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Mark Arneson

  • 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 4, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Dem on Dem Payback State Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-L.A.) disciplined three members of her party for not voting to put spending limits on the ballot -- part of a key compromise Democrats made to finally pass a budget with Republicans. Stripped of their committee chairmanships were Black Caucus l ... 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 >>

  • News

    January 1, 2009

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

    Verdicts are never the last word in court

  • 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

    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 29, 2008

    RICO Suave: Closing Arguments at Pellicano Trial

    “Sitting up there in the second row is a dirty cop. A dishonest cop. A corrupt cop. A man who sold his badge for $2,500 a month.” Say what you will about prosecutor Daniel Saunders, he gets to the point. He uttered these words about former LAPD sergeant Mark Arneson Tuesday morning, early on in ... 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 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

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2008

    Chris Rock Guest-Stars at the Pellicano Circus

    For once Chris Rock played the straight man. From the moment he stepped into court Friday to testify at Anthony Pellicano’s racketeering trial, Rock appeared somber and apprehensive. With hands clasped behind his back, he looked like a condemned man walking to the electric chair. Rock, wearing a d ... More >>

  • News

    April 3, 2008

    Sex and Nerds Invade Pellicano Trial

    'Tis pity she was a whore

  • 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

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