Cohen was evidently forthcoming and candid with biographer, Sylvie Simmons, about his drug use and abuse. That would include prescription speed or meth. He perjured himself during the trial when he stated that my mentioning his drug abuse was an attempt to assail his reputation. Streeter, inexplicably - but who could explain her - advised the judge that her eliciting this testimony was an attempt to prove my alleged common plan and scheme. Leonard Cohen’s own conduct evidently annoys him and he thinks other people are now responsible for his drug abuse. His use of prescription meth was not behind him when I knew him. Leonard Cohen’s use of drugs is well documented. His drinking has been publicly documented as well - including his interest in $2,000 bottles of Chateau La Tour that he consumed on tour. Leonard Cohen likes people to believe that he lives a humble existence and seems to think $1 million advances are nothing. He is the elite and his celebrity has afforded him the type of justice LA Confidential likes to dole out to ordinary people. The Deputy City Attorneys repeatedly advised these judges that this insane intent to annoy Leonard Cohen case was an unusual case because he is a celebrity. I have never heard anything as absurd and outrageous in my entire life. The City Attorney of Los Angeles thinks I should be blamed for Leonard Cohen’s conduct. That is criminally insane from my perspective.
High old times: His days of pharmaceutical hijinks are no doubt long behind him, but in Simmons’ biography, Cohen is candid about his enthusiastic drug use back in the day. He took Maxiton (speed), Mandrax, hashish, opium and acid. Cohen told Simmons: “My [1966] novel Beautiful Losers has a bit of acid in it and a lot of speed.”
http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/music/leonard-cohen-secrets-of-a-poet-balladeer-1.81913
DRUG ABUSE
Streeter: Was there ever any discussion about alcohol or drugs in any of the voice mail messages?
Cohen: There were accusations that I was on drugs … She often accused me of being on drugs. RT 59
Streeter: In any of the emails do you recall if she ever accused you of alcohol or drug usage?
Cohen: She routinely accused me of drug abuse. Not alcoholism, but drug abuse. RT 61
Streeter: Is there a specific drug that she accuses you of using, Mr. Cohen?
Cohen: No, she doesn’t specify. I think she -- she accuses me of being on legal meth. RT 136
Cohen: No, she doesn’t specify. I think she -- she accuses me of being on legal meth. RT 136
Streeter; Is there any mention of drug use in that email Mr. Cohen?
Cohen: I can’t see any mention. RT 137
Email - December 17, 2011
Streeter: Now, looking at that, was there any mention in that email about drug usage on your part?
Cohen: Yes, I’m accused of abusing drugs. RT 139
Streeter: How did it feel to not only be accused of being a drug user but have her send out such accusations to people that you don’t know?
Cohen: It’s not a pleasant sensation … I felt my reputation was being assailed and the reputation of my family. RT 142
Streeter: And do you recall any mention in that voice mail message about drug usage on your part?
Cohen: Yes, I’m accused of using drugs. RT 154
Sidebar:
Public Defender: I’ve done some research on Mr. Cohen and he’s in the past made interviews about having used legal and illegal drugs.
Court: No we’re not going to get into the issue of his drug use.
PD: The evidence that was presented points to, perhaps, defamatory in nature. And I do think that if that’s the case that the people be precluded from saying that because drug use was mentioned, therefore, it was harassing and threatening.
Streeter: The people mentioned the drug usage not to use as defamatory, that was more as a common scheme and plan and I did it … that was the reason the people did that.
