Newman Bribery Case - part 2
See also: Michael Baldwin  Nick Newman  Christine Blair
See also: Part 1

Newman board may oust little dictator

December 29, 2003

When Newman Enterprises CEO Victor Newman posted a $250,000 bond last week to get himself out of jail it was expected the first thing he'd do would be to toss his back-stabbing son out of office and onto the street. Instead, Newman went home to spend Christmas Eve with his family and not once broached the subject of snide little weasels who eat their parents.

"We made it through Christmas without any bloodshed," young Newman said Monday during a conversation with his mother who has been the only one so far to question by what authority her son continues to occupy the CEO position.

"I'm surprised that [Victor] is letting him go on pretending to be head of the company," Mrs. Nikki Newman said, noting that her husband never intended to leave young Newman in power especially when it was revealed that he reported his father to police.

"I'm running the company. End of story," Newman bristled, when asked what he intends to do if his father is cleared of all charges connected to the Safra bribery case.

"I can't stop thinking of all the people he has hurt. The Abbotts, Brad and Ashley [Carlton]. My heart goes out to them," Newman said, adding that he's sure that because Mrs. Carlton chose to kill her baby that she and her husband must have had "a rotten Christmas." In his warped mind, Newman is certain his father made her do it.

Amid the jagged scars all over their family, Mrs. Newman again accused her son of being "cold-blooded", warned him not to become complacent and for the first time brought up a broader issue. The Newman Board of Directors may be called upon to decide Nick Newman's fate.

But who sits on the Newman board besides Victor Newman and Neil Winters isn't exactly clear. Jabot Cosmetics employee Diane Jenkins once held a seat but is believed to have given it up when she renounced all claim to the Newman Empire. And board member Victoria Newman recently fled Genoa City when family in-fighting became too turbulent. Still, a quorum may not be necessary since Newman could simply order his son out.

Miraculously, at a time when just about the entire city is ready to "crucify" Victor Newman, stockholders continue supporting the chaotic Newman Enterprises which Nick Newman says under his hectoring leadership will become an "honest" company.

A question of bail

by Brent Kellogg  
December 24, 2003

Members of the legal community were scratching their heads in frustration this week following reports that commercial bribery suspect Victor Newman posted bail and had been released from jail.

The confusion hinged on a previous comment by Assistant District Attorney Christine 'Bug' Blair who, after personally placing Newman under arrest, stated that a judge had denied bail because the influential business conglomerate owner posed a "flight risk."

Always the first to say, "I know the law" and forever priding herself as a proficient investigator, Blair specifically mentioned that since Newman owns a private jet the judge's decision made perfect sense. But she was not, apparently, aware that the Newman jet was parked on a runway in Japan or that Newman would by law be entitled to a bail hearing.

When it seemed Newman was destined to spend the holidays in jail word began spreading that it was he who was refusing to let anyone post his bail. Even Blair, who clearly stated that a judge refused bail based on the flight risk factor, changed her tune.

Reached Wednesday at the exclusive for members only Athletic Club where everyone is welcome, Blair said the reason Newman was still in jail was because he had refused bail.

For a creepy crawler so intent on keeping the man who got her the job at the DA's office behind bars, Blair's lack of concern was strange. If, as it is presumed, Newman's lawyer got the judge to change his mind the questions legal experts are asking are: shouldn't the judge have consulted with the DA's office before overruling himself since he or she would not have arbitrarily denied bail to begin with?

And if the DA agreed to withdraw its no-bail request what does it say about the competency of that office and this misdemeanor case in general? That it is bogus and never should have been allowed to grow legs?

Newman makes bail!

December 24, 2003

Saying at first he didn't want no stinking bail because he needed time alone to think about how unworthy he is, Newman Enterprises giant Victor Newman finally capitulated late Wednesday by posting an undisclosed amount of bond money and was immediately set free.

The move followed a jail cell visit by the mother of Newman's baby, Ashley Carlton who urged the mumbling magpie to spend Christmas at home with his precious grandchildren whom without his dominating presence would be "so confused" and would have "so many questions" only Newman could answer.

