Yeah, but does he follow the Kintetsu Buffaloes?
Posted on 11/22/2002 3:34:52 PM PST by jimbo123
Man Implicates Seagal and Pellicano in Probe
Fri Nov 22, 8:34 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man charged with threatening a reporter who was investigating an alleged Mafia extortion plot against Steven Seagal told an FBI informant the actor was behind the threat, court documents show.
Alexander Proctor allegedly said in secretly recorded conversations that he was hired to carry out the threat by Anthony Pellicano, a private detective to the stars. FBI agents said Proctor told the informant Seagal hired Pellicano to threaten Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch.
"He wanted to make it look like the Italians were putting the hit on her so it wouldn't reflect on Seagal," Proctor, 59, told the informant, according to a search warrant affidavit filed by FBI agents who later searched Pellicano's office.
Pellicano was arrested Thursday in connection with what appeared to be explosive materials found during the search, said FBI spokesman Matt McLaughlin. He was expected to appear before a federal magistrate Friday.
An attorney for Seagal told the Los Angeles Times that his client had no involvement in the threat.
"This uncorroborated allegation by someone arrested is pure fiction and is nothing more than a transparent attempt to divert attention from himself and the real perpetrators," said attorney Martin R. Pollner, who represents Seagal. "This is part of an unrelenting campaign to disparage Mr. Seagal and reads like a bad screenplay."
A federal law enforcement source also told the newspaper that "at this time, other than Proctor's uncorroborated statements, there is no independent evidence that Seagal was involved in the threat made to the reporter."
Prosecutors said Proctor smashed Busch's windshield in June and left a dead fish with a long-stemmed rose in its mouth on the car along with a sign reading "STOP," according to a federal grand jury indictment.
Proctor was charged with interference with commerce by threats of violence, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. He has pleaded innocent.
According to court documents, Proctor told the informant he owed Pellicano about $14,000 and agreed to intimidate Busch for $10,000. Proctor allegedly told the informant he was supposed to "blow up" Busch's car as a warning so she would stop reporting about Seagal. There is no indication in court documents that Proctor ever met with Seagal.
The Los Angeles Times published several stories earlier this summer about the arrest of Seagal's former business partner, Julius Nasso, for his alleged role in a multimillion-dollar extortion scheme against the actor. Federal prosecutors in New York said they had a tape of Nasso and a Gambino crime family member plotting the shakedown.
Last month, Nasso's attorney alleged in a court document that Seagal might have been involved in the threat against Busch and that it could reflect on the actor's credibility as a witness.
Meanwhile, the FBI said its informant in the case was facing criminal charges at the time he agreed to cooperate in the Proctor investigation.
Amen! Not to mention that in real life when your enemies know you are good with your hands, they just snipe you from 100 yards away in the bushes and you never see it coming.
Hard to parry a .223.
Yep, that's what I figured. I thought I saw him make a claim that he was a SEAL on a talk show awhile back, but it was years ago..
Not exclusively. In the real world, Segal looks well outside Aikido for serious personal defense.
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See link in post #25, above.
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Yeah, but does he follow the Kintetsu Buffaloes?
My own instructor, Soo Young Cha, was Korean. In the early '50s he and General Choi set out on a program to train and toughen up the Korean Army. Eventually, every Korean army officer was to be required to have a black belt. They devised a new system of martial arts. They began with Sho Shin Do which was an older form of Korean Karate. Cha went throughout Asia to study with the great masters, including Oyama of Japan. He brought back the best from various places then he and General Choi created Tae Kwan Do. At that point in one year Mr. Cha won the Korean, Taiwan, Tokyo, Okinawan, and a few other places Karate championships, becoming all-Asian champion. What you obtain at top levels is a synthesis in the best people.
Cha had his opinions. He discouraged study of areas such as nunchucks in his students, saying if your Tae Kwan Do was good, you didn't need such trivial items. That's easy to say when you are an 8th or 9th degree black belt.
In Korea he once had three guys attack him with guns in an attempt to kill him. Before thay could pull the triggers he disarmed them and knocked them on their asses.
He was know for his air break. You could throw concrete blocks in the air and he would shatter them with a judo chop. The means concrete, not porous cinder block. When it was captured on film it looked like they were being hit with a 30-06. He'd do the same with regular small ceramic building block. I had a picture of him shattering stacks of concrete and thick roofing tiles with his head. It looked like the stuff was being hit by a cannon.
But we all age. For a while during the 80s he was afflected with a severe kidney ailment. There is no way he could do what he once did. Neither can Steven Seagal. He will find that out.
Dan Inosanto is a master of Filipino Kali. It's a great martial art. It's the martial art I'd pick for the United States, if I had to pick just one.
It's very weapons oriented. Other martial arts introduce you to weapons after you've been studying for 2 years and have attained a black belt. Kali starts you right off with rattan sticks, then machetes and other edged weapons almost overnight.
Everyone (conservative) in America should know how to pick up a stick and wale on (a liberal) an attacker or intruder. It's good cardiovascular exercise, too.
It has its share of empty handed techniques, kicks, take-downs, choke-holds and submissions, too.
That stick fight they had in that bar is a basic Siniwali drill that you'll see entire classes practicing just as fast and flashy as that anywhere they teach Kali.
In a real fight you'd be trying to hit your opponent's hands and the rest of his body as opposed to the stick being the primary target.
If you did that in practice, practice would be over real quick. ;^)
Then they take that to "I used to be with the SEALs", which later is recalled as "he was a SEAL."
I remember the name..he does have a better class of clients this time
Those type skills require a certain youth, and constant training, while the relaxed and reactive circular parrying and locking and throwing styles like Aikido are effective years after training, even when older. They become relexive, so that an unexpected attack (a sucker punch) is dealt with from deep instinctive memory without warming up, stretching, getting into a stance and so on.
Plus, against mulitple opponents, Aikido is much less energy draining. High output styles like TKD leave one quickly exhausted when facing multiple opponents who are cagey in their attacks.
Just MHO, your mileage may vary.
Not to mention that the kicks are only effective at the optimal turning radius or distance. I've been studying about 5 years, first in tkd and gracie jujitsu, more recently in tai chi.
Tai chi and akido are both "internal;"they train timing and balance over strength and technique. It takes much longer to learn these techniques, but they can be assimilated into harder styles. Young students should probably learn basic self defense first anyway; scars and krav maga are both effective distillations.
Why do I like internal arts? They teach you to keep your head. Many assaults, or invasions, are not physical;it's usually about someone crowding you out or trying to intimidate. I think the internal arts sensitize a person ,psychologically as well as physically, to both kinds of insult. One last thing: these arts are more "literate;" they've been around longer and have been extensively documented. That sort of thing becomes important once you round 40 and your knees start to creak.
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