Morgan and I met with Katie Rosman in 2003. She had contacted Morgan. Rosman began stalling as soon as she got the promise of exclusivity.
Carol Smith
Senior
Vice President/ELLE Group Publishing Director
1633
Broadway, 40th Floor
New York, NY 10019
212-767-5800
June 14, 2004
Regarding: Documentation previously cited
Dear Ms. Smith,
In the unlikely event that you would, or even could be sued for publishing the truth in the form of the article we agreed on; said article being an honest and truthful self proving set of facts and circumstances regarding John Fund's abuse of my daughter.
The following recitation of specific articles written and published in the cited mediums would serve to prove the facts on this matter have been previously published and cited, largely undisputed for the period of July 2001 until present day except in the few cases where Fund did exactly what he is now doing to you through his attorneys, making hollow threats to sue you, us or we jointly and severally. Such threats would in fact be felony criminal conduct since you cannot be sued for liable, slander, or defamation of character when every word you print is truthfully supported by overwhelming evidence.
We include documentation of his successful lies made to a posting site for the purpose of suppressing the truth.
For listing of and publications previously and still publicly available see addendum 1.
For listing of documentation of previous successful use of criminal coercion see addendum 2.
In the case you were sued the following citations of specific publication of related articles would then serve as part of your defense.
We are now filing this case and your involvement with the Federal Bureau of Investigation asking that a criminal investigation be initiated.
Sincerely,
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Cc: Gary Fish, Esq., cited authorities
Addendum:
Information on the relationship
between Morgan Pillsbury and John Fund appeared in multiple places on
the internet and in print media from 2001 until present. This is a
partial list.
Web published articles
Weaselsearch.com – July 2001, article authored by John Connelly
The print article Connelly originally wrote to have published in Talk Magazine. This was killed by Fund’s threats. Eventually the Weasel Search article was archived. It is still available and included a tape and transcript wherein you could hear Fund admitting the abortion and the relationship.
Capital Grilling – News and posting site
Published commentary from July until sometime the next year when John was arrested. This popular insider posing site ran discussions on the relationship during the summer of 2001 then excised them entirely. However, those discussions, running over the tragedy of 9/11 are revealing and available.
American Politics -
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20020116Editors.html
Series of articles, all of which are still available and which cover all of the material Fund disputes.
Hypocrites.com
http://www.hypocrites.com/article898.html
Busted:
Pro-Life GOP Moralist Knocks Up His Girlfriend's Daughter,
Abortion
Thursday,
06 September 2001 @ 14:02:31 EDT
Report:
John Fund, WSJ Editorial Page Clinton Hater in Chief arrested for
assau
Saturday,
23 February 2002 @ 14:16:36 EST
Media Research. org
http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor2002/coverage2.asp
A Liberal Dose of Conservative Humor
A column in the January 20, 2002 Cleveland Plain Dealer
Free Republic
http://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2003/09/msg00000.html
Banned from Free Republic? for Goring a Sacred Cow???
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 00:20:17 -0400
Buzz Flash.com
Article referring to what is now public knowledge.
BYMAIL
Jennifer Bambi
Hachette Filipacchi Media
1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019
August 27, 2004
Dear Ms. Bambi,
In reference to your response to the letters sent to Carol Smith on June 11th and 14th of this year I would first like to thank you for responding at all. Since that courtesy is rare in my experience it is sincerely appreciated.
However, I must take issue with and enlarge our discussion on several points.
Contracts need not be written. A contract is composed of offer and acceptance and necessitates an exchange of values. If Ms. Rosman had not asked for and received an exclusive thus limiting our ability to give other interviews for what turned out to be nearly a year there would have been no exchange of values and you would be correct. However, this is not the case. Ms. Rosman did ask for such a consideration and it was granted.
The second point that we need to take up is the timing of your response. The initial letter was FedExed and the time of receipt is thus fixed and noted. One might wonder why two and a half months had been allowed to pass before a response could be sent. This becomes even more curious when since that time my daughter and I have filed a suit in New York for slander and libel that reserved the right to add defendants. That pleading has been widely circulated and we have received numerous inquiries on the suit. Your response clearly could have been responsive to that filing and thus your letter could be responsive not to the initial letter but in hopes of avoiding having your client named as a defendant in that suit.
When and if this matter was litigated
the basis of proof necessary to prevail would be that pertaining to a
civil action and the timing of your response would raise questions
that would need to be answered.
You should also know, if you are not aware, that the journalist, Katy Rosman, was recently hired by the Wall Street Journal. This also goes to the issue of motive for deciding not to run the article as agreed. It may well be that other actions that imply trades of favors were made of which we are not yet aware. We are looking in to that.
Again, I want to thank you for your response. It was very much appreciated. I hope I spelled your name correctly. I tried to read it but may not have been accurate. Since my own signature is also scrawly I understand the problem. I type my name below it so as not to cause misunderstandings.
