Jilll Stanek appears to be attacking Rod McCulloch for his pointing out the file existed with embarrassing material.
And she embarrasses herself. She shouldn’t let Proft put her up to such stupid things.
Here are McCulloch?s four lies.
1. ?Recently I was shown what I was told and believe to be records from Jack Ryan?s divorce that were obtained before the records were sealed.?
Sorry, the custody records have always been sealed, until Monday, June 21. Also contrary to another rumor, there are no unredacted versions out there.
I?d like to know who showed McCulloch these so-called records, and I?d like to see the exact documents McCulloch claims he saw. I wonder if Patrick Fitzgerald would as well.
The level of idiocy is amazing here. No, the files weren’t sealed until one year after the divorce was finalized. Jack! wanted them sealed, Jeri didn’t. Then when Jeri had a dangerous stalker, she joined in asking to have them sealed.
Claiming there are no unredacted versions out there is nothing, but her insisting it is true. Rod McCulloch told he me he saw them and while he declined to answer who gave them to him, he clearly knew some specific information regarding the file–Paris, New York and New Orleans is kind of specific.
I have no idea why Patrick Fitzgerald would care. Being in possession of public records isn’t illegal.
2. “Among other allegations, she specifically alleges that [h]er husband, Jack Ryan, had a romantic affair with his Executive Secretary.”
On the contrary, nowhere in the unsealed documents did Jeri accuse Jack of infidelity, and they wouldn’t be in the sealed portion either. Otherwise Jeri lied Monday when she said in her public statement, “?nor to my knowledge was [Jack] ever unfaithful to me.” Rather, it was Jeri who admitted in the documents to having the wandering eye: “I told him I was in love with another man.”
Well, we don’t know do we. The Unsealed documents are all we have, not the full version. McCulloch maintains this allegation was in the full file. I can’t explain Jeri’s comments so saying McCulloch is lying given the information we have now is a bit extreme. McCulloch could be mistaken or lying, but I’d put my bet on him at this point.
3. “[S]he specifically alleges that? he forced (her word) her to have sexual relations with him against her will.”
And again, we don’t know. We do know that six paragraphs were stricken right before their release that contained very graphic descriptions. The Judge refuses to characterize them any further.
Force could also well be used in relation to psychological coercion which would be consistent with her comments about his personality. These are only allegations by Jeri Ryan, so we don’t know anything about veracity, but we don’t know what is in the rest of the file.
That would be rape, an extremely serious charge of a criminally prosecutable offense.
Psychological coercion wouldn’t be. Maybe a poor choice of words if it is in the files by Jeri, but not necessarily rape. It isn’t a very flattering way to describe Ryan though and if true would go to character.
4. “[S]he specifically alleges that? he took her to various sex clubs, specifically in New York, New Orleans, and Paris and coerced her to have sex in front of other people.”
?Coerce? means, “to bring about by force or threat.” Again, rape, and this time public rape, an extremely serious charge of a criminally prosecutable offense.
But it didn?t happen. The worst Jeri alleged was Jack took her to these clubs, requested the aforementioned, yet complied with her refusal. Big difference.
And he got the three cities right as well as the claim that he was emotionally demeaning to her–the crying line. We don’t know if Jeri is telling the truth or Jack! is or if it lies somewhere inbetween, but I think Rod McCulloch’s description on this count is reasonable given that he was writing from memory and probably a fairly quick look.
So on two, Rod is definitely correct. On two, we don’t know for sure. Not much of an indictment against him. For a guy who took enough flack over this, maybe people should back off of him. It isn’t his fault Jack Ryan tried to hide behind his son and lied to Party Leaders, the Press and the People of Illinois.
The Leader is an opinion journal and fighting for your view isn’t a bad thing. Making up garbage like the first supposed lie is either laziness or a lie itself.