From: Nomi
Remote User:
Date: 17 Feb 2005
Time: 01:41:04 -0500
Bizarre, because as I've been doing my website links keep on disappearing that were there only weeks ago. I've had to start getting the Google cached page as a reference which is a bother but not insurmountable. As I make sure that my links don't all disappear on me for http://sinhablar.com I'll let Jasper figure out how to construct an associational map between characters then I'll unabashedly copy him if it works or learn from his mistakes for Pellicano's connections. In the interim here are the latest links. Please note that I've started copying entire web pages just to ensure that they don't disappear: http://sinhablar.com/news/esquire2003.html March 1, 2003 Pellicano liked to flash around a Louisville Slugger and has claimed that he's used it on people. In 1992, he told journalist Peter Wilkinson that with martial arts he could "really maim" someone. "I don't want to," he said. "I have and I don't want to." Pellicano has worked as a technical expert for attorneys all over the country and, he lets it be known, also for various government agencies, including the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department. While the LAPD says there's no record of him actually doing so, retired robbery-homicide detective Tom Lange, who came to fame during the O. J. Simpson trial, says Pellicano did act as an unofficial, unpaid consultant to the department. http://sinhablar.com/news/variety2003.html December 8, 2003 Given the accusations against private investigator Anthony Pellicano, the practice of wiretapping execs and celebs in Hollywood in order to get the dirt may be more widespread than even the most paranoid publicist could have imagined. http://sinhablar.com/news/orth9-95.html September 1995 Jordie Chandler, the boy in the 1993 sex scandal,definitely would have testified had Los Angeles district attorney Gil Garcetti moved more quickly to indict Jackson. The boy himself, was considering going into the witness-protection program—such was his fear of the retribution he would suffer by publicly alleging that Michael Jackson was a pedophile. He had reason to be afraid. His family claims that a few weeks before the case was settled the boy and the housekeeper were nearly run down near their home by a speeding car. The car also came at them in reverse. The boy's attorney, Larry Feldman, was protected for several months by guards from the U.S. Justice Department after having received numerous death threats and had pornographic graffiti sprayed on the walls of his law-office building. The boy's father received a dead rat in a box at his home. The witness-protection-program idea fell through, however, when neither state nor federal authorities offered it and the boy realized that he might end up living his life like a prisoner. http://sinhablar.com/news/orth4-2003.html April 2003 Jackson had Anthony Pellicano working for him during the 1993 sex scandal. Big-name Hollywood lawyers who don't want to get their hands dirty often hire Pellicano, who was intimately involved in trying to negotiate with Jordie Chandler's father—whom he accused of extortion—and in discrediting the accusers. "Bert [Fields] gives me an absolute free hand when I'm involved," Pellicano told me in 1993. "This is why I have the reputation I have, because I solve problems." Jordie Chandler ultimately did not testify because the prosecution could not promise him that his family would be safe. Jordie was nearly run over twice one day by an unidentified car Chandler's father, Evan, was threatened; he received a dead rat in a box; and his office was ransacked. The boy's attorney, Larry Feldman, was protected for several months by guards from the U.S. Justice Department after he received numerous death threats and had the walls of his office building sprayed with pornographic graffiti. Meanwhile, security people at Neverland brandished guns, and employees there believed that the phones were tapped. "That certainly chilled potential witnesses," one member of the prosecution team told me recently. "It was very scary stuff." When the police investigated these allegations they found them to be true. When police wired Jackson's maid Blanca Francia, whose son was one of the boys involved in the investigation, according to someone on the prosecution team, they heard Pellicano beg her not to go to the police with her information. Other former employees reported threats and harassment from Pellicano, and some still cower when they speak of him. http://sinhablar.com/news/orth4-2003.html April 2003 In November 2002, Pellicano was arrested by F.B.I. agents, who found explosives in his safe "strong enough to bring down an airplane" after an informant fingered him as the person who had hired a tough guy to put a bullet through the windshield of the parked car of a Los Angeles Times reporter working on a story about the actor Steven Seagal and the Mob. A dead fish was left on the car, as well as a rose and a cardboard sign saying STOP. Vanity Fair contributing editor Ned Zeman, who published a Seagal story in lthe October 2002 issue of Vanity Fair, says a man confronted him with a gun, pointed it at his head, and pulled the trigger. The gun was empty. Zeman has no idea who the man was. (Pellicano has said he has no involvement with Seagal.) Former reporter Rod Lurie told me that Pellicano had phoned him 35 times over a six-month period to try to get him to kill a piece he was writing about the source-gathering techniques of the National Enquirer. Lurie was mysteriously hit by a car while riding his bike. Very few knew of the accident, but Pellicano was the first to call to smugly console him. Diane Dimond, who pursued the Michael Jackson story for the TV show Hard Copy starting in 1993 said, "My home was vandalized, my car was broken into, and our defense documents were stolen. Paramount [which owned Hard Copy] gave me bodyguards." http://sinhablar.com/news/lamag9-2004.html September 2004 Some tabloid writers attribute Singer's insider knowledge to his employment of Anthony Pellicano. One longtime tabloid editor, who says he dealt with Singer "thousands of times, about twice a week for years," The editor adds that he spoke to Pellicano "about once a month since the early '80s" and estimates that the private investigator was teamed with Singer on "about 50 percent of the celebrity cases, but it's hard to say whether they were working together because Pellicano is such a rogue." He likens the PI's approach to that of a "hoodlum" who would bark, "Don't run that fucking story!" Federal investigators say that Pellicano, along with some top Hollywood lawyers, as yet unnamed, who employed him, will soon face additional charges for illegal wiretapping. Singer now distances himself from Pellicano. At first he claims, "I've never, ever worked with Anthony on any case involving a tabloid or a media issue," When pressed, though, he concedes that he has employed the private investigator, who, he says, did "a tremendous job in getting results. Pellicano worked with me on a few cases, maybe a half-dozen cases over ten years.... Why would you use a private investigator to try to kill a story? I've been doing this for 20 years, dealing with the tabloids, and I have a practice that's been effective.... I'm not going to discuss how I do things, because that's the reason people come to me rather than other lawyers."