04.25.06
Pellicano’s Unsung Targets
Anthony Pellicano committed many heinous crimes, the least of which is probably wiretapping. So why is the present media hullabaloo about the disgraced P.I. concerned primarily with the rich people he snooped on for other rich people? Frankly, who really cares?
Most of us are never going to attain that sort of wealth, despite our devoted weekly purchase of a lottery ticket. Most of us are also never going to be paid at least $100,000 for only one month of our services. Honestly, if I want to know what’s going on in my neighborhood, I tend to bring Starbucks to the local gossip and get more than an earful. For that matter, if I desire tidbits about my family, well, I have a certain gay cousin that I use as a source. I must admit, before going much further, that I too used to avidly watch “Dallas” and delighted in the foils of the Ewings even though being born in the South Bronx is a tad removed from a Texas oil family.
This is not an attempt to denigrate our healthy need to engage in fantasy play, not at all. It is just a reminder that what went on with Pellicano was unfortunately very real. The man terrorized Los Angeles for over two decades strangely unfettered. Though what might be parading through the newspapers is the list of A-list types who were momentarily inconvenienced, what about the more common folk who got caught in Pellicano’s depraved games? They probably don’t have the finances, let alone spirit anymore, to sue for a gazillion dollars to gain compensation for their emotional suffering. Remember, most normal people aren’t attention whores, so they won’t be giving interviews to reporters either.
Let me share some of the stories I’ve learned since doing this website and blog…and no, I will never give out names. There was the unwed mother who had a history of drug use who Pellicano kept in servitude to a certain producer by threatening to report her to Child Services. There was a screenwriter whose handicapped child was directly intimidated. There was an optician who knew too much and was stalked and hounded till she lost her professional license and custody of her children. There was a paralegal that was raped and desperately keeps trying to just get on with her life. There was a professional musician who was involved in a certain famous murder, who endlessly has gone on Internet discussions since 1995, searching for someone, anyone, to believe his story. There was this man in Las Vegas who frankly didn’t make any coherent sense anymore. There were divorcing wives and husbands. There was a doctor, a chauffeur, a sound editor…..I’m not done with my list by any means, but overstatement rarely wins kudos.
These people weren’t wiretapped. They were blackmailed, threatened, subject to extortion and character assassination. If you had your druthers, wouldn’t you rather just be wiretapped? Personally, I would. Damn, all whoever would hear was me talking to my gay cousin about the exploits of my brother’s lesbian ex-wife.
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Cathy Cowan said,
March 19, 2008 at 3:01 am
Hi,
I just found this entry about everyday victims of Pellicano while searching the internet for contact information on how I can be vindiated for the things my ex-husband did to my family using the “services” of Anthony Pellicano. The short version of my story, if there is such a thing, can be distilled down to my then 10-year-old daughter reporting to a therapist that my wealthy, Harvard educated, physicist ex-husband had been sexually molesting her during visitation as far back as she could remember, with his response to the charges being to hire the law firm of Trope & Trope to launch a no-holds-barred campaign to destroy me and my family emotionally and financially by wiretapping, putting a bug in the Fastrack transponder in my car, endlessly breaking into my house and pounding on the windows in the middle of the night to terrorize me and my children, having me forced off the freeway by a local Riverside County Police Department employee, stealing/altering/ fabricating family court records and having my U.S. mail stolen to deprive me notice of court hearings so that my ex-husband could secure default judgments in his favor, in my absence. At one point I filed a Grand Jury Complaint in Riverside County (we were living in Temecula), which the Grand Jury actually heard, but their decision was that I had other remedies available. The endless “intruder” calls to the police, the complaint against a local officer, reports to the U.S. Postal Service for stolen mail and mailbox breakins, proof that the entire multi-volume family law case file had been stolen from the court, complaints to judicial officers that case documents were being altered and stolen, my Writ of Error Coram Vobis filed with the Appellate Court requesting relief from the illegal things done to me to enable my ex-husbnad to prevail in his effort to avoid being held accountable for my daughter’s claims that he sexually molested her are all proof I have in my possession. We were actually living in Temecula during the time Pellicano’s thugs were tormenting us and we were friends with, and spending time at the house of, named Pellicano victim Linda Doucett (Gary’s Shandling’s ex-girlfriend) during the time Pellicano’s thugs were wiretapping and harassing her. I have not given up on seeking justice for what has been done to my family, but despite the plethora of evidence that circumstantially proves Pellicano was behind the illegal things that were done to us, the FBI won’t even respond to my several letters to them because we are neither rich nor famous. In my case, I want my ex-husband, Trope & Trope, the Riverside Police, telephone company employees and any other individuals involved in my case held accountable for their actions, not to mention that my ex-husband was able to secure a $150,000. DEFAULT judgment against me by stealing my mail to deprive me notice of the hearing! I’d donate the money to charity in trade for them all being held accountable for the post traumatic stress syndrome that my enitre family suffers from as a direct result of Pellicano’s terrorist tactics.
Cathy Cowan
951-675-1443
mimiandmax@verizon.net