Details magazine
Da Poet said:
Mr. Dolan,
Were you able to interview Deno Andrews or Mike Seigel?
I am wondering if Deno Andrews is still drawing a check from KT. The hypocracy of him drawing a check and somehow not being held responsible as a part of this is disappointing.
I talked to Deno Andrews twice by telephone, and even that was a major effort, since he seemed to working hard to duck me. When I did finally talk to him, he seemed to be parroting Trudeau's words (and logic). Deno also said he'd get back to me with information that I needed, and he never followed through on that. You can tell a lot about somebody who does or does not keep his word.
I don't know if Deno's still drawing a salary, but I'd have to guess that he is.
I know Mike Sigel is (or was, as of mid-December, when I interviewed by telephone). Actually, "interview" makes it sound like I was having some sort of give-and-take with him. I didn't. Mike Sigel talked AT me for almost an hour, during which time he told me that he and Trudeau had gone fishing after the Reno tournament, and that he was still on salary--which he said he needed, because he drives a Ferrari, wears two thousand dollar suits, and drops hundreds of dollars at dinners several times a week.
Unfortunately, the magazine had already gone to press--and, besides that (as I've mentioned before but I hope people really understand this), I was only contracted to write a two thousand word piece. At the outset, I told the magazine that I wanted to write a five thousand word piece. I went with Details and the two thousand word limit because I wanted this story to get out to a wider audience.
The magazine was anxious to get this out there in a hurry because if anybody else covered it first, they'd probably have to kill the piece. If I'd had my way, I would have waited to see how it all played out.
J.D.
