From: Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: Kelley Lynch's email dated Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:11 AM
To: Stephen Gianelli <stephengianelli@gmail.com>, "*IRS.Commisioner" <*IRS.Commisioner@irs.gov>, Washington Field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, ASKDOJ <ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov>, "Division, Criminal" <Criminal.Division@usdoj.gov>, "Doug.Davis" <Doug.Davis@ftb.ca.gov>, Dennis <Dennis@riordan-horgan.com>, MollyHale <MollyHale@ucia.gov>, nsapao <nsapao@nsa.gov>, fsb <fsb@fsb.ru>, rbyucaipa <rbyucaipa@yahoo.com>, khuvane <khuvane@caa.com>, blourd <blourd@caa.com>, Robert MacMillan <robert.macmillan@gmail.com>, a <anderson.cooper@cnn.com>, wennermedia <wennermedia@gmail.com>, Mick Brown <mick.brown@telegraph.co.uk>, "glenn.greenwald" <glenn.greenwald@firstlook.org>, lrohter <lrohter@nytimes.com>, Harriet Ryan <harriet.ryan@latimes.com>, "hailey.branson" <hailey.branson@latimes.com>, "stan.garnett" <stan.garnett@gmail.com>, "USLawEnforcement@google.com" <USLawEnforcement@google.com>, Feedback <feedback@calbar.ca.gov>, mike.feuer@lacity.org, "mayor.garcetti" <mayor.garcetti@lacity.org>, "Kelly.Sopko" <Kelly.Sopko@tigta.treas.gov>, OPLA-PD-LOS-OCC@ice.dhs.gov
Stephen Gianelli,
Stop criminally harassing me. I have your two refutations to the "nouveaux riche" theory. I stand by that theory. You're an embarrassment and people are pointing that out. I've included you in the Proposed Order presently before Judge Hess. I know how to count court dates. And, I know when Cohen's response and my reply thereto are due. I will definitely submit your criminally harassing emails to Family Court with my motion to vacate the fraud "domestic violence" order. That's the case the prosecutor gave to the "bail hearing" judge and that's what I was prosecuted over. The information is readily available on LA Superior Court's website and I have spoken to at least one Commissioner in person about it. It's definitely a "domestic violence" order but the Colorado order was not. It was also based on fraud and perjury and I filed a Motion to Quash. That is now a federal matter. I haven't resided in Boulder since December 2008. The Boulder Combined Court told me, Paulette Brandt, and others, that the permanent order expired on February 15, 2009. Your lies and harassment won't change that fact. Is the mob moll busy or did she leave you so that you had 24/7 to spend criminally harassing people over Cohen's legal issues and Phil Spector matters? Are your paychecks wired off-shore so you can maintain your nouveaux riche appearances?
Kelley Lynch
IRS, FBI, and DOJ,
The criminal stalker has been relentlessly advised to cease and desist. I phoned Investigator Frayeh again today. Here's the Proposed Order presently before Judge Hess. If I ran out of time - sobeit. The documents will be submitted to the Family Court with the motion to vacate the fraud "domestic violence" order Gianelli also criminally harassed me over. He's definitely an unofficial member of Leonard Cohen's legal team. Of that, I remain convinced. I've forwarded you his two "nouveaux riche" refutations. Forgive me for not accepting Cohen's offer of 50% community property (made in front of witnesses - including my accounting who wasn't fired - Cohen perjured himself over that issue) and accomodated Cohen's desire that I testify falsely against his representatives. The IRS was clear about my rightful ownership interests in the numerous corporate entities and intellectual property. Many federal tax matters have been implicated and will be part of my RICO suit against Cohen. You have the latest draft of that Complaint. That will include, but is not limited to, Cohen's refusal and willful failure to provide me with IRS required documents.The Stalker is amused and views himself as "immune." He definitely attempts to infiltrate Phil Spector's defense. I've addressed this with Phil Spector personally and certain of his legal representatives. He is also targeting Paulette now because she knows Phil Spector is innocent.All the best,KelleyKelley LynchIn Propria PersonaSUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIACOUNTY OF LOS ANGELESLEONARD COHEN, an individual, Case No. BC338322LC INVESTMENTS, LLC, a Delaware Related Case No. BC341120Limited Liability CompanyNOTICE OF MOTION & MOTION Plaintiffs FOR TERMINATION SANCTIONS; MEMORANDUM, DECLARATIONS,vs.EXHIBITS, ETC. Defendants Hearing: June 23, 2015, 8:30 AM TO THE HONORABLE ROBERT HESS[Proposed]
ORDER ON MOTIONFOR TERMINATING SANCTIONSHAVING CONSIDERED DEFENDANT KELLEY LYNCH’S MOTION FOR TERMINATING SANCTIONS, THE COURT ORDERS:1. That terminating sanctions are entered against Plaintiffs and this case, together with the May 15,2006 default judgment, is dismissed with prejudice.2. That the Court will refer attorneys Robert Kory and Michelle Rice to the California State Bar fordisciplinary action.3. That the Court will refer this matter, and specifically Leonard Cohen, Robert Kory, and MichelleRice to the District Attorney’s office for perjury prosecutions.4. That the Court will provide Defendant Kelley Lynch with a clarification of the ambiguities in theMay 15, 2006 default judgment.5. That the settlement agreement entered into, following mediation, by Leonard Cohen and RichardWestin is hereby overturned and Plaintiffs are ordered to provide Kelley Lynch with copies of all mediation transcripts, other documents related to the mediations, and the settlement agreement itself.6. The Plaintiffs and Defendant Kelley Lynch will continue to serve all documents in this case tothe email addresses provided on Plaintiffs and Defendants filed court documents: Jeffrey Korn, Attorney for Plaintiffs, jeffkornlaw@live.com, Kelley Lynch, in Propria Persona, kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com.7. That Jeffrey Korn will advise Stephen Gianelli and Susanne Walsh, two parties whohave repeatedly contacted Ms. Lynch, to cease and desist (per court order) all communications with Kelley Lynch, her family members, friends (including Paulette Brandt), witnesses (including those who have provided declarations to his court) and colleagues, that relate to this case and any and all matters that involve Leonard Cohen and Kelley Lynch. That would include, but is not limited to, any discussions with respect to federal tax matters, requests for tax and corporate information, the related restraining order case, and the default judgment dated May 15, 2006. A copy of Jeffrey Korn’s email (which shall also be sent by certified mail to Stephen Gianelli and Susanne Walsh), together with proof of mailing, shall be promptly filed with this Court and served upon Kelley Lynch via email. Stephen Gianelli’s email address is stephengianelli@gmail.com. Susanne Walsh’s email address sanneka@esenet.dk. It is the Court’s understanding that these parties have contacted Ms. Lynch since hearing from Michelle Rice, co-counsel in this matter, in or around May 16, 2005 and Susanne Walsh has actually copied Michelle Rice on numerous emails to Kelley Lynch and her family.8. That Jeffrey Korn will advise Stephen Gianelli to cease and desist harassing Ms. Lynch by writingDeputy City Attorney Vivienne Swanigan copying in defendant, witness Paulette Brandt, defendant’s sons and family, friends, and colleagues. Neither Stephen Gianelli nor the City Attorney’s office are parties to this lawsuit. A copy of Jeffrey Korn’s email (which shall also be sent by certified mail to Deputy City Attorney Vivienne Swanigan), together with proof of mailing, shall be promptly filed with this Court and served upon Kelley Lynch via email. Vivienne Swanigan’s email is vivienne.swanigan@lacity.org. It is the Court’s understanding that Gianelli first publicly contacted the City Attorney, copying Ms. Lynch and others, in or around November 2012.9. Attorney Michelle Rice, co-counsel in this matter, shall immediately file a notice withdrawingfrom this case due to conflicts of interest related to her current position as Leonard Cohen’s lawyer and paid witness.10. Defendant will serve notice of this Order upon Plaintiffs forthwith, and will file a proof ofservice of this Order on Plaintiffs within five (5) business days.Dated:______________________________ ____ Judge Robert Hess
Gianelli,
Stop writing me and lying. Cohen has to file a response. The hearing is June 23, 2015. Cohen's Opposition is due 9 court days before the hearing. My reply is due 5 days before the hearing.Kelley LynchMotions in general (court days):
- See more at: http://woodwardlawfirm.com/
- Non-summary-judgment motions are generally due 16 court days before the scheduled hearing. (CCP § 1005(b).)
