Friday, May 16, 2008

Hollywood private eye convicted in wiretap

Private detective Anthony Pellicano is shown in this 1993 file photo. Pellicano was convicted on May 15, 2008 of racketeering after a high-profile two-month trial that featured testimony from Hollywood celebrities. (Sam Mircovich/Reuters)

By Jill Serjeant

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Anthony Pellicano, known as Hollywood's private eye to the stars, was convicted on Thursday of running a vast criminal enterprise involving wiretapping and bribery to fix the problems of his wealthy clients.

After a two month trial that exposed the seamy side of the movie industry and featured a celebrity-heavy witness list, a Los Angeles federal jury convicted Pellicano on all but one of the 77 charges against him.

His four co-defendants, including a former police officer, a telephone company official and a computer expert who designed the sophisticated "Telesleuth" wiretapping device, were found guilty on most of the dozens of charges they faced.

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