ANTHONY PELLICANO BREAKS HIS SILENCE

ANTHONY PELLICANO:

THE HOLLYWOOD PHONE HACKER BREAKS HIS SILENCE



Could Pellicano be the one who will unravel this crazy

tangled up web!!!With Murdoch now going down ...Who's next....



Could Anthony be the man who could bring

Hollywood to its knees??



ANTHONY PELLICANO SPEAKS:

Before the convict was cooling his heels with more than 1,700 other inmates here in Big Spring, his milieu was the liposuctioned underbelly of Hollywood Babylon.

His job was to keep the lid on such indiscretions. He liked to boast that he lived by omerta, the Mafia code of silence.

“When you are my client, you become my family,” he says,

and his clan included Michael Jackson, Arnold Schwarzenegger,

Farrah Fawcett, Kevin Costner, Courtney Love, Chris Rock,

and über-agent Michael Ovitz, just to name a few.

“That was the attitude I kept. I wasn’t really a P.I.

I was a problem solver. People came to me because

they had a problem. The government wanted me to

turn on them.”



And on he goes Pellicano reveals that when he agreed to work

for Jackson during the star’s 1993 child-molestation case,

he warned Jackson that he’d better not be guilty.

“I said, ‘You don’t have to worry about cops or lawyers.

If I find out anything, I will f--k you over.’ ”



But the most explosive find in Pellicano’s office was a

trove of thousands of transcripts and encrypted tapes of

phone conversations he’d illegally tapped. Pellicano had

designed a wiretapping program to intercept calls that

he dubbed Telesleuth. Aided by several phone-company

workers he employed, he installed taps in telephone junction

boxes and at the main switchboard that were then connected

via phone lines to the computers in Pellicano’s office and

remote laptops.



Ultimately, the feds’ investigation mushroomed into allegations

of bribery of law-enforcement officers, identity theft, and high-tech

eavesdropping. And as the case began to take on a life of its own,

Hollywood heavyweights were dragged into the mess, including

Pellicano clients Ovitz and Fields.



In May 2008, Pellicano was found guilty on 76 charges, including

wire fraud, racketeering, and wiretapping.



Three months later he was convicted alongside prominent lawyer

Terry N. Christensen for wiretapping the ex-wife of billionaire

Kirk Kerkorian during a bitter child-custody battle.



In all, close to a dozen people were charged in the FBI probe.

Pellicano received the harshest sentence: 15 years. Pellicano

says he landed the hefty prison term because of his refusal to

name names. “Up until the day of trial, [federal prosecutors]

tried to get me to talk,” he says. Dan Saunders, who prosecuted

Pellicano and is now a partner at Bingham McCutchen in Los

Angeles, sees it differently.



“Pellicano’s sentence was based not on any refusal to cooperate,

but on what the law and the trial judge deemed just punishment

for his many years of egregious criminal conduct.”



The disgraced detective still insists that none of his clients knew

anything about his wiretapping, in particular the high-powered

lawyers, like Fields, who employed him.



“I didn’t tell no one about the wiretapping,” he says.

“I didn’t trust lawyers: they had an obligation to tell on me.”



Pellicano is currently appealing his conviction, and if

he’s successful, he could be out by 2013, six years before his

eligible parole date. He’s pinning his hopes on an 86-page

appeals brief that accuses the government of misconduct,

misrepresentation, and constitutional violation.



Among other things, the brief charges that the agents’

search of his office was illegal. The U.S. Attorney’s Office has

until late September to respond to the brief.



In the meantime, Pellicano has 30 civil lawsuits hanging over

his head. Will Pellicano rat out anyone in the civil cases?



Don’t count on it, says his attorney and friend Steven Gruel.

“Everyone expected this to be the case that rocked Hollywood,

and it didn’t happen, and it didn’t bring in the great names they

hypothesized would happen,” the attorney says.



But is the time coming ...that will rock Hollywood...

Where Pellicano will tell all...



Remember ,Timing is everything!!!

The clock seems to be ticking



Alittle history on how far back Pellicano Bert Fields

Michael Jackson go...

What went wrong !!! Pellicano Fields and Weitzman

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Photo Illustration by Jesse Lenz. Source photos: Courtesy

of Everett Colllection (poster); Steve Granitz / Wire-Image /

Getty Images (Nicole Kidman and Sly Stallone); Brendan Hoffman

/ Getty Images (Gary Shandling); Ocean-Corbis (microphone and headphones);

Westley Hargrave / Splash News (Anthony Pellicano) http://tinyurl.com/3rkldu3