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Giancarlo Granda, the former Fontainebleau pool attendant whose business bizarrely received $1.8 million in loans from famous evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr., wants the world to stop calling him a "pool boy." He finds the term demeaning.
And, perhaps more notable, he officially denies knowing anything about alleged "racy" photos referenced in a Reuters story published yesterday. Reuters investigative reporter Aram Roston obtained a clandestine recording made by comedian Tom Arnold in which Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen said he helped Falwell Jr. hide intimate photos that a lawyer "in Florida" had obtained. In the recording, Cohen a man who has ostensibly seen his fair share of shenanigans said even he found one of the photos to be "terrible."
Roston was also the reporter who broke the news that Falwell Jr. had mysteriously loaned Granda's business a ton of money and that Cohen was aware of a lawsuit involving Falwell and Granda. Reporters have, ahem, speculated that Granda was the Floridian who had obtained said photos and that Cohen might have leveraged the scandal to get Falwell Jr. to endorse the infamously lecherous and not-at-all Jesus-like Trump in 2016.
But today, Granda's lawyer, Aaron Resnick, denied Granda had anything to do with this.
"Giancarlo Granda has never had any communications with Michael Cohen (directly or indirectly)," Resnick told New Times via email. "He does not know Mr. Cohen. He has never met Mr. Cohen. Mr. Cohen is a convicted felon and admitted liar. Mr. Granda has no idea about the alleged personal photographs Mr. Cohen refers to in his taped conversation with Tom Arnold, which was published by the Washington Post Mr. Granda has never been involved in any negotiations directly or indirectly with Mr. Cohen. This includes any negotiations through legal counsel. Mr. Granda is not the person referred to by Mr. Cohen in the taped recording referenced in the Washington Post article. Any suggestion that he is that person is absolutely false."
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-beach-pool-attendant-giancarlo-granda-denies-involvement-in-jerry-falwell-photo-scandal-11167677
benld74
(9,901 posts)UTUSN
(70,639 posts)RockRaven
(14,883 posts)in the same state where they also paid off someone to keep sexual blackmail material private?
We are all unreasonably jumping to conclusions, taking two separate stories about Falwell Jr making large payments to a person in Florida and connecting them by assuming they are the same person. I mean, surely that's just an unfortunate coincidence, like Mr. Granda claims.... It could have happened to any one of us.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Larry Flynt will give you a LOT more than $1.8 million, I'm willing to bet.
tosh
(4,422 posts)JHC, why did he even feel the need to issue a statement?
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)well compensated. I love that Cohen is still throwing grenades but he really should be careful given his current living situation.