F.B.I. Files Link Big Film Names to a Detective (More on the saga of Hillary's Pelican)

The New YorkTimes ^ | April 14, 2006 | DAVID M. HALBFINGER and ALLISON HOPE WEINER

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LOS ANGELES, April 13 — The chairman of Paramount Pictures and a onetime Hollywood superagent had far more direct dealings than they have acknowledged publicly with the celebrity detective at the center of a rapidly expanding wiretapping scandal, according to government evidence.

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Graphic: Connected Brad Grey, Paramount's chairman, told the F.B.I. that he spoke with Anthony Pellicano about two lawsuits in which Mr. Pellicano, a private detective, was working on Mr. Grey's behalf, and that he learned information about his legal opponents directly from Mr. Pellicano. A former employee of Mr. Pellicano, who was charged in February with wiretapping and conspiracy, separately told the F.B.I. that Mr. Grey had met with the detective at least five times.

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Curiously enough, a full electronic search of this article about the continuing saga of the Pelican, Hillary's favorite PI, turns up no mention of the Witch. Obviously a case of mere inadvertence by the paper that prints "all the news that's fit to print."

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Summaries of F.B.I. interviews seen by The New York Times — documents that are routinely compiled as the raw material of investigations...

Why does the NYT have access to this material? PLUG THE FRIGGIN" LEAKS!!!!!

Has Pellicano been asked about the disposition of Ms. Willey's cat?