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| | Kelly Soo Park Lawyers Being Paid By Uwaydah, Detective Karen Thompson Advises DA's Office. Judge Orders Independent Counsel To Inform Park Of Conflict-Of-Interest Problems And To Sign Waiver.
By Lonce LaMon - October 8, 2012
The Honorable Judge Kathleen Kennedy had not called her court into session, but yet she stood behind the clerk’s desk drinking a canned beverage while chatting with the Bailiff. She was wearing a sexy, v-necked, leopard patterned, long sleeved top. She looked really attractive.
It was close to 9:00 am just this past Tuesday, October 2nd, in Downtown Los Angeles, Department 109, at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center at 210 W. Temple Street. Kelly Soo Park, the defendant, about to stand trial for the March 15th 2008 Santa Monica murder of aspiring actress and model, Juliana Redding, was not wearing black pants this time. She was wearing tan slacks, for a change, with a crème colored shell top under a red cardigan sweater. She didn’t sit on the end of the third row this time either, but her fiancée, Tom Chronister, the recently retired Watch Commander cop from the Oxnard Police Department, sat at the end in his black jacket and blue jeans while Kelly Soo sat next to him on his right. Then to Kelly Soo’s right sat her Aunt, whom I think is named both Jan and Valley, and then a mature man always in the Kelly Soo entourage, then Kelly Soo’s mother, Irene, was next to him, and then I was right next to Irene. I was close enough to touch her.
Irene is a diminutive woman of 73 years, who was shivering in the icy meat locker coldness of the morning court air. But this writer was as happy as a polar bear decked out on an iceberg. Irene was wearing a lovely powder blue shawl as she shuttered in the cold. Her companion next to her, a man who is always at Kelly Soo’s hearings, told her to stand up just so she would not be sitting idle in the frigid air.
I felt for her, not just because she was uncomfortably cold, but because she’s a mother whose daughter is about to stand trial for murder. So, I decided to speak to her.
“How are you coping?” I asked.
“Fine,” she replied.
Then I told her I had been thinking of her, wondering how she’s dealing with the stress of her daughter being about to stand trial for murder. I told her I was wondering how she is…. It must be stressful…
“Yes, it’s stressful,” she admitted.
Then, I went on. Rambling at my wonderment of how she’s handling it…
I thought the conversation was over when she did not immediately reply. But then after thinking for some time, maybe a half a minute, she spoke.
“Prayer,” she said.
Kelly Soo Park's mother, Irene, on the right in the powder blue shawl, leaves the Downtown L.A. courthouse on Tuesday, October 2nd 2012, and heads up W. Temple Street towards Broadway on the arm of a companion. © Lonce LaMon
Then, right then, Judge Kathleen Kennedy casually slipped on her robe and in her usual and customary style, took to the bench while her robe gaped open. She asked the attorneys to announce their appearances.
The deputy district attorneys Eric Harmon and Stacey Okun-Wiese were there before the bench on the right end from the audience perspective, and George Buehler and Mark Kassabian, Kelly Soo Park’s defense attorneys, were standing at the left end of the table with Kelly Soo. Kathleen Kennedy stated that she had read the motion from The People regarding a potential conflict of interest with respect to the defense counsels’ representation of Kelly Soo, and she said, “This concerns me greatly.”
Well, it’s all about Dr. Munir Uwaydah, once again, Kelly Soo’s boss, who is suspected by the DA of ordering Kelly Soo to murder Juliana Redding, after Juliana’s pharmacist father withdrew from a proposal by Uwaydah to do business with him making compounded “pain creams”. It is clear to those who have studied Uwaydah's pattern that his intention was to defraud workers’ compensation insurance carriers and self-insureds by charging excessive fees for these compounds which were not limited by the existing fee schedule at that time.
Now Karen Thompson, the lead detective of the Santa Monica Police Department, had discovered that two payments to Buehler and Kassabian amounting to $150,000 were
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But he (George Buehler) completely bullshitted when he said it (the identity of who was paying him) was confidential information. Something that's right there in the public record is absolutely not confidential information. |
paid by Ventura Collection and Management, LLC on April 17th 2012 and May 30th 2012. This Ventura Collection and Management is just a fictitious business name for Frontline Medical and Golden State Pharmaceuticals, owned by Munir Uwaydah.
Kelly Soo’s first set of attorneys, Kay Rackauckas and Jennifer Keller, withdrew as counsels back in May of 2011, over this same conflict. Now again, it’s deja-vu.
Karen Thompson was there, in the court room, wearing her usual pony tail looking very wholesome and well in her sleeveless black and white swirl patterned dress. She joined the lawyers when they conferred in the room in back of the court room before Judge Kathleen took to the stand.
The problem is this. Unless Kelly Soo Park is informed of the possibility of this conflict of interest, her constitutional rights could be considered violated and her right to due process could also be considered violated by a future appellate court action, and these violations could compromise a jury verdict, unless she formally waives her right to conflict-free representation. Thus, the district attorney’s office is very worried about this. They are seeking a jury verdict finding Kelly Soo Park guilty, and if and when this happens, in their minds, they don’t want any conflict-of-interest to nullify it.
