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.
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She will never stop. There is not enough power in heaven or hell that will get her to stop this obsession. Unfortunately, when her final day comes, she will probably be found, hands on the keyboard, in the middle of another harassing email to some poor chump who one time might have given her the time of day. I sit here and all I can do is shake my head and wonder about the workings of a brain that processes all that hate, regardless of consequences and threats of future consequences. My understanding of early release is that it depends upon the prisoner's behavior. Am I the only one who thinks her behavior will keep her behind bars indefinitely?
Linda clearly has no idea what she is talking about, if she is indeed a she. This is another one of the cyber-terrorists who have targeted me in a coordinated fashion.
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She also has to be psychologically tested before she is released.
I asked for and received a psychological evaluation and met with the jail psychiatrist. Her position now legally exposes Streeter and Baca, who does not know me – from Adam.
Our theory is that she has replaced her shame and humiliation for her poor life choices - embezzling and its consequences, alcoholism and its consequences, losing her kids, foreclosure, multiple civil judgments, restraining orders, living on the streets - with this persecution delusion of hers.I have no shame or humiliation. I embezzled nothing. Leonard Cohen is a bald-faced liar, thief – having stolen millions from me and others (including Steven Machat), and has used unbelievable tactics in his deranged attempt to silence me and blame his wrongdoing on me. Boies Schiller was clear, having seen the evidence I provided the IRS, that Cohen was attempting to blame his wrongdoing on me and owes me millions. They advised me to sue Cohen for fraud, wrongful conversion, intentional torts, and willfully destroying my life over his wrongdoing. I don’t think the persecution theory is a delusion but I know that no one believes Leonard Cohen is a Buddhist after hearing what has unfolded.
Our theory is that she has replaced her shame and humiliation for her poor life choices - embezzling and its consequences, alcoholism and its consequences, losing her kids, foreclosure, multiple civil judgments, restraining orders, living on the streets - with this persecution delusion of hers.I have no shame or humiliation. I embezzled nothing. Leonard Cohen is a bald-faced liar, thief – having stolen millions from me and others (including Steven Machat), and has used unbelievable tactics in his deranged attempt to silence me and blame his wrongdoing on me. Boies Schiller was clear, having seen the evidence I provided the IRS, that Cohen was attempting to blame his wrongdoing on me and owes me millions. They advised me to sue Cohen for fraud, wrongful conversion, intentional torts, and willfully destroying my life over his wrongdoing. I don’t think the persecution theory is a delusion but I know that no one believes Leonard Cohen is a Buddhist after hearing what has unfolded.
As long us she is banging away on that keyboard she can avoid any kind of self-reflection.
A gang of strangers have no idea what, if anything, I reflect upon.
For Kelley it is much easier (and far less painful) to believe that every one of her problems was caused by a cast of sinister co-conspirators acting to ruin her life rather than a cascading series of poor life choices on her part.
For Kelley it is much easier (and far less painful) to believe that every one of her problems was caused by a cast of sinister co-conspirators acting to ruin her life rather than a cascading series of poor life choices on her part.
For Kelley, it probably would have been easier if the judge hadn’t prevented Agent Tejeda/IRS from taking the witness stand, refusing to permit my lawyers to argue that the restraining order was invalid, etc. These issues will be addressed on appeal.
It's taken me days to figure out how to respond to the letter Bruce Cutler sent to the judge. As a rule, I don't like to assume anything; however, I'm going to assume it's exceedingly rare for a defense attorney not involved as a participant in a trial to write to a judge about a convicted defendant. Especially a defendant with whom he has absolutely no relationship. As those of us who have been harassed by the Lynchness Monster understand, she will stop at nothing. Nonetheless, I am perplexed--no surprised-- as to why Cutler wrote to the judge. Does Cutler really believe writing to the judge will force her to leave him alone? Obviously, he's too smart to believe she'll take a hint and leave him alone. By any chance, during her sentencing hearing did the judge instruct her to quit harassing Cutler?
It’s taken Green days to figure out how to respond to the letter Cutler sent the judge. It probably is exceedingly rare but it’s now part of the trial record and Cutler’s letter itself is hearsay. Cutler was clear – he heard from me when he represented Phil Spector. His/Phil Spector’s investigator met with me in 2006 (to review the DA’s report of my meeting with his investigator) so Cutler knows who I am. I have no relationship with Cutler. My friendship is with Phil Spector and I heard from him after the trial and sentencing. I have no interest in contacting Cutler again in this lifetime. Phil Spector had a right to know that Cohen and Streeter were emailing about his Phil Spector gun story; he was testifying about Phil Spector and a gun; and Cooley and Jackson were featured at my trial with the DA’s investigator sitting in the courtroom – so Cutler should have handed the letters over to Phil Spector and his present legal team. Cutler did not prove I was harassing him. His letter was hearsay. He lives in NY so the court had no jurisdiction over him.
