VAN NUYS — Prosecutors filed court papers Monday asking a judge to revoke Rebecca Grossman’s privilege to make telephone calls while in jail, contending that she has used the calls to “engage in wholly improper conduct or potentially illegal conduct” after being convicted of second-degree murder and other charges involving a crash that killed two young boys in Westlake Village.
A hearing is set Friday in a Van Nuys courtroom involving the prosecution’s request involving Grossman, a co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation.
In a 16-page filing first reported by the Los Angeles Times, Deputy District Attorneys Ryan Gould and Jamie Castro wrote that Grossman’s recorded phone calls include “admissions to violating the court protective order regarding the disclosure of evidence on the internet and to the press” and also “document numerous potential criminal conspiracies such as requests to disclose more protected discovery, discussion of various attempts to interfere with witnesses and their testimony and attempts to influence (the judge) in regards to sentencing and motions for a new trial.”
Grossman, 60, was taken into custody Feb. 23, within minutes of a jury finding her guilty of two counts each of second-degree murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and one count of hit-and-run resulting in death involving the Sept. 29, 2020, crash that left 11-year-old Mark Iskander and his 8-year-old brother, Jacob, dead.
The prosecutors cited a series of phone calls in which Grossman spoke to her husband, Peter, and her daughter, Alexis, between Feb. 23 and Feb. 25. Those included a Feb. 23 call in which she told her daughter that she wanted her to “unblock the videos” and “put everything out” and another the following day in which asked her husband if a person she identified as “Tom” could call the judge and “ask him to please let us have a new trial,” according to the prosecution’s filing.
In a call the day after the…
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