In the United States, a private detective was sentenced to 15 years in prison

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In the United States, a private detective nicknamed "Hollywood pit bull" was sentenced to 15 years in prison In the US state of California, a verdict was issued to private detective Anthony Pellicano, who spied on Hollywood stars for blackmail and extortion | myfoxla.com In the US state of California, a private detective Anthony Pellicano was sentenced to spy on Hollywood stars for blackmail and extortion. Among the victims of the retired military ransomware were Michael Jackson, Sylvester Stallone and Elizabeth Taylor. A California court sentenced the infamous detective Anthony Pellicano to 15 years in prison for engaging in a conspiracy to blackmail and extort. The defendant was convicted of 78 criminal episodes, reports Fox. Judge Dale Fisher also ordered 64-year-old Pellicano and his two accomplices to pay victims compensation for a total of $ 2 million. The retired cryptographer of the communications forces of the US Army listened to the sentence without emotion. "I completely took responsibility for what was done," said Pellicano. A connoisseur of espionage technology has organized a company in the world-famous "dream factory" engaged in the illegal installation of listening devices to collect personal information. Sometimes the detective worked on the order of his celebrity clients, but often Hollywood stars themselves became victims of Pellicano, who mastered the craft of extortionist and blackmailer. The mercenary detective, mastering the incriminating information, set the price for his silence. Moreover, the amount ranged from 25 thousand to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Among the witnesses in this case were about 130 celebrities from the film business, including Sylvester Stallone, Chris Rock and Farah Fawcett. "Pellicano did his work with zeal, sometimes maliciously, and was extremely proud of himself," said Judge Fisher. Previously, prosecutors requested 16 years in prison for criminal entrepreneurship of a "thief who, with the help of fraud, managed to make a fortune and achieve a high position in society." In addition to Pellicano, 13 people were in the dock. Seven of them, including director John Macternen and ex-president of Hollywood Records Robert Pfeiffer, pleaded guilty to perjury and criminal conspiracy. Former Los Angeles police sergeant Mark Arneson and former telephone company employee Ray Turner should also pay damages to the state for providing Pellicano with confidential information. The sentence to both will be read out on January 29, 2009. The main players in big business - the head of the Paramount studio film company Brad Gray, as well as the lawyer of the company Bert Fields, who were accused of having links to a ransomware, were acquitted because they did not know about Pellicano's criminal goals. In another criminal episode, Pellicano, along with lawyer Terry Christinsen, was found guilty of wiretapping a telephone conversation of the ex-wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian during a lawsuit. The woman claimed that the director of the film company MGM Steve Bing is the father of her daughter, and the tycoon did not believe this. Attackers thus wanted to find out the truth. A DNA test later confirmed that Bing was indeed the biological father of the child. In November, Terry Christinsen was sentenced to three years in prison. The Pellicano crime trial took three whole years. By the time the prosecutor's office approved the indictment in February 2006, Pellicano had time to go free only a few days after being released from prison. A fan of Don Corleone was imprisoned for 2.5 years for illegal possession and carrying of firearms. At the trial, Pellicano showed remarkable ability as a lawyer. He invited only one defense witness and kept his promise of non-disclosure of information about his clients. However, the fraudster on this act was prompted not by noble feelings, but by the fear of reprisal on the part of former customers and victims. Exposure of Pellicano A notorious bastard was arrested in 2002 during an investigation into threats against Anita Bush, a journalist for The Los Angeles Times, who was trying to sort out the alleged connections between movie actor Stephen Seagal and the mafia. In June 2002, Bush found an “ominous warning” on the hood of her car - a dead fish with a rose sticking out of its mouth. There, an unknown person left the inscription "Stop!". This happened after Bush wrote a couple of critical articles about former super agent Michael Ovits, a Pellicano client. So she involuntarily got into the list of enemies of an influential private investigator. A native of Chicago began to hunt down his rival, and then tried to threaten her. The journalist also appeared in court as a witness. She said that the problems with Pellicano turned out to be a great emotional and physical exhaustion for her. “It was a real death from a