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| | Kelly Soo Park Collected $1,043,927.47 Within 18 Months From Frontline Medical According To The Testimony Of Detective Karen Thompson
By Lonce LaMon - May 22, 2013
On Monday, May 20th, 2013, in The People vs. Kelly Soo Park trial at the downtown Los Angeles Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, Department 109, Detective Karen Thompson of the Santa Monica Police Department took the stand. She had her hair back, as usual, with a thick braid neatly crafted to the back of her head. She had been sitting throughout the trial just next to Stacey Okun-Wiese, the prosecutor, to her left. So, she had a short way to walk and get sworn in.
Karen applied for a wire tap on Kelly Soo Park. She wanted Kelly Soo Park’s phone bugged. She filled out a 100 page application. It took a herculean effort.
She also wanted to obtain bank records. She researched and found that Frontline Medical was a corporation. She found the corporation’s Statement of a Domestic Stock Corporation filed with the Secretary of State, and found Munir Uwaydah named as the Chief Executive Officer on the document.
She obtained Kelly Soo Park’s bank account records from the Bank of America. The time period Karen requested was June 2008 to December 2010.
Park’s business account is under Sherwood Financial and Investment, Inc. The account number ended with the numbers 2149. There was a wire transfer from Frontline Medical to Sherwood Financial for $420,000 on October 9th 2008.
The murder of Juliana Redding happened on March 15th 2008. This transfer of $420,000 from Frontline to Kelly Soo Park’s Sherwood Financial happened just less than seven months later. Sherwood Financial had an address of 377 Sherwood Court, Westlake Village, California.
There were other transfers of money from Frontline to Sherwood, either by check or by electronic means. During that same time period there was a transfer of $10,000, a check deposited of $7,000 signed by Marisa Schermbeck, and another deposit of $20,500 into the Sherwood Financial bank account from Frontline.
Into Kelly Soo Park’s personal account were wire transfers from Frontline Medical of $437,826.26 between June 17th 2008 to October 15th 2009.
All in all, the sum total of deposits from Frontline Medical into both Sherwood Financial, the business account, and Kelly Soo Park, her personal account, between the dates of June 11th 2008 to December 10th 2009 was $1,043,927.47.
“I saw two months later a check for $300,000 written to Kelly Park,” Karen Thompson testified. She was explaining that Kelly Soo Park wrote a check from her business account of Sherwood Financial, to herself, Kelly Park, for $300,000 on December 3, 2008.
Detective Thompson showed the $300,000 check up on the court room screen with the projector.
So, Kelly Soo Park certainly wasn’t doing real estate transactions. When defense attorney, George Buehler, came to cross examine Detective Thompson, he said, “Uwaydah was involved with real estate.”
Thompson then smiled with a poignant look of amusement, and retorted, “The real estate that I saw was not in his name.”
Much of the real estate that Uwaydah seems to control is in the name of his partner, Paul Turley. A house in Beverly Grove, very near Beverly Hills, where the murder victim, Juliana Redding, lived for a while in 2007 was also in Paul Turley’s name. However, this information did not come out in Detective Thompson’s testimony.
It did come out in Karen’s testimony that from June 14th 2010 to June 18th 2010, law enforcement was listening to Kelly Soo Park’s cell phone conversations through a wire tap. Kelly Soo was arrested on June 17th 2010.
After her arrest she called three people:
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Munir Uwaydah
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Ronnie Wayne Case (her fiancée at the time)
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Her mother, Irene
Over the next three and a half days there were 16 telephone calls between Uwaydah and Park. This testimony was intended in great part to establish for the jury the strong relationship between Uwaydah and Park.
Back when Kelly Soo Park was arrested on June 17th 2010, there were numbers thrown out in the news by the media such as that Kelly Soo Park was paid $250,00 by Uwaydah before the murder of Juliana Redding, and then some number in the six figures but less than $250,000 after the murder. But these money numbers after the March 15th 2008 murder—revealed here in the testimony of Karen Thompson-- add up to over one million dollars. To be precise, the number is: $1,043,927.47.
Kelly Soo Park collected $1,043,927.47 in 18 months!
Going back to Greg Redding’s testimony from March 15th, one can’t help reflect on the “tens of thousands of containers” that Greg spoke about and not think of this massive workers’ compensation fraud sceme. All those containers were for the purpose of distributing compound pain creams.
Kelly Soo Park and Munir Uwaydah were ripping off the workers’ compensation industry for mega-millions. And when Greg Redding, Juliana’s pharmacist father, withdrew from the Golden State Pharmaceuticals proposition after months of negotiations, Kelly Soo Park and Munir Uwaydah flew into a collective rage.
They were in a rage because Greg didn’t do what they expected him to do. Things didn’t go according to their plan. They are narcissists who fly into narcissistic rages, which can be murderous. Greg was supposed to operate their pharmacy fraud machine, but he got uncomfortable and withdrew.
Back when Jennifer Keller was Kelly Soo Park’s attorney together with Kay Rackauckas at the time of Park’s arrest in June of 2010, Jennifer said at the first arraignment, “Far from bearing the marks of a contract killing or a sending a message killing, this looks like a rage killing…”
Kelly Soo’s own defense counsel got it right from the very get-go of her representation of Park. It was definitely a rage killing.
Kelly Soo Park and Munir Uwaydah both flew into a collective rage because Greg Redding didn’t do what they expected him to do. And Juliana Redding died as a result.
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