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Chandra Levy: Five years later
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some additional info on the dismissal of Condit's lawsuit against the Sonoran News from KVOA Tuscon News 4. Dominick Dunne's legal team tried to get Condit to answer these and other questions in discovery, and he balked then.

He's still balking.

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from kvoa.com (fair use)
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=6823639

Judge dismisses Condit lawsuit against Ariz. newspaper
KVOA Tuscon News 4
July 22, 2007

PHOENIX -- A judge has dismissed former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit's defamation lawsuit against an Arizona newspaper that published an article that said the California Democrat lied to investigators about his relationship with a Washington intern who disappeared and was later found dead.

The Sonoran News, a weekly serving communities in northern Maricopa County, had included the statement regarding Condit in a 2005 article about a brother of the former congressman, a California Democrat.

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Granting a motion by the newspaper, which is published by Conestoga Merchants Inc., to dismiss the suit, Judge Kristin Hoffman of Maricopa County Superior Court ruled that Condit is a public figure and that he failed to prove that the statement was false or that it was published with either knowledge that it was false or reckless disregard as to its truth.

An affidavit provided by Condit did not deny that he lied to investigators, and he balked at answering questions on whether he told investigators that he had a "romantic and-or sexual relationship with Chandra Levy," Hoffman said in her ruling, which was dated Tuesday and filed Thursday by the court clerk.

"There is no admissible evidence from which a reasonable jury could conclude that the reporter or publisher ever had any doubt about the truth of the statement or that they acted with reckless disregard of its truth or falsity," Hoffman's ruling said.

Condit attorney Jeff M. Brown of Boca Raton, Fla., expressed disappointment with Hoffman's ruling but said he and his client had not decided whether to appeal it.

"It's unfortunate that there's no protection for public figures in Arizona and that the defamations can just be repeated, irrespective of their truth," Brown said. "I don't think we could have proved any more than we proved."

Brown declined to comment on where Condit lives.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Washingtonian.com has a profile on former FBI agent Brad Garrett, the agent who had Chandra's case until he retired last year.

The writeup is pretty good and shows a human side of Garrett that hasn't come out through news articles in the past. It's at:
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/4700.html

I've still yet to see any law enforcement including Garrett say anything insightful about Chandra's disappearance and murder. But I suppose if they had an insight they would consider that confidential.

I'll excerpt this on Chandra, but the rest of the article is just as interesting.

rd


Former FBI Agent Brad Garrett aka Dr. Death
By Harry Jaffe
Washingtonian.com
Aug. 1, 2007

Homicide cops know former FBI agent Brad Garrett as Dr. Death. Name a big murder case in the last 15 years and chances are you’ll find Garrett at work. The 1995 killing of Nina Nguyen and her toddler, Ryobi, in Springfield; the 1997 triple slaying at Starbucks in Georgetown; the unsolved murder of Chandra Levy in Rock Creek Park in 2001; the 2003 shooting of three restaurant workers at Colonel Brooks’ Tavern near Catholic University. Garrett helped solve some of them. The unsolved ones still haunt him.

(snip)

What about the Chandra Levy case?

Here’s the difficulty with that case: Theres no clue as to what happened to her. Why did someone want to harm her? If this is a stranger crime—which means she was just the wrong person at the wrong time—then the motive is the desires and fantasies of some offender or predator in Rock Creek Park.

If that’s not the case, if her death is a result of someone she knows, then you still don’t know what the motive is. But we don’t know enough information to know that, because we don’t know what got her into the park. And you’ve got to know what got her into the park to advance the ball any further.

Something horrible happened to her, but we don’t know how or why. And believe me, we’ve tried every conceivable thing in that case. It’s very frustrating. I feel horrible for her parents.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tuned in to i-Caught on ABC tonight because the summary of the show said that it would have a segment on citizen crimefighters on the internet.

Pretty good report on some people who posted pictures and surveillance video on the internet (MySpace and YouTube was mentioned a lot) in the hope that someone would recognize a person on surveillance video or had seen a missing person shown, etc.

But they also had Brad Garrett on, who said that citizens shouldn't do anything more than, say, post fliers for a missing person.