Mr. Cutler was clear in his letter that the only way to make Kelley Lynch stop is to keep her in jail as long as possible.
Cutler didn’t use these words but that is why I have asked my appellate lawyer to address the sentence – including as it was affected by the lies told by Captain Jack Horvath/DA’s office and the attached satirical email that was concealed (in its entirety) from the court and which has Steven Machat and “fan of Alan Jackson’s” words highlighted.
We have not seen the probation order and its terms, but know that Steve Cooley's protective detail also asked that the no contact order include him.
We have not seen the probation order and its terms, but know that Steve Cooley's protective detail also asked that the no contact order include him.
I have no idea if Horvath is Cooley’s protective detail but I know this – he lied to the court.
Attached to the prosecution sentencing memo was an email string by KL, copied to Cooley, repeatedly advocating for his murder, and stating "this is no joke, this is reality".
Attached to the prosecution sentencing memo was an email string by KL, copied to Cooley, repeatedly advocating for his murder, and stating "this is no joke, this is reality".
Actually, the email stated satirically that I was running for President, on the Wedding party, and noted who my cabinet would be and my platform – cleaning up corrupt politicians in this country. I didn’t advocate Cooley’s murder but I do feel the death penalty is the appropriate penalty for any prosecutor who willfully sets up an innocent individual, that is proven, and they asked that the innocent individual essentially serve a death sentence – life. Phil Spector was sentenced to 19 years in prison and he is in his 70s and in fragile health.
We have heard that KL also left obscene and threatening voice messages with DA employees and that seperate chrges might result.
We have heard that KL also left obscene and threatening voice messages with DA employees and that seperate chrges might result.
Did I leave obscene and threatening voice messages with DA employees and separate charges might result. Where did those insider information come from? Alan Jackson or the DA’s investigation that was hanging out with Cohen, his lawyers and PI, and LUNCHING with Cohen? The judge refused to grant the DA what he wanted and I have threatened the DA or his employees but this is now discoverable and I will most definitely discuss it with my lawyers.
Having known Kelley and her crazy ways for going on 30 years, I have mixed emotions about her sentence. She did know Oliver, Phil and Stephen in another life (and Jamie Lee Curtis as well), but I think by now even Phil Specter, who can probably count his supporters on two fingers, wants nothing to do with her.
Stephen? Steven Segal? Did I know Jamie Lee Curtis? Phil Spector wrote to me after I was sentenced so this person really has no idea about what is going on in reality.
I am glad I won't have to field her drunken 10 a.m. phone calls for a few months, and my heart goes out to Leonard because her harassment of me was nothing compared to her relentless and vicious attacks on "Leonard Norman Cohen."
I am glad I won't have to field her drunken 10 a.m. phone calls for a few months, and my heart goes out to Leonard because her harassment of me was nothing compared to her relentless and vicious attacks on "Leonard Norman Cohen."
I don’t drink at 10 a.m. and I don’t call that many people so this person is a liar. No one I know or live with will ever say that I drink at 10 in the morning or that I have alcohol problems because that is a bald-faced lie. The alleged voicemails (that cannot be dated – as per Viramontes/LAPD’s report) were tampered with, from what I can tell. That will be addressed on appeal and The Scientist intends to listen to them to determine how the sound was adjusted – volume, sound, and speed.
We all know Kelley has severe substance abuse problems combined with mental illness (can you say bi-ploar?) Please know that her family and friends tried desperately to get her some help . . . but it was like watching a slow train wreck. There was nothing we could do to intervene. Her decent into madness was quick, compete and dangerous.
We all know Kelley has severe substance abuse problems combined with mental illness (can you say bi-ploar?) Please know that her family and friends tried desperately to get her some help . . . but it was like watching a slow train wreck. There was nothing we could do to intervene. Her decent into madness was quick, compete and dangerous.
I have no substance abuse problems and have no mental health issues – that would include the fact that I am not bi-polar. My family and friends have not desperately tried to get me help and have not advised anyone that it was like watching a slow train wreck. This individual is not my family member but is a bald-faced liar with some type of motive. I had no descent into madness and the only dangerous people in this story are men like Leonard Cohen who took the stand, perjured himself, lied excessively, and testified that the IRS closed their case over a fraudulent refund he obtained via a default judgment that proved no facts but illegally altered my tax returns, as Doug Davis/FTB and I have discussed.
Those of us who tried to help received months of harassment in return. Like the rest of you, I periodically had to block her emails, and she would quickly get a new screen name and continue with her barrage of anger-filled hate mail. And I believe she counts me as one of her closest friends . . . Good thing we weren't enemies or I might not have made it.
Those of us who tried to help received months of harassment in return. Like the rest of you, I periodically had to block her emails, and she would quickly get a new screen name and continue with her barrage of anger-filled hate mail. And I believe she counts me as one of her closest friends . . . Good thing we weren't enemies or I might not have made it.
