Posted on 06/25/2005 8:27:31 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
A top Los Angeles private detective who helped Hillary Clinton quash her husband's "bimbo eruptions" in 1992 has been charged with making criminal threats and with conspiracy to commit a crime.
Prosecutors say that Anthony Pellicano - know as the "Private Eye to the Stars" - hired a second man to threaten Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch, and to "cause her to fear for her life."
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley announced the charges against Pellicano last Friday, in a complaint that alleges that the private detective's co-conspirator threatened Busch "by placing a dead fish with a rose in its mouth on the windshield of her car. He made a hole in the windshield with the intent to make it appear like a bullet hole. He also placed a sign with the word 'stop' on the windshield."
In 1992, the Clintons recruited Pellicano to contact some women on a list of 19 so-called "bimbo eruptions" that had been leaked to the press. Some of the women later complained to then-Bush 41 campaign director Mary Matalin that they had been threatened.
Matalin, now a senior White House advisor, detailed the episode when she hosted a Washington, D.C. talk radio show in 1997, explaining: "I got the letters from Pellicano to these women intimidating them. I had tapes of conversations from Pellicano to the women. I got handwritten letters from the women."
In 1998, the New York Post reported that Pellicano helped with damage control in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, unearthing Monica's old boyfriend, Andy Blieler. Blieler told reporters that Monica told him she wanted to go to Washington to earn her "presidential kneepads."
Pellicano has told reporters that he prefers to carry a baseball bat, not a gun, explaining to the Los Angeles Times: "I only use intimidation and fear when I absolutely have to." After her brush with the Clinton P.I.'s hardball tactics, Anita Busch retired from journalism.
Pelicano is currently serving a 30-month jail sentence for possession of hand grenades and plastic explosives, which were discovered during a Nov. 2003 search of his Sunset Blvd. office by police investigating the Busch case.
I wonder if Vince Foster was ever "threatened" by this guy.
Interesting we are slowly exposed to the Clinton "neighborhood".
I hope ALL the chickens come home to roost.
I may be getting jaded but in this day and age being "charged" means squat. I am waiting for the day when the word "convicted" is used. Someday maybe even followed by the words "life in prison without parole."
This is a state court case, not a Federal case. Thus, there's a chance any time he draws in this case will run consecutively with his Federal time. Pray for that to happen. Then he might be willing to talk about his representation of the Witch.
That he preferred to carry a base ball bat rather than a gun means he was a real thug. PIs and ordinary people, yours truly included, have good, legitimate defensive reasons for carrying firearms, indeed, most people are silly not to. About the only people with legitimate reasons for carrying ball bats are those who're going to use them in or for the sport and collectors. As a defensive weapon, a ball bat is a joke compared to a pistol. As an instrument of brutal intimidation for leg breaking, etc., it's perfect. His only logical reason for keeping the illegal explosives was to make a bomb to be used illegally. He's nothing but the Clintons' button man and hit man.
Ping.
Thought you might be interested.
Paging Anita Busch -- if you read this, sign up here and use the Private Reply function to contact me or Doug from Upland.
I have no doubt that author Klein is now getting some of those intimidating messages.
I have to ask myself, 'Are Americans so unscrupulous that they would vote into the highest office a really wicked person (Hillary)?'
Thanks for the ping!
There you have it. Fake bullet holes drilled in windshield. A fish with a rose in its mouth. Hand grenades. Plastic explosives. If this isn't a mob tie to the Clintonista, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS!
Indeed. It is quite troubling!
That was Bill's bodyguard... Buddy something-or-other... that broke Vince's neck while he was making-out with Dee Dee Meyers. :^O
Well said bitt.
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