thousand painful blows,” she recalled. As follows from the case file, on January 14, 2003, FBI officers ransacked Pellicano’s office and found there a real “intelligence operative headquarters” with obvious evidence of telephone espionage. Agents seized 11 computers from a private detective, including five Macintosh models, 23 removable hard drives, a Palm V electronic organizer, 52 floppy disks, 34 flash drives, 92 CDs and two DVD players, The Trutv television channel reports. The total volume of files in which Pellicano kept the result of his many years of work amounted to 3.868 terabytes of information, which is equivalent to two billion sheets written on both sides. Electronic media contained intercepted telephone conversations of influential lawyers and officials trying to win one or another lawsuit. As it turned out, the services of a private detective resorted to such "star" lawyers as Bert Fields, Dennis Wasser and Terry Christensen. Pellicano also regularly listened to telephone calls from many celebrities, including Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Lopez and comedian Harry Chandling. Some talk was about high-profile trials. Other dialogues were personal or related to business matters. Thus, the detective provided tactical advantages to his clients, studying the weaknesses of their opponents. For this, any confidential information about plans, incomes, and other aspects of the life of "objects" was suitable. The former cryptographer took care of the security of his data by encoding the data in the form of sound files. Only he knew passwords for access to protected information. If authorities would have access to information, then the heads of many famous people would fly. The investigation also found that the fraudster often bribed police officers to gain access to a database of law enforcement agencies. Career "Hollywood pit bull" Pellicano served in the communications forces of the US Army, where he perfectly learned the art of encryption, and then returned to Chicago. A stylish and tall young man tried in every way to resemble his idol - Don Corleone from the Hollywood epic "The Godfather". Imagining himself the arbiter of fate, Pellicano even named his son Lutz, in honor of Corleone's favorite - Lutz Brazzi. Returning to his hometown, Pellicano got a job in the department of collections of the Internet catalog of women's clothing Spiegel, where he searched for guilty customers who made a purchase on the Web but did not pay for the order. In 1969, Pellicano headed his own detective agency. A private investigator began to intensively engage in electrical engineering and eventually gained solid knowledge in the field of espionage technologies. In 1970, very famous personalities appeared on the detective’s client list, and Pellicano was talked about in the newspapers. Once the wife of musician John Lennon, Yoko Ono hired Pellicano to find her missing daughter. And in 1997, a private detective spotted the body of Hollywood producer Mike Todd, the third husband of Elizabeth Taylor. Todd died in a plane crash, and after his funeral in Chicago, robbers unearthed a grave in search of jewelry that was supposedly hidden with the body. As a result, the body of a millionaire disappeared without a trace. Police unsuccessfully combed the cemetery until Pellicano got involved. The detective brought a group of reporters to the graveyard and in their presence pointed to the remains of a man hidden under a pile of leaves. The policemen were confounded, although the detective's "elegant gesture" seemed suspicious to them. In Los Angeles, Pellicano gained fame as a "Hollywood pit bull." In the early 1990s, a smart detective was ready to solve the piquant problems of any movie star. Pellicano was always happy to get to work and achieve his goal. When Michael Jackson was accused of sexual harassment of a 13-year-old boy, the singer also turned to Pellicano. Then the detective sought out defamatory information about the plaintiff’s family, which called into question the credibility of their statements. Pellicano’s involvement in the king of pop has attracted public attention. Then there was even a saying that if there is a sin to be discovered, Pellicano will certainly do it. We add that the convicted detective Pellicano will have to serve 85 percent of the prison term before he has the right to parole. By then, the “Hollywood Pit Bull” will be 77 years old. Pellicano's sentence is fair, his lawyer assistant Dan Saunders admitted outside the court. However, attorney Steve Gruel is about to appeal. He stated that the prosecution took revenge on Pellicano for refusing to cooperate with the investigation, seeking too severe punishment for him. [url = http: //www.factnews.ru/article/18Dec2008_sineater] https://www.factnews.ru/article/18Dec2008_sineater [/ url]

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Thank!

 

[Детективное агентство. Украина. Киев.]

This is a handsome man, he grabbed all of Hollywood)) the truth ended badly ((