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Michigan couple declared
guilty of extorting Stamos
By John Flesher
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
MARQUETTE, Mich. A
Michigan couple were convicted
Thursday of trying to extort
$680,000 from actor John Stamos
by threatening to sell old photos of
him with strippers and cocaine to
the tabloids unless he paid up.
Allison Coss, 24, and Scott
Sippola, 31, were found guilty of
conspiracy and using e-mail to
threaten a person's reputation
charges that could land them in
prison for up to five years.
FBI agents arrested the two in
a sting in December at an Upper
Peninsula airport after Stamos'
lawyer complained that the actor
was the target of an extortion
attempt.
Defense attorneys told the jury
that it wasn't a crime to sell pho
tos to Stamos before going to the
tabloids. FBI agents, however,
testified that a search of the cou
ple's home failed to turn up any
evidence of embarrassing pic
tures.
Stamos, 46, was too late to the
courtroom to hear the verdict but
Gibson investigated
By Anthony McCartney
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LOS ANGELES Detectives
investigating Mel Gibson for a
possible domestic violence case
have received audio recordings
from a court deciding the actor
director's child custody case,
authorities said Thursday.
Sheriff's spokesman Steve
Whitmore said CDs were turned
over during a closed session in the
custody case. The hearing was
attended by several sheriff's
investigators, including detectives
who look in possible child abuse.
Whitmore declined to say
whether the investigation into
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was present minutes later when
the judge polled each juror, a com
mon step in trials. He smiled and
looked relieved. Sippola was
expressionless while Coss wiped
her eyes.
Dozens of fans waited to con
gratulate the former "ER" and
"Rill House" star as he left the
federal courthouse. In a written
statement, Stamos said he was
"shocked and perplexed - by the
"false stories" offered by Coss and
defense lawyers.
"These slanderous allegations
to smear my reputation were part
of their defense to redirect atten
tion away from the federal crime
of extortion," he said. "There was
no hot tub, no drugs, no nudity
and nothing sexual in nature
involved in my friendship with this
woman. They lied about every
thing."
Coss, who met Stamos in
Florida in 2004 at age 17, said she
had a photo of him with cocaine
but that it disappeared during an
FBI raid on her home. Agents
denied it.
"I don't think Shakespeare
could write a story to set up a fake
domestic violence allegations had
expanded. "I'm not going to get
into why they're there," he said.
Attorneys for Gibson and ex
girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva did
not speak to reporters after the
hearing. The former couple are
involved in a dispute over custody
arrangements of their 8-month
old daughter.
The case is sealed and all pro
ceedings have been done in closed
session.
Gibson's criminal attorney,
Blair Berk, also attended the hear
ing.
Whitmore said detectives will
now work to authenticate the
recordings released by the court.
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any pictures of him with cocaine
and strippers.
blackmail scheme to set up a real
blackmail scheme. But that is
exactly what they did," Assistant
U.S. Attorney Maarten Vermaat
told the jury
"This is completely 100 percent
for possible abuse
He did not say how many record
ings were included or how long
they were.
It is unclear whether the
recordings include those that
have been posted by the celebrity
website RadarOnline.com. The
site has posted more than 20 min
utes of recordings of arguments
between a man who sounds dis
tinctly like Gibson and a woman
identified by the site
Grigorieva.
Detectives are looking into aJk'
gations that Gibson harmed
Grigorieva during a January con
frontation. He said he does not
know when the case would be
turned over to prosecutors.
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As Stamos watched and listened
from the front row, defense attor
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Hank Cochran, left, smiles with Willie
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By Joe Edwards
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NASHVILLE, Tenn.— Hank
Cochran, a consummate song
writer who composed a string of
country hits including "Make the
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Arnold, died Thursday. He was
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Martha E. Moore, his publi
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