05.09.06
Yes, Pellicano REALLY Threatened John Connolly
Let’s settle a bone of contention immediately among the many eagerly watching the Anthony Pellicano fest, whether Vanity Fair editor John Connolly was actually ever physically threatened by Anthony Pellicano.
The answer is a definite and profound “Yes.” The exact circumstances could not be elaborated before now, however, until a particular filing from the U.S. Attorney’s offices occurred with the court on May 8, 2006. The threat to Connolly came in the form of a letter from Tony to Sandra Carradine, Pellicano’s ex-girlfriend turned FBI informant. Pellicano must have really had a knot in his stomach that day, from being stuck in the “Big House”, because he also demanded that another prisoner down in Orange County whack Alexander Proctor, his unfortunate lackey who had planted that fateful dead fish and rose on reporter Anita Busch’s windshield one summer night.
On page thirteen of the government’s response to Pellicano’s First Motion for Discovery from March 20, 2006, the U.S. Attorneys succinctly describe the violent nature of the Pelican’s threats against people who irritated him as they also legally dismantle the defense’s allegation that the government acted improperly in obtaining information from Pellicano’s then-girlfriend, Sandra Carradine.
“When the defendant communicated information to Ms. Carradine (including death threats against several individuals), he took the risk that she would communicate that information to the government. Defendant’s communications with Ms. Carradine were not protected by any privilege, and his subjective expectations of privacy in those comunications are wholly irrelevant to their unprotected status. There is simply no “girlfriend privilege” recognized under the law.”
On page seventeen of this same document it goes on to detail Pellicano’s attempt to whack Proctor:
“As defendant’s counsel has been informed, the government has obtained corroborated information that defendant recently conspired with known organized crime connections in Chicago to place a “hit” on Alex Proctor inside a federal prison in order to prevent Proctor from testifying against him”
That does say “death threats against several individuals” people as well as “conspired with known organized crime connections in Chicago to place a “hit”” on another human being. Maybe the government was getting all hot and bothered over nothing more than old Tony’s cuddly thug personae? Weren’t Pellicano and his elite celebrity clients only engaged in soft, white collarish stuff, like wiretapping and acrimonious divorce cases? They surely couldn’t have been involved in things as sordid as murder, right?
Well….wrong. Somebody way before the federal government in 2002 should have noticed Pellicano’s criminal activities, since it was basically commonly recited folklore in Tinseltown for at least the past decade. Pellicano’s high-tech wiretapping and his intitmidation of the rich, supremely spoiled ex-wives who wanted millions of undeserved dollars in divorce settlements are only the fluffy white frosting on this particularly rotten cake and just plain fun to read about as well as darn easier to prosecute, particularly with a running statute of limitations. There is an unpleasant and nasty side to this Pellicano mess that doesn’t exactly make Tony and his friends real lovable guys for the eventual T.V. movie we’ll all begrudgingly be watching one day.
Pellicano may have lived in his own private celluloid Mafia fantasy, but he forcefully imposed his distorted version of reality on those he disliked, and there were many of them. If a person disturbed Tony’s imperious sense of omnipotence in any way, shape or form, he would do his best to see that that poor individual eventually met with an untimely injury, be that through a variety of any of his favorite methods from character assassination to car accidents. As for the annoyance John Connolly was proving to be for him, it seems that Pellicano was going to resort to one of his more physically violent “special” techniques to try to rid himself of that particular nuisance.
