more Danton

Last I checked this was the hockey board and not R&R3.

 

Saddam ?

 

Frost's tactic - make Danton look like a nut job:




ESPN.com news services
ST. LOUIS -- The agent for Mike Danton claims the Blues forward exhibited "delusional" behavior prior to allegedly organizing a murder-for-hire plot, USA Today reported Thursday.




David Frost, who has denied media reports labeling him as the target of Danton's alleged scheme, told the paper that he had sat down with Danton to discuss what Frost believed was abuse of painkillers and sleeping pills.


According to the report, Frost said that Danton had been struggling with a shoulder injury since February and was "eating pills" [taking large quantities] to overcome the pain.


"I told him, 'I'm going to go to the doctor and tell them you can't play,' " Frost told the paper. "He's begging me not to do that."


Frost also told the paper that he found Danton screaming in his bedroom, drenched with sweat, on the night before the Blues' final playoff road trip to San Jose.


"Halfway to his room I thought someone had got into the apartment," Frost said. "I opened his door, and he's screaming. He was soaked like someone had poured a bucket of water over his head."


Frost said that Danton insisted that someone he knew was in there with a gun and he made Frost check the locks on the door.


"He was completely petrified," Frost told the paper.


According to the report, Frost said he told Danton that the Blues needed to know what was going on, but Danton convinced him to hold off until after the next game. The following night, Danton is alleged to have tried to hire a hitman to murder someone coming from Canada to kill Danton over some debts.

 

ESPN reported over the weekend that Frost was the target...per the prosecutors.

 

Hes SO guilty. I bet this ends up on the Springer show.

 

Like anyone that tries to kill someone DOESN'T have psych problems. TFB if he does.


The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that Mike Danton's attorney Robert Haar is trying again to get the St. Louis Blues player moved from jail to a secure medical facility to be evaluated for possible psychological, medical or addiction problems. The paper reports that Haar filed papers Tuesday seeking to have Danton's detention order revoked or amended.
Haar wants a second opinion from another federal judge after U.S. Magistrate Judge Clifford J. Proud ordered Danton jailed until trial at a bond hearing Friday. Citing a conversation between Danton and his alleged target, Haar said the conversation showed why Danton needs evaluation and treatment.
The written motion provides Haar with the opportunity to cite legal precedents that he believes show that Danton has been unfairly detained. The Post Dispatch also reports he noted that Danton's alleged accomplice, Katie Wolfmeyer, 19, of Florissant, is out on bond.
Danton, 23, is charged with two counts arising from an alleged murder-for-hire scheme.
Federal prosceutors said Friday that Danton plotted to kill his agent David Frost for at least six months and tried at least three times to hire a hit man.

Frost has continued to deny that he was the person Danton wanted killed.

 

Somebody needs to get that kid the hell away from Frost tout suite--and it sounds like lawyerdude is trying to do just that.

 

Looks like he's staying right where he is. No trips back to Canada anytime soon.


EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - St. Louis Blues forward Mike Danton was ``too cowardly'' to kill his agent himself, instead enlisting a teenage fan and occasional lover to do his bidding before the scheme unravelled, according to a federal prosecutor.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Clark also expressed concern that Danton, if freed, could continue seeking to have agent David Frost killed.
In a sharply worded brief Tuesday seeking to keep Danton behind bars - as has been the case since his arrest April 16 - Clark alleged that Danton's other bids to have Frost slain could spawn more charges.
``His attempts to have Frost murdered on prior occasions evidence an ebb and flow of desire,'' Clark wrote. ``If he is released, it is possible that he will again attempt to have Frost murdered, apparently depending on how his relationship with Frost fares in the future.''
The written submission was made in advance of a hearing Friday before a federal judge on whether Danton, a native of Brampton, Ont., should be released on bail pending trial.


Clark called Danton's flight risk ``substantial,'' saying the athlete presumably has the cash to easily slip back to Canada by crossing ``what, for him, as a Canadian citizen, is practically an unrestricted border.''
Danton's lawyer, Bob Haar, did not immediately return messages Thursday.
Danton's contract with the Blues ends next month, meaning his only real tie to the St. Louis area could vanish if he's not re-signed, Clark wrote.
``(Danton) must recognize, in the face of the indictment and other potential charges against him, that his professional hockey career will be over if he is convicted,'' Clark wrote. ``While it is interesting to speculate whether or not he could continue his career if acquitted, in reality the evidence in this case is overwhelming.''
The government alleges that Danton, 23, and 19-year-old Katie Wolfmeyer, of the St. Louis suburb of Florissant, conspired to arrange a hit April 14 at Danton's apartment in Brentwood, Mo.
Authorities allege that Wolfmeyer, at Danton's urging, contacted a man they thought would kill Frost; instead, the man went to Columbia, Ill., police, who informed the FBI.
``Too cowardly to commit the murder himself, Danton enlisted the help of a teenager to arrange the murder,'' Clark wrote, describing Wolfmeyer as a ``fan and occasional lover of Danton.''


