Focus Should Remain On Caylee Anthony As The Case Gets Stranger
UPDATE: According to the Post-Chronicle (yeah, well) Casey may be re-arrested tonight. I'm not finding it anywhere else, though. I'm a night owl, so if anything happens before I go to bed I'll update again.
UPDATE #2: Florida stations are starting to say the same thing: WESH
UPDATE #3: New charges have been filed against Casey Anthony:
1.Grand Theft Third Degree2.Fraudulent Use of Personal identification Information
3.Forgery of a check
4.Uttering a forged check
5.Fraudulent Use of Personal Identification Information
6.Forgery of a check
7.Uttering a forged check
8.Fraudulent Use of Personal Identification Information
9.Forgery of a check
10.Uttering a forged check
Just when you thought this case could not get any stranger, it gets stranger. On the heels of the "high-five" incident and news that a counselor advised Cindy Anthony to kick Casey out of the home after she was busted stealing money out of an account set up for the long-term care of her grandparents (thus possibly setting up the murder of little Caylee for revenge), it's now being revealed that people actually want to pay Casey for her story:
A spokesman for Jose Baez said offers have come in as high as $1.5 million for book rights, movie rights, TV deals, even a pay-per-view offer."I can tell you just for interview areas alone they can range from $50,000 to $350,000. We've even had an offer come from an overseas company that specializes in pay per view and those offers can exceed $1 million," Jose Baez Law Firm spokesman Todd Black said.
Black said they're listening to all offers but for now not accepting anything.
"We've made it clear to everyone that their inquiry will be put in to a file and we don't know whether that file will ever have to be opened," Black said.
Much of it, Black said, depends on how extensive Casey Anthony's defense will have to be.
He said they're building a Web site for Casey Anthony’s defense fund and assembling a team of defense experts.
And here I thought this case couldn't get any more repulsive.
If Casey won't talk to police or her parents about just where little Caylee is (and I think we are all in agreement that at the very least, she knows more than she is saying), then what makes people think she will talk to a publisher or a movie producer? I'm sure the argument will be made that pro bono work won't last forever and at some point lawyers will need to be paid, but I would go so far as to consider any sort of deal of this nature blood money. The thought that Casey could actually profit financially in any way from this makes me sick. Yes, most of it might go to lawyers, but if Caylee were still with us there would be no need for lawyers, would there?
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