{"id":587,"date":"2011-09-11T02:40:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T08:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2011-09-10T09:41:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T15:41:22","slug":"brother-of-pop-icon-jackson-had-plan-to-save-him-from-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/11\/brother-of-pop-icon-jackson-had-plan-to-save-him-from-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother of pop icon Jackson had plan to save him from jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Jackson’s family planned to spirit the singer out of the United States (US) rather than see him jailed if he was convicted at his 2005 child abuse trial, his brother said in an interview published on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Jermaine Jackson told Britain’s Times newspaper that a private jet financed by a friend was ready to fly the pop icon to Bahrain, which has no extradition treaty with the US.<\/p>\n

The star, who died in June 2009 aged 50 after an overdose of the powerful anaesthetic propofol, was not told about the plan but his brother believes he may have suspected something and would have agreed to the scheme.<\/p>\n

‘If they were going to sit and crucify my brother for something that he didn’t do, America deserves us not to come back here,’ Jermaine Jackson, 56, told the paper. <\/p>\n

Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Jackson’s family planned to spirit the singer out of the United States (US) rather than see him jailed if he was convicted at his 2005 child abuse trial, his brother said in an interview published on Saturday. Jermaine Jackson told Britain’s Times newspaper that a private jet financed by a friend was ready to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}