FBI Assisting In Travola Extortion Case
The FBI is helping out the Bahamas police with a recording that is a part of the extortion plot against John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston.
The specialists were needed, law enforcement sources say, because the police inquiry is now centering on “sensitive” phone conversations that allegedly took place between Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater, who quit her parliament post after being charged with abetment and conspiracy to extort over the weekend, and lawyers for Travolta.
The conversations were about documents obtained by ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne, the paramedic who claimed he was present when 16-year-old Jett Travolta died on Jan. 2, reports E! News.
Reportedly, Lightbourne believed that the documents would have caused embarrassment to the Travoltas and possibly left them open to criticism and questioning over how they addressed the seizure that resulted in Jett’s death.
Bridgewater got involved in talks with the Travoltas’ local attorney, Bahamian Sen. Allyson Maynard-Gibson, after being retained as Lightbourne’s lawyer. WTF. Who hires a lawyer to extort money?
Rumors about a photo of Jett being involved in the plot is being denied.
“There are certainly some reports out there speaking to some photos,” he said. “That is incorrect, we are talking specifically about a document that the alleged accused purported to have in his possession and was using that document to extort a substantial sum of moneys from the victim, Mr. Travolta.
“This matter is still under investigation so I don’t intend to get into specifics of the case.”
Travolta family friend Obie Wilchcombe, who taken in for questioning does not appear to be a suspect, according to sources.
“He was the one who told Pleasant to tell her client to ‘go to hell,’ ” said an insider familiar with the investigation. “He was never a part of any discussions pertaining to extortion. There could be no discussion of Wilchcombe or any tape or anything like that.”
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