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February 1, 2007

Station: Michael Derderian heads to lawyer's office

The wife of Station co-owner Michael Derderian's told the grand jury that Derderian went to his lawyer's office even before going home after returning from vacation the day after the fire.

Kristina Link said she and Derderian were in Florida the night of the Feb. 20, 2003, fire. They flew back separately, she testified in her grand jury testimony released today, and she picked up Derderian at the airport at 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 21.

"And when you picked him up, where did you bring him?" the prosecutor asks Link, who is now Kristina Derderian.

"We took his son to his father's house and then we went to his lawyer's office," she said.

"And when you say you went to the lawyer's office, which lawyer was that?" the prosecutor asks.

"Kathleen Hagerty," Link says.

"So you and Michael went to Kathleen Hagerty's office and that was on Friday evening?" the prosecutor asks.

"Yes."

Later in her testimony, Link says that Jeffrey Derderian and his wife, Linda, also attended the meeting in Hagerty's office. Besides Link, no one else was there, she says.

"And are you prepared to talk about the substance of what was discussed at the meeting?" the prosecutor asks.

"On the advice of counsel I refuse to discuss or divulge what was discussed at that meeting because it involves confidential attorney/client communications," Links says.

Posted by Steve Peoples  at 10:33 AM | Permalink

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