Feuer’s Restraining Order Request Denied

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge declined to issue a permanent restraining order Wednesday against a man accused of threatening City Councilman Mike Feuer and other city workers, but gave the plaintiffs another day to produce tapes containing the alleged threats.

Feuer testified that one of his more vocal constituents, Eugene Krischer, threatened him and his staff by leaving menacing messages on his office voicemail last year.

Krischer disagreed with Feuer’s support of issues concerning the Carthay Circle neighborhood.

The phone messages said, “You don’t know who you’re messing with. You don’t know what I’m capable of. I intend to follow you around,” Feuer testified. His aide, Leslie Carsman, told the court that the office no longer had the messages because its voicemail system had erased them, a circumstance she called “a matter of disorganization.”

On Sept.4, Feuer obtained a temporary restraining order against Krischer, who appeared in court clad in black and wearing a jingling array of chains around his neck, after he allegedly made the threats. Feuer is seeking to extend the order, which bars Krischer from visiting or calling Feuer’s downtown, San Fernando Valley and Westside offices, for three years.

Judge S. James Otero gave Assistant City Atty. Diane Wentworth until this morning to produce tapes containing the alleged threats. Wentworth said later that she did have a tape from Feuer’s office, but she was unsure what was on it.

“They’re not going to have a case,” said Christopher Sutton, Krischer’s attorney, citing a lack of evidence.