Flashback 2023 - SF authorities released without prosecuting the accused killers - caught on his own camera - of high profile investigator and lawyer Jack Palladino. No one seems to know what he was investigating at the time of his death in 2021 - his last case before joining his wife in retirement. He died without completing it.
Palladino's clients includedBill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign (containing the "bimbo eruption"), which hired him to thwart women who were coming forward to claim they had had sex with the future president.
He was the investigator for the family of a14-year-old boy who won a multimillion-dollar settlement from Michael Jacksonafter accusing the entertainer of molesting him.
In the Jeffrey Wigand case, Palladino uncovered a deliberate campaign by Big Tobacco to smear the former executive for Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. after his allegations became public thattobacco products were spiked with chemicals to make them more addictive.Palladino also went on to play himself in "The Insider," the 1999 film about the case.
For DeLorean, he discovered that the former General Motors executive had beenset up by authorities, who had charged him with trafficking millions of dollars in cocainein what they said was a failed effort to prop up his failing DeLorean Motor Co. DeLorean was acquitted.
The family of Patty Hearst hired him to assist in her 1974 kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
He spent 7 years investigating the 1978 mass suicide of more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple religious cult, interviewing surviving members and their families.
After S.F. porn king Jim Mitchell killed his brother Artie in 1991, Palladino was hired by Jim Mitchell’s defense team and worked alongside private investigator Eric Mason in the sensational murder case.
Rocker Courtney Love hired Palladino to talk to journalists investigating whether she played a role in the 1994 death of her husband, singer Kurt Cobain.
In 2017, as movie mogul Weinstein’s sexual misconduct allegations percolated, the New Yorker detailed how an “army of spies” employed by lawyers worked to squelch victims from speaking. Palladino was one of them. (Though his step son said he drew the line if they found abuse victims.)
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Palladino's murder
Palladino rushed outside his home in the Haight last Thursday to take a picture of the gold Acura when the car turned around, pulled alongside him and a passenger attempted to wrestle the camera from the detective…
He was dragged about 40 feet down the road when the Acura accelerated, with the passenger holding onto the camera strap still wrapped around the detective, prosecutors said. Palladino fell backward and struck his head, suffering a fractured skull.
Tyjone Flournoy, 23, and Lawrence Thomas, 24, we're detained. Pic related.
They both had long rap sheets - attempted robbery, attempted murder…
Loud mouth S.F. politicians said they wouldn't walk, but they did:
“Let’s dispel the myth right now that there are no consequences for committing crimes in San Francisco,”[Mayor London] Breed said.
Yet 2 years after Palladino died from his head injuries, thecharges against his accused killers were dropped.
Murder case dropped in 2021 death of famed private investigator Jack Palladino
2/2/23 SF —Prosecutors in San Francisco have dropped all charges against two men accused in the murder of famed private investigator Jack Palladino two years ago, citing a lack of evidence.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/investigations/murder-case-dropped-in-2021-death-of-famed-private-investigator-palladino/103-db84f941-dc2c-4f47-9fce-9295a8d4a726
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/court-documents-reveal-new-details-about-famed-detectives-death/2457524/
https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives/prosecutors-reveal-new-details-in-fatal-attack-on-private-detective/article_a98b0bfb-f8b2-5436-a709-7d9327232a98.html
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/storied-s-f-private-detective-jack-palladino-on-15909989.php