I wonder if Vince Foster was ever "threatened" by this guy.
I hope ALL the chickens come home to roost.
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.
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)?'
It's a Sicilian message meaning "Hiliary has to take a bath"
If this guy cooked bacon and eggs one time for Tom Delay, the media would have made him a household word. What pigs these people are.
I don't suppose the Clinton's favorite thug will make the mainstream news. Somehow, the intimidation of women that Bill's either raped or groped doesn't bother corrupt Leftists.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10 - The case began with a dead fish and a rose in an aluminum pan, left on the hood of a car parked on a Los Angeles street. Taped to the windshield of the car, which belonged to a reporter for The Los Angeles Times, was a piece of cardboard with a single word: "Stop."
The discovery in June 2002 - for which an ex-convict was later arrested - unleashed a chain of events that has suddenly entwined many of the Hollywood elite and threatens to turn into the kind of scandal that the show business world has not faced in decades. Managers, actors, businessmen and lawyers are being questioned, and in some cases subpoenaed, by the federal government in a widening grand jury investigation of suspected illegal wiretapping that has moved beyond Los Angeles to New York, according to entertainers, producers, lawyers and others involved in the inquiry.
At issue are the contents of what federal investigators have told potential witnesses are wiretap transcripts found on the computer of Anthony Pellicano, a private investigator who has worked for some of Hollywood's top celebrities, including Michael Jackson, Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone and Roseanne Barr. The transcripts were among a huge trove of computer files discovered last year in an F.B.I. raid of Mr. Pellicano's Sunset Boulevard office in connection with the threat against the reporter, Anita M. Busch. The grand jury investigation is now seeking to unravel the details of the wiretapping, and whether prominent lawyers or their clients had hired Mr. Pellicano to do it.
It remains unclear how much information the government has about Mr. Pellicano's actions, and whether the lawyers and clients who retained the private investigator knew of any wiretapping. Still, at virtually every movie premiere, in studio commissaries, over lunch at the Grill and at other show business hangouts, the investigation, and who is being called before the grand jury, have become the major topic of discussion.
Among those who have been called by the F.B.I. was the comedian Garry Shandling, who said in an interview on Friday that an F.B.I. agent had informed him that he had been wiretapped. Word of the investigation had been percolating through Hollywood for some time.
But the vague speculation turned specific last week after a prominent Hollywood lawyer, Bert Fields, told the entertainment trade journal Variety that he had been questioned by the F.B.I. It was the first time anyone who had spoken to the F.B.I. as part of the investigation had identified himself. Over the years, Mr. Fields's client list has included Tom Cruise, John Travolta, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Jackson. Mr. Fields and his law firm have long used Mr. Pellicano as a private investigator.
In a telephone interview, Mr. Fields said there was "no question" that the F.B.I. was seeking information about Mr. Pellicano.
"That's what they were questioning me about," said Mr. Fields, who has hired a criminal defense lawyer, John W. Keker. Mr. Fields denied any knowledge of wiretapping. "I do not do that, nor did I authorize Anthony Pellicano to do any wiretapping, ever," he said.
Under federal law, a defendant found guilty of wiretapping could could face a sentence of up to five years in prison.
Mr. Pellicano's lawyer, Donald Re, declined to comment.
According to people who have been questioned by the F.B.I., the evidence gathered in Mr. Pellicano's office led the F.B.I. to look into the possible use of illegal wiretaps in several cases, including the legal and personal battle in 1999 between Mr. Shandling and his former manager, Brad Grey. Mr. Fields represented Mr. Grey in the bitter financial dispute, which was settled before the trial began.
Mr. Grey, who is one of the producers of "The Sopranos," is a talent manager whose company, Brillstein-Grey, represents stars like Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler.
In an interview, Mr. Shandling said the F.B.I. had asked him "questions about wiretapping."
"The F.B.I. was interested in my lawsuit in regards to Brad Grey, and the circumstances of the press campaign mounted against me," Mr. Shandling said. He added that he had been informed that "my name and other people who were deposed in my lawsuit, their names were run through a computer at the L.A.P.D."
He would not elaborate, but he was apparently referring to Sgt. Mark Arneson of the robbery-homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department, who was suspended in June after being accused of tapping into police databases on Mr. Pellicano's behalf.
An F.B.I. spokesman in Los Angeles said that the agency "was not at liberty to discuss the investigation."
When asked about the possible use of wiretaps in the Shandling case, Mr. Grey said: "I can't imagine Bert Fields would be involved or get his clients involved in anything like this. I never heard anything about any wiretapping, and that's what I shared with investigators when they asked."
