03.29.06
Posted in anthony pellicano, pellicano, crimes at 6:21 pm by Administrator
In an early article about Anthony Pellicano from 1978, the man clearly demonstrated a grandiosity that went well beyond the norm. Pellicano believed he was in fact immortal and boasted of being a believer in an obscure Eastern philosophy wherein “absolute confidence can conquer death. That’s what I have. That’s why I’ve been able to accomplish what I’ve accomplished.”
A LITTLE BACKGROUND
Pellicano was brought up by his mother and doesn’t really ever mention his father.
Pellicano has been married six times and has nine children. His last marriage to a topless dancer in Las Vegas occurred right before his incarceration in 2003 and has already ended in divorce.
He is estranged from some of his daughters and used to wiretap their phone calls as well as that of his ex-wife Kat Pellicano. She is writing a tell-all book and one can only imagine about what.
Pellicano would call grown women he dealt with professionally “girl” and “sweetie”.
THE MISOGYNIST ELEMENT
Pellicano was indeed a popular item in Hollywood before his disgrace, but his clientele was almost exclusively male. Except for that reclusive Canadian millionairess recently, Pellicano’s last female employer over a decade before was Roseanne Arnold (who subsequently labeled him “the sleaziest human being ever”). You’re right; I’m not counting Farah Fawcett or Sandra Carradine, with whom he both was romantically involved, or Hilary Clinton — or Michael Jackson.
While the disgraced P.I. would wiretap both men and women without any sexual preference, he particularly relished slandering, threatening and bullying women while attempting to destroy their lives. I’m choosing to leave out of this discussion that Pellicano had no moral qualms about working for rapists and child molesters because frankly I’m getting sick to my stomach.
Famous cases his handiwork was apparent in were Monica Lewinsky, Katherine Willey and Gennifer Flowers in the Clinton sex-gate scandals, the Scanlon/Kennedy rape case, Heidi Fleiss, Monica Harmon of Jerry Bruckheimer/Don Simpson fame, Kathleen Bell in O.J. Simpson, the mothers of the boys in the 1993 Michael Jackson child molestation case, Linda Doucett the ex-girlfriend of Gary Shandling, the six rape victims in the Jones case, the nanny of that Canadian millionairess and Anita Busch.
Now those are the names and faces that you might recognize, but in the year and a half of doing this website I’ve met a far greater number who have remained anonymous in the media. They have included women in the health field like me, attorneys and paralegals, screenwriters, businesswomen, personal assistants, secretaries and housewives. Many of them have been single mothers who were literally afraid for the welfare of their children if they said anything. Most of the women had only been guilty of knowing something that was inconvenient for Pellicano to have them know. Some have simply been behaving in a fashion that displeased one of Pellicano’s male clients.
A quip by a male journalist friend of mine sums Pellicano’s prowess with women up beautifully for me, “Pellicano never lost a fight to a woman or a child. Men? He didn’t fare too well.”
Let’s all hope that new female judge, Dale S. Fischer, presiding over the Pellicano trial gives him hell. The gumshoe might really not be at the top of his heap for the next few years in an all male prison.
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03.27.06
Posted in anthony pellicano, pellicano, los angeles times at 11:37 pm by Administrator
The Los Angeles Times started a special section all about Anthony Pellicano this past Saturday. Interestingly it all happened the same day my blog was hacked into and a day after my original post about the peculiar relaltionship between the Los Angeles Times and Pellicano was distributed to over 2,000 readers on the Internet. I’ve also heard that an especially good journalist has been recently asking questions of the LA Times that are making them very nervous about their past involvement with Pellicano. Of course this could all be odd circumstance and I’m not pointing fingers at anybody, but I am entitled to have my own opinions on the chain of events.
The Times now bills that they are giving “complete coverage” to the Pellicano investigation. Well, for complete coverage there’s still a lot lacking. Reading their article about Anita Busch today I couldn’t help but notice how this interesting sentence was slipped in that “As the racketeering investigation has widened, a big unknown is the extent to which Pellicano acted at the behest of high-powered lawyers or their clients — or on his own in a bid to impress them.” It was frankly a non-sequitter and had nothing to do with the rest of the story that they were reporting on.
So why would the LA Times have a vested interest in continuing to bring to it’s readers the concept that Pellicano acted on his own without his client’s knowledge? Is it just fair and unbiased reporting or because of a second agenda on their part? Was the Los Angeles Times one of Pellicano’s many A-list clients in Tinseltown?
