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[Music] [Music] The Hamptons is a playground for the rich and the famous couple hours from
Manhattan money runs like water fancy cars huge Estates security gates seclusion in October of 2001 Ted Ammon
was brutally murdered in his East Hampton [Music] Mansion there was nothing that was
really Disturbed in the house there was no ransacking the perpetrators had opened
up the door to the bedroom walked in and approached the bed this was an individual sleeping somebody who's
jumped on and doesn't have a chance to do much fighting back he was beaten about the head and probably fairly early
on in the assault was dragged off the bed the individual over him is literally raining blows down on his head until he
struck some 30 to 35 times which is a conservative estimate Ted Ammon I thought he was the
greatest he's the All-American guy 6'4 goodlooking smart got a personality that'll knock your socks off this guy's
doing Billion Dollar Deals it's not surprising generos ended up with a person like Ted Ammon it fits the
profile of the the person that she had been looking for generosa was my first cousin we grew up together in California
there was never a doubt in my mind that josa would succeed when she went to New York Ted saw that fire in her eye don't
really think that he knew what he was getting in for I sincerely think that they were very happy together at first I
think they were best friends they were partners and then it just got uglier and uglier
she was every bluecollar guy's dream she was a woman divorcing in a prime of her life she had everything
going for a guy like me Danny Pelosi walked into generosa's life just from nowhere I walked in I got a beer at the
bar and the BART tender looked at me and he says hey buddy I think you're in the
wrong place Danny and generosa come on he's a street guy you kidding me I was in love
with this woman Ted ammon's dead there's a lot of money at play my first thought
when I heard about the murder was where were the children that's what went through my
mind this story has everything it's got murder Mega Bucks anger Affairs it's got
glamour it's got poverty it's got revenge and an ending you won't believe it it was the princess and the POA let
me turn back into a frog please it's easier to be a frog murder in the Hamptons [Applause]
[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] it has all the ingredients of a Hollywood drama a horror story in a
fairy tale setting complete with love and hate money and murder it's a good story it's a big story I mean bad news
is a good story Kieran Crowley a reporter for the New York Post has written a book Almost Paradise about the
murder of Ted Ammon this guy was tall dark and handsome he was brilliant Ted Ammon had a middle class childhood spent
side by side with his sister Sandy he loved playing the trumpet he breezed through Bucknell
college as a frat boy and lacrosse player he married and moved to London to practice law he was so sharp that he had
a tutor and he studied for and took and passed the bar exams without going to law school that's how smart he was when
his first marriage ended less than 10 years later Ted was looking for an apartment in New York City he booked an
appointment with a real estate agent named generosa Rand he didn't show up he was being flaky he blew her off she
called him the next morning and basically cursed him out and said you know who do you think you are generosa
was tough and outspoken and Ted Ammon wanted to meet her in person she told him I'm not really a real estate agent
you know I'm an artist and a photographer and he found her fascinating she was charming and Sparks
flew right away they met on kind of rough terms generosa's Cousin Al Le gay I think when they got together they were
they were they were pretty pretty interesting couple because they're both strong people Ted and generosa married
in 1986 Ted went on to make tens of millions of dollars on Wall Street before he quit that was when he and
generosa adopted 2-year-old twins from the Ukraine did they seem happy seemed extremely
happy a few years later the Ammons abruptly left New York to move into this rambling Stone Manor House in the
English Countryside she was trying to pull Ted out of New York City in the very busyness of his life Ed Meyer was
one of generosa's lawyers she persuaded him to start to relax to enjoy the family enjoy the English Countryside but
the couple didn't enjoy it for very long Ted took frequent trips back to New York
and josa became convinced they were not all for business she began telling friends Ted was having an affair by the
summer of 2000 they were both back in Manhattan but living separately generosa had filed for divorce and was looking
for more than $1 million a year in living expenses between 150,000 a month was not that much believe it or not when
you're talking about that kind of income josa evidently wanted to hurt Ted and not just financially she was in the
business of riling up riling up her husband before the divorce was Final she found a new boyfriend Danny Pelosi and
he was everything Ted was not she came from a world of enormous wealth been to every
continent and I've been to FL [Laughter] yeah it all started in the fall of 2000
when generosa hired Danny to supervise the multi-million dollar renovation of her new
townhouse I ended up staying at the job instead of driving all the way back to Long Island and one morning generosa
showed up and found me sleeping in the truck and she said none of her work is sleep in the truck she turned around and
