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From: "James M. Atkinson" <jm..._at_tscm.com>
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/11/hollywood.wiretap.ap/index.html
Hollywood private eye: Wiretapping case is bogus
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- An imprisoned private investigator
accused of eavesdropping on Hollywood celebrities called the federal
wiretapping case against him bogus and reiterated a promise that he
would not testify against his former clients.
Anthony Pellicano spoke via telephone to the Los Angeles Times in his
first interview since he was indicted by a grand jury in February.
He has pleaded not guilty to more than 100 counts and is awaiting
trial on charges of wiretapping such stars as Sylvester Stallone and
paying two police officers to run names, including comedians Garry
Shandling and Kevin Nealon, through a government database.
Fourteen people, including Pellicano, have been charged with various
counts, including wire fraud and conspiracy. Six people have pleaded
guilty, including "Die Hard" director John McTiernan, for making
false statements to an FBI agent, and former Hollywood Records
president Robert Pfeifer, who admitted hiring Pellicano to wiretap
the phone of his former girlfriend.
Pellicano, 62, has long maintained that he would never break the
trust he shared with his former clients and employees.
"I am never going to besmirch a client or any other person that I
gave my trust to or who gave their trust to me," Pellicano told the
newspaper this week from the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in
Los Angeles. "I'm never going to do that. I am going to be a man
until I fall -- if, in fact, that happens."
Pellicano's troubles began in 2002 when prosecutors claim he hired
Alexander Proctor to threaten a former Los Angeles Times reporter,
who was working on a story about actor Steven Seagal and possible
links to the Mafia. The reporter found a dead fish with a rose in its
mouth on her car's windshield and a note reading: stop.
The FBI later raided Pellicano's office, found illegal explosives and
seized documents and computers. He served a 2 1/2-year sentence on
charges related to the explosives and faces state charges in
connection with the alleged threats.
Pellicano dismissed the assertions that he ordered the threats
against the reporter.
"You know the kind of guy I am. If I got a problem with you, I'm in
your face," Pellicano told the newspaper, which posted the interview
on its Web site Saturday.
Pellicano called federal prosecutors "overzealous" and said the case
has been blown out of proportion because of his famous client base
that once included Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and Stallone.
"The federal government has purposely tried to make this thing larger
than life -- like a Hollywood movie," he said. "They are trying to
use my name and reputation to build something better for themselves."
He also said it was ironic that the federal government is accusing
him of wiretapping at a time when it is under fire for authorizing
the National Security Agency to monitor Americans' telephone calls
without court warrants in search of terrorist connections.
"If the American public had any idea of all the surveillance,
wiretapping and illegal things that our own government actually does,
they would be shocked," Pellicano said. "Chasing terrorists is what
the FBI is supposed to be doing. I've got to tell you, if instead of
keeping me behind bars here, they gave me the job of finding Osama
bin Laden, I guarantee you I would find him."
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