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"\"&lt;p style=\\\"text-align: center;\\\"&gt;&lt;img class=\\\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1000150609\\\" title=\\\"Jeff Alessi\\\" src=\\\"http:\\/\\/motocross.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/441\\/files\\/2013\\/07\\/2013_washougal_kickstart_058-600x4001.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"600\\\" height=\\\"400\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/motocross.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/441\\/files\\/2013\\/07\\/2013_washougal_kickstart_058-600x4001.jpg 600w, http:\\/\\/motocross.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/441\\/files\\/2013\\/07\\/2013_washougal_kickstart_058-600x4001-225x150.jpg 225w, http:\\/\\/motocross.transworld.net\\/wp-content\\/blogs.dir\\/441\\/files\\/2013\\/07\\/2013_washougal_kickstart_058-600x4001-90x60.jpg 90w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Late last night, Jeff Alessi took to the forum on Vital MX and posted an apology for the incidents that transpired at last weekend&amp;#8217;s Washougal National. After initially denying responsibility, he admits that he was in fact the person with the laser that was shined into the eyes of Ryan Villopoto and Malcolm Stewart.\\u00a0&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Here is the full apology&amp;#8230;&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Hey guys,&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m here to inform all of you that I am responsible for the incident that happened this weekend at Washougal national. As many of you know a green laser went across Ryan Villopoto and Malcolm Stewart before the start of the first moto. I was the person who did that and I would like to say to those two riders that I am very sorry for causing any distraction to them before the start of the race. I had no intent to harm either rider or affect their results.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;I would also like to extend my sincere apologies to Steve Matthes who had to hear the wrath of my father who was defending me with the thought that I was innocent because I told him a story to make him think I wasn&amp;#8217;t guilty, and also for saying what I said to him during the confrontation.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;To my brother, my father, and Mike Genova, words cannot describe the pain and shame I have to live with right now knowing the problems I caused for all of you and the rest of the team. I know how hard you work Mike800, and how you&amp;#8217;ve made your one goal to stay out of drama and just race and try to show the masses that you are a great rider that loves racing.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;When I sit here and think about what I did and what it caused I feel like I ruined EVERYTHING you spent the last 5 years building on, and I am so sorry brother because you don&amp;#8217;t deserve any of this.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;To my dad, thanks for standing up for me and showing me you would take that bullet for me. I shouldn&amp;#8217;t have told you a story when you looked at me and asked what I did. I should&amp;#8217;ve just told you the truth but I couldn&amp;#8217;t because I was terrified and scared and what came out instead was little and low and you still believed me because that&amp;#8217;s what you do when your kids say something. I was so dumb.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Mike Genova, what can I say other than you tried getting me back on track here and wanted me to make a difference and I didn&amp;#8217;t make any difference except cost you a lot of people&amp;#8217;s respect they had started having for you. You&amp;#8217;re like my second father, and just like my dad I lied to you too, and you defended me against it all and I&amp;#8217;m here to finally give up my story and come clean and tell you I was standing in the grass with a $12 dollar laser acting like a five-year-old, doing childish pranks and it all came down on your team and my brother. I&amp;#8217;m really sorry, Mike. I thought I had changed and I made an effort prior to that mistake to do nothing wrong all week and try to help but I stopped thinking and I&amp;#8217;m truly sorry.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;My last apology I will end with is to the man who did his job and found me when I was doing something wrong, Davey Coombs. I am so sorry I had to put you in that situation that you had to spend important time looking for who was causing the big problem. I know how disappointed you were when you found out I was the one with the device and you had to do what you did, but I also want you to know I never thought you were rough with me, you were just doing your job.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;To everyone else, the Monster Energy Kawasaki team, JGR, the Stewart family; MotoConcept team members Vince Freise, James, Dave Dye, Daniel Castloo, Shauna Genova and Sandy Genova; I&amp;#8217;m sorry for the outcome of this, it was never my intentions and I will work hard to learn from all of this and return to a professional human that uses his brain before making actions.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;To the motorcycle community, I hope this does not reflect who I am because I&amp;#8217;m not the person it looks like I am right now and I will try and prove that in the future.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Jeff Alessi&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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