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At 11:07 PM 2/4/2006, kondrak wrote:
>http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-02-04T021316Z_01_N03367313_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-PELLICANO.xml&archived=False
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>Celebrity sleuth Pellicano re-arrested in Calif
>Fri Feb 3, 2006 9:13 PM ET
>
>By Steve Gorman and Gina Keating
>
>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano,
>freed from prison on Friday after serving 2 1/2 years for firearms
>offenses, was immediately arrested again in a federal wiretap
>investigation closely watched in Hollywood.
>
>The charges were contained in sealed court documents that will be
>made public when Pellicano, 61, is arraigned on Monday in U.S.
>District Court in Los Angeles, said Inspector Jimell Griffin, a
>spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service.
>
>The former private detective whose clients have included Tom Cruise,
>John Travolta and Michael Jackson, has been quoted as vowing never
>to betray his high-profile clients.
>
>Still, a number of Hollywood heavyweights have answered questions
>from federal agents or appeared before the grand jury that conducted
>the investigation, among them Paramount Pictures Group Chairman Brad
>Grey, Universal Studios President Ron Meyer and veteran
>entertainment lawyer Bert Fields.
>
>The scope of the charges will reveal whether federal prosecutors
>believe he acted at the behest of powerful Hollywood clients willing
>to eavesdrop on their enemies.
>
>The wiretap probe was triggered in 2002 by accusations that
>Pellicano had tried to intimidate reporter Anita Busch, then working
>for the Los Angeles Times, to keep her from pursing stories about a
>suspected Mafia extortion plot against actor Steven Seagal.
>
>FBI agents searching Pellicano's West Hollywood office found
>computer files containing large volumes of wiretap transcripts and
>notes, as well as firearms, grenades and plastic explosives in a safe.
>
>The weapons discovery led to his guilty plea on felony firearms
>charges in October 2003 and a 30-month prison term.
>
>Pellicano was taken into custody as he was released from the Taft
>Correctional Institution near Bakersfield, California, where he was
>serving that sentence.
>
>Griffin said Pellicano was then transferred to the San Bernardino
>County Jail, east of Los Angeles, to be held until his arraignment,
>which is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Monday.
>
>In June, the Los Angeles County district attorney charged Pellicano
>in a separate case with making criminal threats against Busch and
>conspiring with an associate, Alexander Proctor, to carry out those threats.
>
>According to prosecutors, it was Proctor who placed a dead fish with
>a rose in its mouth on the windshield of Busch's car outside her
>home in June 2002. He also is accused of making a hole that
>resembled a bullet hole in the windshield and leaving a sign printed
>with the word "stop."
>
>Proctor is serving a 10-year prison term in Illinois on unrelated
>drug charges.
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