JOHN FUND Exhibit 8 - Morgan's rejection of coerced statement 2002

 

Morgan immediately rescinded the statement she had made under threat of physical violence from Fund.  She called me, as I recall in late January 2002, incoherent with a garbled story about being physically dragged from the apartment I had rented for her to a local notary.  I was flying to NY in a short time and told her she should memorialize this event and report it to the police.  I don't know if she did but suspect she did not. 

Legalneed12401@aol.com was the email address, as I recall, she said she had made up to use just to send this communication, which would place the event not in January 2002 but December 4, 2001 for writing the letter. The 'confession' letters were notarized on January 24, 2002, which is reflected on the letter, which appears on Fund's website.  

This email is in my file which she later sent to herself Hellion3793 and mural1972us, two email addresses she used.  

 Legalneed12401@aol.com wrote:

From: Legalneed12401@aol.com
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 19:08:28 EST
Subject: Fwd: legal letter-fund Dave corrected the first,but could you work on this ...
To: murat1972us@yahoo.com

In a message dated 12/4/2001 6:59:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, Legalneed12401
writes:

<< m: Legalneed12401
To: MPF1free >>

> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 From: Legalneed12401@aol.com
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 18:59:47 EST
Subject: legal letter-fund Dave corrected the first,but could you work on this one?Than
To: MPF1free@aol.com

I Morgan Francis Pillsbury

Being of sound mind and body id declare this a
true statement of the facts and the situation that I am in. I live at 250
first St. 1D,Jersey city,NJ.07302.My boyfriend of the past 3 years, John H.
Fund, an editorialist at the Wall Street Journal, has been hitting and
beating me since I moved in with him late this past July. I am trying to get
a job and get out of here, but have had to call the police in before and the
last time when they came I was shaky and agitated so he told them I was out
of my mind and crazy. They seemed to believe him because he was very calm. I
was hysterical, he had thrown me down on the bed and I thought he was going
to rape me. He has rules I must live by: I can't answer the phone or take
calls, and as I have been job-hunting this is really hard to do. This morning
Mr. Fund forced me to write a letter denying the charge of beating me, He is
a friend of VP Cheaney,and a charge like this could hurt his carrier. I wish
to get out and am trying to, but it hasn't been easy and I am terrified of
him. I wrote the letter at around 8 am today and it is almost 7pm now. I will
seal this email account and not open it until asked by the
court.Morgan(Carolyn) Pillsbury

 

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks