In a setback for the defense, a federal judge Friday rejected a
string of allegations by indicted private eye Anthony Pellicano and
his co-defendants that the government’s wiretapping and racketeering
investigation was replete with misconduct.
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In their most contentious court hearing to date, federal
prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Anthony Pellicano
wiretapping case sparred Monday over whether the government’s conduct
in the long-running investigation should invalidate crucial evidence,
including a search warrant for the onetime private eye’s offices.
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When the
FBI first issued pagers to agents in Los Angeles, the
idea of being electronically tethered to the office didn’t sit well
with a bear-sized veteran named Stanley Ornellas.
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It was not the most spectacular domestic terrorism plot since the Sept.
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A federal judge on Monday agreed to hold an unusual evidentiary
hearing to explore defense allegations of government misconduct in
the wiretapping prosecution of private investigator Anthony Pellicano.
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An
FBI agent and federal prosecutors repeatedly violated Anthony
Pellicano’s 6th Amendment right to counsel by having his onetime
girlfriend secretly elicit information from him during prison visits,
the former private eye’s attorneys allege in new court papers.
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As Los Angeles police shelved a plan to map Muslim enclaves in the
city, law enforcement officials and terrorism experts on Thursday
questioned whether the department’s mishandling of the project had
cost it a potentially useful tool in identifying extremists.
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A two-year counter-terrorism and narcotics investigation moved
cross-country Wednesday, with federal authorities in New York
announcing the filing of charges against six people accused of
trafficking in millions of dollars worth of counterfeit clothing.
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The
LAPD’s plan to map Muslim communities in an effort to identify
potential hotbeds of extremism departs from the way law enforcement
has dealt with local anti-terrorism since 9/11 and prompted
widespread skepticism Friday.
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The
FBI and Los Angeles police Thursday downplayed the
significance of an unsubstantiated counterterrorism warning that Al
Qaeda may target shopping malls in Los Angeles and Chicago this
holiday season.
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