While somehow managing to keep a straight face Newman thanked Carlton for her concern and did not add, "You stupid pathetic baby killer! Are you aware that my 12-year-old granddaughter is smarter than you and that back-stabbing brother of yours combined? Are you not aware that Cassie Newman has already brainwashed little Noah Newman and that they both know this entire family is one of the most dysfunctional in Genoa City? Don't talk to me about confused kids. They ain't confused - you got that?"

In a related development Newman's Hitler-like son Nick, in a fit of spasming hysterics, actually had the gall on Wednesday to say that had he known his father would have been arrested just prior to the Christmas holiday and that such arrest would cause the family much sadness, he would have have picked a better time to rat daddy out.

Just how inane and silly and out of touch and religiously ignorant Newman is could not be determined as the scale used to measure such ignorance broke down the last time it was used on this miserable excuse for a son.

Flight risk, Newman denied bail
December 19, 2003

As if Victor Newman's arrest suddenly means Assistant District Attorney Christine 'Bug' Blair is some sort of nimble or subtly intelligent lawyer, and that a few weeks of brutal ongoing gut-busting ignorance was all worth it, the inane Genoa City legal system fell flat on its face here Friday when Blair informed the beleaguered Newman Enterprises CEO that a heavy narcotized judge somewhere had predisposed him to be a "flight risk" and therefore unworthy of being granted bail.

The Gestapo-like decision caused much shuddering because unless the City had overnight become Stalin's Russia, all alleged criminal detainees in America are still entitled to a bail hearing.

Visibly upset and twitching frantically that Newman had not taken advantage of his one phone call and had not retained the services of an attorney, Blair squealed that he was not taking the arrest seriously.

"You have to have a lawyer!" the slimy ADA oozed, forgetting her first year Sears law school lesson where - had she been paying attention - she would have learned that had Newman been unable to afford an attorney or not selected one of his own choosing one would be appointed for him by the court at his preliminary hearing.

"You can arrest me and try to humiliate me but you cannot tell me when and if I should call my lawyer," Newman correctly stated as the creature from law enforcement hell incorrectly suggested that he retain a public defender.

Ignoring Blair's deepening ignorance and apparently not wanting to tell her that public defenders are for those without the financial means to hire their own lawyer, Newman pointed out that the case against him is bogus and therefore should be drop before the DA's office makes an even bigger ass of itself.

"I did nothing that is not normal business practice," Newman snarled, suggesting the crime buster go out and capture some of the many real criminals on the street.

"What you did is not legal," Blair seethed before adding that just because Newman is rich and powerful doesn't mean he'll escape her long legal claw.

It was then Newman realized what a terrible mistake he made when he recommended Blair be given a job with the District Attorney's Office and may have marked the moment in time when he began plotting how to make the creepy crawler pay in spades.

And nobody is more deserving of Newman's revenge than say, Newman's own son who Friday maintained his position that his father is "getting what he deserves."

Newman forgives son, has new hope
December 18, 2003

Long after Nick Newman's usefulness had expired and it was a given fact that he had turned into this massive inhuman Hitler-like monster when in fact he's really just a tired, small-time thug, damn but what his mother didn't tell him Thursday that she's forgiven those who trespass against the Newman family and oh lord, can't we just get along?

The proud moment in Genoa City history followed Mrs. Newman's warning to her son that he better watch his back because nobody likes a lying sack of crap and that hating the man who gave him everything he touches is sick and revengeful.

"I don't hate my dad. I just hate what he did," young Newman actually said, adding he grunted once in an effort to get the criminal charges against Victor Newman dropped but it was too little too late.

Almost as proud as when she threw a hissy fit and accused her husband of committing heinous crimes against the family, a blinking hard Mrs. Newman said, "Maybe there is still hope for our family."

Oh yes, let there be hope. Victor Newman needed to be arrested. Just before Christmas too - for major impact. His incarceration will be a swell thing for the business world. One less creepy slave-labor employer putting small-time company's like Jabot out of business via draconian and borderline illegal business practices.

Oh yes, Nick Newman desperately needed the ego boost, needed to do the moral thing.

