Only music news by tenuous association, but given how much coverage we gave the Michael Jackson trial we might as well run this sort of follow up story. The mother of Jacko's most recent child abuse accuser, Janet Arvizo, has been ordered to stand trial on felony charges of welfare fraud.
The charges relate to evidence of fraudulent welfare applications which were revealed during the high profile court case against the singer. When giving evidence in that case, Arvizo used the Fifth Amendment to avoid questioning about the welfare claims in a bid to not incriminate herself. Following subsequent investigations, she has now been charged on one count of welfare fraud and four counts of perjury by falsely applying for welfare. She was released without bail, having waived her right to a preliminary hearing, and will now appear in court on 21 Jun.
The Associated Press in the US hasn't released Arvizo's name in connection to this story to protect her son - though given that both mother and child gave evidence at one of the most high profile celebrity court cases in recent years, I'm not sure anonymity now is going to help much. Although that said, despite covering the Jacko trial every day for the best part of three months last year, it did take us 5 minutes to remember what his accuser was called!