- Oppositions to non-summary-judgment motions are due 9 court days before hearing. (CCP § 1005(b).)
- Replies to non-summary-judgment motions are due 5 court days before hearing. (CCP § 1005(b).)
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From: STEPHEN R. GIANELLI <stephengianelli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:03 AM
Subject: RE: Kelley Lynch's email dated Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:11 AM
To: Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com>
“I intend to address the fact that I believe you are an unofficial member of Leonard Cohen's legal team further with Judge Hess.”Really? Let’s see what you can do prior to the last day to file papers in support of your SECOND motion to vacate/dismiss or for leave to file an answer on Friday, May 29, 2015 when the Clerk’s office closes at 4:30 PM.From: Kelley Lynch [mailto:kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 11:12 PM
To: Stephen Gianelli; *IRS.Commisioner; Washington Field; ASKDOJ; Division, Criminal; Doug.Davis; Dennis; MollyHale; nsapao; fsb; rbyucaipa; khuvane; blourd; Robert MacMillan; a; wennermedia; Mick Brown; glenn.greenwald; lrohter; Harriet Ryan; hailey.branson; stan.garnett; USLawEnforcement@google.com; Feedback; mike.feuer@lacity.org; mayor.garcetti; Kelly.Sopko; OPLA-PD-LOS-OCC@ice.dhs.gov
Subject: Fwd: Kelley Lynch's email dated Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:11 AMStephen Gianelli,I wrote you a cease and desist letter re. your slanderous remarks about me, Paulette, and others. You are attempting to discredit Paulette and trying to infiltrate Phil Spector's defense. See your inane letter to Ed Lozzi when you were not copied on my email to him. You are as transparent as the day is long - including your farcical lies on behalf of Karina Von Watteville. The news media is not really interested in Cohen. I know. I was his personal manager for 17 years. That's why he told the garbage Phil Spector "gun" stories. That's all journalists wanted to hear.I asked the CIA - not you - about my press release. Were you also in MKULTRA Gianelli or does the CIA have problems with mob affiliations? See your not-so-veiled threats. I suppose you are an agent provocateur-infiltrator but really you're nothing more than a lying gossip who slanders people and attacks their sons and others.Cease and desist. I intend to address the fact that I believe you are an unofficial member of Leonard Cohen's legal team further with Judge Hess. It seems material and relevant since you write legal opinions constantly for Leonard Cohen. You do argue Phil Spector's prosecution theories online. Investigator Frayeh did think (in 2009) you may have found a sympathetic ear with "Alan Jackson" about me and you know that Pat Dixon was behind the 2008 Boulder incident with Boulder PD. I see right through you. I am clear that Leonard Cohen is a Canadian who cannot live in Canada due to tax and residence problems and wants his fabricated narrative out there. He used it to argue his defense against criminal tax fraud with IRS. It is therefore entirely perjured. The fraud refunds have been challenged. A federal RICO lawsuit will be filed. The first draft was sent to IRS, FBI, and DOJ.Kelley LynchPRESS RELEASEWill IRS prosecute singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen for criminal tax fraud?Was Leonard Cohen a participant in CIA’s MKULTRA program?On June 23, 2015, in Department 24 of Los Angeles Superior Court, Judge Robert Hess will determine whether or not he will vacate singer songwriter Leonard Cohen’s default judgment against his former personal manager, Kelley Lynch, and refer Cohen together with his lawyers, Robert Kory and Michelle Rice, to the appropriate authorities for perjury prosecutions and disciplinary actions. Judge Hess will, of course, be acting without personal jurisdiction over Kelley Lynch as she was never served Leonard Cohen’s legal complaint or summons.Los Angeles Superior CourtStanley Mosk Courthouse111 N. Hill StreetDepartment 24Los Angeles, California 90012Hearing: 8:30 AMThe details of the salacious story involving Leonard Cohen, his former personal manager, allegations of criminal tax fraud, and Cohen’s three versions of his famous Phil Spector gun incident now before LA Superior Court can be found at riverdeepbook.blogspot.com.Journalist Ann Diamond’s article, Whatever Happened to Kelley Lynch, gives a very nice, concise overview of what actually unfolded when Leonard Cohen heard (in the fall of 2004) that his trusted personal manager planned to report his tax fraud to Internal Revenue Service. After publishing this article (enclosed below) on her blog, Leonard Cohen and his lawyers promptly threatened to sue Ms. Diamond. To date, the media coverage has been limited to Leonard Cohen’s highly fictional narrative that Kelley Lynch was his disgruntled ex-lover who embezzled his retirement funds, stalked him for no reason whatsoever, and may have wanted to attend his concert. While this rather entertaining story has a fairy tale ring to it, the reality of the situation is far more scandalous. In addition, Kelley Lynch was actually prosecuted for, among other things, annoying Leonard Cohen by addressing the fact that he falsely accused her of having sex with Oliver Stone to stir up a custody matter (that was successful although essentially a default judgment); explaining to journalist Glenn Greenwald (the Intercept) that Cohen exposed himself to Lynch and routinely sexually harassed her; repeating what Mick Brown (UK Telegraph) advised her – that Cohen’s statements/testimony were presented to Phil Spector’s Grand Jury; requesting IRS tax and corporate information that Cohen is required to provide her; and violating a fraudulent restraining order (primarily used to discredit and silence Lynch) that the Court repeatedly told her (and Phil Spector’s former personal assistant, Paulette Brandt) had expired in 2009. It was during Kelley Lynch’s 2012 trial for annoying Leonard Cohen that she understood he, former District Attorney Steve Cooley (who prosecuted Phil Spector), and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich had publicly joined forces to target and discredit her. Lynch has now notified Cohen, the City of Los Angeles, and County of Los Angeles that she will be litigating these issues in federal court.Kelley Lynch, Paulette Brandt, and Ann Diamond’s interviews for Truth Sentinel internet radio program can be found at the following links:Truth Sentinel Episode 39 (Leonard Cohen, truth, lies, guilt, innocence, law, MK ULTRA)Truth Sentinel Episode 40 (Phil Spector, truth, lies, guilt and innocence, murder trial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=PB1WMxTwnHg
For those of you interested in the latest legal documents, including declarations, filed in Case No BC 338322, many of them can be found at this link:Thursday, July 3, 2008
Whatever Happened to Kelley Lynch?Ann Diamond
Kelley Lynch is the woman accused in 2005 of skimming millions from singer Leonard Cohen’s retirement fund. I knew of her through friends of Leonard Cohen, and had heard her described in glowing terms as the agent who, singlehandedly, saved Cohen’s career in the 1990s.In early May of this year, Lynch suddenly contacted me. She said she was mainly interested in my perceptions of Cohen as a former friend and next door neighbour in Montreal. At one time I also studied with his Zen Master in California, and had spent time with him on Hydra, Greece.
Not having heard her side of the story (I doubt that anyone has, apart from a circle of her closest friends), I was curious. Over the next few weeks, she shared several documents pertaining to the case including an affidavit written and signed by her older son, Rutger.Together, they paint a picture very much at variance from the sketchy media image of Lynch as a reckless, delusional woman on the brink of a career meltdown. Lynch's own timeline also includes disturbing behind-the-scene dealings that suggest she may have been set up to take the blame for Cohen's tax situation.
