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Mar. 25, 2019

Anthony Pellicano’s release caps embarrassing era for LA law

Many high profile Los Angeles attorneys found themselves caught up in Pellicano’s wiretap orbit, not all by choice.

LOS ANGELES — On his 75th birthday, Anthony Pellicano, one of the most notorious private detectives in the history of Los Angeles, walked out of the Federal Corrections Institute on Terminal Island in San Pedro a free man.

Pellicano, freed Friday after a 15-year prison term, was known as an exemplary investigator and unscrupulous private eye by Hollywood power players from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Tom Cruise. He spent the better pa...

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