Italian Justice System Efficient And Uncontroversial In Other Prominent International Cases #2

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New Knox documentary this Sunday on CNN

http://willsavive.blogspot.com/2011/05/murder-abroad-amanda-knox-story-cnns.html (FULL REPORT)

5/4/11
The Italian police tracked this very crafty fugitive who had eluded the world for years, good for Italy. What a hideout.

Weinberger’s life reads like science fiction, unbelievable excess and wild spending. He certainly did think big (easier on free money). I’m sorry he took his own dad for a million dollars in unpaid loan.

It’s a sad loss for his family (caused divorce), for insurance or medicare he bilked and for the patients he needlessly operated on, misdiagnosed or abused. The world desperately needs good doctors, what a total tragedy.

The Italians are to be commended for a successful manhunt.

Hi Hopeful. Yes a very cruel man in his way. The italian police did well to nab him before he walked across one or two Alps to Swizerland, where relations between their police and American police are much cooler.

Michelle Kramer’s testimony in the video linked to above is an absolute eye-opener. They were flying hither and thither in a private jet, and they used the huge boat for many weeks a year. So far, of that we’ve found no images.

By the way, talking of doctors with wild illusions read this.  As far as we can see, he did not manage to get even one hard fact right. Most of his rebuttals are plain silly.

And he actually TREATS people with paranoid illusions?  Wow. Let us hope he does less harm than Mark Weinberger. Unlikely, but still possible.

Once again the Italian authorities prove themselves competent and professional. Thank you to the Italian authorities for finding another American scumbag.

Weinberger’s Italian girlfriend at the time found out who he really was and informed the Carabineri who acted really forcefully and fast and handed him over to the Americans with all possible speed.

The Carabinieri found he had set up three separate camps at the foot of a glacier. When they were about to take him down to the police station on a snowmobile he asked if he could get a ride back. Good luck with that one.

Last night the CNBC channel here repeated the Weinberger episode in the “American Greed” series and it was mostly about his endless fraud. Many patients are maimed for life and at least one patient died.

No wonder the Italians were happy to see him put on the first plane home. Nicely decisive. He may have lingered on longer in almost any other country in Europe.

Relations between US and Italian law enforcement are really very good - despite Steve Moore (apparently without realising who they are) foolishly chastising the Italian equivalent of the FBI.

Hi there, Peter. You made a minor error, at least according to this rather interesting Vanity Fair article. Weinberger wasn’t shopped by his girlfriend, he was caught when he failed to pay his rent and the landlord contacted the police. Incredibly, he was using his own name and the police didn’t have to do much checking to find out that he was a wanted man.

http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/01/missing-doctor-201101?currentPage=1

Hi Janus. No that is only half the story. Monica did turn him in. When the landlord complained, he was already up on the mountains and he was not paying rent up there. The Carabinierei were on the alert, but did not know where he was.

Here is more on page 5 about Monica turning him in.  http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/01/missing-doctor-201101?currentPage=5

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The Carabinieri checked their database and found an international arrest warrant for Weinberger from Interpol. They also discovered that he had been on America’s Most Wanted. But they did not know where he was.

On Monica’s 39th birthday, December 10, Weinberger came down from his tent, and they went skiing together. She also received a phone call that day from a friend who said he had to talk to her.

The next day the friend told her “that something was not right with Mark, that he was not who he said he was.” Moreover, the friend said, Mark was wanted by the F.B.I. Monica was astonished and confused.

That day she accompanied Mark back to the Val Ferret, where he headed off to his tent. When she returned to town, she went online. On the America’s Most Wanted Web site she learned who Mark really was and what he had allegedly done.

“My whole world collapsed,” she says. With a printed copy of the Web-site page, she went to the Carabinieri and told them that she “knew where Mark was and that they had to go get him.”

It was a wrenchingly difficult decision for her to turn him in—she had spent the best year of her life with him, she says—but “it had to be done, because I was raised to be sincere, because I had a civic duty, because I was also afraid He could not escape forever, and he should not escape forever.”

The Val Ferret cuts a long swath in between the mountains. Because of bad weather, the Carabinieri could not act on Monica’s tip and conduct a search by helicopter until December 14.