Danton and Wolfmeyer have pleaded not guilty.
The FBI has alleged that Danton was concerned that his intended target - now identified as Frost - planned to go to the Blues with information that could damage his career. Frost has said he urged Danton to get help for his use of painkillers and sleeping pills and his erratic behaviour.


Describing Danton as emotionally tormented, Danton's lawyer has argued that a 40-minute government tape illustrates the urgency of Danton's need for psychological help that he is not getting in jail.

In the tape, Danton sobs and begs for help, expresses thoughts of suicide, and says, ``I can't go on,'' ``I can't do this anymore,'' and ``I'm sick in the head.''


Clark suggested the tape merely shows a man anguished about being caught.
``The tape that Danton describes as one that expresses a troubled mind, in reality reflects that Danton knew his world was collapsing around him,'' Clark wrote. ``It was in the face of these accusations that Danton broke down and started sobbing - a natural reaction of guilt in the face of accusation by his alleged surrogate father and intended victim.''
But Clark countered that Danton's ``proposed plan for release and treatment is bogus,'' and that any of Danton's supposed medical or mental treatment can be supplied in prison.


``While incarcerated he has expressed no serious medical needs, psychological needs or prescription needs to jail personnel that would require immediate attention,'' Clark wrote.

 

Check out the first article on http://www.dantoncase.com with excerpts of the Danton-Frost phone call...Frost was trying to talk in code but Danton told him to stop because he didn't understand the code. Maybe they should have tried Pig Latin.

Meanwhile, in another article a teammate says he saw Danton e-mailing Frost from the locker room -- during intermission -- from a bathroom stall! And the hits just keep on coming...

 

This is just too weird. Danton tries to whack Frost and here Frost is, lobbying for him.


Calgary — National Hockey League player agent David Frost contacted most of the members of the St. Louis Blues last month, soliciting money to hire another lawyer for his troubled client Mike Danton.
The Globe and Mail has confirmed that Mr. Frost, who has been identified as the target of Mr. Danton's alleged murder-for-hire plot, sent faxes and left telephone messages for the players, saying in one that he wasn't "asking for $50,000, though that would be nice."

Mr. Frost even approached a high-profile defence lawyer, David Chesnoff of Las Vegas, to ask if he would take on the case — despite the fact that Mr. Danton was already represented at the time by St. Louis attorney Bob Haar, who was retained shortly after Mr. Danton's arrest April 16.

Mr. Haar couldn't be reached for comment yesterday, nor could Mr. Frost, but Mr. Chesnoff confirmed that he had been contacted by the controversial agent and that he had mentioned setting up a trust fund for donations.

"I told him that Mr. Danton is in great hands," Mr. Chesnoff said, calling Mr. Haar a first-rate lawyer with an impeccable reputation.

None of the Blues players donated money, Globe sources say, but this does not reflect a lack of concern for their 23-year-old teammate. Several players have attended each of his court appearances to show their support for Mr. Danton.

A source close to Mr. Chesnoff said that to the lawyer's knowledge, no funds have been deposited in a trust.

Until ordered by a court not to make contact, Mr. Frost was in constant touch with Mr. Danton, who remains in a Clinton County jail cell awaiting trial on the two conspiracy charges that could see him and Katie Wolfmeyer, the 19-year-old St. Louis teenager accused of being his accomplice, each spend 10 years in prison if convicted.

Sources close to the hockey team told The Globe that about two or three weeks ago Mr. Frost was phoning and faxing the players.

On May 15, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Reagan first forbade Mr. Frost to contact Mr. Danton.

That order, which did allow Mr. Frost's wife and children to talk to the hockey player, was stiffened a week later to ban members of Mr. Frost's family and another of his NHL clients, Sheldon Keefe, as well.

The broader order followed the playing in open court of several recorded conversations between Mr. Frost and Mr. Danton, which prompted prosecutor Stephen Clark to tell Judge Reagan that the two were "conspiring to obstruct justice to conjure up a phony defence" and Mr. Haar to describe Mr. Frost as "the dominant person in this relationship" and the "one directing that things be done."

A spokesman for the assistant U.S. attorney's office said yesterday that no additional charges in the case had been laid.

The revelation of Mr. Frost's latest actions has left Steve Jefferson, Mr. Danton's biological father, dismayed.

Mr. Danton, who has known Mr. Frost since he was a boy of 10 and played for him as a coach for years, is estranged from Steve and Sue Jefferson. He legally changed his name from Mike Jefferson to Michael Sage Danton two years ago.

The Jeffersons, who haven't been able to speak to their oldest son or those who are looking out for him now, are near frantic with worry.

Because Mr. Danton is an adult, his lawyer and Brian Shaw, the NHL Players' Association psychologist who has been visiting him in prison, are obliged to follow his directions on any release of information about his situation.

As a result, Mr. Danton's parents and brother Tom are almost completely in the dark about his well-being.

At the May 21 court appearance, Mr. Haar told Judge Reagan that Mr. Danton may be suicidal and has been "emotionally isolated" by the effect of no-contact orders with those who have formed his support group.

Mr. Danton is tentatively to go to trial on July 20, with Ms. Wolfmeyer's trial set to begin a week earlier.