The following account is based on what Lynch has sent me --
Since 2005 when she became the object of media gossip, little if anything has been heard from Kelley Lynch.
A single mother with two sons, Lynch was Leonard Cohen's personal manager from approximately 1988 to 2004, and was known for her skill, hard work, and dedication. Until 2004, Kelley lived and worked in Los Angeles where she still has many friends and acquaintances in the entertainment world including Phil Spector and Oliver Stone.
Her own account of the events that wrecked her career, varies widely from the media portrait of a reckless, delusional woman in the throes of a personal meltdown. The meltdown was real, however. By late December, 2005, Lynch had lost custody of one son and was homeless and living on the streets with her older son, Rutger, who witnessed the chain of bizarre events that had begun a year earlier.
In 2004, Lynch owned a house in Brentwood, and still worked for Cohen, who owed her money for royalties and other services, but was increasingly involved with his new girlfriend, Anjani Thomas, ex-wife of Cohen’s attorney, Robert Kory.In retrospect, Lynch believes she was set up by Cohen and his representatives to help cover up a tax situation which made the IRS “nervous.” In September 2004, Cohen’s attorney Weston told Lynch that a financial entity known as Traditional Holdings, LLC could be overturned by the IRS. Lynch, who had been selected as a partner on the entity, became uneasy and consulted a new accountant, who referred her to tax lawyers, who found irregularities in Cohen's tax history, both in the US and Canada where he has residences.
Rattled by what she was hearing – that she was being dragged into criminal tax fraud -- Lynch called the IRS in Washington and also contacted their website. An IRS collection agent advised her to call the Fraud Hotline, which she did.
Told that any further action on her part might implicate her in fraud, Lynch refused to meet with Cohen or turn over the corporate books. At that stage, Cohen’s advisers began claiming that certain payments, distributions, or advances made to her were actually "over-payments." Lynch says their accounting was incomplete and ignored her share of intellectual property, unpaid commissions and royalties, and share in Traditional Holdings, LLC. Apparently Lynch had also been issued K1 partnership tax documents and made a partner on another Cohen investment entity, LC Investments, LLC, without her permission or awareness.
Lynch says an increasingly nervous and desperate Cohen was pressuring her to agree to mediation and told a friend of hers that Lynch was "the love of his life." She and Cohen had had a brief affair in 1990, but Cohen now was offering her 50% of his "community property" as well as "palimony" through lawyer Robert Kory at a meeting attended by Lynch's legal representatives and her accountant, Dale Burgess. To Lynch, none of this made sense at the time.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office received an anonymous tip informing them that Lynch was a friend of producer Phil Spector, whom Lynch maintains is innocent. Cohen, on the other hand, had given an interview in which he described a gun-waving Spector who threatened him during recording sessions in 1977.At around the same time he was offering her “millions”, Lynch says, Cohen was also circulating slanderous stories about her. She believes Cohen encouraged Los Angeles record producer Steve Lindsey, the father of her son Ray, to initiate a custody suit – on May 25, 2005, the same day a 25-man SWAT team from the LAPD, acting on a bogus 911 call, suddenly cordoned off her street and surrounded her home in response to a "hostage taking."
Earlier that morning, Lynch says, her 12 year old son Ray woke up not feeling well. She sent an email to his school informing them she was keeping him at home. When the boy's father found out Ray was home he became agitated and abusive over the phone to Lynch.
Lynch says she had young people who worked for her coming and going that day, and did not want Ray’s father coming to the house and attacking her, as he had in the past. She called her older son Rutger, who was visiting a friend nearby, and asked him to pick Ray up and take him down the hill where actress Cloris Leachman waited in her car. Leachman, a friend of Lindsey, took charge of Ray – just as seven LAPD squad cars came speeding up Mandeville Canyon Road in the direction of Lynch’s house. With them was Ray’s father, Steve Lindsey.
Lynch says she looked out the window and saw armed men on her lawn. Her son Rutger and his friends were telling police there was no hostage-taking, that they had spent the morning with Lynch, and that there must be some mistake. For reasons no one understands, LAPD/Inglewood PD decided to believe Steve Lindsey, who had left the scene.
Police later gave varying explanations about what led up to the incident. West LAPD said they responded to a report that someone heard "shots fired." But a company that oversees SWAT said Lynch would have to have a superior caliber weapon to warrant such a high risk entry. A member of the SWAT team claimed to have seen a note that Lynch’s sister had placed the call stating Lynch posed “a danger to herself and everyone around her.” Her sister denies this.
Lynch stayed inside her house and called her former custody lawyer, Lee Kanon Alpert. She also called Leonard Cohen, assuming he had played a role in the events unfolding on her lawn. Lynch says she knew Steve Lindsey had also been meeting with Cohen and his attorney, and had recently told their son Ray that Lynch was “going to jail,” upsetting the boy. She says Cohen taped the phone call later used in his successful court case against her – for which, Lynch says, she never received a summons.Lynch says, “Police were on my hillside and crouching under my kitchen window.” She says the standoff on her lawn continued for several more hours, disrupting the neighbourhood. Members of Inglewood Police Department also participated in the operation.Eventually, she decided to go into the back yard. Seeing her son Rutger acting as a “human shield and hostage negotiator,” Lynch ventured out front with her Akita on leash and joked to the cops: "Who am I supposed to be holding hostage? My dog?"
The police responded by telling her son they would only shoot Lynch and her dog if necessary.
“That was when I dove into the pool.”
SWAT team members searched her house. As they entered, Lynch's African Grey parrot, Lou, called out: "I see dead people!" – further alarming the nervous cops.
Offering her a hand out of the pool, one officer said they were only there to help her and not to hurt her.
“No one asked me if I was all right; no one questioned me about my well-being.” The Medical Examiners Office later wondered how the police had evaluated her. After stating they were not arresting her, they handcuffed Lynch, still in her bikini. On her way out the door, her son managed to hand her a brocade jacket.
Although she lived near UCLA Medical Center, she was taken in a squad car to King-Drew Medical Centre in Watts, 40 miles away and a three-hour drive in traffic. Known as one of America’s worst hospitals, King-Drew was recently closed down as a place where patients routinely die from neglect and medical errors. During the long ride through South Central Los Angeles, Lynch says she was questioned closely about her relationship with Phil Spector, who had been charged with first degree murder of Lana Clarkson. In the car, Lynch voiced concern over what awaited her at the hospital but was told by a woman cop: "This will be good for you."
“I felt I was being kidnapped”.
At Emergency, the admitting psychiatrist administered anti-psychotic drugs without authorization and left Lynch in the waiting area for hours, still in her bikini and brocade jacket, and handcuffed to a chair. A nurse advised her she would be transferred – but did not tell her where. Examining her file, the nurse noticed it listed her as 19 years old with wrong social security number, wrong date of birth, wrong religion, and her name misspelled as "Kelly Lynch" Lynch thinks it was the same file she had seen, several months earlier, in the hands of the Special Investigator who came to question her about Spector.
A second doctor told her to wait her turn to ensure no further harm would come to her, and assured her that nothing in the King Drew report could cause her to lose custody of her child. The following day, she was released after nearly 24 hours in the psych ward.
Back home, Lynch learned that while she was being held at the hospital her younger son's father, Steven Clark Lindsey, had filed for custody of her son Ray Charles Lindsey and obtained a restraining order denying her access to the boy. She says Lindsey attempted to convince doctors at King Drew that she was dangerous, in order to have her committed, She says Lindsey also threatened the psychiatrist who had her released.On that same day, Cohen’s attorney Robert Kory filed a Declaration in the custody matter, as did Betsy Superfon (a friend of Cohen, Kory and Lindsey who had befriended Lynch a few months earlier ). Superfon later told Lynch she didn't realize what she was signing, and that Cohen had offered Lindsey money “or something else” to take Ray away from Lynch.
