[VaGunGuy]

There's a slight difference between inadmissable in court and being obtained criminally. Hearsay is generally inadmissable in court, but isn't criminal. Wiretapping in violation of the statute IS criminal.

[Boot Hill]

"Wiretapping in violation of the statute IS criminal."

According to the story is was not criminal till five days after the recording began.

--Boot Hill

[Alberta's Child]

There's also an interesting angle to the "admissability" of a recorded phone conversation that we seem to have forgotten about:

A recorded phone conversation could be admitted in court even if the recording were illegal -- as long as the police or prosecutor were not involved in the illegal recording. This was exactly what happened in the Lewinsky case -- the fact that one of the parties to the conversation may have recorded a conversation illegally did not preclude the use of that recording by a "disinterested" prosecutor who had nothing to do with obtaining the recording.