and soon there would be another problem. what pam fayed had worried about would come true. federal investigators would come after goldfinger, indicting both jim and pam fayed because their company didn t have those money transmitter licenses. when the indictment came down, pamela fayed was in contact with her lawyer very quickly. she immediately indicated that she wanted to cooperate with the authorities. that was the position that she was taking. i want to cooperate. i want to do whatever i can to help out the investigation. i didn t do anything wrong, according to pam. what can i do to help? did james fayed know that his wife was going to cooperate? that s the $64,000 question. coming up, a suspect in the case and soon an arrest. he wasn t someone that i would ever think could be involved in something like this. but police had only just begun to solve the puzzle. when the goldfinger mystery continues.
it s not your typical love story or boy meets girl, but instead it s a love story where boy meets gold. it s that greed, that love of gold, that caused this man, james michael fayed, to have his wife murdered for financial gain. prosecutors offered this snapshot of the fayeds riches during the short time they ran their business. so mr. fayed found a niche, which is transferring money for only a 2% fee, which was highly, highly competitive and lucrative. so those of you who are good at math, you ll know that that s approximately $20 million in fees that went to goldfinger between 2001 and 2008, making a lot of money. but the good times didn t last. the company was under indictment. pam was cooperating with federal investigators. and the couple were getting divorced. they were going to be divorced.
were. prosecutors say the price tag for pam fayed s killing was $25,000. he was bankrolling it. no question. he commissioned this crime. and that s where the investigation began to lead us. that s where the evidence began to lead us. we knew clearly that he had an alibi for the actual stabbing. he s not the stabber. he s not the actual killer. you also knew he had probably a bigger motive than anybody else. there were always, in my mind, dual motives for james fayed to contract the murder of his wife. one was the divorce. but one was to silence who he thought was going to be a witness against him. pamela fayed. did he just give this hit man that he hired the money and say, go kill my wife? james fayed is a control but one was to silence who he thought was going to be a witness against him. pamela fayed. did he just give this hit man that he hired the money and say, go kill my wife? james fayed is a control freak. if he s anything, he wants to be
for sound, and they heard jim fayed talking about how he had tried to kill his wife but how it just hadn t worked out that time. prosecutor alan jackson. james fayed describes in detail how he told the killers about a party that pamela was going to be attending in malibu. according to him, they were simply supposed to carjack her and kill her, and everybody would think that it was just a random act of violence. nobody would know anything the better. now with a confession on tape, both jim fayed and jose moya were charged with pam s murder. but there was more work to be done in order to track down the others involved. it seems like you pretty quickly fixed on mr. fayed as the only suspect here. and the only question was, since it wasn t his hand on the knife, whose hand was it, and how do you connect that person to him?
tape. so they wired the cellmate for sound, and they heard jim fayed talking about how he had tried to kill his wife but how it just hadn t worked out that time. former pr former prosecutor alan jackson. james fayed describes in detail how he told the killers about a party that pamela was ing be atnding in malibu. according to him, they were simply supposed to carjack her and kill her, anevybody would think that it was just a random act of violence. nobody would know anything the better. now with a confession on tape, both jim fayed and jose moya were charged with pam s murder. but there was more work to be done in order to track down the others involved. it seems like you pretty quickly fixed on mr. fayed as the only suspect here. and the only question was, since it wasn t his hand on the knife,