Her older son alleges Lindsey offered him money to go to Leonard Cohen's lawyer's office and transfer or sign over Lynch’s house to Cohen or his attorney Robert Kory. Rutger refused and phoned his own father, who advised him to contact a lawyer.
Two weeks later, in early June, as she drove down her street to buy dog food, a Mercedes sped out of a neighbouring driveway and rear-ended her car, Lynch was thrown forward, fracturing her nose against the steering well, and was knocked unconscious. Later, she says, as she drove back up the hill to her home, the same driver was standing in his driveway and called out: “We are watching you” as she passed.
Seeing his injured, bleeding mother enter the house, her older son again phoned his father, who may have called 911. Accounts vary as whether the call referred to an incident of "domestic violence" or a "drug overdose." Either way, police arrived at Lynch’s door for the second time in two weeks. Over the protests of her son, they entered while she was on the phone to a friend, Dr. Wendi Knaak who stayed on the phone talking with Rutger while police again handcuffed Lynch. This time they took her to UCLA hospital where her obvious head injuries were ignored. Instead, she was once again drugged and placed in the psychiatric unit where she remained for several days.
Lynch and her advisors maintain these events were coordinated by Cohen, Kory and Lindsey, with the help of former LA District Attorney Ira Reiner in a well- orchestrated plan to traumatize and discredit her – paving the way for media stories which accused her of skimming millions from Cohen’s retirement fund.
In the summer of 2005, as Lynch was struggling to save her home and protect her child from a father her friends describe as "viciously anti-social" and “violent”, reports of Leonard Cohen's financial troubles hit the press. They alleged the 70-something singer had been scammed by his personal manager, Kelley Lynch, who colluded with an advisor at the AGILE Group in Colorado to send him false financial statements while emptying his accounts of millions of dollars.
Although listed as the owner of Traditional Holdings, the entity in question, Lynch says she never received any statements from the AGILE Group -- who instead had been sending them to Cohen -- having changed her mailing address to Cohen's home in Los Angeles. She has since filed a complaint with the US Post Office for mail tampering.NOTE: It appears that Leonard Cohen, or his representatives, attempted to change Lynch's mailing address from her home in Brentwood, California to his home in Los Angeles, California. A Complaint was filed with USPS.
She insists Cohen sued her because she went to the IRS about his tax situation. She says he is not, and never was, "broke" and that missing funds went to buy homes for his son Adam Cohen and girlfriend, singer Anjani Thomas, ex-wife of Robert Kory. Noting Cohen is famous for his financial largesse and once gave Zen Master Sasaki Roshi $500,000 as a gift, Lynch also cites hefty payments to advisers, various transaction fees, personal taxes, and other monies which may have been sent offshore.
While Cohen and Lindsey attempted to persuade others, including LA Superior Court, that she intended to flee to Tibet or another non-extradition country, Lynch was isolated and penniless and still in Los Angeles. Lynch was former personal secretary to the late Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a flamboyant Tibetan spiritual teacher who founded Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s, and died in 1987. She says various Tibetan lamas are praying for her safety.NOTE: Lynch was a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche; resided with his son (her nephew) for years; and was Kusum Lingpa Rinpoche's personal assistant and is his chos kyi dags mos and lineage holder.
Journalists covering the story were either unable, or didn't bother, to track Lynch down, and most reported Cohen's statements as fact. The NY Times contacted Kelley for a quote which they never printed
By July 2005, Lynch had lost her custody battle and Ray went to live with his father. On December 28, she and Rutger were evicted from the house in Brentwood, and ended up homeless in Santa Monica, which has no resources for the homeless. The Police Department gave her no help and, she claims, laughed when she brought in evidence that she was being stalked by a known serial killer while she camped on the beach.
In 2006, Cohen was awarded a symbolic $9 million settlement in a civil suit against Lynch, who still does not have a lawyer representing her. Corporate books and other evidence of fraud appear to have been overlooked by Judge Ken Freeman in his judgment, Lynch says, although she admits she has not read the court documents and was never served a summons. At the time of the decision, she told reporters she lacked the money to make a phone call. That same year, her older son lost his fingers in an accident with a meat grinder while he was working at Whole Foods in Los Angeles and Lynch could not afford a bus ticket to visit him in hospital.
Lynch heard through a journalist that Cohen later testified for the District Attorney’s office in a secret grand jury relating to the Phil Spector case with former District Attorney Ira Reiner acting as his lawyer. Reiner is a personal friend of Cohen, and as D.A. presided over some high-profile cases including the “Night Stalker” serial killer and the McMartin Day Care scandal.
Recently, on June 17, 2008, Cohen's lawsuit against the Agile Group was thrown out of court for lack of evidence. In response the AGILE Group dropped its counter-suit accusing Cohen of defamation and fraud. AGILE still claims to be shocked that a singer of Leonard Cohen's talent and stature would engage in false accusations against his own representatives.
Lynch believes Cohen and AGILE colluded to defraud her. She continues to deny all allegations against her, and remains hopeful that Phil Spector's lawyer, Bruce Cutler, will represent her in recouping damages to her livelihood and reputation. She now lives in another state and recently learned her younger son, 15, whom she has not seen since July 2005, stopped attending school last January.
These days Cohen’s fans seem to have expended their rage at Kelley Lynch for driving their idol into bankruptcy. Some now say she unwittingly did them a service -- by forcing him to go on tour for the first time in nearly two decades.
At 74, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen continues to ride a wave of sympathy, gathering wide support from the music world and even some British royalty. Unquestionably, his career and finances have benefited from news reports that he is too impoverished to retire.
From his tower of song, Cohen has written:
I smile when I'm angry
I cheat and I lie
I do what I have to do
To get by
And I’m always alone
And my heart is like ice
And it’s crowded and cold
In my secret life
My Secret Life. Leonard Cohen
His many admirers need to listen closely.
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From: STEPHEN R. GIANELLI <stephengianelli@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:49 AM
Subject: RE: Kelley Lynch's email dated Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:11 AM
To: Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com>
More –If you can capture the essence of your story in 50 words or fewer, as they do in newspapers, you are on the right track. Ideally, for your first paragraph, you should be looking at no more than two sentences, each of 25 words or fewer. You need to get the essence of your story in the first paragraph. (This is what I meant by “burying the lede”.)But before you even write and issue a press release, ask “Is there news value in this story? And, “Does it warrant a release?” “Why?”Generally, YOU are not the celebrity or newsworthy individual featured in the news release. Leonard Cohen is. Therefore, what YOU have to say is not newsworthy.The lawsuit you seek to focus attention on was initially reported in the world press at the time it was filed in late 2005. Additionally, when the judgment was entered in May of 2006, that was also covered in the news.Following that there was very little coverage of the litigation except as a footnote to a story involving Leonard Cohen – a biography, an album release, a concert tour, or Leonard Cohen’s 2008 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.The $7M judgment in BC338322 also received some mention by way of background in the 2012 news stories covering your arrest, trial, conviction, and 18-month jail sentence for criminally harassing Leonard Cohen. Note that the coverage centered on Leonard Cohen, not you, because that is why it was newsworthy at all; had you not been formerly employed as Cohen’s manager and had you not been charged/tried/convicted/sentenced for harassing an A-List celebrity, your criminal case would not have been covered by the media at all. In fact, some of the stories did not even identify you by name; you were referred to simply as Leonard Cohen’s former manager who embezzled his retirement account, because in the eyes of the press, that is all you are. Emphasis on “former”. That is why when you violated your probation arising out of the harassment case and had your probation revoked and were returned to jail on January 22, 2014 (for emailing Sandra Jo Streeter death threats) the media declined to send a reporter to cover your probation revocation hearing and declined to do a story about your resulting 6-month jail sentence: Leonard Cohen was not directly involved. Your legal difficulties was not deemed to be “newsworthy”.The media also showed zero interest in covering the January 17, 2014 hearing on your FIRST motion to vacate the default judgment in BC338322 and to dismiss, and, in the alternative, for leave to file an answer to the complaint and defend it on the merits, nor did it cover the disposition of that motion. Why? It just was not newsworthy.The 2005 lawsuit and subsequent 2006 judgment is old news. A decade has now passed.The motion you filed in March of this year asks for the same core relief that your FIRST motion to vacate/dismiss/leave to file an answer requested.There is nothing new. The fact that YOU are doing something or have initiated another challenge to this decade old lawsuit and judgment is not newsworthy because YOU are not newsworthy. If Cohen filed a legal proceeding or a motion THAT might be considered newsworthy, because Cohen is the celebrity.Beyond those facts of life, your press release broke all of these journalistic principles:What should go into a press release?
