Peter Pfabe returns

Peter Pfabe (or Peter Graves?) reflects on the errors of his ways

Last I heard about this man, he had plead guilty and was headed for jail. Specifically, Pfabe pled guilty to mail and wire fraud in exchange for a $200,000 forfeiture and a prison term. He was released just 4 days ago and now that he has access to a computer again, he’s already complaining about what we wrote about him at the time of his plea. I’m happy to prominently post his protest, but I have no idea what he thinks I did to misrepresent the facts or besmirch his character. Perhaps he’ll clarify.

Mr. Fountain:
You and I have had our differences before, I have kept our written remarks in a file only because I found it so unlike a professional journalist to break his promise. Water under the bridge and no longer important.

What is important, however, are your remarks of March 7, 2012. I was, as you can imagine, somewhat preoccupied at the time and did not have time to discuss this matter with you earlier.

Your remarks — might I suggest calumny — fell far short of accurate, as they have before. This time, however, they fall far closer–one might say they fall into–an area of libel.

You might imagine that while in the “pokey” and in particular the “pokey” I went to, one has the opportunity to discuss such matters with some rather under-worked attorneys. Nothing quite like the law library in the “pokey.”
Mr. Fountain, asking you to revise the posting of March 7, 2012 would require you to do some actual research which you won’t do; asking you to repost it with accurate statements would highlight your inaccuracies to your “public” which you also won’t do; which leaves a final suggested route: remove the posting altogether. If history is any guide, you may SAY you will remove the post, but you won’t, and then merely poke fun once again at me and my ex-wife.

All of wihich leaves me in a position I find unpleasant. I would rather not have to request the posting of March 7, 2012 be removed, but I would rather you do your research considerably better. I have learned enough about you to know that there is only one route this will take–I wonder if you will prove me wrong.

Mr. Fountain, bottom line: Either the posting is removed with immediate effect, or I will endeavor to have it removed with a most prominent apology.

Sincerely,
Peter Pfabe