Michael Jackson is still making headlines months after his death.
The Michael Jackson FBI files were made available to the public today, well, most of it anyway. Despite an application under the Freedom of Information Act, half of MJ’s file remains secret. What is available, however, provides no shortage of material.
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The file was collected over a 17-year period, mostly due to the child molestation accusations levied against the King of Pop.
L.A. police, who were then investigating those allegations, called the FBI’s Los Angeles office in September 1993 to ask the agency to investigate a “possible federal violation against Jackson concerning transportation of a minor across state lines for immoral purposes [Mann Act],” according to one document.
The Michael Jackson FBI file included newspaper clippings of two detectives’ trip to interview Mariano Quindoy and his wife.
One agent wrote that the detectives “said they felt they had been successful in their interviews.”
The FBI also helped L.A. police follow up on a lead in Canada, where they believed that a social worker might have key information about the “Thriller” singer.
That social worker stated that she was on a train trip across the country when she “heard questionable noises through a wall.” Michael Jackson was in an adjoining compartment in the train.
The files also include notes from the FBI’s investigation of a man who sent letters threatening to kill Jackson and President George H.W. Bush in 1992. The man pleaded guilty and was sent to a federal prison.
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