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To: Solon who wrote (8939)	7/23/2010 11:05:46 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 69300

Mad Mel belongs to another splinter group called SSPV. Mel Gibson accused by ex of obnoxious anti-Semitic tirade Oksana Grigoriva claims Mel Gibson shattered a glass door with a chair during one of his angry tirades.Photograph by: Angela Weiss, Getty ImagesThe allegations against Mel Gibson just keep mounting. Radar Online now reports that Oksana Grigorieva told authorities that Gibson once said, “I want Jew blood on my hands.” According to Grigorieva, Gibson was talking about a “high-profile Hollywood figure” who, Gibson thought, had embarrassed him publicly. The What Women Want actor allegedly hired people to put his enemy under surveillance. “Oksana says Mel told her, ‘I want Jew blood on my hands,’ and said he wanted the person taken to the desert, stripped naked, knee capped and left in the heat,” a source close to the Gibson domestic abuse investigation told Radar. A source also told Radar that in December 2009, Gibson allegedly shattered a glass door with a chair during one of his angry tirades – while Grigorieva and their infant child were just a few feet away. “Oksana has told authorities that she and Lucia were in the master bedroom of Mel’s Malibu mansion when he went out of control,” the insider claims. “She said he was literally foaming at the mouth. Mel grabbed a chair and slammed it into a glass door, which shattered, according to Oksana.” Grigorieva reportedly told authorities that there were two witnesses to the event: her mother and one of Gibson’s sons. The two were in the house when the incident occurred and came into the room immediately after; Gibson’s son tried to talk to his father, but the actor allegedly chased after Grigorieva, who had fled the room with their baby, Lucia. “Oksana said she ran into another bedroom but Mel came in, still screaming and chest bumped her while she held the baby,” said the source. Grigorieva claims Gibson kicked her out of the house, but half an hour later he told her she wasn’t going anywhere and demanded an apology. She says she complied in order to calm the situation; according to her statement, Gibson himself apologized several days later. TMZ also reports that Grigorieva had prepared a civil lawsuit in May 2010 in case she and Gibson failed to negotiate an adequate custody and financial arrangement. Grigorieva’s lawyer, Eric George, drafted the suit against Gibson, alleging assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The suit was eventually abandoned, but TMZ claims it made no mention of the now-public tapes or of the actor’s racist comments. Grigorieva’s and Gibson’s lawyers almost reached a $15 million US agreement, but ultimately, Grigorieva refused to sign because she didn’t want to give the actor unsupervised visitation rights with their daughter, reports TMZ. vancouversun.com

To: Solon who wrote (8939)	7/24/2010 12:05:14 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 69300

Two sons of the Catholic Church one Irish one Italian in cahoots in cash for kids program. Ex-US judge pleads guilty to child prison scam Conahan received bribes from a for-profit juvenile detention centre after closing a county-run facility Former Pennsylvania judge Michael Conahan has pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge for helping put juvenile defendants behind bars in exchange for bribes. He is accused along with former judge Mark Ciavarella of taking $2.8m (£1.8m) from a profit-making detention centres. Mr Ciavarella denies wrongdoing. The two pleaded guilty last year but a federal judge tossed out part of the plea agreement for being too lenient. Conahan faces up to 20 years in jail. US District Judge Edwin Kosik rejected the 87-month jail term set out last year in Conahan's agreement. Under that deal, the former judge would have been able to back out if he was dissatisfied with his sentence. Judge Kosik has accepted Conahan's current plea agreement with prosecutors, which has no such get-out clause. Cash for kids Prosecutors in a federal court in Scranton, Pennsylvania, said Conahan had closed a county-owned juvenile detention centre in 2002, just before signing an agreement to use a for-profit centre. Prosecutors say Mr Ciavarella, a former juvenile court judge, then allegedly worked with Mr Conahan to ensure a constant flow of detainees. The two men were originally charged in early 2009 with accepting money from the builder and owner of a for-profit detention centre that housed county juveniles in exchange for giving children longer, harsher sentences. A spokeswoman for the non-profit Juvenile Law Center alleges that Mr Ciavarella gave excessively harsh sentences to 1,000-2,000 juveniles between 2003 and 2006. Some of the children were shackled, denied lawyers, and pulled from their homes for offences which included stealing change from cars and failure to appear as witnesses. The indictment was part of a larger probe into corruption in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, which has so far implicated more than 20 others. bbc.co.uk