said you come stay at the stand hope I'll get you a room to stand St hope the Stan hope is one of the swankiest hotels
in New York generosa and her two children were living there during the renovation of course I was flirting I
was in the middle of a divorce and this was a very attractive elegant lady who told me she was getting
divorced she told me she hadn't had sex in 2 years before long the two were dating
his sister Barbara watched as the woman who had everything decided she had to have Danny she was crazy about Danny
that was the first thing I picked up on right away but they were a good match they were perfect match I thought
because she was very good to him and she genuinely cared about him and just to think she wanted something to do with me
blew me away it was the biggest ego trip in the world Danny Pelosi is a high school dropout and former drug and
alcohol abuser with a wrap sheet filled mostly with drinking and driving charges
but things were looking up he'd no longer have to worry about drinking or driving the next thing I knowed I was
driving around in a limousine putting a wine menu in front of me that's not even
written in English you know I drink Bud Light it's that easy that summer Danny became a fixture
in the Hamptons did he look funny in that mansion in East Hampton he didn't know
what to do he didn't know how to act he would sit out there sometimes on the front porch with his cell phone and his
coffee and say to me can you believe this can you believe we're here did you fall in love with her I mean were did
you love her yes yes I absolutely did I absolutely fell in love with her but generosa's divorce from Ted Ammon was
consuming most of her time by the summer of 2001 the world's worst divorce the divorce from hell now for like a year
and a half they had no communication between each other instead Danny says the Ammons used private detectives to
find out what they needed to know it was like spy versus spy there generos spy on
Ted Ted spy on generosa there were people falling out of the trees at the beach house somebody fell out of the
trees yeah video recording what were they recording me and generos in the backyard that'll ruin the moment oh yeah
oh yeah right there but the real victims by all accounts were Ted and generosa's
two children the parents were so involved in the divorce they forgot about the kids and it wasn't fair it
wasn't right by October 2001 after more than a year of bitter feuding Ted and josa Ammon were close to settling
generosa would get about $25 million I think he wanted to get it over with and they all needed to get it over
with but just before the divorce papers were to be signed Ted Ammon was found bludgeon to Death In His East Hampton
mansion and the investigation began [Applause] shortly after 5 in the afternoon on
October 22nd 2001 Ted ammon's battered naked body was found in his East Hampton Mansion the entire assault probably took
place in less than 5 minutes prosecutor Janet Albertson he had clearly had covers or bedding thrown over him you
can see the smears from the blood stains on the side of the mattress and on the frame he's got defensive wounds to the
backs of his hands which clearly indicated that he had been down on his hands and knees at some point with his
hands over his head moving back and forth to try to protect himself there were far more potential suspects than
there were solid leads there was Ted ammon's ex-wife there was also his girlfriend who was one of the last
people to see him alive and there was the business partner who discovered ammon's body but it didn't take long
before police focused their attention where they usually do on the spouse in this case a very angry very scorned
generosa Ammon she despised him Danny's Sister Barbara saw the hatred this was an ugly divorce this was a ugly divorce
but Dany was also a suspect especially when police found out that he was the one who'd hired a company company to
install a video surveillance system in the East Hampton Mansion which Ted Ammon used when generosa wasn't there did he
say where he wanted the cameras put he left that basically up to me but he wanted a general location making sure
all the certain areas were covered this here is a live the system was installed by John cundle 6 months before the
murder it allowed Danny and generosa to watch whatever was going on inside the house even at moments like this when Ted
Ammon thought no one was watching all they had to do was log on to their remote laptop computers all I know is
that you went to the thing you hit beach house and boom there was the beach house
that's what I know but he says the system was installed because generosa wanted to spy on Ted as their divorce
got more and more nasty the system was installed originally to prove that Ted was
removing items from the house but police started to wonder if Danny and generosa
could see when Ted Ammon was alone in the house would they know when to make their move I have to ask you this
because people have have said this about you and this is an awward I did not murder Ted Ammon you knew what the
question was I know what the question was I've been trying to scream it since day one but Danny was a suspect from day
one because the heart of the surveillance system a computer heart hard drive that records images from the
cameras had been removed from its hiding place in a remote part of the house the
first thing you have to say is who would have known it was there uh much less known how to remove it I never had
anything to hide but Danny claims he has an alibi for the night Ted Ammon was murdered he can prove he drove out from
