"Die Hard" Director Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison for Lying to FBI

I kinda missed all this. Director John McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October and The Thomas Crown Affair ) sentenced to 4 months and a $100,000 fine for lying to FBI investigators about his association with private-eye Anthony Pellicano.

McTiernan said the only time he used Pellicano's services was during his divorce, however investigators learned he had hired him to wiretap producer Charles Roven, who worked with him on Rollerball.

Authorities say Pellicano is the ringleader of a scheme that was used to get dirt on clients in legal disputes. He is alleged to have illegally wiretapped Sylvester Stallone and others in the industry, and collected information from law enforcement on more than 60 others, including comedians Garry Shandling and Kevin Nealon, through government databases. He is scheduled to go on trial next year.

McTiernan claimed he was exhausted from a trip to Asia, and was taking medication for a sinus infection when he spoke with FBI agents. The judge's response?

"I find these arguments completely lacking in credibility," she said.

Missed it by that much.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 06:10 PM

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1 Bug me Mick!
Adriiiiiaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sylvester Stallone at September 24, 2007 06:25 PM (6+5Wv)

2 If his movie's sucked I would feel better about him serving time.
I think anyprisontime for a first time perjury offenderseems a bit harsh.

Posted by: Rosetta at September 24, 2007 06:29 PM (PoGd7)

3 The Hunt for Salad Tosser

Posted by: Rosetta at September 24, 2007 06:33 PM (PoGd7)

4 "...would you believe I had just gotten back from a hunting trip with Dick Cheney and I was physically incapable of telling the truth due to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?"

Posted by: Kevin at September 24, 2007 06:34 PM (sS03U)

5 I think anyprisontime for a first time perjury offenderseems a bit harsh.

ummmm ... no. He hired Pellicano to illegally wiretap another party. He committed perjury in a federal investigation. He could very easily have also been charged (or may have and he pled down) with "Hindering Prosecution" or "Obstructing an Investigation."

I rather think he got off easy.

If it was you or me or another AoS'er it would have been a lot longer than 4 months.

Posted by: Bruce at September 24, 2007 06:36 PM (2q+Ss)

6 Is perjury illegal?

Posted by: W.J. Clinton at September 24, 2007 06:37 PM (nwJit)

7 As funny as this is, if he hired someone to illegally surveil others, he should have been charged with illegally surveilling others. This whole "lying to investigators" thing - how does that square with the fifth amendment again?

Not that I favor lying, it just seems like I'd be batshit insane to speak to federal investigators at all - whether or not I thought I was guilty of anything.

Libby was convicted of remembering an event differently from Tim Russert, for crying out loud. I don't want to risk being the less credible witness, so I'm thinking Clam Up.

Posted by: Merovign at September 24, 2007 06:39 PM (IaYDo)

8 All lawyer'd, all the time. For everything.

Posted by: z ryan at September 24, 2007 06:42 PM (PDeVA)

9 If his movie's sucked I would feel better about him serving time.

You obviously didn't see Rollerball...

Posted by: Hugo Chavez at September 24, 2007 06:43 PM (tVbxd)

10 This whole "lying to investigators" thing - how does that square with the fifth amendment again?

I think it's because he wasn't a suspect, so arguing the "exculpatory no" doesn't help him. (The Fifth Amendment doesn't allow you to lie.) But that just strengthens your point about just keeping your mouth shut when the FBI knocks on your door and asks you to be a good citizen.

Why on earth does the government have files on Kevin Nealon, though?!?

Posted by: JSinger at September 24, 2007 06:44 PM (EqFh0)

11 Yippee-ki-yay, motherf*****!

Posted by: John McClane at September 24, 2007 06:45 PM (7XSF8)

12 Oh great, now Hugo's a fcukin' movie critic as well...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 24, 2007 06:45 PM (tVbxd)

13 Come now. Hollywood people are above the law. They deserve privileged treatment because of the joy they bring to all the boys and girls with their entertainment products. We should be grateful they deign to grace us with their movies full of clichéd dialogue, pretty explosions, and people who can jump right out of bed fully alert after a night of hot sex with a female character who never has "bed hair."

Remember your places, folks. You're just not as good as Hollywood people.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at September 24, 2007 06:54 PM (p7HKw)

14 JSinger - I just think it's counterproductive, that's all. I was kind of shocked at the whole Martha Stewart thing, but most people didn't get it 'cause the MSM managed to skew the story until it looked like she was convicted to stock manipulation. Which she wasn't.

I used to mock people who refused to talk to the police. What the hell am I supposed to say now?

Posted by: Merovign at September 24, 2007 06:55 PM (IaYDo)

15 He's a pussy. Real men do their own wiretaps and bugging rather than outsourcing.

Really - its not all that hard. A cheap voice activated tape recorder from radio shack stuck in the dude's potted palm and you're pretty much in business.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at September 24, 2007 06:56 PM (iuG/e)

16 Hugo has to figure out how to set his clock first before can become a movie critic.

Posted by: grb4000 at September 24, 2007 07:02 PM (a1oRP)

17 That's it. No oil for you, pedejo.

Posted by: Hugo Chavez at September 24, 2007 07:07 PM (tVbxd)

18 Serves him right for making poor Bruce walk on all that glass in Die Hard.

Posted by: pajama momma at September 24, 2007 07:14 PM (Tbl5c)

19 Crap like this always circles back to the Ozark Mafia:

I thought his name was familiar.

Cordially...

Posted by: Rick at September 24, 2007 07:14 PM (Ohkx7)

20 Have you seen Rollerball, even with Rebecca Romyn it stank.

Posted by: narciso at September 24, 2007 07:14 PM (XWJh5)

21 Come now. Hollywood people are above the law.
Obviously, they are. A third one is about to get off even though he blew a woman's head off.

