I think the DEA was more focused on the drugs, the maker, how they were obtained than looking into his associates doing any embezzling or lack of care. I am sure they looked at the inner circle as a possible source of procurement. Speculation, as those files from the DEA have not been released.
Carver County may be looking into embezzling, maybe not. Not all files were released. At this point, new investigators need to review the case. Still, with all the errors made, it will be hard.
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disch said: I think if people don't want to, say, attend to the recent concerts the Revolution members or the NPG or Andre Cymone, because they feel they're taking advantage of P's death, that's totally their right to do (as I said before, I personally enjoyed seeing the Revolution last year and appreciated the opportunity come together with P fans to to keep P's music alive by people who actually had a hand in its origins, but I understand it's not for everyone). - I think, though, that boycotting these people and everyone else that P ever had a professional or personal relationship with because they in some way contributed to P's death by not properly intervening or whatever is quite a stretch. Most of thse folks had very little active contact with him for years, even decades. I for one am not going to hold them responsible for P's choices. - Frankly I wouldn't really assign blame to anyone else for P's problems unless that person actively enabled in the last stage of his life (by either procuring stuff for him ilegally or by intentionally establishing an evironment where P's drug problems could flourish).
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That's fine, if you want to support them go for it. Personally, I'm not. It's been over 2 years and they are still riding on P's coat tails, they didn't dare do it when P was alive. Once new music comes out of the vault, they will be forgotten about and will go away. I blame them for using him, right now in the present. | |
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I get it Penny. You've talked about this a LOT. - It's not about "supporting them." I'm not just mailing, say, the former member of the Revolution cash or something because they need it to pay their bills. - It's about ME -- me having fun, me being entertained. Same reason I go to any concert, buy any music, etc: because it enhances MY life. I don't consider it an act of charity for whoever the producer is, and I'm certainly not going to apologize for having fun at the revolution concert, nor would I hold it against some else if they had fun at a concert I didn't go to, such as the NPG's. - If seeing Prince live were an option right now, I'd jump on it! But you know, it's not. - Anything Prince's former colleagues or girlfriends or whatever do that I don't think will my be enjoyable or enriching TO ME in some way, then I'll pass. - Edited to add: Sorry I know this is an "associates" issue, not on the topic of the death investigation.
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You supported the release of Mayte Garcia's book, "The Most Beautiful: My Life With Prince", not even a year before the first anniversary of Prince's death. It's a bit hypocritical to say any other associate are riding Prince's coat tails and they didn't tour using his music without him when he was alive, when Mayte accused Prince of hiding and then burning Ahmir's ashes and revealed information about Prince that Prince would not made public if he was alive for profit by toting her book on radio, television and other media. Just as Mayte has the right to tell her story about her life with Prince, personally and professionally, other associates have a right to tour behind music that they had a hand in helping arrange, compose and record. 3121 #1 THIS YEAR | |
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Yep I sure did, even did a book club on it.
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Mayte was foul for that reality tv show she did on VH1. Soon as Prince's death hit the newswire, I knew she and others of her ilk was going to shill anything and everything that Prince ever touched. 3121 #1 THIS YEAR | |
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Sorry, I never watched it, nor do I have a desire to hunt it down to watch it.
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They opened my eyes 2 I would say. BUT, I don't know how to say it. I would definitely NEVER support anyone of those that have been mentioned in the reports. But I can't talk about the others who haven't had contact to him for years, it's not like they had any power to do anything since I am sure Prince decided who contacted him and who didn't. If I was one of those who didn't have contact and I wouldn't be one of those who enabled his addiction, I'd find it unfair to get attacked and named in the same sentence as those who did enable or know about his addiction.
We also don't know how bad his addiction was in the 80's or 90's and how well he could hide it. It was pretty clear he couldn't hide in his last few years.
I just try to believe that there weren't only assholes around him, he had so many people around him, and I am sure there are some good people among them. [Edited 7/12/18 20:08pm] | |
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I agree with every word in your post. Once Prince passed, the only things I would buy are remastered editions of his studio albums, new music and the memoir he was in the process of writing. I can always look at his concerts, look at old interviews to scratch the itch to see Prince visually. 3121 #1 THIS YEAR | |
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The one thing I have noticed over the years, even while Prince was living, was that he surrounded himself with people that are "real". They have their own issues, their own traumas, their own dysfunctions. As much as I would like to imagine that Prince had found that elusive utopian life, where everything was perfect, the reality is that he (just like many normal folks do) was surrounded with dysfunction in his relationships. None of them were the perfect relationship, the perfect friendship. It was real, and that's all it was. | |
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In Investigative Report #1 page 96 the chef Roberts says the food he left for Prince on 20160420 evening was not eaten and was in the fridge after he went to Prince's memorial. There are photos of food on the table but one item looks partially eaten videos 16-0709_0008_459-SMM_DSC_009.mov 16-0709_0008_459-SMM_DSC_011.mov Commercial kitchen area photo 16-0709_0001_469-SLB_DSC_0423 16-0709_0001_469-SLB_DSC_0293
Earlier in the month Prince had been prescribed Ondansetron due to nausea and vomiting. Chef also said he'd been having trouble swallowing. I don't think the food was eaten. I don't think the food was laced with fentanyl. However it is possible Prince DID drink vegetable juice. And he drank a lot of the 5 hour energy grape juice drinks. It might have been a drink that was spiked with fentanyl.
