Casey Anthony moving to Costa Rica

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Casey Anthony moving to Costa Rica

Did Casey Anthony plan on moving to Costa Rica once she completed her probation in Florida? “She bought a beach-side house in Costa Rica through a corporation that was set up for her, and had planned on moving there once she was off probation,” says a source.

You may recall Casey’s “Zanny the Nanny/Zenaida Gonzalez” story when Caylee Anthony was first reported missing, a story that later turned out to be nothing but a big, elaborate lie made up by Anthony – and now it looks like Casey’s moving plans will have to be set aside since she has been served and forced to face the music in a defamation suit filed against her by Gonzalez.

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Casey Anthony's Costa Rican Hideaway Plans

By Jen Heger
Radar Assistant Managing Editor

Casey Anthony wants to leave Florida as soon as legally possible and is eyeing a move to the central American paradise of Costa Rica, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

Anthony has been in hiding in Florida since she was acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, but has recently been making forays back out in to the public, virtually unrecognizable due to the amount of weight she has gained. Anthony is on probation for one year after pleading guilty to writing bad checks and is required to live in Florida. Once Casey's probation ends later this summer, she plans on ditching the sunshine state for Costa Rica.

"Casey is counting the days until her probation ends. She has been researching countries that she could move to and Costa Rica is at the top of the list," a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com. "Casey wants to live in a warm tropical setting and the cost of living is extremely low in Costa Rica. She wants to put as much distance as possible from Florida. Costa Rica appeals to her because Americans are warmly embraced by the locals, and she feels this is the best place to start a new life."

However, Anthony's legal woes are far from over. She is being sued by Zanaida Gonzalez for defamation after Casey said a woman with that name kidnapped Caylee.

The defamation trial is scheduled to begin in January and Anthony will be called as a witness by Zanaida's lawyers. "We were finally able to successfully serve a subpoena on Thursday to Casey Anthony's lawyers, ordering her to appear at the civil trial which is scheduled to begin in January 2013,” John Dill, Gonzalez's attorney, previously told RadarOnline.com.

According to reports, Casey Anthony is “annoyed” that she has to testify at the upcoming trial but Zenaida's lawyer minces no words, saying Anthony has only herself to blame.

"Too bad! Yes, we heard that Ms. Anthony was annoyed that she was going to have to testify at the trial," Dill told RadarOnline.com. "This was all brought on by Ms. Anthony herself, she is the one that started down this road and it's time that she be held to answer for her actions. Zenaida's life has been absolutely upended by Ms. Anthony's actions, so, no, I don't feel bad that she is upset. Again, she brought this all on herself."

"Casey just doesn't feel safe in Florida. She believes that moving to a new country is her best shot at moving forward with her life without being constantly reminded of Caylee's death. Casey has always maintained that Caylee was not murdered. Caylee accidentally died according to Casey, she was not murdered," the insider tells RadarOnline.com.



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Casey Anthony could be denied residency in Costa Rica. Here’s why:

Posted by Jaime Lopez on June 5, 2012 in Entertainment

Gossip and tabloid media outlets are once again churning up the sticky rumor bowl with regard to Florida resident Casey Anthony and her rumored plans to come to Costa Rica to leave her sordid plans behind once her term of probation concludes later this year. The Costa Rica Star has previously discussed this item, which was broken by an American blogger who goes by the Internet handle Enty Lawyer but who does not claim to practice law.

Publications of the stature of the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom and the New York Post are now quoting unnamed sources that putatively know about Ms. Anthony’s plans. The criteria that Ms. Anthony has put together to place Costa Rica at the top of her list of nations where she can lie low purportedly include considerations such as our tropical climate, the low cost of living and the affable reception that Ticos extend to Americans.

It can be assumed that Ms. Anthony should have no barriers in getting a passport, if she does not already have one, once she is released from probation. There is, however, a federal tax lien filed by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the amount of $68,000. The Costa Rica Star has previously reported on a passport restriction that Americans could face if Senate Bill 1813, the Highway Trust Fund, is passed and made into law. That bill contains a provision that would authorize the government to deny the application for a new passport, or renewal of an existing one, when an individual has $50,000 or more in unpaid federal taxes. If Ms. Anthony wants to travel to Costa Rica, she should hurry up and get her passport now, in case members of Congress advance the bill.

Armed with her passport, Ms. Anthony could arrive in Costa Rica as a tourist, without requesting a visa. She could then go through the motions of becoming a perpetual tourist, but should she decide to apply for residency, she may hit a snag in the process.

Ms. Anthony was acquitted by a Florida jury of charges related to the death of her daughter Caylee Marie Anthony. That acquittal puts her in the clear to obtain residency in Costa Rica, but then there is the matter for which she is serving probation now: check fraud.

Article 61 of Law 8764 (PDF) concerning immigration matters states that foreign visitors may be denied entry to Costa Rica if they have served a sentence, in the last ten years, of a willful criminal offense that has equivalency in our criminal code. Furthermore, article 70 of the same law states that legal permanence in the country will not be granted to foreigners under the same condition of having committed a willful offense in the last ten years.

Ms. Anthony is also facing a civil trial scheduled to begin next year in Florida. That trial is based on a defamation complaint filed by a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez, who claims Ms. Anthony ruined her life with a brazen fabrication that connected her with the death of Ms. Anthony’s daughter. While that trial is a civil process, the criminal code in Costa Rica includes a section for crimes against honor, and defamation is one of the offenses listed therein. The Costa Rica Star has looked at the defamation laws in our country in the past, particularly in the case of the secret taping of Mel Gibson in his Guanacaste mansion.

Based on the points above, Ms. Anthony’s alleged plans to start a new life in Costa Rica may be thwarted, or at least challenged to the point that she would have to once again retain an attorney and navigate through complex legal processes.

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[Carling]

Word on the street is that she is moving to Alabama.