Answer the following questions about your news:
- Who? Who are the key players — your company, anyone else involved with the product? Who does your news affect/who does it benefit?
- What? What is new?
- Why? Why is this important news — what does it provide that is different?
- Where? Where is this happening/is there a geographical angle/is the location of business relevant?
- When? What is the timing of this? Does this add significance?
- How? How did this come about?
Nor did you capture the essence of your story in 50 words or fewer, as they do in newspapers.Nor did you think through the “angle”, and targeted audience, for your press release. For example, you cannot seem to make up your mind whether you want the media to write about Ann Diamond’s theory that Leonard Cohen took part in military mind control experiments in college, or your pro se motion to be heard on 6/23.Nor did you consider that the typical reporter has very limited time to sort through his email box. If you cannot hook him or her with the subject line, and then reel them in with 50 words or less, forget it. A busy reporter definitely is not going to click on links and listen to an hour long podcast that already aired months ago nor is he or she going to wade through 1000 pages of paper filed in support of a pro se motion to screen a story for newsworthiness.Last, you didn’t even retain an attorney to file the motion and put his professional reputation behind it. All your motion consists of at this point are some hysterically expressed claims by a woman who was long ago written off by the press as “Leonard Cohen’s Obsessed Harasser”. (Yawn.)Crazy pro se court filings get filed every day of the week – many of them targeting celebrities. They are NEVER reported.For all of these reasons, your press release is the dumbest press release I have ever read.Stephen R. GianelliCrete, GreeceFrom: Kelley Lynch [mailto:kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com]
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Subject: Re: Kelley Lynch's email dated Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:11 AMCIA,
Gianelli harassed me over the Press Release I put on my blog and sent to thousands of news outlets. He harasses me over the information on my blog and lies. He pretends they're forwarded to him so I've let you know how I know for a fact he's a liar. àDo you think my press release is ridiculous? If so, why?KelleyPRESS RELEASEWill IRS prosecute singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen for criminal tax fraud?Was Leonard Cohen a participant in CIA’s MKULTRA program?On June 23, 2015, in Department 24 of Los Angeles Superior Court, Judge Robert Hess will determine whether or not he will vacate singer songwriter Leonard Cohen’s default judgment against his former personal manager, Kelley Lynch, and refer Cohen together with his lawyers, Robert Kory and Michelle Rice, to the appropriate authorities for perjury prosecutions and disciplinary actions. Judge Hess will, of course, be acting without personal jurisdiction over Kelley Lynch as she was never served Leonard Cohen’s legal complaint or summons.Los Angeles Superior CourtStanley Mosk Courthouse111 N. Hill StreetDepartment 24Los Angeles, California 90012Hearing: 8:30 AMThe details of the salacious story involving Leonard Cohen, his former personal manager, allegations of criminal tax fraud, and Cohen’s three versions of his famous Phil Spector gun incident now before LA Superior Court can be found at riverdeepbook.blogspot.com.Journalist Ann Diamond’s article, Whatever Happened to Kelley Lynch, gives a very nice, concise overview of what actually unfolded when Leonard Cohen heard (in the fall of 2004) that his trusted personal manager planned to report his tax fraud to Internal Revenue Service. After publishing this article (enclosed below) on her blog, Leonard Cohen and his lawyers promptly threatened to sue Ms. Diamond. To date, the media coverage has been limited to Leonard Cohen’s highly fictional narrative that Kelley Lynch was his disgruntled ex-lover who embezzled his retirement funds, stalked him for no reason whatsoever, and may have wanted to attend his concert. While this rather entertaining story has a fairy tale ring to it, the reality of the situation is far more scandalous. In addition, Kelley Lynch was actually prosecuted for, among other things, annoying Leonard Cohen by addressing the fact that he falsely accused her of having sex with Oliver Stone to stir up a custody matter (that was successful although essentially a default judgment); explaining to journalist Glenn Greenwald (the Intercept) that Cohen exposed himself to Lynch and routinely sexually harassed her; repeating what Mick Brown (UK Telegraph) advised her – that Cohen’s statements/testimony were presented to Phil Spector’s Grand Jury; requesting IRS tax and corporate information that Cohen is required to provide her; and violating a fraudulent restraining order (primarily used to discredit and silence Lynch) that the Court repeatedly told her (and Phil Spector’s former personal assistant, Paulette Brandt) had expired in 2009. It was during Kelley Lynch’s 2012 trial for annoying Leonard Cohen that she understood he, former District Attorney Steve Cooley (who prosecuted Phil Spector), and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich had publicly joined forces to target and discredit her. Lynch has now notified Cohen, the City of Los Angeles, and County of Los Angeles that she will be litigating these issues in federal court.Kelley Lynch, Paulette Brandt, and Ann Diamond’s interviews for Truth Sentinel internet radio program can be found at the following links:Truth Sentinel Episode 39 (Leonard Cohen, truth, lies, guilt, innocence, law, MK ULTRA)Truth Sentinel Episode 40 (Phil Spector, truth, lies, guilt and innocence, murder trial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=PB1WMxTwnHg
For those of you interested in the latest legal documents, including declarations, filed in Case No BC 338322, many of them can be found at this link:Thursday, July 3, 2008
Whatever Happened to Kelley Lynch?Ann Diamond
Kelley Lynch is the woman accused in 2005 of skimming millions from singer Leonard Cohen’s retirement fund. I knew of her through friends of Leonard Cohen, and had heard her described in glowing terms as the agent who, singlehandedly, saved Cohen’s career in the 1990s.In early May of this year, Lynch suddenly contacted me. She said she was mainly interested in my perceptions of Cohen as a former friend and next door neighbour in Montreal. At one time I also studied with his Zen Master in California, and had spent time with him on Hydra, Greece.
Not having heard her side of the story (I doubt that anyone has, apart from a circle of her closest friends), I was curious. Over the next few weeks, she shared several documents pertaining to the case including an affidavit written and signed by her older son, Rutger.Together, they paint a picture very much at variance from the sketchy media image of Lynch as a reckless, delusional woman on the brink of a career meltdown. Lynch's own timeline also includes disturbing behind-the-scene dealings that suggest she may have been set up to take the blame for Cohen's tax situation.
The following account is based on what Lynch has sent me --
Since 2005 when she became the object of media gossip, little if anything has been heard from Kelley Lynch.
A single mother with two sons, Lynch was Leonard Cohen's personal manager from approximately 1988 to 2004, and was known for her skill, hard work, and dedication. Until 2004, Kelley lived and worked in Los Angeles where she still has many friends and acquaintances in the entertainment world including Phil Spector and Oliver Stone.
