And Twitter. She says she's received more than 3, messages through e-mail, Facebook, texts and Twitter from family, friends and viewers. Many of those who contacted her and people she sees on the street ask what they can do to get her back on the air. It's her favorite indulgence. In addition to her publicized woes, Stensland's year-old mother Rosemary is suffering from a progressive motor-neuron disorder similar to Lou Gehrig's disease.
She's been confined to a wheelchair for more than a year. Meanwhile, Fox 29's announcement last month that it would not renew her contract came almost to the day of the anniversary of Stensland's Oct. And her husband, the former CBS 3 anchor, is also jobless after recently completing six months house arrest, the result of pleading guilty to a felony federal charge in connection with hacking former co-anchor Alycia Lane's e-mails. One Facebook poster's comments reflected many on Stensland's Facebook pages: "I was so sorry to see your [sic] gone from Fox!
The mother of two, who wants to be known from here forward as Dawn Stensland Mendte, calls herself and her children "the innocent victims" of the Mendte-Lane scandal of that continues in litigation to this day.
But, she'll be the first to tell you: "I'm not angry at all. I don't want to get revenge, but I do pray that the full truth comes out. Has he made mistakes? Sure, yes he did. Do I think they rose to the level of a federal crime? No, I don't. I think that is ridiculous. For those living under a vow of news-celibacy in recent years, Mendte, 52, and Lane, 37, were the hot new anchor team in fall at CBS 3, right around the time Stensland was pregnant with her first child.
Stensland had had difficulties conceiving and had undergone fertility treatments over the years, she said. Then, she noticed little things. Mendte told her, "I'm helping my new co-anchor with her k.
Things like late-night dinners, coming home later and later. Unexplained expenses. Stensland said she found a credit card statement from Tiffany's right around the time she began getting phone calls from friends at CBS 3 Stensland had worked there from to about Larry and Alycia.
They were seen embracing and kissing in a parking garage, the friends told her. Lane was known to put on her makeup in Mendte's office. The rumors swelled, but Stensland didn't believe them.
It was Jan. But two months earlier, in an interview with the FBI, she admitted to agents that "the relationship started to become affectionate," according to court documents.
Lane also admitted to accepting a platinum Tiffany's necklace from Mendte and kissing him, but that "the relationship never got to the point of touching bodies," the documents said. The end of the relationship began a different chapter in the Mendtes' lives, Stensland said. Mendte alleges that Lane got him taken off CBS 3 projects. And Mendte, as the FBI soon found out, accessed Lane's e-mail accounts at least times, federal investigators have said. His spying began, he said, after he'd seen an e-mail on Lane's newsroom computer screen that bad-mouthed him to CBS 3 management.
In November , Mendte pleaded guilty to a felony charge, but his attorney Julia Morrow is asking the court to reduce the charge to a misdemeanor. The Justice Department is investigating how the local U. Attorney's Office handled the case, court documents show. Desantis joined the company as an intern in and grew into other programming positions before he was admitted to Harvard University in Remember Me.
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