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Gumshoe Troubles: One of L.A.'s best-known celebrity attorneys pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he paid recently indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted.  private investigator Anthony Pellicano Anthony Pellicano (born March 22, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois) is a former high-profile Los Angeles private investigator who recently served a sentence in federal prison for illegal possession of explosives, and who was arrested on February 4, 2006, on unlawful wiretapping and  to wiretap wiretap n. using an electronic device to listen in on telephone lines, which is illegal unless allowed by court order based upon a showing by law enforcement of "probable cause" to believe the communications are part of criminal activities.  the former wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian. The plea by Terry Christensen came on the same day that L.A. city officials moved to investigate how many LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel.
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 officers might be moonlighting as private eyes or illegally accessing confidential law enforcement record. The inquiries were in response to an FBI investigation and grand jury allegations that Pellicano and former LAPD Sgt. Mark Arneson used state and national law enforcement databases to dig up dirt on behalf of Pellicano's clients, who included lawyers and celebrities.
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Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
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Date:Feb 27, 2006
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