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Bill Ash, a former assistant to Seth Tobias, the hedge-fund manager and CNBC analyst who was found dead in his pool in September, has passed a lie-detector test, in which he swore that Tobias’s wife, Filomena, confessed to him that she murdered her husband by stirring Ambien into a “spicy” pasta sauce, then coaxed him into their pool, telling him, “If you eat [all the pasta], I’ll call Tiger [tattooed go-go dancer, escort, and porn star, pictured at left] to come over for some kinky sex.” Ash has been saying for months that Tobias was murdered by his wife, but his insistences have been rather drowned out by his record, which includes eleven arrests, for prostitution and writing bad checks. Ostensibly, he’s hoping the lie-detector test, news of which he distributed by press release, will clear his, uh, good name. Filomena Tobias’s lawyer continues to deny the allegations. “We’ve tried to take his deposition three times under oath [in the probate proceeding over Seth’s estate],” he told the Daily News today of Ash. “He failed to show up.” Ash e-mailed New York this morning to say that’s not exactly true, that he just asked for an extension, and moreover and that Tobias’s lawyers have actually tried to block his testimony by filing motions that “attack” his credibility: “They are trying to block me for giving a deposition!” he said. “They are telling the press I won’t be deposed, but they are filing motions to try to block me … They have been hitting the roof.”
Widow Drugged Money Mogul, Aide Says [NYDN]
Earlier: Daily Intel’s Coverage of Seth Tobias