And as a family utterly pulverized with the lie that this arrest was the only way, the Newmans - including the great man - just gave in. Resistance futile.

"Can I get hug?" Mrs. Newman did not ask her son, but was making a move to do just that seconds before she was told of the arrest.

This is the Newman legacy, and its ugliest flaw: a nasty short-term memory for it won't be long until they're telling themselves again that they are Newmans and nothing, not even out of control raging family members, can destroy them.

Newman arrest was planned!
by Brent Kellogg  
December 18, 2003

As the wheels of law enforcement spun out of control here Thursday it could not be said that justice in Genoa City is not swift. Within mere moments of bribery suspect Michael Baldwin's verbal agreement with the District Attorney's office to testify, Assistant DA Christine 'Bug' Blair was on her way to make an arrest in a case that has become the laughing stock of this city.

Without consulting a lawyer, attorney Baldwin eagerly agreed to the mind numbing deal of pleading guilty to one count of misdemeanor commercial bribery in exchange for being spared charges of conspiracy. It was further presumed that Baldwin will testify in court that his role in the toxic cosmetics war was that of a loyal employee who was only following orders.

That the DA had planned in advance to arrest Newman Enterprises CEO Victor Newman with or without Baldwin's testimony was obvious. In an unusual move, Blair, accompanied by a police officer, personally arrested the great man at his office as members of the Newman family looked on in shock and awe.

Newman can only hope at this point that all the judges in Genoa City aren't corrupt and that his yet to be named lawyer will bring it to the court's attention that the DA's office erred when it put ADA Blair in charge of this case. Blair's conflict of interest cannot be ignored and could result in the case being thrown out on grounds it was nothing more than a witch hunt.

Newman will take fall, arrest imminent!
December 17, 2003

About the only thing embattled Newman Enterprises giant Victor Newman won't do is blow himself up thus becoming the first man facing criminal charges for something he didn't do, a martyr. This was the general sentiment Wednesday in Genoa City as a vehement Newman said the bribing of marketing magician Pete Hudson was "my idea, my plan, to benefit my company."

Given that there isn't an iota of evidence to prove Newman knew a crime would be committed in his name and could have sat back and laughed as the District Attorney's Office mangled yet another major case, Newman's willingness to confess is sure to go down in the history books as one of the dumbest things ever.

From deep within the sadistic spider hole of hypocrisy he's climbed into Newman reiterated, "This is my scheme. I ordered [Baldwin] to do it. People always say I don't take responsibility for things I do. That's not true. I'm taking the rap for it."

As yet to learn that a major coup is about to fall into her lap just like so many other law cases she's won by default, ADA Christine 'Bug' Blair is expected to stop coloring in her favorite book and look up all startled before letting out the cutest little gurgle when she's told to get over to Newman's office for the start of the dog and pony show that will be Blair's puking duty to place Newman under arrest.

But finally Victor Newman is about to be captured alive. Surely the TV networks will be on hand to show the world a mean-spirited bully in shackles being hauled off to jail. Yay yay go team cheers will be followed by a combination of repetition, speculation and self-promotion.

We got 'em!

This is nothing new, of course. Just the dark underbelly of a man reduced to a miserable rat brought about by some masochistic urge to go down in flames as the corrupt monster brought to justice even as corporate sluts prepare to steal from Japan the rare and revolutionary orchid plant.

No deal
December 16, 2003

Prime suspect in the Newman commercial bribery case, attorney Michael Baldwin turned down Tuesday an opportunity to save his own skin by refusing to plea bargain and take his chances with a loaded justice system.

Baldwin told Assistant District Attorney Christine 'Bug' Blair that while performing his duties as a Newman Enterprises employee he came across some extra money and took it upon himself to "spread it around" as a lure to those greedy bastards anxious to profit from the then raging cosmetics war between Newman and Jabot Cosmetics.

"I thought I could assure a good opening for Safra," Baldwin said, of the chemically-laden skunk oil product which was subsequently placed at eye-level on store shelves nationwide.

"Victor was furious when he found out," Baldwin added, clearly removing any doubt that Newman had advanced knowledge that a bribe had taken place.

