Michael Jackson feels “vindicated” by the charges against his accuser’s mother.

Janet Arvizo is alleged to have collected £10,000 in welfare payments and not told officials she had just won £80,000 in a lawsuit settlement.

Sexual molestation claims by her son Gavin, 15, sparked the Jackson trial, which ended in the singer’s acquittal in June.

Yesterday, the superstar’s lawyer, Brian Oxman, said: “Michael feels vindicated by this.

“We do not wish this woman any ill will but we wanted to vindicate Michael and we have done.”

Oxman investigated Arvizo’s finances to prepare the singer’s defence case.

After the trial finished, Oxman handed over his records to authorities.

The attorney subpoenaed hundreds of bank account records and welfare records.

The fraud charges against Arvizo, 37, cover a time she was claiming that Michael Jackson was holding her family against their will.

Oxman added: “The existence of fraud at the same time that Michael Jackson was supposedly holding these people captive shows this was impossible.”

At Jackson’s trial, Arvizo refused to testify about the welfare matter.

The jury said afterwards that one reason for their decision was partly because they distrusted the boy’s mother.

Source: DR

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