Autumn II;3192189 said:
Fischer interviewed a LOT of people, including Geraldine, I think. And Pelicano. Pelicano, IMHO, was sketchy. He was a P.I., and kind of a "fixer?"
I think Geraldine now has contacts with the family, but I doubt she has any direct knowledge at all about Murray. For her Redemption book, she had legitimate info -- having overheard things at the attorney's office. But not now, I wouldn't expect.
I never got over being disappointed/angry with her when she had a chance to help Michael, by making statements on tv, and never did. Just "read my book!" It was infuriating!
Pellicano was much more than sketchy. He is in prison. I think Weitzman conned him into taking the fall for all the lawyers. Good deal for them. I think all Pellicano got was a reality tv show for his wife Kat. She was threatening to write a book & was interviewed by none other than DD on CTV. The guy from Vanity Fair talked about it also.
link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Pellicano
In a subsequent six-week Federal Court trial, Pellicano was convicted of
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[4]</sup> Facing 78 guilty counts,and not being allowed to co-serve his two convictions, Pellicano was sentenced in December 2008 to 15 additional years in prison, and ordered (with two other defendants) to forfeit $2 million.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">
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Weitzman, Pellicano & Fields were there in 93. Pellicano, along with a fed agent, 2 LAPD officers & others is convicted on 76 count for conspiracy, wiretapping etc. , convicted in 2008. He worked 2-3 sides along with tabloids.
http://www.williampavelic.com/2007/0...-investigator/
“If you find dirt on a celebrity, then you go to the attorney, or directly to the client, and say, ‘Hey, there’s a story brewing with the tabs, we need to quash it: Most celebrities are not gonna hesitate, because a celebrity is the most naive, infantile person in the world. They get preferential treatment, but if boulders fall on their head in real life, they don’t know what to do, other than dig deep into their pockets,” says Barresi. “Pellicano was the master of getting them to do that–the celebrity never knew how simple it was to put a fire out, or that sometimes there was never really a fire in the first place. There would be a story brewing, but the reporter couldn’t nail it down. So Pellicano would light the fire. He was the arsonist—and then he’d come back and put the fire out.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/bu...pellicano.html
And who brought Pellicano to LA. Weitzman. And when Pellicano got into trouble legally, Weitzman was his lawyer. I saw him on TV 5 times is what I recall. I watched CTV all the time. Pellicano will never roll on the lawyers or his clients. I think Pellicano believed Weitzman would get him out of his mess, but Weitzman tricked him & Pellicano took the fall for all of them.
Here is a sample transcript from the Abrams show:
Here is an example:
http://www.royblack.com/tv/transcrip...s_dec3_03.html
Abrams questions whether Pellicano gave MJ bad advice
ABRAMS: Yes, which they say it is. All right, let's move on. Case two, moving on to Mark Geragos' other big client, Michael Jackson. Defense sources telling me that they're doing a number of things. They are beginning their investigation. One of the things they're doing is they're looking into private investigator Anthony Pellicano now serving time in a federal prison. Now we've known that this was going to come up because he was retained by Jackson back in 1993 when another boy made accusations of ******ation. That case was settled. It will probably come up in the new case. The D.A. today saying he expects that it will and now they're investigating whether Pellicano may have given Michael Jackson some bad advice and whether he might have had a motive to do that. Roy Black, they going to make any hay out of this? Could they make any hay out of this?
BLACK: Well Dan you know I've heard the same thing that you have. I find it hard to connect that to the particular case. Let's fact it, Pellicano is pretty down right now and everyone is kicking him. The thing I would be worried about if I was on the Jackson side is whether Pellicano would cooperate in order to get some type of sentence reduction.
ABRAMS: And when you say cooperate, you mean turn on his former client?
BLACK: Sure. That happens all the time. As soon as somebody gets in prison they're always looking for a way out and it would certainly be to his benefit to cooperate with the prosecution in Santa Barbara if they would allow the feds to reduce his sentence.
ABRAMS: Howard Weitzman, is this going to be a big issue or not?
WEITZMAN: Well listen, you may recall I'm responsible for Pellicano coming to Los Angeles. I hired him...
ABRAMS: Right.
WEITZMAN: ... (UNINTELLIGIBLE) case in 1982. I think the chances of Anthony turning on any of the lawyers or any of the clients is zero. I don't think that's his frame of mind. I represented Michael in 1993. I was part of the team when Johnnie Cochran was hired. To the best of my knowledge there was nothing inappropriate done by Pellicano or anyone in those proceedings.
ALLRED: That would be a pretty pathetic defense if Michael Jackson tried it. It's a kind of a variation of the devil made me do it. Anthony Pellicano made me do it...
ABRAMS: Maybe he was working both sides of the fence. Maybe he was engaging in improper conduct and as a result gave Michael Jackson bad advice.
Pellicano had quite a wiretapping conspiracy going My bet is that they did not just wiretap for divorces, affairs but also for business deals - if you know what other people will bid, you can under cut the price. It would be worth alot of money, I think. I bet Branca used Pellicano to get business info on contracts, perhaps his divorce & that's why Weitzman is his attorney. Weitzman was even there at the Opus book premiere with Branca. Odd to me.
Kat Pellicano reality tv show:
http://www.rosespeaks.com/2008/12/1...eality-show-breaking-news-by-john-j-nazarian/