What set off the investigation was the threat against Ms. Busch, an entertainment reporter for The Los Angeles Times who has also written for The New York Times. Ms. Busch had told the authorities that she thought the incident was related to her research for an article about the actor Steven Seagal and his relationship with a suspected Mafia associate.
According to court documents, Alexander Proctor implicated himself in the threat against Ms. Busch during a tape-recorded conversation with an F.B.I. informant. Mr. Proctor told the informant that he had been offered $10,000 by Mr. Pellicano to set Ms. Busch's car on fire but, uncomfortable with that, he bought the fish and a rose to warn her off the story.
The authorities obtained a warrant to search Mr. Pellicano's office for evidence linking him to Mr. Proctor. Federal agents said that during the search, two unregistered hand grenades and some plastic explosives were found.
The search also turned up the computer files that have become the focus of the federal investigation. Mr. Pellicano pleaded guilty last month to charges of possessing explosives, and although formal sentencing is not until January, he is expected to enter prison next Monday. Mr. Pellicano and Mr. Seagal have denied involvement in the Busch case, and neither has been charged with trying to threaten the reporter.
It is not only entertainment lawyers who have been questioned in the investigation, but also divorce lawyers and criminal lawyers in both Los Angeles and New York who employed Mr. Pellicano, according to two lawyers with knowledge of the inquiry.
Norman Levine, a managing partner at Mr. Fields's law firm - Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger - said Mr. Fields received a subpoena to testify before the grand jury but was later told not to appear. He has not received any formal notice that he is under investigation, Mr. Levine said.
Mr. Fields and Mr. Pellicano had been friendly for many years, but Mr. Levine and others say their relationship seemed more professional than personal. "I never heard that Bert and Anthony Pellicano have been to dinner or ballgames," said Mr. Levine, who works closely with Mr. Fields.
Even so, on Nov. 25, 2002, Mr. Fields wrote a letter on Mr. Pellicano's behalf requesting bail after Mr. Pellicano was charged with illegal possession of the explosives. The letter was one of three written to the judge in the case by partners at Greenburg, Glusker, all of whom praised Mr. Pellicano. "My firm has hired Mr. Pellicano as an investigator for dozens of cases, many of which I have personally handled," Mr. Fields wrote in a letter to Judge Fernando Olguin of Federal District Court in Los Angeles. "I cannot imagine that he represents the slightest 'danger to the community' should he be released on bail," Mr. Fields wrote.
The relationship between Mr. Pellicano and Mr. Fields was discussed in a 1993 Vanity Fair article about Michael Jackson, a client of Mr. Pellicano's. The author of the piece, Maureen Orth, wrote that Mr. Pellicano had told her: "Bert gives me an absolute free hand when I'm involved."
When Mr. Levine of Greenberg, Glusker was asked if Mr. Pellicano had indeed been given a free hand to investigate as he pleased, he said, "Anthony Pellicano never had a free hand to do anything illegal."
According to government trademark records, the law firm in 1995 helped Mr. Pellicano seek a trademark for computer hardware and software "which will be used for the monitoring and/or recording and subsequent playback of telecommunications." The project was abandoned four years later. Mr. Levine said he and Mr. Fields had no knowledge of this until it was brought to their attention by a reporter. A lawyer at the firm, Jill A. Cossman, is listed in public records as having handled the trademark request.
Mr. Pellicano came to Hollywood under strange circumstances. In 1977, he found the body of Elizabeth Taylor's third husband, Mike Todd, which had been stolen from a Chicago cemetery. In front of a television camera crew, Mr. Pellicano walked about 75 yards from the excavated grave, reached under some leaves and revealed a plastic bag containing Mr. Todd's remains. Mr. Pellicano's rivals claimed he had staged the episode for publicity.
But the episode endeared Mr. Pellicano to Ms. Taylor, who introduced him to her Hollywood friends. The criminal lawyer Howard Weitzman hired him in 1983 to help in the defense of John DeLorean, who was accused of cocaine trafficking. From then on he was a high-profile investigator.
Mr. Pellicano has been a controversial figure in Hollywood. At the start of the 1999 hearings in Jeffrey Katzenberg's lawsuit against his former employer, the Walt Disney Company, for breach of contract, Mr. Pellicano was hired by Mr. Fields, who was Mr. Katzenberg's lawyer, to provide security, according to an associate of Mr. Katzenberg. But Mr. Katzenberg, walking into the first session, saw Mr. Pellicano and said to an associate, "I don't want him here."
A new security team was hired soon after.
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I had not heard this before. What is on these tapes? Where are the tapes?
There certainly seem to be a lot of lowlife criminals and professional thugs orbiting planet clinton. Wonder if this guy was ever in Ft. Marcy Park?
I wonder if Pelicano was the one who tried to scare kathleen Willey and killed her cat. That sounds like the right time frame.