From mirele@sonic.net Fri Apr 19 13:28:10 2002 Path: sn-us!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feed.news.sonic.net!typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail From: <mirele@sonic.net> Subject: Letters: Bob Minton agreed to help Scientology get rid of the McPherson case Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Message-ID: <twig.1019237291.32530@news.sonic.net> Lines: 75 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:28:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.224.119 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1019237290 208.201.224.119 (Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:28:10 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:28:10 PDT Xref: sn-us alt.religion.scientology:1058629 The following are two letters from Steve Jonas, attorney to Robert S. Minton, to Kennan Dandar, attorney for the Estate of Lisa McPherson. They are webbed at: http://www.lisamcpherson.com/steve_jonas_letters.html . Deana M. Holmes mirele@sonic.net Letter 1: Hale and Dorr, LLP 60 State Street Boston, MA 02109 April 1, 2002 Dear Ken: Thank you for your time on Friday. As I mentioned during our telephone conversation, we did agree with Scientology that the substance of the discussions we had with them last week would remain confidential. That is why I could not provide any detail to you and I hope you understand. One of the matters that was discussed on Friday, which I neglected to mention in our telephone conversation concerned Ms. Liebreich. Sandy Rosen, on behalf of Scientology, agreed that Scientology would never ask your client in a deposition any questions concerning efforts by Mr. Minton or Ms. Brooks to settle the Florida action after last Thursday. I understand that Ms. Liebreich may be deposed sometime in April and I wanted to make sure that you understood that Scientology agreed not to ask her any questions on that topic. So, for example, Scientology should not ask your client, and she should not testify, concerning Friday's discussions (or subsequent ones) among Mr. Minton, Ms. Brooks, yourself and your client. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to call me. Very truly yours, Stephen A. Jonas Letter 2: Hale and Dorr, LLP 60 State Street Boston, MA 02109 [April 11, 2002] Re: Robert S. Minton/Scientology Dear Ken: I received your letter of April 10, 2002 and have the following comments. We did speak on March 29, 2002 and I did tell you that Scientology had made certain demands (I did not mention threats) toward Mr. Minton. One of them was their request that Mr. Minton bring about the dismissal of the Lisa McPherson wrongful death case. I did not offer to go into detail about the discussions between Mr. Minton and Scientology and in fact, told you that through me, Mr Minton had entered into a confidentiality agreement that would prevent either Mr. Minton or me from going into detail about those discussions. We did not discuss your signing or being bound by such an agreement. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me. Very truly yours, Stephen A. Jonas cc: Mr. Robert S. Minton