Her own account of the events that wrecked her career, varies widely from the media portrait of a reckless, delusional woman in the throes of a personal meltdown. The meltdown was real, however. By late December, 2005, Lynch had lost custody of one son and was homeless and living on the streets with her older son, Rutger, who witnessed the chain of bizarre events that had begun a year earlier.
In 2004, Lynch owned a house in Brentwood, and still worked for Cohen, who owed her money for royalties and other services, but was increasingly involved with his new girlfriend, Anjani Thomas, ex-wife of Cohen’s attorney, Robert Kory.In retrospect, Lynch believes she was set up by Cohen and his representatives to help cover up a tax situation which made the IRS “nervous.” In September 2004, Cohen’s attorney Weston told Lynch that a financial entity known as Traditional Holdings, LLC could be overturned by the IRS. Lynch, who had been selected as a partner on the entity, became uneasy and consulted a new accountant, who referred her to tax lawyers, who found irregularities in Cohen's tax history, both in the US and Canada where he has residences.
Rattled by what she was hearing – that she was being dragged into criminal tax fraud -- Lynch called the IRS in Washington and also contacted their website. An IRS collection agent advised her to call the Fraud Hotline, which she did.
Told that any further action on her part might implicate her in fraud, Lynch refused to meet with Cohen or turn over the corporate books. At that stage, Cohen’s advisers began claiming that certain payments, distributions, or advances made to her were actually "over-payments." Lynch says their accounting was incomplete and ignored her share of intellectual property, unpaid commissions and royalties, and share in Traditional Holdings, LLC. Apparently Lynch had also been issued K1 partnership tax documents and made a partner on another Cohen investment entity, LC Investments, LLC, without her permission or awareness.
Lynch says an increasingly nervous and desperate Cohen was pressuring her to agree to mediation and told a friend of hers that Lynch was "the love of his life." She and Cohen had had a brief affair in 1990, but Cohen now was offering her 50% of his "community property" as well as "palimony" through lawyer Robert Kory at a meeting attended by Lynch's legal representatives and her accountant, Dale Burgess. To Lynch, none of this made sense at the time.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office received an anonymous tip informing them that Lynch was a friend of producer Phil Spector, whom Lynch maintains is innocent. Cohen, on the other hand, had given an interview in which he described a gun-waving Spector who threatened him during recording sessions in 1977.At around the same time he was offering her “millions”, Lynch says, Cohen was also circulating slanderous stories about her. She believes Cohen encouraged Los Angeles record producer Steve Lindsey, the father of her son Ray, to initiate a custody suit – on May 25, 2005, the same day a 25-man SWAT team from the LAPD, acting on a bogus 911 call, suddenly cordoned off her street and surrounded her home in response to a "hostage taking."
Earlier that morning, Lynch says, her 12 year old son Ray woke up not feeling well. She sent an email to his school informing them she was keeping him at home. When the boy's father found out Ray was home he became agitated and abusive over the phone to Lynch.
Lynch says she had young people who worked for her coming and going that day, and did not want Ray’s father coming to the house and attacking her, as he had in the past. She called her older son Rutger, who was visiting a friend nearby, and asked him to pick Ray up and take him down the hill where actress Cloris Leachman waited in her car. Leachman, a friend of Lindsey, took charge of Ray – just as seven LAPD squad cars came speeding up Mandeville Canyon Road in the direction of Lynch’s house. With them was Ray’s father, Steve Lindsey.
Lynch says she looked out the window and saw armed men on her lawn. Her son Rutger and his friends were telling police there was no hostage-taking, that they had spent the morning with Lynch, and that there must be some mistake. For reasons no one understands, LAPD/Inglewood PD decided to believe Steve Lindsey, who had left the scene.
Police later gave varying explanations about what led up to the incident. West LAPD said they responded to a report that someone heard "shots fired." But a company that oversees SWAT said Lynch would have to have a superior caliber weapon to warrant such a high risk entry. A member of the SWAT team claimed to have seen a note that Lynch’s sister had placed the call stating Lynch posed “a danger to herself and everyone around her.” Her sister denies this.
Lynch stayed inside her house and called her former custody lawyer, Lee Kanon Alpert. She also called Leonard Cohen, assuming he had played a role in the events unfolding on her lawn. Lynch says she knew Steve Lindsey had also been meeting with Cohen and his attorney, and had recently told their son Ray that Lynch was “going to jail,” upsetting the boy. She says Cohen taped the phone call later used in his successful court case against her – for which, Lynch says, she never received a summons.Lynch says, “Police were on my hillside and crouching under my kitchen window.” She says the standoff on her lawn continued for several more hours, disrupting the neighbourhood. Members of Inglewood Police Department also participated in the operation.Eventually, she decided to go into the back yard. Seeing her son Rutger acting as a “human shield and hostage negotiator,” Lynch ventured out front with her Akita on leash and joked to the cops: "Who am I supposed to be holding hostage? My dog?"
The police responded by telling her son they would only shoot Lynch and her dog if necessary.
“That was when I dove into the pool.”
SWAT team members searched her house. As they entered, Lynch's African Grey parrot, Lou, called out: "I see dead people!" – further alarming the nervous cops.
Offering her a hand out of the pool, one officer said they were only there to help her and not to hurt her.
“No one asked me if I was all right; no one questioned me about my well-being.” The Medical Examiners Office later wondered how the police had evaluated her. After stating they were not arresting her, they handcuffed Lynch, still in her bikini. On her way out the door, her son managed to hand her a brocade jacket.
Although she lived near UCLA Medical Center, she was taken in a squad car to King-Drew Medical Centre in Watts, 40 miles away and a three-hour drive in traffic. Known as one of America’s worst hospitals, King-Drew was recently closed down as a place where patients routinely die from neglect and medical errors. During the long ride through South Central Los Angeles, Lynch says she was questioned closely about her relationship with Phil Spector, who had been charged with first degree murder of Lana Clarkson. In the car, Lynch voiced concern over what awaited her at the hospital but was told by a woman cop: "This will be good for you."
“I felt I was being kidnapped”.
At Emergency, the admitting psychiatrist administered anti-psychotic drugs without authorization and left Lynch in the waiting area for hours, still in her bikini and brocade jacket, and handcuffed to a chair. A nurse advised her she would be transferred – but did not tell her where. Examining her file, the nurse noticed it listed her as 19 years old with wrong social security number, wrong date of birth, wrong religion, and her name misspelled as "Kelly Lynch" Lynch thinks it was the same file she had seen, several months earlier, in the hands of the Special Investigator who came to question her about Spector.
A second doctor told her to wait her turn to ensure no further harm would come to her, and assured her that nothing in the King Drew report could cause her to lose custody of her child. The following day, she was released after nearly 24 hours in the psych ward.
Back home, Lynch learned that while she was being held at the hospital her younger son's father, Steven Clark Lindsey, had filed for custody of her son Ray Charles Lindsey and obtained a restraining order denying her access to the boy. She says Lindsey attempted to convince doctors at King Drew that she was dangerous, in order to have her committed, She says Lindsey also threatened the psychiatrist who had her released.On that same day, Cohen’s attorney Robert Kory filed a Declaration in the custody matter, as did Betsy Superfon (a friend of Cohen, Kory and Lindsey who had befriended Lynch a few months earlier ). Superfon later told Lynch she didn't realize what she was signing, and that Cohen had offered Lindsey money “or something else” to take Ray away from Lynch.
Her older son alleges Lindsey offered him money to go to Leonard Cohen's lawyer's office and transfer or sign over Lynch’s house to Cohen or his attorney Robert Kory. Rutger refused and phoned his own father, who advised him to contact a lawyer.
