03.27.06
Who were Anthony Pellicano’s snitches?
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?
