Memo TO: Attorney Joel Brodsky RE: Your Client Drew Peterson
Since you took on the "Defense of Drew Peterson" because he is entitled to legal representation, my question to you sir is why set up a fund for someone who has yet to be charged with a crime? Does being a suspect all of a sudden mean one sets up a legal defense fund? Why Mr. Brodsky, your client Drew Peterson, has not even been charged. Here is a suggestion for your innocent client. Perhaps Mr. Brodsky you should carefully consider creating a fund to hire an investigative team to locate Stacy. I mean after all she allegedly ran off with someone , a man, according to the admissions of your client. Perhaps Mr. Peterson can shed more light on with whom and where this person might be with his wife. Sounds logical. That would certainly clear this entire matter up, would it not? If she were still alive Mr. Brodsky, Rumor has it, your client, allegedly, is spending way too much lip service in a popular spot in Bolingbrook with the owner of the establishment who is a woman discussing matters of the heart. Her's and his heart. Seems your distraught and grieving client has quickly moved on with his life as evidenced by the "I will never get a date", statement, while at the same time setting up a defense fund so that you can represent him. And then monies which he allegedly can not touch would go to his children. Mr. Brodsky why not set up a fund to find Stacy and then take the extra money and donate those funds to a battered women's shelter? Or perhaps even a homeless organization.
Sir, please explain, if you can, why a defense fund is required when one is innocent.
Peterson Requests Financial Help For Legal Defense(CBS) Drew Peterson, the main suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, has a new Web site aimed at helping the Peterson family raise money for Drew Peterson's legal defense and to hire a private investigator to search for Stacy Peterson. Any remaining money will be put into a trust for Peterson's children.
The site blames "media sensationalism" for creating hardship for the former Bolingbrook police sergeant.
Drew Peterson would not talk on-camera Tuesday about DefendDrew.com. But he did make a statement off-camera saying, "I worked hard all my life to earn the little I have. Defending myself has the potential to take all of that away from me and my family. I'm just trying to get some help from the American people."
And he's hoping that help will come in the form of cash. Suggested donations start at $5 and go all the way up to $250.
CBS 2 stopped at Hair Docs in Bolingbrook to see if there were any takers.
"Absolutely not," one person said. "He's acting ridiculous."
"I think if he's that innocent he should pay for it himself," said another.
But Drew Peterson's attorney says his client is innocent until proven guilty and that's why he's asking the public to help level the playing field for Peterson in the face of what he says is an unprecedented law enforcement onslaught.
Attorney Joel Brodsky also says any money collected on DefendDrew.com will go into a trust account over which Peterson will have no control.
"If he would try foot the bill himself, he would be impoverished," Brodsky said. "He would lose his house, he would lose his cars. Him and his four minor children, the ones that he's supporting, would be homeless."
But Peterson neighbor Sharon Bychowski says her next door neighbor is a lot better off than most people.
"I think it's almost ludicrous at this point to think that people should send money to a man that's sitting in a home that's all paid for when we still need to find Stacy," Bychowski said.
The facts are that Stacy Peterson is still missing and this piece of cowardly garbage that has been served to the country every morning like a porta potty that needs to be removed because of the foul odor could care less about clearing his name or more importantly finding Stacy. Volunteers and dedicated family members are braving the winter elements each day. They have set up a website at http://www.findstacypeterson.com and also a pay pal account for donations in their efforts.
