Posted on 08/18/2005 1:06:13 PM PDT by flutters
A company run by Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, the former contestant who liked to sabotage her colleagues on the NBC reality show "The Apprentice," taped the Dennis Rader interview that ran on national television and turned the defense of BTK upside down.
Psychologist Robert Mendoza told the Kansas State Board of Indigent Defense Services that Omarosa, as she is known, runs the production company he hired to videotape an interview of Rader in a holding cell in the Sedgwick County Courthouse.
Portions of the tape aired Friday on "Dateline NBC."
"Mendoza told me he hired Omarosa's Productions to tape the video," Pat Scalia, director of the state board told The Eagle on Wednesday from her office in Topeka. The Eagle's efforts to reach Omarosa for comment have been unsuccessful.
In Massachusetts on Wednesday, the state Division of Professional Licensure opened an investigation into the matter at the request of the Board of Registration of Psychologists.
Charles Borstel, assistant director of the licensure division, said an investigator would be assigned this week.
Borstel said his division oversees the licensing of 29 professions that range from plumbers to barbers to opticians.
Borstel said his office has no record of previous complaints against Mendoza, who told The Eagle this week that he did not give the tape to NBC and that he made no money from it.
Scalia said the state of Kansas paid $61,169 to Mendoza and his Cambridge Forensic Consultants to perform a psychological evaluation on Rader.
Scalia said she asked Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline to investigate how the tape got into the hands of "Dateline"; he said Tuesday that he would. Rader's public defenders do not plan to call Mendoza to testify at the sentencing hearing, because they are concerned that the prosecution would destroy his credibility on cross-examination.
Scalia said the public defenders are hoping that Mendoza hasn't given Rader an issue to take up on appeal concerning the strength of the defense the state provided.
Mendoza was paid with taxpayer money from the state's general fund.
Too bad he isn't eligible for the DP.
Well, if he gets into the general population, there's no telling what might happen.
I'm sure they'll put him into a protected population.
He'll be put in with all the rats and sissies.
He's a good reminder for sissy liberals just WHY there is a death penalty.
When they remove the penalty, they permit a creep like this to continue breathing on the taxpayer's dollars.
Crimes were committed while Kansas didn't have a death penalty.
Oh - it amkes no sense to you, either?
BTK? Bacon, Tomato and Ketchup?
I get the feeling he would enjoy more being in with the sexual perverts than he would the "rats and sissies"
Sigh... the tired old general population myth again.
Half the people in there did the same types of crimes, if anything he will have their respect.
Why is is that when anyone goes to jail someone pops up with this lame theory of "Honor Among Thieves". Why perpetuate the myth that the people in prison are somehow honorable indivisuals with their own moral values?
Its a MYTH. To get killed in prison you have to piss off someone in prison, not get there by commiting some "unwourthy" crime.
From what I read, the crimes he committed were committed in the time before Kansas had re-instituted the DP.
Ex post facto laws are illegal.
Mr. Foreman, I vote to acquit.
Not funny.
I saw the Rader tapes on Friday on Dateline. What an odd specimen.
Jeffrey Dahmer
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