Also, Kelly Soo in having her defense paid for by a third party, in this instance by the operator of her alleged criminal enterprise, is hereby restrained from testifying against her mob boss, Dr. Uwaydah. Testifying against him could work to her advantage in case she wants to plea bargain, but Uwaydah would be disadvantaged by her plea bargain if she gives the DA information incriminating him, and thus lessening her sentence.
John Gotti, aka “Teflon Don”, the Gambino family mob boss who died in 2002, protected himself legally by banning members of the Gambino family from accepting plea bargains that acknowledged the existence of the Gambino mob organization. Now this is exactly what Uwaydah is doing. He is protecting himself legally by banning one of his mob family members, his Virginia Hill character known as Kelly Soo Park, from making a plea bargain and testifying against him. He will not allow her to acknowledge that she is a member of an organized crime ring, and that she was ordered to murder Juliana Redding by Uwaydah himself. He is buying her silence.
Virginia Hill (1916--1966) was an American organized crime figure. She was the one-time girlfriend of Bugsy Siegel and the consort of other mobsters.
Uwaydah’s actions are in every manner the actions of a profoundly guilty conscience. Within 48 hours after Kelly Soo Park’s arrest in June of 2010, he fled to Lebanon. From Lebanon he has sued this writer three different ways. He’s very creative. To this day Uwaydah still remains on the lam in Lebanon. His determination is to silence everyone.
Judge Kathleen then went on about how Kelly Soo needs to know and be fully advised of the potential conflict, therefore she needs an independent counsel. Then George Buehler piped up and stated his client is aware of the potential problems, as he has advised her.
But Judge Kathleen expressed that if there’s a conflict and, as she said to George Buehler, “you’re advising her with regard to the conflict,” that could be a potential conflict. So, Judge Kathleen went on to say, “I want to make sure Park is sufficiently advised with respect to this conflict. I prefer the method of having independent counsel advise her with respect to the conflict. I think it’s better if I appoint an attorney rather than have her pay someone. I’m going to get a bar panel attorney.”
Thus, Judge Kathleen left the court room for some time, but not that long, and came back with a Black gentleman with thin gray hair and a dark gray suit with wide pin stripes. His name was Mr. Peters and Judge Kathleen advised the lawyers to allow him to independently form his opinion. Thus, Peters was advised to properly advise his client on this issue of the conflict.
Thus, Judge Kathleen said, “Advise Ms. Park about a conflict of interest. Which she intends to waive.” She asked Peters for a document which he can draft and which Kelly Soo can sign. She demanded a written document which clearly states that Kelly Soo Park understands the potential conflict of interest and that she waives certain rights.
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George Buehler, one of Kelly Soo Park's defense attorneys, walks west on W.Temple Street in Downtown L.A. after Kelly Soo's hearing on Tuesday morning, October 2nd 2012. Buehler wouldn't comment on the information obtained by Karen Thompson, the detective from the Santa Monica Police Department, that he's being paid for Park's defense by Dr. Munir Uwaydah. © Lonce LaMon
When this court session ended, this writer got a copy of the motion “People’s Supplemental Application For A Court Inquiry Regarding Possible Conflict Of Interest and Appointment Of Separate Counsel” dated September 24th 2012, out of the public court records on the second floor, which is absolutely worth reading. Then, by 5:00 pm, this writer rang George Buehler’s cell phone. He answered and spoke to me very politely and graciously. I informed him that I had read The People’s motion. The dialog went like this:
Lonce LaMon: Do you intend to stay on as Kelly Soo Park’s counsel in spite of the district attorney’s office’s allegation of a conflict of interest?
George Buehler: Yes.
Lonce LaMon: How do you feel about being paid by Dr. Munir Uwaydah and/or his organizations? So, you’re comfortable with that?
George Buehler: I won’t comment on that but I will state that there are some concerns that have been made by the district attorney. And we’re satisfying their concerns by affirming that we are beholden only to Kelly—representing only her interests. And we’ll do what the judge wants to do. The judge wants us to have an independent counsel talk to Kelly just to make sure she’s fully aware of what problems could arise.
So, I fully expect to remain as counsel. And without any problem of fully representing her interests.
Lonce LaMon: And you’re stating that you’re not being paid by Dr. Uwaydah or any of his companies?
George Buehler: I’m not going to comment on that. That’s confidential information.
Well, George certainly dodged admitting that he’s being paid by Dr. Uwaydah, which was a sincere and honest dodge. But he completely bullshitted when he said it was confidential information. Something that’s right there in the public record is absolutely not confidential information. Check it out. There’s no doubt that Buehler and Kassabian are being paid by Uwaydah.
Court will reconvene on this case on Wednesday, October 17th 2012 at 8:30 am. Also, George Buehler stated in court that he believes this case will not get to trial now until February of 2013! Holy smoke… Deputy district attorney, Eric Harmon, stated that The People are completely ready to start the trial today. So, it’s the defense that’s holding up the show…
lonce@adjuster.com
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