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Ellemeno:
FREE PASS
MARY-KATE OFF THE HOOK AS FEDS CLOSE LEDGER PROBE
By MURRAY WEISS, Criminal Justice Editor
Twin troll Mary-Kate Olsen, whose role in the accidental drug overdose death of actor Heath Ledger has been vexingly unclear, has been given another free pass from an official inquiry, the Post has learned.
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office closed its probe into Ledger's Jan. 22 death without any charges being filed - and won't enforce a grand jury subpoena against the diminutive 22-year-old actress, a source told The Post today.
"They're closing down the case – at least their part of it," the source said of the agency's extraordinary move.
The decision by the U.S. prosecutors will force the Drug Enforcement Administration to find another agency to investigate if it wants to get to the bottom of Ledger's accidental drug overdose death in Manhattan, the source said.
It's a huge victory for Mary-Kate and her lawyer.
The DEA was trying to find the source of the drugs that killed Ledger; most were legally prescribed in El Paso, Texas, and Los Angeles, sources said.
Everybody connected with Ledger and his death has been interviewed and cooperated - with the exception of Mary-Kate Olsen.
Instead, she's declined to cooperate and has insisted on immunity in return for talking to the feds.
The source said the feds might approach the city's Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
The NYPD also gave Mary-Kate a skate.
Once the death was ruled an accidental overdose, cops decided not to try to talk to Olsen - despite the fact that the original panicked calls from Ledger's apartment had gone out to her, and that she was dating him at the time.
It was Mary-Kate, who was in LA at the time, who called her bodyguards and had them race to the scene to see what happened.
The cops felt that they had all the information they needed to deal with the ruling in the death, the source said - but the decision surprised many.
The DEA was not so bashful and opened an investigation to see where the drugs came from.
The DEA even obtained a grand jury subpoena, but hadn't served it, hoping she and her lawyer would speak to them in a less confrontational atmosphere.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08062008/news/regionalnews/heath_ledger_case_closed_123308.htm
Clarissa's two cents on one point: I dunno - it's one thing for you and me to malign her, but for a significant newspaper's criminal justice editor to call her a troll in the first sentence, that doesn't seem right.
Meryl:
Yeah. Troll don't look right.
(Sorry, had to do it) ;)
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Meryl on August 09, 2008, 01:05:57 am ---Yeah. Troll don't look right.
(Sorry, had to do it) ;)
--- End quote ---
Now the "doesn't" in my last sentence really don't look right.
BelAir:
I was caught off guard today at work when Heath's beautiful smiling face (from the SAG awards I think) was front and center on yahoo.com earlier this afternoon. Anyone else catch this? It was a blurb about how Depp, Law and Farrell were going to donate their salaries from Imaginarium to Matilda.
(Well, I think that is sort of an odd thing to do, but that's neither here nor there...)
Brown Eyes:
--- Quote from: BelAir on August 20, 2008, 11:21:38 pm ---I was caught off guard today at work when Heath's beautiful smiling face (from the SAG awards I think) was front and center on yahoo.com earlier this afternoon. Anyone else catch this? It was a blurb about how Depp, Law and Farrell were going to donate their salaries from Imaginarium to Matilda.
(Well, I think that is sort of an odd thing to do, but that's neither here nor there...)
--- End quote ---
Yes, I saw that on Yahoo today. I feel like that's sort of old news, so I was curious about why Yahoo decided to feature that info today.
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