“Wheel of Fortune” Jim Thornton
The FBI By no means Contacted a Witness within the Pedo Chat Room Scandal
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The girl who says she noticed the disgraced announcer from ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Jim Thornton in a pedophile chat room on an airplane has NEVER been contacted by the federal company charged with investigating such circumstances — the Federal Bureau of Investigation — TMZ has discovered.
Sources near the witness inform TMZ…the LAPD advised the girl the FBI would keep in touch together with her, however to this point the feds have remained silent on the radio.
As for the FBI… the company maintains the identical place it has held since day one, with a consultant telling us Friday… “The FBI neither confirms nor denies, as a matter of precept, the existence of investigations.”
TMZ broke the story in September…the passenger took cellular phone photographs of Thornton’s laptop computer display containing chat messages about “cute boys” and a “scorching little lady.” One other put up mentioned it was an “all you possibly can eat Boyfett,” referring to a restaurant the place they may discover underage youngsters.
The incident occurred on an American Airways flight from Charlotte to Los Angeles in Could – and the passenger – who was disgusted by what she noticed – continued to take photographs of the group chat. One of many messages even referred to “CP,” which the passenger mentioned stood for baby pornography.
When she had sufficient, the passenger knowledgeable a flight attendant and shared her photographs with the crew. Our sources say the captain then notified authorities and regulation enforcement was ready when the airplane landed at LAX.
Our sources say the passenger gave a full assertion to the LAPD officer, who mentioned her data could be forwarded to the FBI, who would stay involved together with her. Our sources say this by no means occurred.
We’re additionally advised authorities briefly questioned Thornton, however he left with out being arrested or charged. His lawyer says Thornton “did nothing fallacious” and left the dialog when he realized what it was about.
Thornton has since licensed from his little gig on a recreation present.