Casey Anthony: Heard about Casey World? A new foundation? - Hal

Casey Anthony: Heard about Casey World? A new foundation?
posted by halboedeker on July, 18 2011 7:13 PM

Casey Anthony may be out of sight, but she is not out of mind.

Local stations provided updates this afternoon:

***WFTV-Channel 9’s Mary Nguyen reported that George and Cindy Anthony, Casey’s parents, are setting up a foundation called Caylee’s Fund to focus on grandparents’ rights. Mark Lippman, the couple’s attorney, told WFTV that the Anthonys plan to be the nonprofit’s officers and draw salaries because they are unable to work. Nguyen said the new nonprofit would be separate from the Caylee Marie Anthony Foundation, which will remain active.

***WFTV’s Kathi Belich reported that Casey Anthony boarded a plane owned Todd Macaluso, her former attorney, about 3 a.m. Sunday. “Macaluso is a pilot. No flight plans were filed for his plane from July 12th until yesterday afternoon, when records showit flew from Santa Ana, Calif., to San Carlos, [Calif.],” Belich said.

***WKMG-Channel 6’s Mike DeForest talked to defense attorney Cheney Mason, who said he watched Anthony’s release from an undisclosed location. “The good part is that she’s gone, she’s safe, she’s protected, nobody will find her,” Mason said, adding that she wasn’t at his house.

Mason also said that Anthony had to come out of “Casey World” — her lies about Caylee’s death — to assist her attorneys in her defense. “She’s got a tough row ahead of her,” Mason told DeForest. “But she’ll make it.” Anthony was acquitted two weeks ago of first-degree murder in Caylee’s death.

Mason said psychological counseling was “absolutely mandatory” for Anthony and that she had a breakthrough when a grief expert testified at trial.

“It was like Casey being brought out of Casey World into the real world,” Mason said. “She got quite emotional about, I think, having an introspection of her own conduct and behavior. … She’s having to deal with that. Casey World was changed, and we hoping she doesn’t regress into that dark place of denial and not remembering and not knowing and all the things that apparently were there. She’s quite a kid.”

Mason also talked to NBC’s Kerry Sanders and said that Anthony will stay in touch with only Mason or Jose Baez. Mental health professionals have volunteered to help her, Mason revealed. “She has her family, which she defines as us [the defense team],” Mason said.

Anthony expects nothing from her original family, Mason said. The veteran attorney took a swipe at George and Cindy Anthony for not helping act as decoys during Casey’s release from the Orange County Jail early Sunday.

But Lippman, the attorney for Casey’s parents, told WESH-Channel 2 they refused to be decoys because of safety concerns.

Mason stressed that Anthony isn’t at any of his properties. “We’re asking everybody to leave her alone,” Mason said. He said someone might find her her, but “they won’t be able to talk to her, and when they blink, she’ll be gone,” Mason said.

***WESH talked to Howard Marks, the attorney for Roy Kronk, the meter reader who found Caylee Anthony’s remains. Kronk is suing bounty hunter Leonard Padilla for defamation.

“For him [Kronk] to have go through the trashing that’s occurred in the national media by people like Padilla is simply unacceptable,” Marks said. Marks hinted that more suits could be coming against people who bashed Kronk.

***In talking to WKMG, Mason also said he has experience as an entertainment lawyer and could coordinate any future deals.

What do you think about these developments?

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