Personally, I find those fascinating questions and I would like to know.
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Posted in anthony pellicano, pellicano, los angeles times, crimes, mass media at 1:20 am by Administrator
An article about Eric Portocarrero that appeared a few days ago in the Los Angeles Times is actually a lot more interesting than all the recent blather about Keith Carradine suing Anthony Pellicano et al. Yes, I loved Keith Carradine in Nashville but pretty much since then, “feh.”
Someone in LAPD informed me today that Arneson was working Vice at the time the whole Portocarrerro blackmail thing came down. Of course that obviously wasn’t reported in the Los Angeles Times but …. least I get caustic here.
Arneson took the fifth when questioned in the Portocarrerro case, which in my FOX News and Court TV trained mind implies guilt and not innocence. The question is what exactly is Arneson guilty of. We know that he’s been indicted for accessing confidential government databases to secure personal information for Pellicano. The fact that Arneson was working in Vice at that time and gave Pellicano information on an ongoing criminal investigation implies that he was a snitch as well.
That raises a question for me, and I hope you as well, about who all Pellicano’s snitches were. Were they on his payroll that the FBI has? Where, besides the LAPD, did they work? With all the embarassing tidbits that the gumshoe dug up and created on people, there must have been a slew of paid informants. People like that don’t tend to do it for gratis.
Pellicano actually alluded to his use of paid informants in those illicitly recorded tapes of him that surfaced with Paul Barresi from Jim Mitteager in the ’90s. Wouldn’t it be delightful if some investigative journalist started reporting on that aspect of the Pellicano debacle?
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03.25.06
Posted in anthony pellicano, pellicano, los angeles times, crimes, mass media at 11:42 pm by Administrator
Nearly everyone in Los Angeles, from the beat cop to the studio executive, knew that Anthony Pellicano was used by many of the power players to do what they needed to be done with “no questions asked”. What took the “traditional media” so long to “get it”? Why haven’t the many investigative journalists in Pellicano’s hometown really looked into not only who hired him but what was common knowledge about Pellicano’s shenanigans for well over the past decade? Were they truly ignorant of Pellicano’s illegal tactics, even though at least since 1993 his victims have bitterly complained to anyone who might listen to them? One has to give a moment’s thought especially to the behavior of the Los Angeles Times in this morass. After all, they are the premiere newspaper on Pellicano’s home turf.
Initially, in their early reporting about Pellicano, they gushed like love-struck school girls about his daring feats and deeds of wonder from Delorean to Judas Priest to Michael Jackson fame. They were the first and often the only news organization to always report the incarcerated P.I.’s viewpoint. Everytime Pellicano said, “I wasn’t there” (when he was spotted outside Nicole Simpson’s house the night she and Ron Goldman were brutally murdered), “I didn’t sanitize anything” (when the coroner said that Don Simpson’s death scene had been altered) and down to “I’ll never snitch on my clients” (right before Pellicano went to federal prison in 2003) the LA Times was thoroughly Johnny On The Spot.
One of the Time’s staff reporters , Chuck Philips, who was the lucky one to get the gumshoe’s “I’ll never snitch” swan song, often bragged that he had a very “special” relationship with Pellicano. Again, it gives one pause to wonder exactly what sort of objective journalism was involved in the many stories he covered for the Times since 1990 where Pellicano had been an active player. These stories included Judas Priest, Michael Jackson and Don Simpson to mention a smattering. Philips appeared to be only one of a burdgeoning crowd at the Times though.
Taking a look at what the Los Angeles Times chose to give almost no coverage to is equally arresting. They barely reported on the Jones rape case that was happening on their own doorstep. They helped demonize their own reporter, Anita Busch, when she was hounded by Pellicano and sought appropriate legal relief. They also failed to report anything of importance really on the ongoing federal investigation about Pellicano’s wiretapping and extortion for almost the past three years, unless they were forced into it by competing news agencies or blogs.
Okay, maybe the Los Angeles Times is just allowed to have had their own opinion on things in the past. Perhaps their editors, reporters and attorneys thought that Pellicano was really a nice, cuddly guy and had actually used his services themselves. What explains their continued rose-colored glasses perception of the events in the Pellicano investigation now? Everyone I’ve been talking to here in Tinseltown has been watching the New York Times mercilessly beat them on any news story really worth reporting on rather than just lift off the Associated Press wire.
