Comments on: Three Arrests Made in Travolta Extortion Plot http://beat.bodoglife.com/entertainment/three-arrests-made-in-travolta-extortion-plot-82260.html A daily mix of sports, poker, casino, pop culture, music, hot celebrities, babes and gambling news - all presented in hilarious Bodog style! Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:05:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Mary McConnell http://beat.bodoglife.com/entertainment/three-arrests-made-in-travolta-extortion-plot-82260.html/comment-page-1/#comment-49003 Mary McConnell Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:45:47 +0000 http://beat.bodoglife.com/?p=24009#comment-49003 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 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

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