Actually, these people need to pick a version of events and stick to it. Michelle Blaine publicly thanked Jihad Gianelli for targeting my blogs and email accounts and another individual on Sprocket’s site has noted that they were targeted.
Leonard is right to fear for his safety.
Leonard is right to fear for his safety.
Leonard Cohen is a bald faced liar with a long history of psychiatric ailments, violent mental states, drug and alcohol abuse, and theft.
Kelley was once a brilliant, beautiful and generous person. There is a history of mental illness in her family. I am going to hope that being away from phones, alcohol, drugs and the internet might allow her some time to reflect on the error of her ways. Still, I am a realist and she is one stubborn nut to crack! Perhaps she will finally get medication for her mental illness and being away from the bottle certainly can't hurt her situation.
Kelley was once a brilliant, beautiful and generous person. There is a history of mental illness in her family. I am going to hope that being away from phones, alcohol, drugs and the internet might allow her some time to reflect on the error of her ways. Still, I am a realist and she is one stubborn nut to crack! Perhaps she will finally get medication for her mental illness and being away from the bottle certainly can't hurt her situation.
There is no history of mental illness in my family and Navy Intelligence can address my brother who is a wonderful and brilliant man who attempted to serve this country’s military. Actually, I talked to the psychiatrist at jail about medications and she doesn’t agree with Streeter and Baca so that’s part of the legal exposure they are facing.
I hope her sons can get on with their lives and find some happiness. They have suffered a lot over the last few years and they deserve some closure and peace.
My sons have indeed suffered.
Dear Friend of Kelley (anonymous)
What a beautiful and sincere letter, too bad Kelley did not have the sense and sanity to appreciate the people who truly wanted her best, and yes, for you, her parents, Leonard Cohen, Mr. Cutler and Mr. Cooley, but most of all Rutgar and Ray, may they all have a few months (preferable years) of peace.
What a beautiful and sincere letter, too bad Kelley did not have the sense and sanity to appreciate the people who truly wanted her best, and yes, for you, her parents, Leonard Cohen, Mr. Cutler and Mr. Cooley, but most of all Rutgar and Ray, may they all have a few months (preferable years) of peace.
That was no Friend of Kelley Lynch (anonymous). That was a bald-faced liar with motive.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29303794/Leonard-Cohen-vs-Keley-Lynch-Colorado-Harassment-Hearing-Dated-September-12-2008
Beginning on page 20 of the linked transcript of the Colorado hearing on Cohen’s application for restraining order:
MS. LYNCH: I can’t have this hearing. Just go ahead and make the restraining order permanent, okay?
THE COURT: Okay.
MS. LYNCH: I really can’t.
THE COURT: Okay.
MS. LYNCH: These people are insane.
THE COURT: Okay.
MS. LYNCH: Okay? They’ve destroyed my life, they’ve silenced me, they’ve terrorized me. Robert Cory has a declaration of my son’s custody matter. Can I ask one question? To whom can I communicate about very serious issues? Legal issues?
THE COURT: A lawyer.
MS. LYNCH: No, I don’t have a lawyer right now. I’m representing myself. I mean with Leonard Cohen’s parties?
THE COURT: Judge’s can’t give legal advice.
MS. LYNCH: Right.
THE COURT: Cn only recommend that people get attorneys, and if you are having legal issues you can seek out legal services.
MS. LYNCH: I’m waiting for [Bruce] Cutler.
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THE COURT: […] do you agree that the temporary order that was previously issued …become permanent?
MS. LYNCH: Yes, I would like that very much.
THE COURT: Granted.
MS. LYNCH: Thank you very much.
THE COURT: You’re welcome.
Beginning on page 20 of the linked transcript of the Colorado hearing on Cohen’s application for restraining order:
MS. LYNCH: I can’t have this hearing. Just go ahead and make the restraining order permanent, okay?
THE COURT: Okay.
MS. LYNCH: I really can’t.
THE COURT: Okay.
MS. LYNCH: These people are insane.
THE COURT: Okay.
MS. LYNCH: Okay? They’ve destroyed my life, they’ve silenced me, they’ve terrorized me. Robert Cory has a declaration of my son’s custody matter. Can I ask one question? To whom can I communicate about very serious issues? Legal issues?
THE COURT: A lawyer.
MS. LYNCH: No, I don’t have a lawyer right now. I’m representing myself. I mean with Leonard Cohen’s parties?
THE COURT: Judge’s can’t give legal advice.
MS. LYNCH: Right.
THE COURT: Cn only recommend that people get attorneys, and if you are having legal issues you can seek out legal services.
MS. LYNCH: I’m waiting for [Bruce] Cutler.
****
THE COURT: […] do you agree that the temporary order that was previously issued …become permanent?
MS. LYNCH: Yes, I would like that very much.
THE COURT: Granted.
MS. LYNCH: Thank you very much.
THE COURT: You’re welcome.
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