No, that is not what he said in the 48 Hours interview. If you go back and watch it, starting around the 29:19 mark, he said he remembered asking MH and the CPS woman to leave his office. He said he went into his office. He said the gun was locked in the safe.
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Who cares? What has this to do with anything ? Are you parroting Lauren’s jealousy over MHG again? Lol
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some call it victim blaming, others call it contributory negligence.
potato, potahto.
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Good question
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MB had had a fairly long term marriage and successful business partnership with Vera. When he divorced Vera, he had to buy out her share of ownership of the business (the $985,000), and lost the business partner that took care of all the pesky business details including (probably) managing high stress clients, enabling him to concentrate on high level competition and training. Sometimes you don’t appreciate what you have until it’s gone.
If he gave up all that (his previous “good life”) to pursue the young and talented MHG, what would be the psychological stress created if she then threatened to leave him if he didn’t “get rid” of LK?
I see no reason to think LK was jealous of MHG, so no, I’m not “parroting” that.
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LKs needling of RC about the gun occurred 6 weeks after the shooting, not before the shooting.
So good someone had to be sent in for a rescue mission and to distract from the fact that someone can’t bring themselves to answer the question.
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Continued grasping for any way to deflect from Lauren’s responsibility and refusal to leave. Why are you so invested in protecting Lauren against what the vast majority of people think of her and her actions?
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It’s not even big league money for one horse. Much less multiple horses plus an apartment.
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You think weirdly IMO
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At the time she went to FL, she was used to paying anywhere from $375 - $450 for full board (stall, grain, hay, daily turnout) in NC. Add a couple hundred a month for an instructor. She had never been at a full dressage training facility in NC prior to FL. I suspect she thought she was paying a small fortune to Michael.
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Maybe she was, by her standards. Not for the rest of the horse world. At the upper levels, anyway.
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It’s not always easy playing dress up.
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Can’t we all make a conscious effort to IGNORE COMPLETELY certain posters? It is the same old, same old x100 and page after page of repetitive nonsense. Why don’t they just start their own thread and leave us alone. This nonsense really drags down the whole thread.
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I’ve answered this before, @Eggbutt.
Based on the evidence in the criminal trial, it’s not clear to me that MB ever asked or told LK to leave. It was clear that MHG wanted LK gone and was pressuring MB to get rid of her, and MBs lawyer stepped in on Aug 5 sending a demand to vacate (although not filing it with the court, because MB still did not want to evict her). But there is no evidence of even claim that MB ever asked or told her to leave.
I won’t respond to your question about my motives for posting on the thread.
Agreed. So when she left NJ and fled to NC, she had to have paid substantially more to board her small herd. Once she moved on to FL, the payout increased even more. She has herself a very expensive hobby with a lot of baggage.
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Clearly, that’s the whole purpose.
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Frontline aka Fritz came before Jay T and I believe was purchased before she started riding with MB.
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The point I’m trying to make is that MB has accountability in what occurred. There were numerous factors causing him a lot of stress and depression. He was managing his business affairs in a haphazard manner. No contracts, trying to barter, allowing ridiculous barn drama to continue instead of taking legal steps to end it. MB was the person who set the board/training amount to LK and the deal to live in the house - he had control of that before she ever stepped foot on the property in 2018 and 2019. He was making poor decisions about repairs and upgrades and apparently not informing SGF.
For instance, when he didn’t pay the gas bill allowing the pipes to freeze and burst in the house, he then got an insurance payout to repair the damages. Instead of hiring a crew to come in and make the repairs which could have been done in a month or less, he decided to keep that money and barter out the repairs and further upgrades to RG. I don’t believe there’s anything wrong with people bartering services, but he didn’t obtain a written contract of what was expected and a timeframe for completion. And look what happened. The work was dragging on for months, he’s not happy about it. The tension is mounting. The other members of SGF may not have known that he collected insurance money and didn’t apply that to immediate repairs. SGF apparently knew nothing about the barter arrangement.
He had interns and/or students living in basement rooms with no emergency exits according to code, and for their safety. He had too many people living in the house and barn without adequate septic systems. He’s cutting corners to save money. He allowed LK and RG back on the farm in the spring of 2019 and as the tensions rose, he and MH involved everyone on the farm in the ridiculous drama, instead of handling it immediately in a professional manner.
No matter how insufferable LK was, he didn’t use the proper legal channels to end it. No matter what LK did to cause CPS to investigate, or fire marshals to investigate, and all the other BS that went on, he was wrong to even drive down to that house to confront LK. But he was delusional by that point and according to the mental experts and the jury he didn’t have criminal responsibility for his actions. I don’t think LK is solely responsible for MB having a mental break. There were many contributing factors in MB’s life leading up to what eventually happened. That doesn’t mean he escapes liability for his actions, no matter how bad LK acted. He went to her, he brandished the gun that RC illegally brought into NJ, LK was shot.
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