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PALLADINO & SUTHERLAND
(backgrounder)NOV 30, 1999
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Jack Palladino, his wife Sandra Sutherland, and their crew of West Coast operatives work out of a Victorian mansion in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and have worked for clients ranging from Hell's Angels to Black Panthers to international bankers. While investigating American Express in Europe in 1989, Sutherland posed as a journalist to try to develop leads. Palladino recently made himself scarce just in time to avoid a subpoena from Paula Jones' lawyers, who wanted to ask him about his 1992 investigations for the Clinton campaign of Gennifer Flowers and numerous other women who were alleged to have had affairs with Bill.
Congress is now investigating why Teamsters lawyer Charles Ruff—now Clinton's chief White House counsel—paid Palladino $130,000 to snoop for the Teamsters in 1994 during the contested election of Ron Carey as Teamsters president. Neither Ruff nor Palladino, who has a reputation for intimidating the targets of his investigations, have disclosed the nature of the work. Palladino also recently worked for rocker Courtney Love in her efforts to quash rumors that she killed husband Kurt Cobain. (Source: MoJo Wire)
"The best presentation a person could have to be a private detective is to be comfortable. To look like somebody's daughter or brother or father, to have amanner that is in fact reassuring rather than intimidating, and to play as much against the myth as with it." Jack Palladino.
"I have a gold trench coat", said Sandra Sutherland, who has been an investigator for 25 years. Palladino's coat is a silk, eggplant-colored Valentino. Sutherland, whose stately Victorian home and office is located in the Haight Ashbury district, had a case early in her career in which she went to funeral homes posing as a widow. Another case had her playing an inmate in a prison, and after she teamed up with Palladino, they worked together on building the case for the boy who charged pop music star Michael Jackson with sexual molestation.
"The most interesting cases are often not the most famous cases, but occasionally something arises out of the most famous cases that is incredibly worthwhile." Jack Palladino.
"The fascination with the investigator is not so much with the real investigator, but that in a world that is increasingly irrational, unexplainable and arbitrary.The investigator is someone you look at to define the problem and actually deliver the answers." Jack Palladino. (Source: www.thelowell.org)
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