REMEMBERING ANTHONY PELLICANO: THE END IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS [PELLICANO NOTEBOOK]
Remembering Anthony Pellicano: The End is as Good as it Gets [Pellicano Notebook]
And so it ends: The long local situation that was the Anthony Pellicano effort has ended with essentially the same whimpering inertia that marked its duration. Those early reports of Pellicano’s convictions attainfleshed discover in the hours since: blameable as charged on 76 of 77 counts of racketeering, conspiracy, wiretapping, wire humbug and indistinguishability theft, still acquitted of “a single count of unlicensed computer access,” according to The New royalty Times. (His quaternary co-defendants were convicted of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy.) Pellicano will be sentenced Sept. 24.
The LA Times’s Carla Hall, meanwhile, has courtroom sketches:
Before the verdicts were read, Pellicano seemed at ease, grinning and scanning the room. But when he realized the commission had institute him guilty, he crossed his arms, took his glasses soured and looked around with a blank expression. A woman on the commission dabbed her eyes with a tissue.
We cried a little, too, for all the possibleness laid squander in this clusterfuck of justice: The potential for Anita Busch’s comeback after Pellicano’s dead-fish danger and wiretaps ended her career. The potential for Busch-destroyer archangel Ovitz to intend a shovel in the back of the cervix after slithering soured the witness stand. The potential for the bottomless filth of Scary tone Lawyer Bert Fields’ testimony, which never came. The potential for “Mr. Pellicano,” as he was unnatural to refer to himself as his possess counsel, to meet say, “Yeah, ass it. Put me away; let’s all go home.” Or the possibleness for us to provide half a shit this was modify happening, day after drawn-out day, modify under the danger of mistrial.
Pellicano is indeed feat bag — like “federal prison” home, up to 10 years’ worth, we hear. He’d be 74 when he got out, with a some eld left to savor the fruits of keeping his representative shut: A couple well-scrubbed dollars trickling in today and then from glad clients to whom he’s anything but the notation the rest of us will know. At the modify of the day — especially today — we effort to care but somehow wish there was more, as if it was all meet about to intend good.
Alas, the modify is as beatific as it gets, when we can at last peel away the “alleged” and say yeah, the fucker did it. Finally. And beatific riddance.
[Photo Credit: LAT]
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