14 DAY TRIAL // About a week ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that, under the Freedom of Information Act, it would go public with a 300+-page file it had on Michael Jackson ever since he was first accused of molestation. Expectations were set high that said document would shed some light into Michael’s death in June this year but, according to the Los Angeles Times, that is far from the case.
The file is comprised mostly of tabloid clippings and the occasional reporting by some agent attached to the case, says the publication. Because of this, it provides little evidence into the events leading up to his death, which means that the singer’s family and fans still have to wait until the ongoing manslaughter investigations (two, for more clarity) are concluded to get answers.
“What one could glean from the voluminous file were the type of things his many biographers would probably relegate to footnotes – or not include at all. That Jackson, for example, was the type of person who smiled for drivers’ license photos. (The file included a copy of an expired license.) Or that Bubbles, the singer’s pet chimpanzee, came up in the 1993 investigation into a 13-year-old boy’s allegations,” the LA Times writes, obviously somewhat disappointed by the much hyped file.
“Most of the file – nearly 200 pages – concerns a man arrested for stalking Jackson 17 years ago. Frank Paul Jones had a history of threatening to kill the president and had been arrested numerous times outside the White House, according to investigatory reports. In rambling letters collected by the FBI, Jones claimed to be the son of John Gotti, demanded money and pledged to ‘commit mass murder at a Michael Jackson concert.’ A Los Angeles federal judge sentenced him to two years in prison in 1993 for mailing threatening communications to Jackson,” the same media outlet goes on to inform.
The rest of the pages up to 333 show the “marginal” role the FBI played in all Michael Jackson investigations, which means they offer no definite answer to the burning question of how was this man in private and, ultimately, of who is responsible for his untimely death. The LAPD and the LA County district attorney’s office are now conducting two separate investigations to get to the bottom of that, with Michael’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, as their prime suspect.