Fred Salaff posts on ADT: Latest news in our case is that the judge sent the file back to the prosecutor saying that there is nothing to the charges! We knew that all along and so did everyone else. So, now we wait until the prosecutor gives up and throws in the towel. Hopefully, this will come soon and we will free once and for all.
In a previous post Salaff commented: I can feel we're very close because the Attorney general of Panama was quoted last week of saying that the country's prosecutors did not know how to run investigations. She also visited the prison where I was held and declared that indeed there were gross human rights violations. All this comes a year too late for me and Stefano Simone!
I have just registered on this site to answer directly and first hand any questions you may have about our case in Panama.Some questions that I have seen come up:
Did Devils Films hire you?
Yes, I was hired by Mike as was Sebastian Pujos (Tristan Seagal). We both received money before production (I have the bank wire confirmations as evidence). I also have emails from Andy, the in house production manager for Devils in which he gives me payment schedule details.
Yes, I spent (along with Simone) 7 horrible months in the worst prisons imagineable. Pujos promised me after I agreed to accept all blame (very stupid on my part to have trusted him) that he would get Mike to cover my legal expenses, go to the world press, scream and shout about our situation! But he never did anything effective that any of us saw. He abandoned his friends and the actors Yanick Batiste, Joerge Jopke, and Patrick Zabka.
Stefano and I are still suffering needlessly in an absurd case. The only thing we are charged with is corruption of minors, although there were no minors involved at any time. We are charged with knowing that kids could climb a neighbor's tree and look over my 10 foot wall and get corrupted!
If anyone sent in donations to my legal defense fund while I was in jail I can only apologize if thanks were not made by my well meaning friends. Since I am out, under country wide arrest, I personally thank each and every donor, no matter the amount. Unfortunately, donations are very small towards the legal bills, which are over $50,000. This figure is actually quite low compared to US standards but represents a lifelong payback for me and another blow to my sanity.
If anyone has ever read Kafka's "The Trial" they only need to know my story to know that novel of the absurd.
Please ask me any questions you care to and for heavens sake please keep asking Mike Rubenstein why he abandoned us.
