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Anthony Pellicano

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Here We Go Again: New Trial for Anthony Pellicano

    Yesterday Anthony Pellicano, the former Private Eye to the Stars, was brought out of a prison cell and ordered by Superior Court Judge William Pounders to stand trial with co-defendant Alex Proctor against charges they colluded to intimidate former L.A. Times Hollywood correspondent Anita Busch. Pel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Third Time's the Charm? After being convicted in two federal racketeering trials, former private eye Anthony Pellicano and an associate are to be arraigned this morning in Superior Court on state charges. Pellicano and Alexander Frederick Proctor allegedly conspired to intimidate then-L.A. Times ent ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 12, 2009

    Hammer Time: Pellicano's End, Judge's Verdicts, Juror's Accusal

    Misconduct in the jury room? No fuzzy sentences for Pellicano associates

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Pellicano Co-Defendant Kevin Kachikian Sentenced

    "I'm not a warm fuzzy type," Judge Dale Fischer told Kevin Kachikian at his sentencing today. As an understatement, the icy jurist's comment ranks just below, "Houston, we have a problem." But there was no need to point this out to Kachikian - he knew all about it. Last year he was one of five men ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Crossing Jordison: A Pellicano Juror Feels Betrayed by System

    On Tuesday afternoon Judge Dale Fischer lowered the hammer on three of Anthony Pellicano's convicted co-defendants, and the resulting sentences and handcuffings that each man received brought a sudden finality to this case involving racketeering, wiretapping and conspiracy. Still, the hearing had a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Day of Wrath: Anthony Pellicano's Co-defendants Get Sentenced

    When they put the cuffs on Ray Turner the convictions that had ended the Anthony Pellicano trial last May suddenly seemed real. On Tuesday afternoon the racketeering verdicts now acquired the metallic sound of consequences and finality -- coming after federal Judge Dale Fischer, having read Turner h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    The Emptying Sky Both LAX and LA/Ontario airports are experiencing substantial decreases in their numbers of travelers, despite a wave of fare reductions. L.A. TimesFreeway With a View Rows of noise-break trees have been cut down by the side of the 405 Freeway in Sherman Oaks, and by an apartment co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Clerical Error? U.S. Attorney Tom O'Brien's not talking, but the L.A. Times is reporting that a federal grand jury is investigating Los Angeles Archdiocese Cardinal Roger Mahony for not protecting parishioners from predator priests. Scott Glover and Jack Leonard write that Mahony could be charged wi ... More >>

  • News

    January 1, 2009

    On Trial: Pellicano, Scat-Porn King Ira Isaacs, Designer Anand Jon

    Verdicts are never the last word in court

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    "Roadside Carnage:" Anthony Pellicano Sentenced

    Former Private Eye to the Stars Anthony Pellicano entered Room 840 of the Roybal Federal Building at 1:25 p.m. grinning, and managed to bring his manacled hands up to his lips to blow a kiss to his wife, Kat. Two hours later he wasn't smiling --  today was sentencing day for Pellicano, 64, who' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    0 for 4: Pellicano and Christensen Strike Out

    Former “private eye to the stars” Anthony Pellicano and high-powered entertainment/corporate lawyer Terry Christensen were found guilty by a jury this morning of all four counts of the conspiracy and wiretapping that the men faced. For Pellicano this must seem now routine, having been convicted ... More >>

  • News

    August 28, 2008

    Can Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian Save Terry Christensen From Tony Pellicano's Fate?

