Three Arrests Made in Travolta Extortion Plot
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| A $20 million extortion plot against John Travolta has been exposed. (AP Images) |
Three arrests have been made in connection with a bizarre extortion plot involving the death of John Travolta’s 16-year-old son, Jett. The specifics of the $20 million extortion plot against Travolta are unknown, but TMZ, who broke the story, reports that it doesn't have anything to do with photos of the boy.
Police in the Bahamas have taken three suspects into custody: Senator Pleasant Bridewater, Obie Wilchombe, the former Minister of Tourism, and Tarino Lightbourne, a paramedic who tried to revive Jett at the scene.
Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater resigned from Parliament today, releasing the following statement:
"Yesterday, 23rd January is a day that will live in my memory as a nightmare. In my capacity as a lawyer, I acted within the bounds of the law and within the bounds of my ethical responsibility to my profession. How these innocent actions can be so misconstrued, so perversely twisted to mean something other than it was, is a mystery.
I assure the Bahamian people of my complete and total innocence and I am satisfied that when the full story comes out that I shall be fully vindicated. I will then take all appropriate and lawful actions for redress and to protect my good name."
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As a former scientologist, I am familiar with seeing the church do this kind of thing of charges brought against people that are designed to destroy the reputation and livelihood of it's critics, so being that Travolta follow's his church's policies, I am cautiously looking at this and definately giving Brightwater the right to be innocent until proven guilty.
What I suspect happened, based upon all this recent info, is that the EMT and Travolta family friend Obie went to Travolta's lawyers, via Brightwater as their rep, to get a payout because the media was offering them money to spill what they knew and they wanted Travolta to have first rights to protect what they knew, of course for a fee. Happens every day. Looks like whatever they knew is going to come out because you cannot have extortion without something being extorted about.
[..] EXTORTION – The use, or the express or implicit threat of the use, of violence or other criminal means to cause harm to person, reputation, or property as a means to obtain property from someone else with his consent. USC 18
The Hobbs Act defines "extortion" as "the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right." 18 U.S.C. S 1951(b)(2). [..]
http://www.lectlaw.com/def/e073.htm
Whatever the case, I hope we find out what happened to Jett. RIP