Manhattan to Long Island very late Saturday night to attend a wedding the next day he stopped at his sister's
house which is about an hour from East Hampton where Ted Ammon was killed I know that he arrived at 120 at about 2
a.m. Dany met up with a friend he says they went out for beer Barbara's daughter Kelly remembers hearing Danny
come home a little later did you talk to him yeah he wanted to know where the blankets were so he can go to sleep and
you looked at the clock yeah and what time was it it said three I don't remember the other two numbers clear at
all but I just know for a fact that the first number was they were not in or around the vicinity
of Middle Lane and East Hampton at the time Ted Ammon was murdered we had what I viewed as NTI Alibi for both of them
but Danny and generoso remained the focus of scrutiny and suspicion and soon they gave everyone even more to talk
about generosa the wealthy Widow and Dany her blue collar boyfriend got married in January of 2002 just 3 months
after Ted ammon's murder did you worry about about how it would look no I had nothing to worry about did she worry
about how it would look no no n know and then generosa surprised everyone when she moved with her two
kids to Danny's Hometown Center mariches a nice town but hardly a Millionaire's playground bu of crazy kids she wanted
her kids to have a family she wanted me to be around my kids my kids lived 5 minutes from here all she wanted was a
family she wanted him to be close to his family Joanne mat who was generosa's full-time housekeeper says her boss was
happy with her new life long as she was with Danny she didn't care if she was in
East Hampton over there it didn't matter to her she was happy put buddy on the boogy
board but the fun would soon end it was mindblowing it was Earth shattering it was unbelievable just
months after they were married generosa learned she was dying of breast cancer she was just
46 it was just like what else can go wrong how are these kids going to make it through this not just me Joanne says
generosa and Dany tried to make the best of the time they had left he got along great she thought he was really funny
they would play Scrabble all day long because now she was getting you know she was sick but
the investigation was continuing and generosa and Dany were now the prime suspects it wasn't long before their
marriage started to fall apart under the pressure of it all everything was going
haywi in July of 2003 after a year and a half of marriage generosa left Dany and
moved with her two children back to the East Hampton Mansion where she would spend the last weeks of her life even
after she was sick she wanted to make sure that Dany was protected because her words to me was this was my husband and
my life Danny had nothing to do with this and I'll make sure that Dany is always protected josa Ammon died in
August of 2003 leaving Dany as the lone suspect I was freaking out I was freaking out big
time because that's when I realized this is real it was part of her wish it was part of
her talks that we had it made perfect sense to Danny Pelosi at the time going to the stanh
Hope Hotel for a farewell drink with his wife's ashes she told me to take her remains and go to the bar and sit in the
booth that we sat in every night she told you she wanted you to do that she told me just like I'm telling you right
now did that seem weird to you generosa was different she was different photographer Robert calus
found Dany sitting in a booth drinking a beer that's the box for the ashes yeah is Garden State Crematory and there was
a guess it was a wedding ring set up on the napkin and he ordered her a drink yep cin paon go let cigarette
there when the New York Post ran the picture the next day Danny started to have some regrets were you embarrassed
by that was I embarrassed by that picture they showed yes absolutely but Danny Pelosi would soon
have a lot more than his image to worry about do you look over your shoulder for
cops I don't have to look over my shoulder they fly over my house they drive by my house they harass my family
they harass my friends Danny had become the lead suspect in the murder of Ted Ammon ultimately when you looked at
everything together it just always came back to him finally in March 2004 after a 2 and 1/2 year investigation Danny
Pelosi was arrested and charged with murder we had some pretty powerful circumstantial evidence uh but we you
know did not have but no Smoking Gun you didn't have DNA didn't have fingerprints
didn't have blood and by no means was this a slam dunk good morning Danny Pelosi hired one of the best defense
lawyers money can buy Jerry charel you know he may not speak The King's English and and he doesn't
have a PhD and in fact he's a high school dropout but uh uh he's not a killer I ain't do
nothing there was no physical evidence linking him to the murder no forensics no Witnesses and charel insists that
Dany who was only generosa's boyfriend at the time of the murder had no motive because he had no right to ammon's
wealth I will tell you that there was absolutely no motive here there was no Financial motive and there was no other
motive of any kind there were a lot of people out there that had a lot more to benefit from Ted ammon's death than
Danny in fact according to attorney Ed Meyer Danny actually got along with Ted Ammon he liked Ted Ammon I know he liked
Ted Ammon but everyone knew generosa hated Ted Ammon in fact she hated him so much
she didn't want his family caring for her twins after her death generosa had no family of her own she was raised an
orphan her mother died of breast cancer when generosa was just 10 her father was