The reports talk about having the stomach tested and showing a high level of fentanyl. If fentanyl is taken into the stomach and absorbed, causing Prince to slow down and possibly vomit, then I think it is strange to not be found in this vomit.
I think it is likely the vomit in the elevator was new. If there was vomit someone I would imagine Prince would quickly ask someone to clean it up.
The test results on the vomit can be found in: Search warrants, Subpoenas and Property Data. pdf page 96 item 26A and 26B
We also need to know, even if these fake tablets were ENITRELY made of fentanyl, HOW MANY would it take to cause such high levels of fentanyl in Prince's blood. The levels are insanely high. IF the answer is MANY TABLETS, then it casts further doubt on the whole official story, as his stomach did not have undigested tablets (as would be seen by someone taking lots of tablets like in a suicide).
Prince was not suicidal. (Dr Mancha in Moline said Prince said he was not suicidal.) He may have had a premonition he would die one day soon, but that does not mean he took his own life.
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Great post Facedown....There was also the smart water bottle on the night stand not sure if the contents of the water were tested. Someone a while back also wondered about the fentanyl possibly in a spray form. His face was damp, possibly cleaned some will say due to the vomit but it may have been wiped clean due to fentanyl residue from a spray. | |
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bashraka said:
Mayte was foul for that reality tv show she did on VH1. Soon as Prince's death hit the newswire, I knew she and others of her ilk was going to shill anything and everything that Prince ever touched. She wanted to sell stuff before he died, not only after. His lawyer or whoever called her and told her that Prince doesn't want her to sell it but Prince didn't want it Back either. If he wasn't interested in that stuff himself why should she keep it? | |
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"Time is space spent with U" | |
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Divorced people give away or sell stuff from their defunct marriage all the time. I’m not sure how letting shirts and plates collect dust in a closet or storage facility forever is a better fate for these random material objects. - Anyway I know the mod warned us about keeping the thread on topic which is thoughts about the now-closed investigation. There is probably still an open thread in the Associates section for “I hate Mayte” (or “I hate pick fill-in-whatever-girlfriend-or-collaborator”) sentiments. CatB said:
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If I remember correct she didn't sell it. But like I said, he didn't take the stuff Back (obviously he didn't want it) so why should she keep it if she felt the same? I don't know if He really burned amirs ashes (honestly I can't imagine he did that), but I can imagine he burned her clothes and other stuff. and if he really did that, then he didn't have the right to stop her from selling stuff especially if he himself didn't want the stuff back. SORRY MODS, I'M GOING BACK TO TOPIC NOW. [Edited 7/13/18 5:41am] | |
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"Time is space spent with U" | |
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The red: what were the results? This is news to me, as the portion I read stated the supposed vomit in the elevator was to be collected, but investigators got sidetracked gathering the computer- albeit too late. Thanks in advance! | |
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YES! Is Prince's book coming this december now or not? | |
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Yes to the both! | |
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and just as an aside- the other 'work' that I would pay for with no problem is Prince's revelation of the 'spiritual stuff' that he divulged to JH in Moline, which the investigators said they had no use for. It's my personal curiosity, nothing more. It seems as though he had a NEAR death experience, not saying he died...but 2 Narcan shots in order for him to 'come to'...I'm on the fence about it. And P saying he fought so hard to get back in his body, at the very least, he had an out of body experience. | |
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did JH say exactly what she was told?????? | |
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i think it's in that paper interview, he said something about it being really hard to get back into his body and that he was watching from outside, that is a common exp. for near death events. | |
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"Time is space spent with U" | |
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nothing surrounding any of it makes any linear sense, i thought he may have committed suicide, and I still do so i don't know why he was fighting to get back into his body. at first, i doubed JH words as i do anyone's, because, unlike most of you, i've studied closely some high profile deaths and there are always a lot of secrets, a lot of lies, a lot of shame, a lot of people who end up wanting to big up themselves or cast a shadow on others, always, always always. the truth may never come out. | |
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While I don't agree with the suicide story, I do with this. That is very true and really happening since Prince died. | |
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no, that's why I would be more than willing to pay for a book/writing in which JH does divulge exactly what he said. The LE was interviewing her and it was after she told them about him "fighting to come back"...she had begun to explain P's "experience" in the words he told them to her, as the question posed was "Did he tell you anything else?" but in the docs it clearly states that LE said (paraphrasing) "anything else he said, minus the spiritual stuff" basically. So yeah, I'm more than curious about what he actually said. | |
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You'll have to take a look at those documents.
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