in Hollyland... chump change
At 09:38 PM 4/18/2006, JR wrote:
Wow... an illegal wiretap costs $50,000 ? Seems kinda pricey...
-- JR
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From: "Richard Halegua Comic Art" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 15:21
Subject: [MOPO] Director John McTiernan pleads guilty
> (AP) A somber "Die Hard" director John McTiernan stood before a
> federal judge and said he made "knowingly false" statements to an
FBI
> agent about Anthony Pellicano, the celebrity private eye he admitted
> hiring to wiretap a business associate.
>
> McTiernan, who pleaded guilty Monday to making false statements,
> faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced July 31.
>
> He is the highest-profile figure yet to plead guilty in the
> investigation of Pellicano, who is accused of bugging phones and
> bribing police to get information on celebrities and others.
> Pellicano has pleaded not guilty.
>
> Asked by U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer on Monday if the
statements
> he made to the FBI agent were false, McTiernan replied: "They were
> knowingly false, your honor."
>
> McTiernan, director of "The Thomas Crown Affair," "The Last Action
> Hero" and other films, sketched out a scenario that began with a
> phone call to his home on Feb. 13 from a person identifying himself
> as an FBI agent.
>
> He said he told the agent the only time he used Pellicano's services
> was in his divorce.
>
> "He asked me if I had hired him in any other area, and I said, 'No,
I
> didn't,'" McTiernan told the judge.
>
> Actually, McTiernan added, "I had hired Anthony Pellicano to wiretap
> Charles Roven in the summer of 2000. ... But I never received a
> report or specific information."
>
> Roven worked with McTiernan on the 2002 box-office flop
"Rollerball."
> Roven was a credited producer and McTiernan directed and produced
the film.
>
> McTiernan said he paid Pellicano $50,000 for the illegal wiretap,
and
> in the end, "I paid him off and fired him."
>
> Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan Saunders asked the judge to seal the
plea
> agreement documents, and he refused to answer questions outside
court
> about whether the government had agreed to make a recommendation for
> leniency in sentencing.
>
> Fischer allowed McTiernan to remain free on bond until sentencing.
>
> The speed with which McTiernan entered his guilty plea came as a
> surprise after an arraignment earlier in the day in which his
> attorney told another judge there was a plea agreement. No details
> were announced and another hearing was scheduled for next week.
>
> But McTiernan's lawyers sought a speedy resolution, and Fischer, who
> is presiding over other Pellicano-related cases, agreed to take the
case.
>
> Allegations against Pellicano, 62, include tapping the phone of
actor
> Sylvester Stallone and having police run the names of comedians
Garry
> Shandling and Kevin Nealon through a government database.
>
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