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NEW CANAAN, Connecticut – Fotis Dulos, the husband of Jennifer Dulos, has pleaded not guilty to the disappearance of his wife and is expected to walk out of the Connecticut Courthouse with a GPS ankle monitor after spending more weeks behind bars at Bridgeport Correctional Center.
Fotis Dulos' lawyer, Norm Pattis, argued that his client's $ 500,000 bond should be reduced to $ 100,000. He claimed that the state's case against Dulos was weak and that she doubted that her client would ever be charged with murder.
At a brief hearing, state attorney Richard Colangelo had explained that Fotis Dulos' DNA had been found mixed with his wife's blood on a kitchen faucet from his home in New Canaan and that the bond should be increased to $ 850,000. The judge maintained it at $ 500,000.
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Pattis said his client will deposit a bond on Tuesday using his pension fund as collateral. After the hearing, Pattis stated that he thought his client would be "fully exonerated". He added that the state "chose this fight and we will win it". The next Fotis Dulos hearing will take place on August 2nd.
Dressed in every gray, Fotis Dulos' resident girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, also pleaded not guilty to Judge John Blawie for obstructing the prosecution and altered the evidence. His next date of hearing is July 18th.
After the brief hearing, his lawyer, Andrew Bowman, criticized the media for what he called "unfair and inaccurate" reporting and stated that his client was innocent.
Earlier, Pattis told Fox News that there were "powerful reasons" to doubt that his client was at home in New Canaan on the day of his disappearance.
"I've had the opportunity to meet my client and start investigating suspicions about him," Pattis said in a statement on Monday. "There is good reason to doubt that he is even on the premises of his ex-wife's home on the day of his disappearance.I am aware of any evidence to support him." the theory that he was involved in a criminal act. "
Authorities said Troconis was not in New Canaan the day Jennifer Dulos disappeared, according to the Hartford Courant. Troconis told the police that she had no idea where Dulos might be located, the newspaper also reported. The police, however, obtained a search warrant for his now confiscated phone.
Fotis Dulos is being prosecuted for falsifying or fabricating material evidence and is in the first instance obstructing proceedings in the Superior Court in Norwalk, Norwalk, Connecticut, on Monday, June 3, 2019.
(Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool)
Jennifer Dulos, a 50-year-old brunette, was last seen on May 24, when she was dropping her children in their private school in New Canaan, an affluent city.
The case has drawn national attention and Dulos' research – which is entering its 18th day – has spread from Connecticut to the nearby city of New York.
Monday marked the sixth day in a row, investigators searched a garbage bin in Hartford. Last Tuesday, they started looking for Dulos carefully. Sometimes they brought units from Kindergarten to Grade 9 and dead dogs but they remained empty until now.
Michelle C. Troconis is being prosecuted for falsifying or fabricating material evidence and is in the first instance barred from prosecution in Norwalk Superior Court, Norwalk, Connecticut, on Monday, June 3, 2019.
(Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool)
Also Monday, local authorities announced the launch of the website – www.FindJenniferDulos.com – and a dedicated email – [email protected] – to facilitate the search.
Since his passing, the police have reported receiving more than 225 tips and 70 CCTV responses from homes and businesses in the area to facilitate the investigation.
Fotis Dulos, aka Inmate No. 430902, spent more than a week behind bars at Bridgeport Prison, a state prison housing both remand prisoners and convicted offenders for lack of justice. to pay his bail of $ 500,000.
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Dulos' lawyer, Pattis, made headlines earlier this year when he attacked InfoWars publisher Alex Jones as a client. Jones is being sued by families from Sandy Hook School. They claim that Jones deliberately related that the 2012 shootout at Newtown Elementary School, Connecticut, was organized.
"I warn the world that things rarely happen as they appear early in a sensationalist investigation like this," he said this weekend about the Dulos affair. "The eagerness for judgment now stops, as well as the insinuation sentence." If necessary, we will let a jury decide what happened here. "
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Jennifer Dulos, a 50-year-old brunette, was last seen on May 24, when she was dropping her children in their private school in New Canaan, an affluent city.
(New Canaan Police)
The bloody blood between the Duloses degenerated in the weeks leading up to his disappearance. Their battle for divorce and custody had become increasingly bitter and confrontational. According to court documents, over 400 applications have been filed. Jennifer and Fotis Dulos accused each other of failing to comply with court orders and threatened to harm their five children. There were also death threats and sometimes even children aged 8 to 13 years old.
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After the arrest of Fotis Dulos on June 3, Fox News discovered a complicated man who had kept his appearance as a successful businessman for years while drowning in debt. He launched his Fore Group Inc. with the financial support of his father-in-law, who from 2004 to 2016 offered him nearly $ 10 million. The funds were largely cut in 2017, around the time his marriage to Jennifer Dulos ended.
After the death of Jennifer Dulos' father, Hilliard Farber, in 2017, her mother, Gloria Farber, who is now the executor of her husband's estate, sued Fotis Dulos for $ 500,000 in January 2018. Court documents claimed that the latter had loaned the money to Fotis Dulos in 2012. promised to repay them but had not done so by June 2017.
Gloria Farber also filed a revised complaint in 2018 that Dulos had borrowed $ 2.3 million from a bank to buy his house in Farmington.
According to Farber, Dulos said that he would make the payment of the loan if the Farber were the guarantee, which they did. However, Dulos defaulted on the loan and the bank sued Gloria Farber.
The Farber estate also sued the Fore group in February 2018, alleging that Hilliard Farber had lent money to the company in 2004 to buy properties, repair them and resell them. Farber's lawyers said the Fore group still owed $ 1 million on a $ 1.5 million loan in April 2015.
Moreover, three teams of lawyers representing Mr. Dulos in his divorce case as well as a civil suit against Gloria Farber have filed motions with the court asking that the court be struck out of court. 39; case. A divorce hearing will also be heard on Tuesday.
While Fotis Dulos was behind bars, Troconis dropped out and was spotted Thursday meeting detectives at his lawyer's office, Andrew Bowman, in Westport. A day later, she was seen by investigators at Farmington House in which she lived with Dulos. Although it is unclear whether Troconis has reached an agreement with the prosecutors, the NBC Connecticut drone images show people searching the site and the wooded area behind the 10,000-square-foot house.
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Tamara Gitt, Laura Ingle and Maria Paronich of Fox News contributed to this report.