The media is finally becoming excellent again in reporting on multiple levels of political and financial corruption. What happens though, when they themselves are one of the corrupt entitites in an emerging news story. Whose job is it then to do honest investigative journalism on that ugly can of worms?
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Posted in anthony pellicano, pellicano, crimes at 11:34 pm by Administrator
Just finished having drinks with a lawyer and I’m bothered by something other than I was seen in public with an attorney at a tawny restaurant. We had been discussing the Anthony Pellicano investigation and just who seemed to be getting prosecuted at present. My friend was emphatic about the following point, “Lawyers do not and can not do anything without their client’s consent. The lawyer would be the one to sue in that case if he did.”
“Okay”, so I said. “Does that meant that the lawyers’ clients knew what Pellicano was doing if the lawyers knew?”
“Yeah, the point is though if the lawyers knew,” he muttered.
“Gotcha, but don’t you guys have to keep records of meetings and transactions with clients, like doctors?”
“Ummn, yes and no. We’re not as pussy whipped a profession as you guys are.”
“You idiots just have the moral compasses of wombats. I wouldn’t brag about it. But okay, so the legal record might not say that Pellicano discussed the latest information from the wiretapping today or who he blackmailed or threatened, but wouldn’t it at least mention what had been discussed?”
“Might and might not. The fact that it might is the danger. Even so it’s very hard to prove a direct causal relationship. It’s still all inferences and circumstantial unless they get more cracks in the dyke.”
“So if Pellicano is rolling over as the rumor mill buzz says, then all those people who hired the lawyers that hired Pellicano are going down?”
“Oh yeah, and it goes well beyond the entertainment industry and people like Ovitz and Grey. You’re talking about law enforcement and politics and more. The Feds also have the luxury of time. They have the powers granted to them by USC 18 Section 1962, to wit: This is a RICO case. RICO allows the Feds to have greater investigatory powers — such as wiretapping. None of the suspects knows if the Feds have wiretapped them with the permission of the court. RICO cases also carry much longer prison sentences.”
“Ummn, so why is the media now just so focused on all these evil lawyers whose poor clients look like deers struck by a car’s headlights?”
“Because everyone loves to hate lawyers just like they love to hate doctors. Want another drink?”
“Yeah, double. Thanks.”
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Posted in anthony pellicano, pellicano at 11:24 pm by Administrator
So Anthony Pellicano announced in court that he’s best “suited” to represent himself and he wants to fire what now will be the third attorney in his case, Steven Gruel. It’s sort of getting to feel like we’re all watching Hitler in that bunker imploding. The man’s terminal narcissicism, or braggadacio if you will, may very well be his own ultimate undoing. It’s a good thing that the judge is having Pellicano evaluated for competency after his bizarre request.
Perhaps Tony just isn’t getting enough attention lately in jail and needs more positive stroking from a captive audience. Either that or he’s finally just gone completely psychotic and can’t tell the difference anymore between his reality and a mediocre movie.
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Posted in anthony pellicano, pellicano, crimes, mass media at 11:21 pm by Administrator
Things are finally getting a bit interesting in the Pellicano indictment. One of the defendants, George Kalta, has decided to cooperate with prosecutors and his attorney, Leslie Abramson, indicates that he has knowledge which implicates people in the DA’s office.
Pellicano’s connections went far beyond simple cops on the beat for him to have gotten away with what he did for so long. His network was efficently spread within police detectives, district attorneys, attorney generals and news reporters so that he could destroy the lives of many innocent people who crossed his path. I know my own story too well, but having been doing this website now for well over a year, I’ve had the opportunity to hear from a variety of other non-celebrity victims. Pellicano really appears to have had a penchant for hurting women particularly.
It would be refreshing if the mass media began reporting the real underbelly of the Pellicano debacle…but first they might have to own up to their own duplicity in the matter.
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Posted in anthony pellicano, pellicano, los angeles times, crimes at 11:20 pm by Administrator
It’s sort of peculiar that one day after I posted about the funny relationship between the Los Angeles Times and Anthony Pellicano that my original blog was completely hacked into and destroyed.
Whoever did that will be reported to the appropriate federal agencies immediately. I just want to tell them personally that what you did was a crime far beyond just being a not nice thing.
I want to apologize to the many people who had registered on this blog as subscribers. All that information was completely lost and you will have to subscribe again. I will be emailing all of you shortly after I repost several of the original articles that appeared on this blog before it was destroyed.
Thank you all for patience.
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