They did not find Weinberger but did spot traces that showed where he had been. In addition, a climber reported having seen a man living in a tent.

The next day, using a snowmobile, they located him. The temperature was roughly 4 degrees below zero, and the snow was so high that the tops of pine trees were barely visible.

Weinberger was in the vicinity of the Elena Refuge, about 6,000 feet above sea level and a quarter-mile from the main trail. He had chosen a spot at the base of the Triolet Glacier.

Giuseppe Ballistreri, head of the local Carabinieri, asked Weinberger what he was doing there. “I just want to live a quiet life,” he replied. Ballistreri asked for identification, and Weinberger produced a ski pass with the name “Mach Weinberg.”

Lacking proper papers, he was taken back to the Carabinieri barracks in Courmayeur. He was quiet, but did not appear to be nervous.

Subsequently, when officers searched the area where he had been taken into custody, they discovered not just one campsite but three. They found cans of food. They found a stove used to melt snow into water. They found changes of clothing. They found various medications, including Viagra. All of it was enough to last somebody for a significant period.

He then took out a knife he had concealed and cut himself near his jugular vein, in what some construed as a suicide attempt.

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I found that because I wanted a shot of his $4 million boat the Corti-Seas and the piece mentions it. CNBC’s American Greed program repeatedly showed a large power yacht at Mykonos but never said that was THE one.

If you can find a shot of it please share?

Just an observation from me. If you go to the Seattle web page ‘Amanda Knox’ The first thing you will notice is the constant regurgitation of old stories and comments. It would appear that they have nothing new to report except the constant screams of ‘Innocent’ But then according to CNN there are still people in the USA who refuse to except that Obama is an American citizen. This has to do with the few conspiracy theorists that are left. I’m convinced that if Amanda Knox turned around tomorrow and pronounced to the world that she was guilty then the Seattle bunch and others would claim ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ or some such. In the meantime keep up the great work here and elsewhere until finally justice will be served. I have often wondered just what the Knox apologists will do after the final appeal fails and their sentence is confirmed?

Astounding that Amanda’s parents never realized nor were they counselled in her case by her lawyers on how to “work the system of justice leniency in Italy“.

They must have likely known nothing about the Italian system and thought they’d ride in the Bronco and use the “Unless You Can Prove It – She Didn’t Do It” or “Just Show the Jurors Amanda is a Nice Girl and Let Them Get to Know Her” hypotheses.

Do Kurt and Edda realize that they, through their own doing, could have subtracted at least 10 – 15 years from Amanda’s sentence buy simply requesting her to at least semi-confess to what she had done?

Had Amanda in her defence:
Explained that all of this happened due to the influence of drugs and unfortunately what she remembers is just a blur,
Explained she didn’t really intend to kill Meredith but just to intimidate her and something went terribly wrong; she is so sorry of any involvement she might have had,
Showed some or any remorse especially to Meredith’s parents,
Gone for the fast-track trial,
Had her defence team stress the point that at the time of the crime she was a 20-year-old young adolescent and therefore not yet emotionally formed,
Stress the fact that 20-year-old Americans have the emotional intelligence of an approximately 18-year-old European, and Amanda had not yet grasped the fact that the status “student” means study and not party.

For the friends of Amanda who certainly would never ever believe she was capable of such a heinous crime and to save embarrassment to the family - the parents would only have had to explain: “Well, Amanda didn’t really do it – we just had to say so to bring her home in the shortest possible time. “ Even the Grandmother might have believed and been relieved by this version.

The lure of fame and fortune was too great for the Knox/Mellas parents:
At the cost of their daughter.

They can certainly save the money of gullible “friends” and relieve Ted Simon of his duties. His expertise on international prison exchange is no longer needed. Amanda is much much better off in an Italian prison (in spite of the mosquitoes).

Personally Jade Tree I’m glad the parents ran their mouths….I am glad that ak will serve out the 26 years+tack on a lengthy slander sentence soon. I believe she is and always will be dangerous to whatever society she eventually is released into. She is in my opinion a detatched sociopath.

Where next:

Or to next entry A Token Balance In The Italian System: The Voice In The Court For The Victim

Or to previous entry Italian Justice System Efficient And Uncontroversial In Other Prominent International Cases #1