04.18.06
Anthony Pellicano’s skeletons
All those skeletons in people’s closets must really be rattling by now if they were ever involved with Anthony Pellicano. The sixth person in the Pellicano investigation, director John McTiernan, rolled with a sealed plea agreement which likely indicates he’s ratting others out to the prosecutors at this very moment. If things keep going this way, there are soon going to be more guys pleading guilty than proclaiming their continued innocence in the case. It does give one pause to think how much longer Pellicano will be able to maintain his mum posture. If he continues tight-lipped he will likely die an old man in prison. A deal with the U.S. Attorney would really be in his best interest, sheesh…just look what Abramoff is going to be getting away with. Maybe some of the A-list Hollywood types and government politicos are threatening Pellicano’s family or offering financial renumeration to buy his continued silence. After all, the man has nine children and six ex-wives still to support.
The Los Angeles Times had peculiarly unique reporting, once again, about McTiernan’s plea bargain. Even though Reuters reported that McTiernan admitted that he had lied to agents when he said that he had not asked Pellicano to wiretap producer Charles Roven, the Los Angeles Times quoted McTiernan as simultaneously saying that he did not know that Pellicano had used illegal wiretaps in any investigation. Perhaps the LAT’s reporter, Andrew Blankstein, was just in the wrong courtroom this afternoon. As Nicki Finke commented, the Los Angeles Times’ inability to hit hard at the Hollywood types caught up in the Pellicano mess thus far has given rise to some major rumors. The newspaper itself probably hired Pellicano to do work for it’s legal department in the past as well as used him as an anonymous source for a number of their articles. They had a consistently favorable bias (or lack of any real coverage) for most of Pellicano’s clients, including Delorean, Belushi, Judas Priest, Michael Jackson, Don Simpson and serial date rapist Gordon Jones, let alone the disgraced gumshoe himself. So whose going to investigate the Los Angeles Times, the FBI or the New York Times?
I call “tails.”