    Former “private eye to the stars” Anthony Pellicano and high-powered entertainment/corporate lawyer Terry Christensen were found guilty by a jury this morning of all four counts of the conspiracy and wiretapping that the men faced. For Pellicano this must seem now routine, having been convicted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2008

    Pellicano-Christensen Case Goes to Jury

    Former “private eye to the stars” Anthony Pellicano and high-powered entertainment/corporate lawyer Terry Christensen were found guilty by a jury this morning of all four counts of the conspiracy and wiretapping that the men faced. For Pellicano this must seem now routine, having been convicted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2008

    The Billionaire Wore Loafers: Kirk Kerkorian Testifies

    Las Vegas land baron and former MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian put in a long-anticipated appearance this morning at the trial of former private investigator Anthony Pellicano and Kerkorian’s Century City attorney, Terry Christensen. The 91-year-old Kerkorian entered the courtroom in Los Angeles’ Royba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2008

    The $64,000 Answer

    Terry Christensen’s Big Expert Witness Speaks Tuesday marked Day Two of the defense counterattack waged by former private eye Anthony Pellicano and super-lawyer Terry Christensen, who are accused in federal court of wiretapping and conspiracy. Actually, so far it’s been all Christensen’s def ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2008

    Miguel Was My Dog, Jorge Was My Partner

    The federal trial of private eye Anthony Pellicano and his co-defendant, super-lawyer Terry Christensen, resumed this week after a long, 10-day break. In some ways the case, in which the two men are charged with wiretapping and conspiracy, resembles one of those fish-out-of-water buddy movies from l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2008

    Pellicano on Tape: “I’m Unrelentless!”

    The federal trial of private eye Anthony Pellicano and his co-defendant, super-lawyer Terry Christensen, resumed this week after a long, 10-day break. In some ways the case, in which the two men are charged with wiretapping and conspiracy, resembles one of those fish-out-of-water buddy movies from l ... More >>

  • News

    July 24, 2008

    Postpartum Woes in Pellicano II

    "Tell him I killed the fucking baby!"

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Pellicano Sequel

    "Tell him I killed the fucking baby!"

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2008

    “Tell Him I Killed the Fucking Baby!”

    "Tell him I killed the fucking baby!"

  • News

    May 22, 2008

    Pellicano Juror Reveals Inner Workings

    Juror No. 7 speaks out on Anthony Pellicano, Anita Busch and Christian values

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2008

    Guilty As Charged: Anthony Pellicano trial ends with prosecution victory

    Anthony Pellicano, onetime “P.I. to the Stars,” was convicted today of 76 of the 77 counts he faced for racketeering, wire fraud and identity theft. As Judge Dale Fischer began reading the first of the jury’s guilty verdicts at 12:15 p.m., Pellicano displayed the stoic bravado he showed throu ... More >>

  • News

    May 8, 2008

    Pellicano Verdict Watch

    Will he be a free bird or a jailbird?

  • News

    May 1, 2008

    Geek Tragedy: Pellicano's Computer Man Crashes

    Will he be a free bird or a jailbird?

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2008

    In the Jury’s Lap: Pellicano Trial Finishes

    The fate of the Pellicano Gang of Five rests with the jury, now that closing arguments have concluded. Attorney Mona Soo Hoo began the morning by announcing that “This case is about dualities.” She then enumerated a list of dialectical opposites that described perceptions of her client, former p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2008

    Pellicano Trial’s Restless Defense

    Today defense attorneys in the racketeering trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants began their closing arguments, with lead-off hitter Chad Hummel attacking prosecutor Daniel Saunders’ Tuesday closer on two fronts. Hummel reliably tried to exploit the government’s court pratfall of la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2008

    Mistakes Were Made

    Dysfunctional business as usual at Pellicano trial When we last left the trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants, the proceedings had been thrown into chaos after attorney Chad Hummel’s cross examination of a “businesswoman” whom the government had called to the witness stand to tes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2008

    Pellicano Trial Bombshell

    Witness shocker throws trial in turmoil For days Chad Hummel had been uncharacteristically quiet as the trial of famed private eye Anthony Pellicano and four codefendants wound down this week. Normally Hummel’s baritoned objections could be heard ricocheting off the walls on behalf of his clien ... More >>

  • News

    April 24, 2008

    Pellicano Trial Enters Home Stretch

    Killing Fields testimony

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2008

    Phone Talk at Pellicano Trial

    Tuesday was Ray Turner’s day in court, although he elected not to take the witness stand on his own behalf. Turner, the “phone guy” co-defendant in the Anthony Pellicano racketeering trial, easily wears the casual coolness of a BET executive, and sat impassively through most of today’s testi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2008