Noticeably upset that Baldwin will not finger Newman and well aware that without his testimony there is no chance of getting a conviction, Blair fumed that if she doesn't take Newman down "someone else will."

Blair's ploy is an old one often used by more experienced prosecutors to trick their unwitting victims. These slimy inhuman creatures aren't interested in serving justice. Once the target of their investigation is in the cross hairs they will, for absolutely no justifiable reason whatsoever, use every dirty trick at their disposal to get a conviction.

Then too, there's the little matter of evidence. Since there is none, and considering Baldwin has said that it was his decision alone to spread the money around, no prosecutor in his right mind would go after Newman at this point.

But as long-time residents of Genoa City know, things can happen in this town that would never happen elsewhere.

Carlton inclined to put in "good word" for Newman employee bribery suspect

December 15, 2003

Jabot Cosmetics executive Brad Carlton who nobody is sure what exactly he does to draw down a huge salary said today that should bribery suspect Michael Baldwin spill his guts "I'd be inclined to put in a good word for him."

Because that's just the kind of two-faced lying slab of toxic meat Carlton is, the former Abbott hedge clipper went to Baldwin's home on Monday to gloat that since Baldwin and Victor Newman tried to "ruin" Jabot the time for payback is close at hand. Soon, and probably without a trial and the weakest of circumstantial evidence, Baldwin and Newman will be behind bars where they belong.

Foreseeing the day when the culprits are released Carlton hissed that Baldwin would "be lucky if they let him deliver pizzas" as if working at minimum wage no-benefit jobs and using ones own vehicle to drive into strange neighborhoods at night delivering saturated with carbohydrates pizza is something to be frowned upon.

And because he's such an idiot Carlton added that the imprisonment of Newman could cause Newman Enterprises to come "crashing down" while all around Carlton businesses continue to prosper even as their high-level executives are being led off to prison.

So wound up in his hatred Carlton made the serious mistake of revealing that Jabot is working on a new product which will "revolutionize" the personal grooming market and propel Jabot forward as the most toxic cosmetics company in the world.

To again distance himself from the reality that his wife killed her baby, Carlton blamed Newman for the death and admitted that nothing would please him more than to see Newman take a fall.

Based on a worthless inclination Baldwin was urged to cut a deal. But if he thinks anything Carlton might say will help him he's a bigger fool than he looks. Making a deal would only weaken the District Attorney's case as Baldwin would become the second major participant in a crime the DA has set free.

Even as Newman's arrest draws neigh the fact remains. There is no evidence Victor Newman had knowledge and aforethought that Baldwin planned to bribe marketing magician Pete Hudson.

It can only be imagined what the presiding judge would say to the District Attorney at the preliminary hearing.

"Are you telling me that the two primary participants in this alleged crime have been granted immunity? Do you realize that this is like calling the police to report a break-in but when they arrive you say you only want the perceived person who sent them charged with a crime? Get out of my courtroom right now! Case dismissed."

Bribery participant will go free
December 13, 2003

Marketing magician Pete Hudson has reportedly cut a deal with the District Attorney's Office which will absolve him from any connection to the so-called "Commercial Bribery" charges against Newman Enterprises giant Victor Newman.

Hudson recently accepted a briefcase full of Newman money given him by Newman employee Michael Baldwin in exchange for arranging department stores nationwide to display Newman's cosmetic product, Safra, at eye-level on store shelves.

Hudson gave no specifics of the deal other than to say he has yet to sign the agreement presented by Assistant DA, Christine 'Bug' Blair, may have to leave Genoa City and considers himself very lucky to have committed a crime and allowed to get away with it.

In a related development, Blair questioned department store owner Lauren Fenmore late Friday when she conveniently found Fenmore at the new home of her former husband, Paul Williams. When asked if Baldwin actually offered her money to place Safra products in a prominent location in her stores Fenmore said, "no", adding she only got a "feeling" Baldwin would make it worth her while.

Meantime, Baldwin has refuted a charge by Mrs. Nikki Newman that he ruined her company by offering bribes and was part of a "sting" to bring down her husband.

