THE " INTERFOR REPORT "
It's Known as “Interfor Report,” after the Manhattan-based
corporate espionage firm, Interfor Inc.
The contents -- based on a private
investigation by the firm on Michael Jackson’s behalf in 2003 --
included assertions about John Branca, the entertainer’s on-again,
off-again music attorney for 30 years.
Among other things, Interfor investigated what it claimed was
"the flow of funds from Jackson through (Sony Music CEO Tommy)
Mottola and Branca into offshore accounts in the Carribean [sic].”
But the investigation provided no credible evidence to corroborate
those and other assertions. In fact, it seems little more than part
of an elaboratesmear campaign intended to influence Jackson to
fire Branca -- initiated by an increasingly paranoid Jackson himself.
Read the excerpt. TO VIEW A PORTION OF REPORT
Jackson lawyer David Legrand, testified at the singer's
2005 child-molestation trial that Jackson had hired him
to look into the people in his inner circle.
But, Legrand testified, "I was given no credible evidence to support
(the) charges; I would be doing Mr. Branca a great wrong if I said
otherwise."
Nonetheless, the report achieved its goal: Branca's termination.
“This is to confirm that I am terminating the services of you and
“This is to confirm that I am terminating the services of you and
your firm effective upon delivery of this letter,”
THE LETTER WRITTEN BY JACKSON FIRING BRANCA
“You are commanded to immediately cease expending
effort of any kind on my behalf…You are specifically instructed
to transfer any funds you are holding in trust for me…”
Branca declined repeated overtures for further comment
after having granted this reporter a lengthy taped interview
last summer.
Mottola, who abruptly resigned from Sony a month before
Jackson fired Branca, called the assertion about off-shore
accounts involving him "nonsense." But in an interview
Sunday evening, he also added that he would have been
unaware of any offshore accounts established by Branca,
Jackson or both.
It's "not anything that a multinational corporation like Sony"
would have been involved in during his tenure, Mottola reiterated.
About Interfor and its owner, Alvin Malnik wrote:
“I have heard negative and unreliable comments about that
company and its director, Juval Aviv.”
An Israeli émigré, Aviv once made a Village Voice headline,
“Secret Agent Schmuck.” The Voice reported that Israel had
officially discredited Aviv’s public suggestions that he was the
lead assassin of state intelligence service Mossad in avenging
the Munich massacre. Last week, Aviv, through an assistant,
referred a call for comment to Fred D. Gibson, an attorney
with Hale Lane Peek Dennison & Howard --
the firm that Jackson hired to succeed Branca.
TO BE CONTINUED:
THE HIJACKING OF THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL JACKSON
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