Two weeks later, in early June, as she drove down her street to buy dog food, a Mercedes sped out of a neighbouring driveway and rear-ended her car, Lynch was thrown forward, fracturing her nose against the steering well, and was knocked unconscious. Later, she says, as she drove back up the hill to her home, the same driver was standing in his driveway and called out: “We are watching you” as she passed.
Seeing his injured, bleeding mother enter the house, her older son again phoned his father, who may have called 911. Accounts vary as whether the call referred to an incident of "domestic violence" or a "drug overdose." Either way, police arrived at Lynch’s door for the second time in two weeks. Over the protests of her son, they entered while she was on the phone to a friend, Dr. Wendi Knaak who stayed on the phone talking with Rutger while police again handcuffed Lynch. This time they took her to UCLA hospital where her obvious head injuries were ignored. Instead, she was once again drugged and placed in the psychiatric unit where she remained for several days.
Lynch and her advisors maintain these events were coordinated by Cohen, Kory and Lindsey, with the help of former LA District Attorney Ira Reiner in a well- orchestrated plan to traumatize and discredit her – paving the way for media stories which accused her of skimming millions from Cohen’s retirement fund.
In the summer of 2005, as Lynch was struggling to save her home and protect her child from a father her friends describe as "viciously anti-social" and “violent”, reports of Leonard Cohen's financial troubles hit the press. They alleged the 70-something singer had been scammed by his personal manager, Kelley Lynch, who colluded with an advisor at the AGILE Group in Colorado to send him false financial statements while emptying his accounts of millions of dollars.
Although listed as the owner of Traditional Holdings, the entity in question, Lynch says she never received any statements from the AGILE Group -- who instead had been sending them to Cohen -- having changed her mailing address to Cohen's home in Los Angeles. She has since filed a complaint with the US Post Office for mail tampering.NOTE: It appears that Leonard Cohen, or his representatives, attempted to change Lynch's mailing address from her home in Brentwood, California to his home in Los Angeles, California. A Complaint was filed with USPS.
She insists Cohen sued her because she went to the IRS about his tax situation. She says he is not, and never was, "broke" and that missing funds went to buy homes for his son Adam Cohen and girlfriend, singer Anjani Thomas, ex-wife of Robert Kory. Noting Cohen is famous for his financial largesse and once gave Zen Master Sasaki Roshi $500,000 as a gift, Lynch also cites hefty payments to advisers, various transaction fees, personal taxes, and other monies which may have been sent offshore.
While Cohen and Lindsey attempted to persuade others, including LA Superior Court, that she intended to flee to Tibet or another non-extradition country, Lynch was isolated and penniless and still in Los Angeles. Lynch was former personal secretary to the late Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a flamboyant Tibetan spiritual teacher who founded Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s, and died in 1987. She says various Tibetan lamas are praying for her safety.NOTE: Lynch was a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche; resided with his son (her nephew) for years; and was Kusum Lingpa Rinpoche's personal assistant and is his chos kyi dags mos and lineage holder.
Journalists covering the story were either unable, or didn't bother, to track Lynch down, and most reported Cohen's statements as fact. The NY Times contacted Kelley for a quote which they never printed
By July 2005, Lynch had lost her custody battle and Ray went to live with his father. On December 28, she and Rutger were evicted from the house in Brentwood, and ended up homeless in Santa Monica, which has no resources for the homeless. The Police Department gave her no help and, she claims, laughed when she brought in evidence that she was being stalked by a known serial killer while she camped on the beach.
In 2006, Cohen was awarded a symbolic $9 million settlement in a civil suit against Lynch, who still does not have a lawyer representing her. Corporate books and other evidence of fraud appear to have been overlooked by Judge Ken Freeman in his judgment, Lynch says, although she admits she has not read the court documents and was never served a summons. At the time of the decision, she told reporters she lacked the money to make a phone call. That same year, her older son lost his fingers in an accident with a meat grinder while he was working at Whole Foods in Los Angeles and Lynch could not afford a bus ticket to visit him in hospital.
Lynch heard through a journalist that Cohen later testified for the District Attorney’s office in a secret grand jury relating to the Phil Spector case with former District Attorney Ira Reiner acting as his lawyer. Reiner is a personal friend of Cohen, and as D.A. presided over some high-profile cases including the “Night Stalker” serial killer and the McMartin Day Care scandal.
Recently, on June 17, 2008, Cohen's lawsuit against the Agile Group was thrown out of court for lack of evidence. In response the AGILE Group dropped its counter-suit accusing Cohen of defamation and fraud. AGILE still claims to be shocked that a singer of Leonard Cohen's talent and stature would engage in false accusations against his own representatives.
Lynch believes Cohen and AGILE colluded to defraud her. She continues to deny all allegations against her, and remains hopeful that Phil Spector's lawyer, Bruce Cutler, will represent her in recouping damages to her livelihood and reputation. She now lives in another state and recently learned her younger son, 15, whom she has not seen since July 2005, stopped attending school last January.
These days Cohen’s fans seem to have expended their rage at Kelley Lynch for driving their idol into bankruptcy. Some now say she unwittingly did them a service -- by forcing him to go on tour for the first time in nearly two decades.
At 74, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen continues to ride a wave of sympathy, gathering wide support from the music world and even some British royalty. Unquestionably, his career and finances have benefited from news reports that he is too impoverished to retire.
From his tower of song, Cohen has written:
I smile when I'm angry
I cheat and I lie
I do what I have to do
To get by
And I’m always alone
And my heart is like ice
And it’s crowded and cold
In my secret life
My Secret Life. Leonard Cohen
His many admirers need to listen closely.On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:58 AM, Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com> wrote:
IRS, FBI, and DOJ,One thing - Gianelli is lying about Paulette and using the Von Wattevile case because later he can slander her and say she's defending Phillip because she sees money in her future. He lies about that with me. I'll let Judge Hess know his M.O. and tactics.KelleyOn Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com> wrote:
Stephen Gianelli,I am reviewing the criminally harassing emails you and Susanne Walsh have sent me, Paulette Brandt, and others, since I filed my Motion for Terminating Sanctions in mid-March 2015. I am submitting that evidence to LA Superior Court and addressing your slander, defamation, libel, harassment, stalking, threats, intimidation tactics, etc.Karina Von Watteville phoned Robert Kory, after receiving Paulette Brandt's rent demand letter in June 2014, because she - not we - smelled cash. She is a vexatious litigant who tells everyone (including me) that men do things for her, give her money, and adore her. She photographed a gold record I had (belonging to me with my name on it) and mentioned that she never heard of Leonard Cohen. Witnesses were present. She did know Elton John whose Gold Record I have for the Duets album. Kory told her (and she repeated this to the mediator and Paulette Brandt at the first hearing) to sue me and said I was crazy. Kory's insane so he might have a hard time distinguishing reality from fiction. He also has bias and motive - he replaced me as Cohen's manager and became his lawyer. He's now, with his partner Michelle Rice, a paid lawyer, paid witness, and paid victim, who - with Rice - received domestic violence related orders. The reason for that is due to the fact that the foreign Colorado order was fraudulently registered as a domestic violence order. I've received your inane legal opinions about these orders and cannot figure out who would hire you. I view you as an ambulance chaser and Von Watteville's the perfect client for you from my perspective.You emailed me about the Small Claims hearing and Von Watteville - not the other way around. You wrote me about the 15th which was the hearing date for the Small Claims matter. I wasn't aware of the date because Paulette Brandt hadn't told me. I have your emails so your lies now won't help you. You lie relentlessly and that includes to IRS, FBI, DOJ, ICE, FTB, District Attorney, City Attorney, and probably