I have my EYE on Paulus.

The push to exonerate Paulus Van Der Sloots enters the home stretch. The spin to make Paulus Van Der Sloot appear to be something he is certainly not moves into overdrive with interviews in Holland as Mr. Van Der Sloot continues to lie.

And as the Dutch and Aruban Authorities negotiate their way through the mine field of the last few months of the Natalee Holloway investigation even the most ardent of the Van Der Sloot supporters has never said that Paulus Van Der Sloot is NOT guilty of the crimes against Natalee Holloway.

This person has repeatedly stated there is no evidence to tie Joran Van Der Sloot to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

Interesting that this person has said nothing about the guilt or innocence of Paulus.

Who is this person I speak of?



Yes, Attorney Joseph Tacopina.

Mr. Tacopina was hired to represent Joran and Paulus Van Der Sloot in the New York Civil Suit that was eventually dismissed for Lack of Convenience.

Many find Mr. Tacopina abrasive, in need of a class on self-control and hardly a Victims Rights Advocate for his flip flop on the Natalee Holloway case while representing the Family of Emette St. Guillen. Interesting he did not choose to represent Defendant Littlejohn, and he relegated himself to a position of Public Relations in that case. Why would Ms. Guillen need a public relations director? This seems odd considering that this does not seem to be a specialty of Mr. Tacopina or his law firm. Attorneys generally represent either the Defendant or the Plaintiff.
Rarely does a high profile attorney such as Mr. Tacopina represent the Aggrieved in a murder case. That is the Prosecutor's job.

Defense Attorneys are not hired to advocate for one causes or another. They are hired to represent the accused and get the best overall outcome given the charges leveled.

Even Mr. Tacopina's critics will never say that he is not a terrific attorney. He is a very good attorney. In fact he is so good and so competent that he would never hitch his wagon to Paulus Van Der Sloot alone.

While the New York Civil Suit was dismissed for Lack of Convenience, the merits of case have NOT been argued and those issues remain on the table. Those issues will see their day in a real Court of Law in the future.



Mr. Tacopina is indeed clever and very bright. In fact, he was very careful to make sure he did not open his mouth about Paulus Van Der Sloot. In doing so, he knew he would be forced to make false statements and risk opening a can of worms that could certainly spiral out of control. It would always be better to spin what you can carefully craft into a message than what you know will risk implying your other client's guilt. Somethings are just never discussed. If someone mentions Paulus Van Der Sloot, change the subject.

Mr. Tacopina was able to control his message with threats to the MSM about defamation lawsuits. He warned Greta Van Sustern ON AIR that a certain line of questioning would bring a harsh rebuke and possibly 'other' consequences. Apparently Mrs. Van Susteren had been warned before and tried to put Mr. Tacopina on the spot.

Nice Job. Control the message at all costs.

It was unfortunate that Mrs. Van Susteren was not savvy enough to recognize that simply speaking about the facts, would never bring a lawsuit whether Mr. Tacopina liked it or not.

When an attorney goes on the AIR to put a positive spin on his client's situation, he must also recognize that a competent attorney MAY dispute those 'facts' as stated by the Defense Attorney. Simply telling someone to shut-up, is not professional and certainly not winning hearts or changing minds about Joran or Paulus Van Der Sloot.

Paulus 'No Corpse - No case' Van Der Sloot, created his own problems. He was a Justice Department employee and Judge in Training who certainly knew the Laws of the Land. He choose to ignore the Laws he was sworn to uphold. Paulus Van Der Sloot choose to elevate himself to where the Laws were for others and NOT him or his family.

Shouldn't a Polis Officer, Judge, Ministry Official or even the Prime Minister, be held to a higher standard? When they break the Law, shouldn't there be a completely transparent investigation to re-assure the populace that, as Aruban Prime Minister Nelson Oduber said, "No one is above the Law on Aruba."

The last 21 months have set a bad overall precedent on Aruba. The population of Aruba has questions, and they deserve answers as to what happened to Natalee Holloway and the corrupt investigation that took place.

Although Mr. Van Der Sloot is indeed a very suspicious individual in his own right, he could not have accomplished this cover-up on his own. He had help. He had access to case files on his son, and many of those files seem to be missing from the case load.

Mr. Van Der Sloot admitted he was a close associate of former Lead Prosecutor Ms. Karin Jansen. That alone should have moved the investigation in a different direction and brought in independent analysis from Holland from day one.

Mr. Van Der Sloot : "I will do anything to protect my son."

Mr. Van Der Sloot : "I picked Joran up at the McDonald's at 4 am."

Mr. Van Der Sloot : "I picked up Joran at the McDonald's at 11pm."

Mr. Van Der Sloot : "I picked up Joran AND NATALEE at the McDonald's at 4 am."

Mr. Van Der Sloot : "Good luck with that."

Mr. Van Der Sloot : "No Corpse No Case."

Mickey John : "yeah he (Deepak Kalpoe) said, the Dutch guy and his FATHER came up with the story."

Deepak Kalpoe : "Your own FATHER, unbelievable."

Anita Van Der Sloot : "and he (Joran) said, 'This wouldn't have happened if you were home.'"

Karen Jansen : "he was being held on suspicion of complicity to pre-meditated murder, complicity to kidnapping and murder and kidnapping."

Police Commissioner Jan Van Der Straten : "the arrest came after one of the three jailed youths named a fourth person in the case."


Mr. Van Der Sloot you created you own problems when you decided you were above the law, and that you were more important than Natalee Holloway and her Family.

Mr. Van Der Sloot, while you attempt to cast the blame for Natalee Holloway's disappearance on Natalee herself, her parents, the Mountain Brook students, the Kalpoes without your son, a beach troll, a blue eyed Dutch boy, card dealers and players, sex traffickers, drug lords, mafioso's, cartels, I know exactly who to look at.