Yoko's Driver Shifts Gears, Cops a Plea
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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
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The man accused of trying to blackmail Yoko Ono has decided to give a plea a chance.
Koral Karsan pleaded guilty Friday in New York State Supreme Court to a lesser charge of third-degree attempted grand larceny and was sentenced to 60 days in jail.
Karsan, who worked for Ono for at least six years, originally pleaded not guilty to a first-degree charge of trying to extort $2 million frm the singer, but his plea deal only required him to admit to threatening to embarrass Ono unless she paid him "more than $3,000."
Reading his confession aloud in court, Karsan said that, on Dec. 8, 2006, which happened to be the 26th anniversary of John Lennon's murder, he gave Ono a letter telling her, "if you want all of these recordings, emails, conversations and memories to vanish frm the face of the earth and never hear frm me again, all you have to do is send me an amount more than $3,000." |
