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| | Kelly Soo Park Signs DA's Waiver Of Conflict-Of-Interest. Judge Warns Kelly Soo Of The Possible Consequences And Poignantly Asks Park If She Fully Understands.
By Lonce LaMon - October 25, 2012
Judge Kathleen Kennedy showed extreme concern yesterday morning in Downtown Los Angeles at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center as Kelly Soo Park, indicted for the 2008 Santa Monica murder of aspiring actress and model Juliana Redding, stood before her.
“I have this document, Waiver of Conflict of Interest, dated today, 10/24/2012,” Judge Kathleen said. “There are 12 items with KP on each line. Is this your signature?”
“Yes,” Kelly Soo Park answered.
Then the judge turned to the appointed independent counsel, Franklin Peters, Jr., who appeared in a brown suit but with a blue shirt and a dark tan tie. She asked Peters, “Did you confer with her on this document? Did you discuss the actual conflict with Ms. Park?”
Peters replied in the affirmative, that yes, he had.
Judge Kathleen Kennedy then expressed that this matter concerns her a lot. She then spoke directly to Kelly Soo and said, “You have the right to conflict-free counsel. It seems that there’s no way around this.
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Prolific writer and insurance industry expert witness, Barry Zalma, got it right when he said that insurance fraud is the modern day playground of organized crime. |
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Judge Kathleen went on to tell Kelly Soo that Dr. Uwaydah is an unindicted co-conspirator and that, again, she said with more emphasis, “This is not something there is any way around.”
Dr. Munir Uwaydah, through one of his companies, Ventura Collection and Management, LLC, on April 17th and May 30th 2012 ,wrote checks totaling $150,000 to Kelly Soo Park’s current criminal defense lawyers: George Buehler and Mark Kassabian. This company, Ventura Collection, is a fictitious business entity operating as Frontline Medical Associates and Golden State Pharmaceuticals, both of which are owned principally by Uwaydah. This information was provided to the District Attorney by Detective Karen Thompson of the Santa Monica Police Department.
Judge Kathleen Kennedy went further to explain dramatically to Kelly Soo Park that if she is convicted, she is not allowed to claim there was a conflict with Dr. Uwaydah in order to compromise or mollify the verdict. She stated with great emphasis to Kelly Soo, “You have the right to conflict-free counsel.”
Then the judge looked intensely and directly at Kelly Soo and said, “Do you understand what I’m talking about?”
Kelly Soo replied, “Yes.”
“And understanding all of that, you’re still willing to have these attorneys represent you?” Judge Kathleen insisted.
Kelly Soo replied in the affirmative.
Mark Kassabian, left, and George Buehler, criminal defense counsels for Kelly Soo Park, leave the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Downtown L.A. last week after the October 17th court proceedings.
And that was that. Kelly Soo Park stood calm and unambivalent in her decision, again dressed in black, as she stood there with her long, beautiful black hair. Clearly she is not willing to give up Uwaydah’s power and support. She doesn’t know about a higher power that’s greater than Uwaydah’s money and worldly corruption. These two are mobsters who clearly act like they believe they are going to beat the system. They remind me of a “Teflon Don” John Gotti type, and a Virginia Hill.
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Could it be a coincidence that the daughter of a pharmacist who backed out of a pharmacy business deal with Dr. Uwaydah winds up murdered by a prominent Uwaydah assistant just five days after the pharmacist refused Uwaydah's proposal? |
Prolific writer and insurance industry expert-witness, Barry Zalma, got it right when he said that insurance fraud is the modern day playground of organized crime. Back in the day, it was bootlegging alcoholic beverages, gambling, prostitution, money laundering, stolen merchandise, bribing government officials, corrupting the unions… and today most of those things still go on but with the addition of insurance fraud. Which is big! And that includes rampant workers’ compensation fraud.
Could it be a coincidence that the daughter of a pharmacist who backed out of a pharmacy business deal with Dr. Uwaydah winds up murdered by a prominent Uwaydah assistant just five days after the pharmacist refuses Uwaydah’s proposal? Hardly. Kelly Soo Park and Juliana Redding did not know each other. These circumstances make this murder look way too much like a mob hit.
The next court date has been set for November 27th, Tuesday, at 8:30 am in the same department—109 on the ninth floor.
Upon closing this session Judge Kathleen Kennedy stated what she has already expressed a couple of times in past court proceedings, “I would like to set this case for trial within the foreseeable future…”
The next case up was again the murder case of the Grim Sleeper, Lonnie Franklin, Jr., which is also in the pre-trial phase. Investigators are now working on the possibility that there may be five or six more murder victims that can be added to the ten for which Franklin has already been indicted.
It’s always a serious reminder of the gravity of the Kelly Soo Park murder indictment when its court proceedings come up back-to-back with the terrifying serial murder case of the Grim Sleeper.
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