an Italian sailor she never met eventually she was taken in by Al Le's family when I remember her as a little
girl she had a pretty traumatic tragic life when she left here and she went to New York
it was like she closed that chapter of her life as she entered the final chapter of her life generosa had to pick
a guardian for her children she thought Dany was unsuitable so that left only one person a 57-year-old British Nanny k
m do the kids like her no they tell you that yes Dany spoke to generosa about how the kids felt about Kay it I'm very
upset more upset than you know Danny had a habit of recording his private conversations he says to protect
himself legally I'm very concerned for your children it's not good it's not good at all Danny you seem to forget I'm
so alive these are my children I make the decisions about my children they've lost their father not in losing their
mother I'm not going to allow them kids to be raised like you are I'm not Danny you and I don't how to raise
children I'm not raising my children or you raise your children take carries out
my wishes with my children period when generosa Ammon died in August of 2003 she took the answers to a
lot of questions with her to the Grave is it possible that generosa who made no secret of her hatred for Ted Ammon could
have done this let's ask that question again is is it tough to answer go with that question again
there's a certain amount of logic to that I mean here's logic logic there's and the next thing you know what they're
going to say I had part of it well okay I'll ask you that did she ask you for help I have nothing to say that's not
the same as saying no I have nothing to say but prosecutor Janet Albertson insists
Dany had a lot to say which was great for her not so great for him he was his Own Worst Enemy as far as I'm concerned
uh he did a lot of talking and of course anytime a defendant does a lot of talking it's it's not good for him it's
good for the people let's go to trial I have had nothing to hide [Music] so this is a very sweet photo yeah and
there he's giggling he's never seen his father no only pictures his father's never seen him nope last year when Danny
Pelosi was arrested for murdering Ted Ammon and jailed to await trial he was trying to move on with his life he was
expecting a new baby with his new fiance Jennifer zolnowski what's it like here by yourself it's
horrible everything I see reminds me of him but now there is another woman in his life Janet Albertson the prosecutor
Danny Pelosi is a is a drinker he's a gambler he's a petty Thief Albertson can call him whatever she likes proving he's
a murderer is a little more difficult we're happy to be finally underway in this case and we're hoping that the jury
sees through the defense [Music] as the trial begins all Albertson has is a lot of circumstantial evidence to
offer as proof that Dany killed for one of the oldest reasons in the world money
I think that money is certainly at the top of the list and not a very exotic motive is it no most murders aren't for
exotic motives except in novels the jurors have no trouble believing that he saw a future with generosa a rich one
that would be richer with Ted Ammon out of the picture he wasn't willing to give
it up it was all about the money all about the money they can see why Pelosi might have
wanted ten Amon killed but it's a little harder to convince them how he could have done it you didn't have anything
that said absolutely he was there at that time or around that time when the murder occurred so who says Danny Pelosi
was at the murder scene according to to Janet Albertson one very important person Dany himself who she says
confessed to a number of people I think he was his Own Worst Enemy and he's the only one who didn't realize it but don't
you have to be awfully stupid to admit to a murder yes that's why the defendants are presumed to be innocent
not intelligent stupid people do stupid things and that's how we catch them the jurors heard from a devastating parade
of witnesses a contractor Danny worked with said Pelos was talking about killing Ted Ammon a full year before the
murder Danny's ex-girlfriend testified he confessed to her and said Ammon quote cried like a [ __ ] during the beating
she said when she asked Danny why he did it he said because I have a monster in me but this man may be the most damaging
witness of all it's not just what he says it's who he is Danny Pelosi own father is a witness for the prosecution
Pelosi's father testifies that Dany asked him just hours after the murder how to dispose of something where no one
could find it the prosecution thinks Dany was trying to get rid of evidence from the crime scene especially that
hard drive with all those pictures from the night of the murder that unit recorded 24 hours a day so of course it
would have recorded the image of the murderer coming in going out and removing all of the evidence from the
house how do you feel when you see him I love him but for jurors it isn't what his
father said that was most telling it was what Dany said as his father was leaving
the courtroom Dany snarled at him in front of the jury and said I hate him you saw that you saw Dan Danny snap at
his father what effect did that have on you that had a tremendous effect on me not not just his relationship with his
father but his the anger and the rage that that suddenly came up just like that in 35
years of being a criminal defense lawyer um I never saw a father come in voluntarily as he testified and give
evidence against his Sony birthday to you happy birthday to you Jerry charel argues and his father