"We were just greasing a few palms," Baldwin said, denying that he would in any way change his allegiance at this late stage by turning City's witness. Baldwin plans to meet with Blair at a later date to discuss his options, however.

Newman disowns son!
December 12, 2003

If there is a God in Heaven, and Satan will be the first to admit there is, He must have dropped down on Genoa City this Friday to give Victor Newman the courage to sniff out the dirty rat so low down he would turn his own father into the police.

Had there been an iota of proof - that Victor Newman knowingly approved the bribing of market magician Pete Hudson who in turn greased the skids to assure phenomenal sales of the cosmetic product Safra and by doing so it led to the disolvement of the competing Jabot product Tuvia - Nick Newman might have had the weakest of reasons for going to the authorities.

As it turned out Jabot did not suffer and legal experts agree, Victor Newman did not commit a crime. But the damage has been done. Young Newman set in motion a series of events which he had to have known would come back to haunt him. He presumed that with his father in prison he'd be left to run the Newman empire and go on waking up each morning with the gold spoon spoon sticking out of his mouth as if nothing had happened. He presumed he'd never have to work a day in his life and that his family would never want - as it never had - for anything. But he was wrong.

When Victor Newman got a whiff of the piece of dung his son has become he confronted him eye to eye and the youngster admitted to being a twitchy sociopath.

"Do you know how it feels to have your own son betray you?" Newman asked.

Wailing that he only wanted to tell the truth and to see the sad and somewhat tragic end of a Genoa City business icon and the blessed closure of a weirdly obnoxious cosmetics behemoth that induced a nasty breakout of itchy hives all over the skin of "women of color", Nick Newman told his father that he had to do it because daddy wasn't playing fair.

Who would've guessed, in this innocent day and age, full of ethical business executives and toxic-sucking conglomerates, that goodly marketing magicians could ever be in the pocket of major cosmetics pushers? It just wasn't right!

Tearful and tired of hearing the incredibly and openly bogus ranting jingoism and sanctimonious dogma, Newman let his son have it with both barrels. No longer is the great Victor Newman willing to put up with some pus-head trying to destroy the man who gave him life and makes it possible for him to be a spoiled and ignorant brat.

From this moment forward Nick Newman has been banished from the kingdom. Disowned by his own father. What a legacy Nick Newman will leave behind. A social burden for his children to bare. And by the way ... in need of a real job.

Newman seeks poison pusher
December 9, 2003

If anything good can be said about attorney Michael Baldwin's attempt to distance himself from the fallout of having offered an incentive to marketing magician Pete Hudson it's that he hasn't claimed that having only one kidney made him do it.

Swearing he wasn't the person who ratted Victor Newman out and would never do anything to "lose my license to practice law", Baldwin implored his employer this week to join forces with him and take immediate steps to cover their tracks in the event law enforcement moves forward with criminal charges.

"I knew the risk I was taking when I did what I did on your behalf," Baldwin twitched, and at the same time admitted that while he and Newman were in cahoots it is Newman's responsibility to make the problem go away.

"We need to focus our attention on keeping our asses out of jail," Baldwin said, conveniently forgetting that he put his law license on the line only a few months ago when he destroyed evidence in the dizzy Izzy Williams Vanishing Victim case.

Baldwin also recommended that Newman not say or admit anything which might link him to the misdemeanor crime of Commercial Bribery and to present a strong, united front.

Reiterating his suspicion that Nick Newman is behind the mess they're in, Baldwin urged Newman to face the reality that a son can be capable of committing dastardly acts of betrayal.

"My son didn't do this on his own," Newman huffed, reversing his previous contention that Nick Newman would never do anything underhanded. And for the first time Newman surmised that somebody "poisoned" his son's mind.

Pointing out that who did or didn't do what matters not at this juncture, Baldwin tried again to convince Newman to start worrying about what is to become of them.

"There is a good chance your precious family will be visiting you in jail," he warned.

Undaunted, Newman recalled that any proof of his involvement is circumstantial and not enough to convict him of a crime. "This is much ado about nothing," he said, turning his attention to the more important matter of finding out who poisoned his son's mind.

