANNOYED OR HALLUCINATING ABOUT SOMEONE WHO THEY HAVEN’T SEEN IN 7 YEARS DRIVING A CAR THEY DON’T OWN.
Ex-Leonard Cohen manager Kelley Lynch on trial for telphone and email harassment
Even as Leonard Cohen’s former manager – fired for embezzlement eight years ago – sat in jail awaiting trial on criminal charges that she has been harassing the music hall of famer with thousands of abusive emails as well as threatening and obscene voice messages, she continued to harass other victims, a prosecution sentencing memorandum reveals.
I was not “fired” for embezzlement. Leonard Cohen heard I was going to the IRS, flew in from Montreal hysterically, asked me to meet with him and his tax lawyer (Richard Westin), advised me that they wanted the corporate books and records – and intended to unravel the entities, and when I refused to meet with them, my lawyers sent a letter noting that Westin was the architect of these entities and then Cohen made up the “overpayment” story. While I was busy working on an actual accounting, Cohen and his representatives were moving things like Anjani Thomas’ house from my column.
Submitted to the Los Angeles court weighing Kelley Lynch’s sentence following her conviction for violating a 2005 restraining order are 36 pages of lengthy handwritten letters Lynch mailed from the Lynwood jail facility where she has been housed since her March 1, 2012 arrest in Berkeley, California to high profile New York City trial lawyer Bruce Cutler. (We will be publishing experts from these "jail chronicles" in a later post.)
I was not convicted of violating the fraudulent 2005 restraining order Cohen obtained via default. The Boulder order is invalid and was procured by fraud. I addressed that in my Motion to Vacate. I was not served or notified of the registration of the new California order and Michelle Rice wrote and lied to me that the order was filed on or before February 14, 2011. That lie is in Viramontes/LAPD’s report and we have discussed the lies in that report. Rice also transmitted fraudulent information to the IRS, FBI, DOJ, Treasury, FTB, Dennis Riordan, and Ron Burkle. I did indeed write Bruce Cutler and believe he should have handed the letters over to Phil Spector and his lawyers since Phil Spector, a gun story that is contrary to the Cohen/Spector alleged gun story the prosecution used against Phillip, was being raised as an issue – as were Steve Cooley and Alan Jackson. After my lawyer googled Dennis Riordan and Phil Spector’s addresses while I was in jail, I immediately wrote and notified both of them about what was unfolding. I heard personally from Phil Spector in jail – after advising him of my thoughts on Bruce Cutler.
A casual observer reading the 36 six pages of handwritten letters would assume from the chatty and intimate tone, that Lynch and Cutler have been the best of friends for years.
What a casual observer assumes is irrelevant. I was not on trial for my creative writing or chatty and intimate tone. Nor was I on trial for signing my three letters “All the best, Kelley.”
But Cutler’s April 16, 2012 letter to sentencing judge Robert Vanderet makes explicit that Cutler has never meet or spoken with Lynch, but has been the victim of Lynch’s unrelenting telephonic and electronic harassment for the last five years.
I have never met Bruce Cutler and never once said I did. Bruce Cutler’s letter is hearsay. The restraining order he didn’t request will be addressed on appeal and is part of the record although I do not know why it doesn’t seem to appear in the sentencing transcript and will double check. Cutler made it clear that I contacted him when he represented Phil Spector – therefore, Cutler knows who I am and Dale Kelly (an investigator I met with working on the Phil Spector case) told me he worked with Phil Spector and Bruce Cutler. Bruce Cutler provided no evidence of telephonic or electronic harassment. He provided evidence that should have been handed over to Phil Spector and his present attorneys.
The New York City lawyer who once represented mob boss John Gotti wrote:
“Ms. Lynch has left me countless voicemails almost every single night for the past five years. Part of my daily morning routine was to to through and delete upwards of 30 voicemails that she left the night before.
Is Cutler saying he doesn’t have any evidence supporting his hearsay allegations?
“There was time when Ms. Lynch found the fax number of the law firm from whom I sublet office space and she would fax hundreds of pages every day, making it impossible for the firm to receive legitimate faxes, until the IT people were able to block her number.
Did Bruce Cutler destroy the evidence I faxed him that should have been handed over to Phil Spector – regarding Cohen’s tax fraud, etc? Or did Cutler destroy that also? His hearsay letter doesn’t make that clear.
“My partner, Time Parlatore, spoke with Ms. Lynch several times on the phone in an attempt to convince her to stop. Every time, she would agree to stop this would only provide me with a 48-72 hour reprieve before she would resume her campaign again.
I have never in my life talked to anyone who spoke to me and identified themselves as Tim Parlatore. Perhaps he dialed the wrong number and spoke to someone else.
“The bombardment has continued unabated until recently when Ms. Lynch was remanded. Not following the news, I only learned of this case when I began receiving letters from Ms. Lynch with a return address at the Lynwood Jail”
Too bad he wasn’t following the case. He could have heard Cohen tell a different version of the gun story (and the weapon used) than Spector prosecutors used against Phillip and probably presented to the Grand Jury. Mick Brown has the transcripts and has now clarified that Cohen’s statements – not his testimony (as he emailed me in 2005) – were presented to the Grand Jury.
This relentless harassment of Cutler is all the more remarkable in light of our telephone conversation with the famed barrister in June of 2009 and our subsequent publication on these pages of that Cutler regarded Lynch as a “telephone stalker”. Her response to us: I will believe it when I hear it from Bruce Cutler.
No one prove relentless harassment of Cutler and his letter is hearsay. I intend to address this on appeal. Jihad Gianelli/Blogonaut cannot be confronted about Bruce Cutler’s words – per Crawford vs. Washington. I want to confront, in a court of law, my accuser.
Apparently she did.
I didn’t hear from Cutler. I heard directly from Phil Spector. Cutler’s comment that he and Pat Dixon discussed me in 2008 is now discoverable.
And Kelley Lynch’s harassing correspondence and voice messages to Cutler continued even after her arrest while awaiting trial for – harassing emails and voice messages!
Phil Spector will address whether or not he believes my alleged emails and/or voice messages to Cutler were harassing.
Labels: 18 months, cohen manager, HARASSER, harassment, Kelley Lynch, Leonard Cohen, sentenced, trial