have a LoveHate relationship have you my even P GES these pictures were taken at a
family reunion just one month after the murder but charel points out it was a full year before dany's father took his
story to the police and charel tells the jurors that each of the witnesses had a
reason to lie about Dany confessing no one has come in here without an ax to grind um an agenda that's hidden or not
a motive uh to falsify do you believe Danny was capable of doing this now I don't another relative Danny's Sister
Barbara was subpoena by the prosecution generosa had hired her to monitor the surveillance system on her laptop and
spy on Ted in the Mansion she says she saw something suspicious earlier in the evening during a routine check and that
when Dany arrived the night of the murder she asked him to log on and check it out I think I
heard Danny because I told him to go on the computer that night because he honestly did not ask me to turn it on
but Albertson says Dany had his own reasons for logging on to the computer that night I think what he wanted to
know was was first of all when T Amon was at the house I think he also had an interest in
knowing whether anybody else was there we would like the opportunity to present the jury Janet Albertson has spent weeks
telling her side of the story now it's Jerry Shell's turn to tell his don't um you know rush to judgment um don't make
any snap judgments wait until you see the whole case charel hammers away at the fact that there is no evidence that
Pelosi was even at the crime scene Ted Ammon died at a time when Danny Pelosi by the prosecution's
own evidence evidence that you heard earlier this week was not on Eastern Long Island and and uh as far as I'm
concerned that's the case Ted Ammon ate dinner at this restaurant paid for his meal and left at
around 9:30 p.m. he then went to a beach near his house at 9:44 Ammon made what could be the last phone call of his life
to his girlfriend he said he saw something that scared him and he was heading back home that phone call is the
Cornerstone of char gel's defense some of us might walk into a bad neighborhood feel uncomfortable and leave that's one
thing but uh to have what seemed to be a confrontation or near confrontation I think is significant charel says someone
could have followed Ammon home from the beach and killed him the timing of the call fits neatly in to char gel's Theory
time of death is somewhere around 3 to 4 hours after the consumption of the food
according to charel Star witness Dr Werner Spitz a world-renowned scientist there was still enough undigested food
in ammon's stomach to prove he could not have lived more than 4 hours after eating Dr Spitz insists Ted Ammon was
dead by 1:00 a.m. and charel proves Dany was miles away from East Hampton during
that time his cell phone records show he was driving from Manhattan to his sister's
house of course the prosecution's medical experts say Ammon could have been alive much later giving Pelosi
time to get to him when do you think Ted Ammon was killed I think that probably the closest estimate I could give would
be around 3:00 in the morning but as the trial wears on All Eyes turned to the one expert who really
knows if Danny could have killed Ted Ammon Danny Pelosi himself he's feeling the pressure as he told me in a phone
call from jail I'm afraid to look at the jury I'm afraid I'm afraid to do anything why cuz I'm too emotional
everyone says I'm too emotional and everybody also says he talks too much there's no sensor relief
let's go to trial I had nothing to hide we all know I didn't do nothing here but
now he says he'll be quiet for once and he won't take the stand in his own defense I'm going to follow the advice
of my attorney because it looks like I don't even have to testify at this point but can Danny Pelosi really keep
his mouth shut what do you think all of a sudden at about 4:00 in the afternoon there he was sitting on the stand
talking to [Music] us a late and surprising development in the Daniel Pelosi murder trial WCB today
was the day Jerry charel hoped to hand his case over to the jurors thanks but there's a surprise witness one charel
never wanted to call Danny Pelosi who decided against Char gel's advice to take the stand is there something that
you do as an experienced lawyer um on mornings like this before your guy is about to face the Wolves yes try not to
throw up my mouth dropped to the floor I couldn't believe he took the stand I think I turned around I said you're
kidding Pelosi told us by phone from jail he knew what was at stake from the moment he took the oath when I got on
this thing the first thing I had to do was get my heart back in my jacket I was really hoping to keep him on the stand
long enough that he would start to lose what little control that he had you were
trying to get under his skin oh absolutely absolutely she got under my skin a few times and I know I came back
a little AR again a few times but the woman was attacking me did your opinion of him change when he was on the stand I
don't think it did he didn't say anything to hurt himself he was very controlled I saw him grit his teeth
several times while he was on the stand Dany dropped a bombshell it's a story he's been telling us off the record for
about a year but he's never said said it under oath before he says generosa asked
him to kill Ted Ammon for her but he refused and if you believe Danny generosa's Alibi that she was in her
Manhattan apartment the night of the murder was a lie in fact according to Dany generosa left that apartment before
