(For any regular readers of this blog, I have been working on part two to this post but I’ve mostly been trying to accomplish getting out of bed and maintaining some structure to my days since April when I wrote it. And, there is a lot of information that has proven to be challenging to condense in order to present a coherent narrative with regard to what “influencing” and subsequently mindless consumerism and the destruction of independent spirit has done to us. Hopefully a little blogging on the latest developments in a case I’ve followed for the better part of the decade gets my rusty gears unstuck.)
Donna Adelson’s trial for the murder of her former son-in-law, Dan Markel, who was married to her daughter Wendi Adelson (still an unindicted co-conspirator) started in earnest today in Tallahassee, Florida. Like her son, Charlie, she will be swiftly convicted. The evidence is overwhelming and the state’s opening argument closed the case already; pretty much any observer will question why she brought it to trial. And, like Charlie, it’s clear in communications open to the ears and eyes of the public she thinks she will be walking out and floating back down to Miami.
As I wrote in my post from 2023, there are legitimate ways to attack the state’s case. Charlie’s lawyer, Daniel Rashbaum, did not seem to explore any of them. He was paid at least one million dollars with Donna’s team raking in the multimillions no doubt. And, like Rashbaum, they are relying on narratives their clients want to put forth that flat out ignore the mountain of circumstantial evidence any normal person would see as damning and unrecoverable without some sort of technological challenge. A glaring example is chipping away at “clarified” recorded audio the state presented in their case in chief against Charlie, technology I have not seen in court before. Hiring experts and doing a full review of the discovery is outweighed by private plane and yacht rentals it seems.
The irony to that probability is that Charlie and Donna would likely give their blessings to such activities. That is the reality they inhabit, that they should be believed for who they are, their connections, and the money they can throw at people. In jail phone calls following his conviction, even as he came to terms with his sentence of life imprisonment, he urged his parents to calm themselves using benzodiazepines. It is surmised by observers that he communicated through their attorneys that Donna and his father, Harvey, should flee to a non-extradition country to escape prosecution. They were apprehended days after Charlie’s conviction hoping to board a one-way flight to Vietnam. Donna was hauled away in cuffs and Harvey went back to his high rise to fester alone in misery wondering when the knock on the door would come for him. On Tallahassee law enforcement time, it hasn’t come yet.
Incredibly, her attorney Jackie Fulford, a disgraced former Florida circuit judge, offered not much more than a performance during her opening statement, attempting to emotionally manipulate the jurors, gallery, and prosecution by discussing how wonderful a man Markel was and how loving and caring Donna is which is wholly belied by her venomous words and actions. More or less, Fulford says she’s an old granny, how could she even?
Fulford went on to avoid saying he was murdered, rather having his life taken and being killed. In other words, a steady drip of psychological manipulation and warfare that Donna and Charlie were quoted with urging Wendi on in email communications as her post-divorce and custody litigation dragged on.
The courtroom tactics so far have consisted of defense by ambush with Fulford and her co-counsel Joshua Zelman making untimely objections, stalling, and stonewalling. On top of that, presiding Judge Stephen Everett has already had to warn Donna against emotional displays which are pathetic and unbelievable, not a tear in sight. Harvey for his part offered a little smile and creepy two-handed wave upon seeing Donna in court during a pre-trial motion but he can’t turn that frown upside down today, for some reason. That’s because it is clear it was over before it ever began.
Ruth and Phil Markel, descendants of Holocaust survivors who landed in Canada, have been prevented from seeing their grandsons for a long time. Shockingly, the state of Florida has not made any meaningful attempts to have them removed from Wendi’s custody in all this time since the murder was carried out in 2014. Though she remains unindicted, she is still at risk of being prosecuted for her perjury throughout the multiple trials the state has called her to testify in. The lies have progressed and changed shape over the years as she has smiled and laughed away during these apparently joyful occasions of murder trials in which her family members are slowly being buried.
All in all, strange scenes from a once entangled, grossly enmeshed family that has now disintegrated because the incestuousness couldn’t stand in trying to pull off torture, conspiracy, and finally, murder. They could have continued living their comfortable South Florida lives their Holocaust survivor ancestors could only dream of, but their Zionist conditioning, beliefs and connections to Israel wouldn’t have had it any other way, it seems. They are but one fractal pattern of what the Nazi-Dixie colonial outpost was set out to do to Jews and Judaism at large as a bonus to the destruction of Palestine and the Levant and they don’t see it. More money, more dirty deeds, more manipulation of anyone standing in their way will never fix what they refuse to address.
Unfortunately, most watchers don’t acknowledge this ideological phenomenon, nor would they admit it if they wanted to. Not as things stand. Their actions and consequences the public pays for cannot be separated from the whole, from the world-changing, humanity-destroying Holocaust happening before our eyes, and it’s a disservice to the public to ignore that.
A frayer is a kind of sucker on steroids: The one who is taken advantage of, the one who leaves money on the table and the one who follows the rules to his own detriment.
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