By Michael Marley, Examiner.com
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 2
GENERAL SANTOS CITY--In about a fornight, which is the British way of saying in two weeks time, the ducking and the doding will have ended.
Does that mean whirling dervish Floyd Mayweather Jr. will, at that time, get serious after having beaten back Sugar Shane Mosley and tell his team to make and not break the Big Fight against Manny Pacquiao?
Not necessarily, what I really have in mind here is that in about two weeks Golden Boys Oscar de la Hoya and Richie Rich Schaefer will have to sit down for a court ordered deposition in Pacman's defamation suit against them.
I've learned that Oscar and his CEO both blew off a recent scheduled deposition date with a last minute delay notice to Pacman attorney Daniel Petrocelli.
The deposition will be yet another showdown between Petrocelli, who won the big civil judgment against OJ Simpson on behalf of the family of the football superstar's murdered wife, and the heat and publicity seeking New Yorker Judd Burstein.
If de la Hoya and Schaefer duck the deposition again, then Petrocelli will go to a judge and seek money sanctions and other remedial action as so ordered.
“This shows you how serious Manny is about the steroid allegations lawsuit,” a source close to the Pinoy Idol said on Friday in this, his balmy hometown in Mindanao.
“Manny can't wait for Petrocelli to begin firing the hard questions at Oscar and Richie Rich because he remains hurt about the unfounded drug use allegations.”
The volatile Burstein has stated publicly that “Jesus Christ could not win this case” for Pacman.
By contrast, the over the top barrister also said "a dog" could handle his client, Shane Mosley's defamation action against the BALCO steroids bad guy, Victor Conte.
For his part, Conte said he's got either one or two eyewitnesses who will back up his story that Mosley knowingly accepted and used illegal steroids that Conte handed to him at BALCO headquarters in the Bay Area.
Mosley told a federal grand jury under penalty of perjury that he did use the illegal drugs before a fight, ironically enough, against Oscar but that he did not know at the time that they were verboten.
Again, ironically, in the upcoming Oscar deposition, Oscar will be asked numerous questions about his own dabbling in steroid use.
Burstein also took a personal shot at Petrocelli, who favors top of the line, well tailored suits, describing him as “well dressed: when asked to appraise the Los Angeles attorney's legal skills.
“The last time Manny was in a deposition with Petrocelli and Burstein going at it, he walked out of the room laughing,” the same source told me.
Clearly, although Burstein said de la Hoya and Schaefer merely expressed opinions protected fully by the First Amendment, the current lawsuit against the Golden Guys is no laughing matter to Manny.
Between Oscar and sidekick Schaefer and Roger, Floyd Senior and L'il Floyd, the declarations that allege that Manny has cheated to gain some or all of his great victories turned into sort of a Greek chorus.
Next up, answering questions under oath, Messrs. Oscar and Boxing Banker Richie Rich.
Your grillmaster will be Attorney Petrocelli who clearly does not buy off the rack at Ross Dress For Less. Btw, Burstein's wardobre is are not rags from a Salvation Army bin, either.
But, when it comes to this deposition, let's get off attire and back to barbecues.
I hear Petrocelli is bringing his own hot sauce.
The words spoken at that deposition will become public information sooner than you can say, "Saville Row."
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
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