    Pellicano Trial's Freaky Friday

    Pellicano Defense Finishes Its First Week It’s a crime to lie to the FBI, so I won’t: The courtroom was bored to tears with Friday's appearance by its former special agent, Stanley Ornellas. A big man with a brutal face and soft voice, Ornellas was the bureau’s lead investigator into the case ... More >>

  • News

    April 17, 2008

    Pellicano Trial Prosecutors Rest Their Case

    The color of dirt

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2008

    Ex-Cop Gets Third Degree

    Pellicano Briefs Team Pellicano is now taking its turn at bat, but the past few days of the defense’s case have seemed like prosecution by other means. Last Friday co-defendant Mark Arneson took the witness stand on his own behalf and the affable, three-hour colloquy between Arneson and his attor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2008

    Pellicano Defense Goes on the Offense

    Sparky remembers to forget On Thursday the prosecution’s guns in the racketeering trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants fell silent as the government rested its case-in-chief that afternoon. Friday morning came and spectators filled Courtroom 890 in the Roybal Federal Building to watc ... More >>

  • News

    April 10, 2008

    Pellicano Trial reveals Hollywood's Top Bottom Feeders

    The Sleaze Factor-y

  • News

    April 3, 2008

    Sex and Nerds Invade Pellicano Trial

    'Tis pity she was a whore

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2008

    Pellicano Briefs: Keith Carradine’s Blues

    The Pellicano trial turns into divorce court Who’s that tapping, gently wiretapping, at my trailer door? actor Keith Carradine may well have wondered in April, 2001, as he and his girlfriend Hayley DuMond began noticing telephone problems and other odd events occur in Carradine’s Valencia RV pa ... More >>

  • News

    March 27, 2008

    Pellicano Trial: Now That's Humilitainment!

    Proceedings shine a light on Hollywood bad boys

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2008

    Anthony Pellicano’s Female Trouble

    Cheetahs never prosper In a Dickensian twist, Anthony Pellicano was confronted this past week by women whose lives he had touched over the years – although the ladies in question might claim “blighted” is a more appropriate word. Tuesday saw L.A. assistant district attorney Karla Kerlin take ... More >>

  • News

    March 20, 2008

    Pellicano Briefs: The Garry Shandling Show

    Cheetahs never prosper In a Dickensian twist, Anthony Pellicano was confronted this past week by women whose lives he had touched over the years – although the ladies in question might claim “blighted” is a more appropriate word. Tuesday saw L.A. assistant district attorney Karla Kerlin take ... More >>

  • News

    March 13, 2008

    Anthony Pellicano's Gang of Five Stand Trial

    It isn't racket science

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2008

    Pellicano Briefs: The Snitch Wore Black

    Anthony Pellicano discovers Tarita Virtue is her own reward For four days ex-Pellicano employee Tarita Virtue wore black to court as she testified under an immunity grant. And why not? It wasn’t her funeral, but that of her ex-boss, “P.I. to the Stars” Anthony Pellicano, who, with four others ... More >>

  • News

    October 26, 2006

    Tasty Tidbits From Hollywood's Frenzied Fall

    Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?

  • News

    April 6, 2006

    Pellicano's Rat Pack

    Loose lips and sinking ships

  • News

    March 16, 2006

    Two Tonys Is One Too Many for Mogul

    Brad Grey would rather be in bed with Soprano than Pellicano

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    Two Tonys Is One too Many for Mogul

    Brad Grey would rather be in bed with Soprano than Pellicano

  • News

    June 23, 2005

    Requiem for Anita Busch

    Pellicano charges are vindication for the former Hollywood reporter, but we’ve already buried her

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    P.I. for All

    Anthony Pellicano could play both sides

  • News

    November 20, 2003

    Arnold, Pellicano and Politics

    Where will The Pelican’s droppings land next?

  • News

    November 13, 2003

    The Pelican Briefs

    Hollywood is not messing its shorts over FBI investigation

  • More >>
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