It took federal prosecutors more than two years to turn material from celebrity private eye Anthony Pellicano's hard drive into wiretapping charges against top L.A. litigator Terry Christensen, the investigator himself and a bevy of other defendants.
The plaintiffs bar only needed about a week to translate those indictments into civil litigation against various parties linked to Pellicano's widespread eavesdropping on Hollywood big shots.
Pellicano's case has been making news since 2002, when FBI agents raided his office. They confiscated illegal explosives -- which sent the detective to federal prison for more than two years -- and a trove of audio recordings Pellicano had secretly made on behalf of clients.
Since then, it's also come out that Pellicano recorded many of his own business conversations
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