Another key defendant, Kevin Kachikian, also is charged with wiretapping for allegedly devising and constructing the equipment, dubbed Telesleuth, that was used in the phone surveillance. The court papers released Friday allege that he and Pellicano built about 50 of the wiretapping boxes used in the crimes.
Kachikian's attorney, Adam Braun, said Friday that the government's trial memo ignores his client's repeated statements to authorities that Kachikian always believed Telesleuth would be marketed to law enforcement agencies, based largely on Pellicano's years as a government forensics expert.
"The [pending] trial will confirm what we have always maintained: that there is no evidence that Kevin knew -- let alone intended -- that Telesleuth be misused for illegal, private wiretaps," Braun said.
Though the trial memo focuses on many of the same cases that have been talked about for years, it also provides new information about the government's tightly held evidence.
It outlines, for example, how specific clients, former clients and even accused co-conspirators with Pellicano will testify about his allegedly widespread use of wiretaps and confidential information gleaned from police databases to gain the upper hand in courtroom battles or other disputes.
The court papers also describe how Pellicano and Arneson allegedly dug up dirt on nine rape victims of one criminal defendant and a murder victim who plunged to her death from the balcony of a Long Beach hotel.
In each case, the man accused of the crime, a Pellicano client, was acquitted.
And the court papers offer a glimpse at a handful of the government's key witnesses.
According to the court papers, hedge fund manager Adam Sender will testify that Pellicano played him five to 10 recordings of wiretapped conversations between Sender's former business partner, movie producer Aaron Russo, and Russo's sons and political contacts during a lawsuit.
Arneson also figured in that case, searching police databases for information on a witness whom LAPD officers from the Pacific Division -- where Arneson worked -- later attempted to arrest on an outstanding warrant. For his services, the government says, Sender paid Pellicano $500,000.
Venture capitalist Alec Gores, who paid Pellicano at least $160,000, will tell jurors that the former private eye played him wiretapped calls between Gores' wife and his younger brother, the memo says. A recording of their wire-tapped call was recovered by the FBI in its search of Pellicano's offices, according to the government.
