05.11.06
The Pelican behind Bars
The buzz among law enforcement types in Tinseltown involved with the Anthony Pellicano investigation is definitely that their case is going exceptionally well because Pellicano is really starting to have a melt down. Sort of seems obvious that there are some cracks in old Tony’s iceberg right now, after hearing that he wanted to serve as his own counsel against a 112 count indictment, his thirty pound weight loss since being transferred from the much more comfy federal prison upstate to the rather austere Men’s Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, then finally hearing these past two weeks of those bizarre violent threats the Pelican had made from lock-down against his perceived enemies.
A source within the police department, who gave me the permission to quote him but declined being named because of the sensitive ongoing nature of the federal investigation, had some memorable comments about the stress load that must now be raining down on Tony’s balding brow:
Pellicano is becoming unwound…mentally. Whatever sentence he is given he will not be able to serve a fraction of it without something going down. It must be rough going from “shot caller” to “he bitch.”
When one is in jail you immediately begin a process of whose side you are on. It is usually based on race first. Then once you have done this then the “shot caller” of the block is going to test you somehow. Maybe that is why Pellicano is losing weight. Maybe he is trying to get down to his fighting weight. His outside reputation won’t mean much inside. If anything it will work against him. Prison is a good place to get whacked. Even though it is a very controlled environment, things still happen. Can you imagine what Pellicano must be thinking. There is no such thing as cutting a deal and doing no jail time with the feds. It just doesn’t happen. This guy better get some Astro-Glide, and get used to a female name like Shirley.
Oh my, it seems that the Pellicano fest could easily drift from an old George Raft or Humphrey Bogart flick to “Brokeback Boy behind Bars.”