Newman admits, 'I turned my father in!'
December 2, 2003

Newman Enterprises interim CEO Nick Newman, and the absolute slimiest human being anyone is ever likely to be grateful never ever to come within a 10-mile radius of, confessed this week that it was he who turned his father into the authorities.

The tell-all admission of guilt was made Tuesday following young Newman's confrontation with family members including Victoria Newman who charged that her brother tried to hoodwink her into going along with his plan which would ultimately send Victor Newman to prison.

"I've been making a lot of threats," hissed a well-narcotized Newman, confessing before his wife Sharon that he pumped heaping gobs of fear into the gullible cultural bloodstream, manufactured dread and hate and tired to make intolerance and whiny sanctimonious self-righteousness seem natural and fun for the whole family.

As his eyes twitched violently like the death throes of a mutant hyena, Newman said he only wanted to "protect people from the truth" and that while what he did was "scary stuff" what his father did was "illegal" and thusly deserved to come back to haunt the great Victor Newman.

Finding it hard to believe that a son could hate the man who makes it possible for him to live a lavish lifestyle, Mrs. Newman asked why her father-in-law would do anything illegal.

"Because he hates Jack [Abbott] so much," Newman oozed.

Noting that there are now "thousands of people involved" - although he didn't mention who they are or how the sale of a single cosmetic product could in anyway affect anyone except maybe immediate members of the revenge-seeking Abbott family - Newman added that what his father did was, "cruel and unnecessary."

And because her head is filled with rocks that roll from side to side in an otherwise empty head and she did not hear Victoria Newman all but say repeatedly that her husband is lower than a snake in a rut and set the gloom and doom that is about to befall their family in motion, Mrs. Newman wondered how law enforcement was tipped off.

Even as Mr. Newman spewed "someone told them" the meaning of the words could not penetrate Mrs. Newman's dumbo-ears and sink into her thick head. Additionally, the dumber than dirt shallow woman had to be told what the implications of a bogus law suit and subsequent criminal conviction can mean. The man she'd have sex with in a heartbeat could likely go to prison.

"After all he's accomplished. To be led off like some crook," she sighed.

Just when most every person within ear shot of this conversation was stepping back for a second and asking themselves, oh my freaking god, what the hell is wrong with these people, Newman snorted that his father is a criminal who deserves to go to prison.

The thunderous noise in her head caused Mrs. Newman to conclude that the freak she married for money must be angry.

"You damn right I'm angry," Newman grunted, placing the blame directly on Victor Newman whom he actually said, "put us all in this situation."

Again, because there isn't a single living or dead thing on the planet dumber than she, Mrs. Newman suggested - for something like the 3,545,444 time - that the family should put aside its differences and come together as the single loving and compassionate unit it professes to be. That is, until it dawned on her - and then only because the weasel told her flat out that he had ratted daddy Newman out - that Nick Newman was admitting it is he responsible for creating another fine mess the Newmans find themselves in.

Indeed, how sad it is when snide little uptight corporate clans like the Abbott Mafioso and the Newman sellouts drain all vitality and blood from its heart for the sake of profit and cosmetics.

Newman steps aside, boy put in charge

December 1, 2003

Facing what he sees as massive litigation, Newman Enterprises king pin Victor Newman has temporarily placed total control of his empire into the hands of his son and heir apparent, business mogul Nick Newman.

The scary decision was made following Newman's assertion that two of his once valued employees are behind allegations that a criminal act was committed when "incentives" to boost product sales were accepted by marketing magician Pete Hudson.

"Only Michael Baldwin and Phyllis Abbott could have done this," Newman snorted, as the transition of power was made Monday at his sprawling horse ranch.

Victoria Newman will oversee her brother's command as a safeguard, but it was unclear whether she will be anything more than a puppet given her simultaneous declaration that Nick Newman hates his father and betrayed the family business by alerting law enforcement of the alleged crime.

Completely in the dark as to his son's betrayal, Newman said he has never felt closer to his son and has every confidence that he can trust the boy again.

"We'll be fighting on the same side. We'll ride out this storm together," Newman added.