He might have been talking about vigilante justice or citizen's arrest or something, I don't know, but it was clearly a move along, nothing to see here sort of moment.

The only kind of moments we've had in Chandra's case.

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Someone emailed me tonight asking about the Levys website. I tried www.whokilledchandra.com and got a placeholder page. Google isn't showing anything for it anymore either.

They didn't have much going on it, I think mainly a place to post information someone may have about Chandra's murder.

I can just imagine the garbage someone waded through, starting with such useful info as porn links. I'm sure they got very tired the stuff they were getting.

It was worth a try though. I can only imagine what's it like to have to feel like you've done what you can for your murdered daughter, so as to not let her or yourselves down.

They've probably assured themselves through that effort that no one but the murderer knows that they know anything about Chandra's murder.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the Levy's still want to keep a website going they can get a free one over at yahoo geocities. It has a fair amount of bandwidth that's updated hourly, and once it's up it really
doesn't require any maintenence to keep it going.

Also, I realize the noble intent behind the old site, but it really had very little of interest to attract visitors. They should have
story's about Chandra's case, links to this message board, their personal opinions and feelings about the case.

It's been almost six years since this story faded from the headlines and maybe they're giving up, but there are still people out here who want to see this thing solved.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree, James. It's probably temporarily glitched and will be back up again. If they do, those are good suggestions for the site.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Condit must pay legal fees for the harrassment lawsuit against the small Arizona newspaper that wrote about him and brother Darrell's activities there in the Pheonix area.

The newspaper's lawyer, Dan Barr, was all over it from the start. Condit met his match when he messed with the people in Pheonix.

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Condit loses Arizona libel lawsuit
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/98258

Condit loses Arizona libel lawsuit
Jill Redhage, Tribune
East Valley Tribune
September 27, 2007

Former Rep. Gary Condit not only lost his libel lawsuit against a small weekly newspaper in Cave Creek — he must also pay its court costs.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Kristin Hoffman ruled Wednesday that Condit must pay the Sonoran News’ attorneys’ fees and costs for defending against his 2006 lawsuit.

At issue in the lawsuit was a sentence in a July 2005 article about one of Condit’s brothers that read:

“Condit, whose real name is Darrell Wayne Condit, is the younger brother of former Congressman Gary Condit, who became the main focus in the Chandra Levy case in 2001, after lying to investigators about his affair with Levy,” the story read.

The judge wrote in her decision that Condit did not provide information to the court that would establish whether the sentence in question was true or false. She found that Condit’s filing of the lawsuit constituted harassment and that it “was not brought in good faith.” Hoffman awarded the Sonoran News $42,680.42 in attorneys’ fees and costs on Wednesday after ruling in favor of the newspaper on July 19.

“Libel defendants rarely get their fees awarded,” said the newspaper’s attorney, Dan Barr, who also is the Tribune’s lawyer.

Barr said the decision “sends a message to people who file meritless libel actions in an attempt to intimidate and dissuade the press from covering them.”

Condit’s attorney, Bruce Feder, did not return a phone message asking for comment.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good for that judge! This type of result is probably the only thing that will stop Gary Condit from his endless lawsuits!

Get it, Gary? There's no point bringing these suits if you're going to keep clammed up - spill or go away.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is interesting. Lis Wiehl wrote a book loosely based on Chandra's case, "The D. C. Page." It's a fictional series with female federal prosecutor, reporter, and FBI agent working together to solve crimes.

It has to be fiction. In real life the federal prosecutor stopped the DC police from searching Condit's apartment, reporters spun anonymous sources otherwise known as Condit's lawyers into a vicious personal assault on what was left of Chandra's life, and FBI agents tossed the case back and forth with the DC police like a hot potato.

And of course in fiction, the case is solved. In real life, it's like watching paint take six years and counting to dry. Obviously no one is going to want to read about that.

So I'll look forward to reading her book when it comes out, just to see what actually investigating an intern's murder in DC would look like.

rd

from www.nypost.com (fair use)
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10182007/tv/starr_report.htm

Starr Report
Michael Starr
Octiber 18, 2007

The Wiehl deal Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl - who's already authored two non-fiction tomes ("Winning Every Time," "The 51% Minority") - is traveling the fiction route with her newest book, "The D.C. Page," loosely based on the Chandra Levy case. She's shopping the book to publishers as the first of a fiction mystery series under the "Faith and Consequences" umbrella.

