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Jack Palladino
John Arthur Palladino (July 9, 1944 – February 1, 2021) was an American private investigator and attorney. In 1977, he founded the private detective agency Palladino & Sutherland with his wife, Sandra Sutherland, and over a career spanning more than four decades, Palladino specialized in the preparation for trial of witnesses and evidence in litigation. He was best known for his work in the Peoples Temple tragedy, his defense of car maker John DeLorean, for the Bill Clinton presidential election committee, the tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, singer Courtney Love, and musician R. Kelly.
On January 28, 2021, Palladino suffered a traumatic brain injury and was placed on life support following a robbery outside his Haight-Ashbury home. He was taken off life support and died on February 1, 2021.
Palladino was born in Boston on July 9, 1944. His father was employed as a pipefitter. Palladino attended Boston Latin School, graduating in 1962, and went on to study English at Cornell University, obtaining a bachelor's degree from that institution. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to pursue graduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, first as a Ford Fellow in political science (graduating in 1968), then at UC Berkeley School of Law (earning a Juris Doctor in 1975). He was subsequently admitted to the State Bar of California three years later.
In 1977 he founded the private detective agency Palladino & Sutherland with his wife Sandra Sutherland. Palladino and Sutherland met in 1972 during the course of an undercover investigation into abuses against the inmates of Nassau County jail on Long Island on behalf of the Long Island District Attorney. They later worked together for four years at San Francisco's Hal Lipset agency, but left that employment to start their own agency.
In a career that spanned nearly 50 years, Palladino became known for taking on high-profile and controversial cases. The San Francisco Examiner noted in 1999 that he had "built a reputation for aggressive investigations, an in-your-face style and the ability to neutralize adverse witnesses and spin hostile media." With Sutherland, he investigated fraud, personal injury, medical malpractice and murder cases.
While still in law school at University of California, Berkeley, Palladino was hired by the family of Patty Hearst to assist in the matter of her 1974 kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). He also spent seven years investigating the Peoples Temple tragedy, a.k.a. Jonestown, in which more than 900 members of a religious cult died in Guyana in 1978. His interviews with surviving members of the cult and their families are now part of the definitive history of that event.
In 1982, John DeLorean, a former General Motors executive who had formed the independent DeLorean Motor Company, was charged with engaging in a cocaine trafficking deal to fund his company. Palladino & Sutherland interviewed more than two hundred witnesses in a defense that convinced the jury to acquit DeLorean based on entrapment by government agents.
Palladino was perhaps best known for being hired by the Bill Clinton presidential election committee to challenge a campaign intended to deny Clinton the Democratic nomination. Palladino's work included discrediting women with whom Clinton supposedly had been intimate, according to Newsweek magazine. The Clinton election committee reportedly paid Palladino more than $100,000 over several years to investigate two dozen women in a damage control inquiry. Michael Isikoff claimed the Clinton campaign used deception regarding the payments. He said the payouts came from campaign funds, but were listed as legal fees paid to a Denver law firm rather than payments to Palladino. He further claimed that Clinton's chief of staff Betsey Wright later told him the funds were for "controlling bimbo eruptions".
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Jack Palladino
John Arthur Palladino (July 9, 1944 – February 1, 2021) was an American private investigator and attorney. In 1977, he founded the private detective agency Palladino & Sutherland with his wife, Sandra Sutherland, and over a career spanning more than four decades, Palladino specialized in the preparation for trial of witnesses and evidence in litigation. He was best known for his work in the Peoples Temple tragedy, his defense of car maker John DeLorean, for the Bill Clinton presidential election committee, the tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, singer Courtney Love, and musician R. Kelly.
On January 28, 2021, Palladino suffered a traumatic brain injury and was placed on life support following a robbery outside his Haight-Ashbury home. He was taken off life support and died on February 1, 2021.
Palladino was born in Boston on July 9, 1944. His father was employed as a pipefitter. Palladino attended Boston Latin School, graduating in 1962, and went on to study English at Cornell University, obtaining a bachelor's degree from that institution. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to pursue graduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, first as a Ford Fellow in political science (graduating in 1968), then at UC Berkeley School of Law (earning a Juris Doctor in 1975). He was subsequently admitted to the State Bar of California three years later.
In 1977 he founded the private detective agency Palladino & Sutherland with his wife Sandra Sutherland. Palladino and Sutherland met in 1972 during the course of an undercover investigation into abuses against the inmates of Nassau County jail on Long Island on behalf of the Long Island District Attorney. They later worked together for four years at San Francisco's Hal Lipset agency, but left that employment to start their own agency.
In a career that spanned nearly 50 years, Palladino became known for taking on high-profile and controversial cases. The San Francisco Examiner noted in 1999 that he had "built a reputation for aggressive investigations, an in-your-face style and the ability to neutralize adverse witnesses and spin hostile media." With Sutherland, he investigated fraud, personal injury, medical malpractice and murder cases.
While still in law school at University of California, Berkeley, Palladino was hired by the family of Patty Hearst to assist in the matter of her 1974 kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). He also spent seven years investigating the Peoples Temple tragedy, a.k.a. Jonestown, in which more than 900 members of a religious cult died in Guyana in 1978. His interviews with surviving members of the cult and their families are now part of the definitive history of that event.
In 1982, John DeLorean, a former General Motors executive who had formed the independent DeLorean Motor Company, was charged with engaging in a cocaine trafficking deal to fund his company. Palladino & Sutherland interviewed more than two hundred witnesses in a defense that convinced the jury to acquit DeLorean based on entrapment by government agents.
Palladino was perhaps best known for being hired by the Bill Clinton presidential election committee to challenge a campaign intended to deny Clinton the Democratic nomination. Palladino's work included discrediting women with whom Clinton supposedly had been intimate, according to Newsweek magazine. The Clinton election committee reportedly paid Palladino more than $100,000 over several years to investigate two dozen women in a damage control inquiry. Michael Isikoff claimed the Clinton campaign used deception regarding the payments. He said the payouts came from campaign funds, but were listed as legal fees paid to a Denver law firm rather than payments to Palladino. He further claimed that Clinton's chief of staff Betsey Wright later told him the funds were for "controlling bimbo eruptions".