The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant

Author:Nick Bryant
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936296446
Publisher: Trine Day LLC

Approximately two months after Cosentino gave her affidavit to Chambers, a twenty-year-old woman who had testified before the grand jury in the latter half of June turned up at his office with a very bizarre story. Alisha Owen had mentioned the young woman during one of her videotaped statements to Caradori: Owen thought she had seen the young woman with Larry King’s enforcer, but Owen said she had never seen her at a sex party.

Caradori and Ormiston found her living in Lincoln, Nebraska, and they interviewed her. She confessed to being repeatedly molested by her father since the age of ten. She also said that her father brought her to a “trailer house” to be used for kiddy porn. She told Caradori that after high school she had drifted into prostitution and dabbled in Satanism. Though she said that she hadn’t attended King’s parties, nor could she recall meeting Owen, she was somewhat familiar with the names of certain individuals involved with King but lacked first-hand information.

FBI agents interviewed her too, and she gave the agents basically the same story. Despite the fact that she was in the dark concerning Larry King, she was subpoenaed to appear before the Douglas County grand jury: She would be a perfect candidate to discredit Owen, because Owen had tangentially mentioned her, and yet she knew nothing of Larry King. The FBI wouldn’t even need to threaten her.

After she received the subpoena, she phoned the grand jury and requested that she be provided with transportation to Omaha—her lift to the grand jury came in the form of Samuel Van Pelt, who actually chauffeured her to Omaha! The young woman told Chambers that she initially didn’t have a clue regarding Van Pelt’s status with the grand jury until he disclosed that he was its special prosecutor. After Van Pelt informed the woman of his role, she said she would “plead the Fifth” unless he divulged how the grand jury had acquired her name. Van Pelt reportedly revealed to her that Alisha Owen mentioned her name on “some tapes.” Van Pelt also reportedly told her that Owen had made accusations of sexual abuse against OPD Chief Wadman and that the grand jurors didn’t believe her.

In the woman’s statement to Chambers, she said that Van Pelt confessed to her that he was weary of the grand jury proceedings and coveted returning to his farm—Van Pelt hoped the grand jury would be “over soon” and complained that it had been drawn out too long. Van Pelt theoretically had ultimate control over the scope and span of the grand jury. If the woman’s statements are truthful regarding Van Pelt’s complaint about the grand jury’s duration, one must wonder who was actually controlling the grand jury?

The woman also told Chambers that Van Pelt plied her with a number of questions concerning parties at the Twin Towers, and she replied that she had never been to a party there. “I didn’t have or know about any of the information the grand jury was dealing with,” she said.

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