"The D.C. Page" features three women (federal prosecutor, TV reporter, FBI agent) investigating and solving big cases. Wiehl, who also co-hosts Bill O'Reilly's "The Radio Factor" on WOR - and is married to attorney/ CBS News contributor Mickey Sherman - is herself a former federal prosecutor and the daughter of an FBI agent.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting, this looks like Condit is trying to rehabilitate his image to get lobbyist work. A "Sacramento-based lobbyist" would be from his old stomping grounds, and he probably promised a piece of the action if the lobbyist, Terence McHale, who is from Modesto, wrote a puff piece about him in the consulting firms venture, California Conversations.

Here's a sample:
Condit, 59, was described as “absolutely candid” and forthright.

“This is not a guy that lives with regret,” writer Terence McHale said Friday. “He has a remarkable capacity for moving on.”


Absolutely candid that he wants to move on. I'll bet.

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from www.kansascity.com (fair use)

Former lawmaker Gary Condit breaks long silence
By MICHAEL DOYLE
McClatchy Newspapers
January 11, 2008

Reclusive former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit has broken his long silence, telling a Sacramento-based lobbyist and author that he is content with his current life.

In multiple interviews that spanned more than seven hours, Condit spoke bluntly about his political rise and fall and his subsequent efforts to reinvent himself as a business investor.

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McHale, a 1974 Modesto High School graduate, works as a lobbyist with the Sacramento lobbying firm Aaron Read & Associates. As a side venture, the company began publishing a magazine called California Conversations in 2005. The magazine has a circulation of about 3,000 as well as a Web presence, and its features typically include extended interview transcripts.

The Condit story and interview stretch over about a dozen pages in the California Conversations issue due to appear in about two weeks.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

>>> ... he is content with his current life. <<<

I have no doubt ... he's still above ground!! Chandra Levy, not to mention all of her family, friends and loved ones, would likely be content with their current lives, too, if he hadn't interfered with their contentment by murdering the person who probably trusted him the most at that point in his dangerously narcissistic life.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I moved the news of the Bauder College Cold Case Investigative Research Institute taking up Chandra's case to its own thread. Please see Cold Case Research Institute to take up Chandra's case for that and followups on this welcome investigative effort into Chandra's case.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is a Modesto Bee story on the Modesto organization that has been involved in helping in local area disappearances; Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, and Debbie Hawk (see Debbie Hawk Missing- 46, Fresno, CA), among others.

Susan Levy brings up a point that needs to be made. What about the violence in our streets?

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from www.modbee.com (fair use)

Modesto vigil speaker says therapy needed after violent crime
By KEN CARLSON
kcarlson@modbee.com
March 15, 2008

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About 250 people attended the Vigil of Hope, which for 10 years has brought together people who have suffered personal tragedies because of violence.

The first vigil was held in 1999 following the murders of Yosemite sightseers Carole and Julie Sund of Eureka and family friend Silvina Pelosso of Argentina. It's hosted each year by the Carole Sund-Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation, which assists families in missing-person cases and unsolved homicides.

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Sandra Lackey of Riverbank ran an information table for her missing friend, Deborah Hawk of Hanford. Hawk has been missing since June 12, 2006.

(snip)

Susan Levy of Modesto said none of the leading presidential candidates emphasizes law and order in their campaigns.

Her daughter, Chandra Levy, disappeared in Washington, D.C., in 2001 right after completing a federal Bureau of Prisons internship. Her remains were discovered in a remote area of a Washington park in May 2002. Police haven't made an arrest.

"The presidential candidates are talking about the violence in Iraq, but what about the assaults on people and the violent crime in this country?" Levy said.

Bee staff writer Ken Carlson can be reached at kcarlson@modbee.com or 578-2321.

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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 5:03 am    Post subject: Seven Years Reply with quote

It's been 7 years now ... still no arrest. Any news?

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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 4:14 pm    Post subject: Rod Wheeler and Levy PI Team Reply with quote

http://www.dwaynestanton.com/associates.php

These are some of the people closest to the investigation.
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