PD: … Those messages referred to prior drug use and not necessarily current drug use. RT 433
From: Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM
Subject: Request for Tax Information
To: Dennis <Dennis@riordan-horgan.com>, "*irs. commissioner" <*IRS.Commissioner@irs.gov>, ASKDOJ <ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov>, Washington Field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "Kelly.Sopko" <Kelly.Sopko@tigta.treas.gov>, "Doug.Davis" <Doug.Davis@ftb.ca.gov>, Jewel of Activity <welcomingflowers@yahoo.com>, info <info@kibi-edu.org>, "YesheRimpoche@aol.com" <bhakhatulku@yahoo.com>, rbyucaipa <rbyucaipa@yahoo.com>, Robert MacMillan <robert.macmillan@gmail.com>, moseszzz <moseszzz@mztv.com>, a <anderson.cooper@cnn.com>, wennermedia <wennermedia@gmail.com>, "Hoffman, Rand" <rand.hoffman@umusic.com>, "harriet.ryan" <harriet.ryan@latimes.com>, woodwardb <woodwardb@washpost.com>, GGreenwald <GGreenwald@salon.com>, Steven Machat <smachat@gmail.com>, Teresa Low <teresa.low@doj.ca.gov>, PIU <piu@doj.ca.gov>, OIGCOMPL OIGCOMPL <oigcompl@lapd.lacity.org>, chaleffg <chaleffg@lapd.lacity.org>, MEDIA RELATIONS PIO <pio@lapd.lacity.org>, police <police@cityofberkeley.info>, baldymonk <baldymonk@aol.com>, rkory <rkory@rkmgment.com>, Michelle Rice <mrice@koryrice.com>
Cc: scooley <scooley@da.lacounty.gov>, ajackson <ajackson@da.lacounty.gov>, "Truc.Do" <Truc.Do@mto.com>, wfrayeh <wfrayeh@da.lacounty.gov>, jthompson <jthompson@da.lacounty.gov>
Cohen,
Check your voice messages. I am demanding the information I require
for my tax returns - including asset valuations. See the assignments
that were notarized; minutes (with language dictated by you); etc. I
also want the illegal K1s from LC Investments, LLC retracted.
Lynch
P.S. People are asking me when I intend to sue you for slander. That
is definitely going to happen. We are going to litigate the fact that
you have illegally (from my perspective) altered my federal tax
returns via a default judgment based on perjury, lies, fraud, and one
preposterously absurd fictional narrative that contains no facts from
what I can tell.
IN THREAD OF EMAIL:
> Michael understands that Phil Spector is a wonderful man while Cohen
>>>> (a self-proclaimed former drug abuser, psychiatric case, rotten
>>>> alcoholic, and - from my perspective - a nasty pervert) is pure evil.
>>>> Here's something that really gets people - his crime spree and perjury
>>>> in so many courts in the U.S. while he cannot live in Canada because
>>>> (as Van Penick informed him) he has tax and residence problems there.
>>>> Oh yes, and as Cohen told me one night, the IRS doesn't ask where you
>>>> paid your taxes the prior year while Canada Revenue does. Cohen
>>>> clearly is out of touch - completely - with reality.
>>>> I have placed yet another call to Cohen demanding a 1099 for the year
>>>> 2004. And no, I did not do volunteer work on "Dear Heather" and the
>>>> commission was due me. See my emails to Leonard Cohen or Sony's
>>>> letter thanking me for cutting through the over-lawyering. Leonard
>>>> Cohen is a thief, like Marnie, who cannot stop himself. I also asked,
>>>> in my message, a request for a valuation of the intellectual property.
>>>> Cohen understood that compensation for my past work (language he
>>>> dictated in the minutes) was non-revocable. His lawyers and Neal
>>>> Greenberg (HIS financial adviser, who has now lost everything, and
>>>> someone I could not stand and who I thought was a greedy criminal but
>>>> Cohen connected with him when they met in LA) drove home the point
>>>> that Cohen must understand that this compensation of intellectual
>>>> property was NON-REVOCABLE. I called Neal Greenberg immediately after
>>>> returning from Cohen's house after we had this discussion in his
>>>> kitchen. I also informed Cohen, via my voicemail, that I do NOT own
>>>> 15% of LC Investments, LLC although Westin thought I should and Cohen
>>>> had me ask Westin if I could be compensated since I owned the
>>>> intellectual property. My lawyers confirmed this - I own 15% of all
>>>> the intellectual property regardless of where Cohen has now placed it.
>>>> Michael, who dealt with a Spanish version of Cohen and also went to
>>>> the tax authorities, has nailed this "shell game."