others. You relentlessly targeted my sons, sister (whose lawyer advised you to cease and desist), and others. People have gone to law enforcement and provided courts with declarations. You wrote that you have a glimpse of behind closed doors at Paulette Brandt's. No you don't. You do not know where I live. You're not retired. You have a job - me. You have relentlessly targeted me for six straight years now. You've devoted blogs to slandering and lying about me. You worked with Michelle Blaine to have my email accounts and blogs fraudulently taken down. You work in tandem with Cohen's fan, Susanne Walsh, and just cc'd Robert Kory when you transmitted the blog you threw up after your blackmail with respect to riverdeepbook.blogspot.com.I have sent you countless emails advising you to cease and desist. You sent me the Greece/U.S. treaty and indicated that you are immune to extradition and prosecution. You could be deported however. You have issued not to veiled threats to me re. your alleged Mafia connections. You have said that I should die. You recently wrote me and Paulette that we should commit suicide. You do not know us and your obsession is vile and vulgar..You're arrogance about yourself is appalling. You are a nouveau riche fraud and embarrassing. People view you as a psychopath who writes deranged emails. You have targeted nearly every witness who submitted a declaration to Judge Hess. You hunted won my ex-husband, Richard Dallett, and then lied about him. I have his emails and I know him. He said you called him numerous times and wanted information - including about my brother who you do not know.The two year statute re. Von Watteville's agreement to pay Paulette Brandt (when she received her social security lump sum payment - or was notified that she received it) has not expired. You wrote the declaration that Von Watteville submitted and argued the statute. That is fraud upon the court.I advised Von Watteville, over the course of months, to cease and desist with respect to her slander, false accusations, call to Robert Kory, and other relevant issues. IRS, FBI, and DOJ were copied in and have those emails.Paulette Brandt didn't come after Von Watteville because she heard about her accident money. Von Watteville told me, and others, she had a $200,000 settlement for her hand injury and also noted that she was suing the insurance company for $80,000. Paulette Brandt didn't know her when her former roommate (from years and years ago in NYC) called out of the blue. She hadn't spoken to her in years and years. She begged Paulette Brandt to let Von Watteville stay. She said Von Watteville lost her green card and was waiting to sort that out until she received her lump sum social security check. That's an agreement. The woman was a stranger, who was being kicked out of the place she rented, and about to end up homeless. She is now lying, slandering us, and pathetic from my perspective. I do not know her so her obsession concerned me. I figured she would find Leonard Cohen. I saw right through her as Paulette Brandt continually reminds me.Paulette Brandt, Linda Carol, and I do not do illicit drugs. I don't even touch marijuana and rarely have a glass of wine. Everyone that knows me understands this. Ray Lawrence blamed Michael and Tyler for stealing his alcohol - also parties with young people there. I didn't even really live with him. He was in Minnesota. And, guess what - no one cares about Ray Lawrence at all so enjoy your friendship. I know you referred him to a lawyer in Contra Costa. I also have the emails he privately wrote me about you and Kelly Green. I have provided them to IRS, FBI, and DOJ.The judge asked anyone who was a witness to leave the courtroom. He didn't seize on the moment and zoom in on Debbie who is also being slandered. Why? Because she's a witness. Von Watteville's not intelligent. I've spoken to her. She was boasting about being stripper at a club where, according to her, women smoked through their "coozes." That sounds vulgar to me. Her demeanor? Someone noted that they saw her screaming in the hallway (about Cohen, Kory and ICE - that she brought up) and thought she looked like a con artist in the courtroom talking meekly to the judge. I am onto you, Gianelli. Many people are. You're not intelligent so how would you know if someone's intelligent.
Game, set, match, right, Gianelli? You are targeting Paulette Brandt over Phil Spector and me. You want to discredit her and I want Judge Hess to understand this. Also, the Small Claims judge and the Commissioner in the fraud domestic violence order. You've criminally harassed me over all these issues and I have the evidence. They can decide for themselves if you are an unofficial member of Cohen's legal team and/or moonlighting for the Spector prosecutors and arguing Spector prosecution theories online - ie., the gun was Phillip's and Clarkson's DNA wasn't on the bullets and ammunition when it was.Your email to Ed Lozzi, with me copied in, was transparent as hell. You are attempting to infiltrate Phil Spector's defense. That's why you called Bruce Cutler using me as a pretext. I stand behind my letters to Cutler. They're not harassing. I heard from Phillip after the trial and it's safe to say that he felt it was important to know that Cooley and Cohen publicly aligned themselves to target me, Cohen was testifying about Phil Spector and a gun (that's why there are now three versions of Cohen's garbage gun story about Spector before LA Superior Court, etc. The three letters ARE the evidence Cutler provided the Court. His letter is hearsay. And, he said he destroyed the alleged voice mail messages. I never called him 30 times a day. He couldn't prove that if hell froze over. I do want to know more about his conversations with Dixon about me in 2008. You did, after all, advise me that Dixon was behind the Boulder PD incident at Deneuve Construction.Now cease and desist, Gianelli. I see right through you - and so do many othres.Kelley Lynch---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: STEPHEN R. GIANELLI <stephengianelli@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:29 PM
Subject: RE: Kelley Lynch's email dated Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:11 AM
To: Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com>
Cc: wennermedia <wennermedia@gmail.com>, Robert MacMillan <robert.macmillan@gmail.com>, khuvane@caa.com, blourd@caa.com, "Vivienne A. Swanigan" <vivienne.swanigan@lacity.org>, wfrayeh@da.lacounty.gov Ms. Lynch,You have “no idea what you are talking about”?Then please allow me to remind you!You started emailing me about a Ms. Karina Von Watteville last Tuesday, accusing her of slandering you – which the situation appeared to be quite the opposite – alluding to a pending legal matter between Paulette Brandt and Ms. Von Watteville, even copying me with your emails to Ms. Von Watteville.You sent me over twenty emails about the small claims matter, so I decided to offer Ms. Von Watteville my not inconsiderable legal expertise. I provided to her several bullet-proof defenses, and schooled her no how to conduct herself at yesterday’s hearing. I the emailed you, even calling my shots (as they say in pool) predicting that Ms. Brandt’s claim would be defeated by the two-year statute of limitations provided by CCP 339, an idea you LAUGHED AT. You emailed me on the 13th and the 14th even denying there was a hearing in the matter on the 15th!You continued to email me, alluding to every aspect of the case, claiming that Ms. Von Watteville “called Kory”, and sent me emails yesterday the 15h before the hearing (based on Crete, Greece time) at 4:51, 4:56, 4:17, 4:17, 5:36 PM (between 7:00 and 8:00 AM Los Angeles time), even informing me that Paulette Brandt would bring a “witness who lived there at the time”. You copied me with an email calling Ms. Von Watteville disparaging names, and then copied me with an email to Ms. Brandt saying: “Let me know what time we're being picked up” for the hearing (rather hilarious since you and Ms. Brandt live together in a small 2-bedroom apartment – but you email each other, cc to me? Ha!).So please, your claim I am stalking you about Ms. Brandt’s sordid little small claims matter is ridiculous. I do know what happened at the hearing, however, so please allow me to recap – because I am enjoying this so much!REDACTED SLANDEROUS RANT
...Seizing the situation up, the judge instructed you and Debbie to wait outside the courtroom.Fortunately, Ms. Von Watteville is intelligent enough to implement my defense strategy bullet points and legal citations to the letter, as well as my demeanor tips.àAfter hearing both sides, and AS I PREDICTED (earning several derisive emails from you over the last few days) PAULETTE BRANDT LOST THE CASE because the lawsuit was initiated AFTER THE TWO-YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS PROVIDED BY CCP 339 EXPIRED.Perhaps I was being too subtle when I merely alluded to “Today’s hearing”.I should have said Paulette Brandt lost her court case of yesterday, for the very reasons I predicted via email before the hearing.I am not surprised that you and Ms. Brandt were shocked.Neither of you understand what a “statute of limitations” is.I
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