03.25.06
Anthony Pellicano’s Clients
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.”
