Psychopathic multimillionaire Gigi Jordan convicted of manslaughter in poisoning her 8-year-old autistic son

Shayna Jacobs, Stephen Rex Brown, Corky Siemaszko
New York Daily News
Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:22 UTC

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Gigi Jordan was convicted of manslaughter Wednesday for killing her 8-year-old autistic son in a hotel room in February 2010.

The multimillionaire Manhattan mom accused of killing her 8-year-old autistic son was found guilty Wednesday of manslaughter.

But Gigi Jordan escaped a murder conviction that could have sent her to jail for life.

Instead, Jordan faces anywhere from five to 25 years in prison when she is sentenced for killing Jude Mirra in her rented room at the Peninsula Hotel.

"Gigi Jordan showed no mercy to her son, and should receive none at the time of her sentencing," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement.

Jordan "poisoned her son, giving him extremely high doses of prescription medications, forcing many down his throat with a syringe," Vance said.

Dressed in a long gray button-down jacket, navy shirt and dress pants, Jordan showed little emotion when the verdict read.

Because Jordan has said she would make post-conviction arguments asking for the verdict to be "set-aside," no sentencing date was set. She has already complained that Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon prevented her from presenting witnesses and documents that would buttress argument that this was a mercy killing.

When it was over, Jordan, 53, was returned to her cell on Rikers Island.

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Jude Mirra was killed in February 2010 after his mother fed him a lethal cocktail of drugs and alcohol

During four days of often wrenching testimony, Jordan claimed she killed her son in February 2010 because she believed her ex-husband intended to kill her - and feared that would leave the boy in his clutches of the biological father who abused him.

"I didn't see any way out of this situation," said Jordan, a former nurse who made her $50 million fortune in the home health care industry. "I made a decision that I was going to end my life and Jude's life."

Her testimony echoed what she told Daily News columnist Denis Hamill earlier in a 2012 jailhouse interview.

"I tried to kill myself along with my son to save him from a life of sexual torture," she said.

Neither of Jordan's exes were at the trial and both denied her allegations.

Jordan told the jury it was supposed to be a murder-suicide. But after the drugs began taking hold of Jude, she got second thoughts and desperately tried to revive him.

Prosecutors said Jordan jammed a syringe containing a deadly cocktail of painkillers, tranquilizers and sleeping pills mixed with alcohol and orange juice down the boy's throat.

While he lay dying in the $2,300-a-night suite, they said, Jordan was on her laptop siphoning $125,000 from his trust fund.

Comment: A proof that all her stories above about the boy being abused and the alleged murder-suicide plan are nothing but big fat lies! She should have gotten a murder conviction, because that what it was, a cold blooded murder.

"Clearly, he would not be needing it anymore," prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos said.

In his closing bid to the jury, Jordan's lawyer Allan Brenner said his client "did it because she loved" Jude.

Brenner asked the jury to consider manslaughter not murder, saying she was under an "extreme emotional disturbance."

Bogdanos urged the jury not to be distracted by "shiny things" and called Jordan's killing of her son a "deliberate, intentional, calculated act."

In the end, the seven-man, five-woman jury bought Brenner's argument and convicted Jordan on the lesser charge.

A fuming Bogdanos refused to speak with reporters as he left the courtroom. A juror who asked not to be identified said "it came down whether there was a preponderance of evidence that Jordan was in extreme emotional distress - regardless of whether her fear was warranted or not."

"The woman injected enough pills into her kid to kill Alaska," he said. "It's clear there's a lot of stuff going on with her."

Jordan's lawyers included Brenner, Earl Ward, and Norman Siegel.

"We said this was always about her state of mond, for better or for worse and the jury accepted this. They seemed to reject the notion that there was some nefarious or insidious motive in this," Brenner said.

Comment: Back in February 2010 when the murder took place, Mike Adams of Natural News gave an interesting perspective into the case:

Big Pharma Executive Murders 8-Year-Old Son with Xanax and Ambien

I've always said that Big Pharma executives were guilty of crimes against humanity. Now one of their wealthiest and most successful executives has been caught trying to pull off a murder-suicide in an upscale NY hotel. Gigi Jordan, who ran pharmaceutical companies selling pills to treat cancer, murdered her 8-year-old son by force-feeding him ground-up pharmaceuticals which included Xanax and Ambien.

Let's just stop right there for a moment and consider what this says about the pharmaceutical industry: Even its own executives know their drugs are toxic enough to commit murder.

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Certainly we can all feel compassion for the loss of life experienced by this little boy -- a victim of growing up in a Big Pharma family where they live and die with patented chemical medications. But let's look at the bigger issue here: Why is nobody really surprised that a wealthy executive who pushed dangerous pills for a living might end up killing her own son with some of those same chemicals?

The reason nobody is really surprised is because deep down, we already know that Big Pharma executives are mentally insane. They earn their financial wealth at the expense of other peoples' health. They push pills that harm people, that produce disturbing side effects and that even kill people. They oversee companies engaged in price fixing fraud, disease mongering, corruption and bribery.

Big Pharma executives are the mob crime bosses of the 21st century, and beyond being guilty of crimes against humanity, they are mentally disturbed themselves.

And why are they so mentally disturbed? Perhaps because they take their own medicine. They eat their own fraudulently-approved chemicals -- the same chemicals they worked so hard to get approved by burying the truth about their side effects. The more they swallow, the more they become mentally imbalanced. The side effects they tried to hide from the world can't hide from human physiology...

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Virtually every school shooting that has happened in the last twenty years has been linked in one way or another to psychiatric medications sold by pharmaceutical companies led by mentally deranged executives. These people are corporate criminals who pose a serious danger to not only their own families, but the public at large. If they can feed a fatal dose of medication chemicals to their own children, then what else are they capable of doing in the name of corporate profits?

The truth is, these people just don't value human life. They are criminally insane. They need to be arrested and prosecuted for their crimes before they murder yet more children.

By the way, they don't stop at killing just their own children: They are likely to murder your children, too by putting six-month-old infants on antidepressant drugs, or doping up your teenagers on drugs for ADHD, a completely fictitious, bogus "disease" that was invented solely to sell more drugs.

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I believe Gigi Jordan's actions accurately portray the philosophies and insanities of pharmaceutical industry: Obscene selfishness, complete disrespect for human life and the treacherous application of their deadly chemical products. Gigi Jordan only killed her own child, but Big Pharma at large may kill your children, too.