Investigators Ask TSG To Serve Up Jacko "Source"

JUNE 1--Get a load of the below letter we just received from the Los Angeles County gumshoes investigating the "leak" to The Smoking Gun of a confidential report regarding the Michael Jackson child abuse probe. The L.A. Department of Auditor-Controller, you see, is conducting a "criminal investigation" into TSG's publication of a Department of Children & Family Services memo and they'd really, really like the "name of the person from who you received the memo" and the "circumstances under which it was received," among other things. Since we weren't there on May 25 when J. Tyler McCauley wrote the thing, we can only guess that he was chuckling as he typed those kooky requests. McCauley's missive was drafted the same day that a lawyer representing the family of the boy at the center of the Jackson case filed a legal claim against the county, alleging that his clients were damaged by the report's publication. In the notice of claim, attorney Larry Feldman stated that he hoped the legal action would force DCFS officials "to promptly and fully investigate its violation of the claimants privacy rights." (1 page)