he did this woman told me 100 times she was going to go kill her husband 100 times maybe this time it happened but
100 times she left and kill her husband while he was on the stand Danny only suggested generosa was involved but
later in a phone conversation he went further much further I kept my mouth shut because my wife generosa married me
to keep my mouth shut that was the whole reason to keep my mouth shut but once again Dany could not keep his mouth shut
he said the evidence shows generosa did it but not alone it totally adds up look
at how many times the man had to get hit it's I hit you four times you're dead what does that say that tells me that
there's a person with not enough power hitting somebody with a weapon with a weapon that was hard enough to hurt them
but not hard enough to stop them somebody like generosa thank you and not alone how many other people two and I am
not going any F were you one of them I'm not going no get the hell out of here had nothing to do with it generosa was a
person filled with rage and hatred in his closing arguments Jerry charel repeated one question where was generosa
Ammon that night I think she was right there surely you don't think she killed Ted Ammon I don't think she was there
alone but she wasn't there with Danny Pelosi this is Danny Pelosi's trial so this jury doesn't have to decide Beyond
A Reasonable Doubt whether generosa was physically there or not there the fate of accused killer Danny Pelosi hanging
in the balance tomorrow morning a jury they've been listening to the evidence a long time after more than two months of
testimony the jurors got the case late on a Friday night all through the weekend both sides camped out and waited
his first day of deliberations the Danny Pelosi jury hit the ground running has come and gone and no verdict yet this is
a jury that's essentially sifting the clues and I'm very happy that they're doing this with the care and
deliberation that that seems to be occurring inside the Jury Room the jurors were troubled by the lack of any
physical evidence there was no eyewitness there there was no murder weapon recovered that had his
fingerprints on it and that was reason for Dany to be optimistic if they do their job properly and they weigh the
evidence I'm going to be sitting home for Christmas with my son that I still haven't
seen But late on a Monday afternoon after three long days of deliberating the jury reached a verdict Danny Pelosi
was convicted of second deegree murder when he heard the verdict the man who could never shut up was speechless and
began and softly crying when that jury came back in there fed guilty I was in shock in the end the jurors could not
ignore that missing hard drive that could have recorded images from the murder the person
who committed the crime is the one that took the hard drive out and disposed of it and who was that person oh that was
definitely Danny poosi why do you say definitely I should really say it was definitely by request quest of or Danny
Pelosi you had to know where it was you had to know where it was and there was the matter of the millions Ted ammon's
Fortune jurors believe Dany was worried he might lose access to the money if generosa signed a proposed divorce
settlement as scheduled and it was that weekend that Ted had to die because Monday the agreement was supposed to be
signed this was a case where it really came down to you know all the witnesses and all the evidence and when you pieced
it all together there was there was no other individual that fit he fit he fit but some jurors still believe there's
room for more suspects he wasn't by himself there were voids in the patterns of blood spatters there had to be people
standing on one side in fact even after the verdict some jurors still aren't sure what role Pelosi played nobody
could put him there so how did you satisfy by yourself then eventually that he was there I I kind of thought
somebody else maybe helped him maybe he didn't go there himself maybe he had some friends all kinds of things go
through your mind but do you believe now today as we sit here that Danny Pelosi killed Ted Ammon if not directly he had
through someone else you think he was there I'm not sure of that still to this day yes but in the end the jury voted
that whatever his exact role was that night Dany intended to kill Ted Ammon and took part in the murder Pelosi was
sentenced to 25 years to life in prison I'm not doing it for 25 years listen to me loud and clear I am appealing this
issue and on the appellant circuit it will be heard I guarantee that but at least for now the man who went from the
world of blue collars to the world of Blue Bloods will'll have to get used to the World Behind Bars
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Brief Summary

Ted Ammon was murdered, leading to a sensational trial involving his wife Generosa and her boyfriend Danny Pelosi.

Key points

Murder in the Hamptons. In October 2001, Ted Ammon was brutally murdered in his East Hampton mansion.
The Ugliness of Divorce. Generosa and Ted's divorce turned ugly, leading to bitter feuds and suspicions.
Danny Pelosi's Rise. Danny Pelosi, a blue-collar worker, became a fixture in Generosa's life after her divorce.
Generosa's Tragic Diagnosis. Just months after marrying Danny, Generosa learned she was dying of breast cancer.
A Marriage Under Pressure. Generosa and Danny's marriage began to crumble under the weight of suspicion and investigation.
Danny Pelosi's Emotional Testimony. Danny takes the stand, revealing shocking claims about Generosa's involvement in the murder.

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