Posted by: dave at September 24, 2007 07:24 PM (DrmlR)

22 The Hunt for Salad Tosser
GabrielMalorestablished earlier that references to salad tossing are not funny, they're "lame." Devoid of comedic value.
Please see "laws of comedy," chapter 4,sub-section 5a, paragrapgh 3,............

Posted by: bmac at September 24, 2007 07:29 PM (spnY1)

23 Sorry, I see you guys already addressed the "salad tossing"in that thread....carry on.

Posted by: bmac at September 24, 2007 07:39 PM (spnY1)

24 Please see "laws of comedy," chapter 4,sub-section 5a, paragrapgh 3,............
Ha.

Seriously....if salad tossing isn't funny what is it? Tragic? Dramatic? Frightening? Sad?
I submit that salad tossing is funny to everyone that has not been forced to toss a salad.

Posted by: Rosetta at September 24, 2007 07:40 PM (xwgYX)

25 hmmm...

juxtaposition?

Posted by: Dave in Texas at September 24, 2007 08:01 PM (FXakj)

26 I submit that salad tossing is funny to everyone that has not been forced to toss a salad.
Actually, I don't know what that means.

Posted by: pajama momma at September 24, 2007 08:18 PM (Tbl5c)

27 I submit that salad tossing is funny to everyone that has not been forced to toss a salad.
And a few that have. (I'm guessing here)

Posted by: bmac at September 24, 2007 08:22 PM (spnY1)

28 I've never understood what happened to this guy. He went from Die Hard and Hunt for Red October to...Medicine Man? The Last Action Hero? It's as if Shakespeare became famous with Hamlet and Macbeth and then decided, at the height of his powers, to start writing scripts for Nickelback videos.

Posted by: Andrew at September 24, 2007 08:26 PM (u5kpU)

29 GabrielMalorestablished earlier that references to salad tossing are not funny, they're "lame." Devoid of comedic value.

There always comedic value in the misfortune of others, odd/strange rituals, or non-normal sex acts.

Thus, despite what Gabe thinks, salad tossing is funny.

Or Gabe has had his salad tossed and finds it a serious subject. Just speculating here.

Posted by: Mr Minority at September 24, 2007 09:07 PM (gwfvN)

30 There always comedic value in the misfortune of others, odd/strange rituals, or non-normal sex acts.Thus, despite what Gabe thinks, salad tossing is funny. Or Gabe has had his salad tossed and finds it a serious subject. Just speculating here.
That was my point exactly, Mr Minority. I obviously was not as clear in my comment as you were in yours.

Posted by: Rosetta at September 24, 2007 09:18 PM (omkIU)

31 when tossing a salad, beware of the "salad shooter".

Posted by: Ron Popeil at September 24, 2007 09:25 PM (DIXci)

32
THE PELLICANO
CONNECTION

JOSEPH FARRAH, WORLDNET
DAILY, JULY 2005 - A significant portion of the [Clinton's] Shadow
Team's operations were carried out by private investigators,
among them: Terry Lenzner, founder and chairman of the powerful
Washington, D.C., detective firm Investigative Group International;
high-ticket San Francisco private eye Jack Palladino and his
wife Sandra Sutherland; and Hollywood sleuth Anthony J. Pellicano.
. .

Hillary's detectives engaged
in "a systematic campaign to intimidate, frighten, threaten,
discredit and punish innocent Americans whose only misdeed is
their desire to tell the truth in public," former Clinton
adviser Dick Morris charged in the New York Post of Oct. 1, 1998.

Hillary's secret police
tend to be a tight-lipped bunch, professionally skilled at keeping
a low profile. However, we know more about Anthony "The
Pelican" Pellicano than about most Hillary operatives, thanks
to his boastfulness and taste for the limelight. Pellicano's
violent career as a private investigator reveals much about the
sorts of qualifications Hillary sought in her Shadow Team.

In the January 1992 issue
of GQ magazine, Pellicano boasted of the dirty work he had performed
for his clients, including blackmail and physical assault. He
claimed to have beaten one of his client's enemies with a baseball
bat. "I'm an expert with a knife," said Pellicano.
"I can shred your face with a knife."

FBI agents raided Pellicano's
West Hollywood office on Nov. 22, 2002, and arrested him on federal
weapons charges. In his office, they found gold, jewelry, and
about $200,000 in cash - most of it bundled in $10,000 wrappers
- thousands of pages of transcripts of illegal wiretaps; two
handguns; and various explosive devices stored in safes, including
two live hand grenades and a pile of C4 plastic explosive, complete
with blasting cap and detonation cord.http://prorev.com/hillary.htm

Posted by: Tinian at September 24, 2007 09:29 PM (1Mq7K)

33 I'm gonna say this one more time, I think making it illegal to lie to cops is a seriously bad step and in a strange, perverse way a violation of liberty.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 24, 2007 09:34 PM (wmgz8)

34 Hmm.

Posted by: Entropy at September 24, 2007 10:06 PM (HgAV0)

35 Yeah, Tinian. I thought that name sounded familiar.
You know, I remember thinking back in '92 that there was just too much known about what a dirtbag Clinton was, for him to ever be elected. Yet he was. Twice.
Now I'm getting a deju vu all over again kind of feeling with Hillary.
And a significant portion of the voting public is more batshit crazy than ever before.

Posted by: Nice Deb at September 24, 2007 10:15 PM (dJa6i)

36 This is hard to watch, but it's a good reminder of just who we're facing in Iraq. The link is work-safe, but the video ain't.

Posted by: The Apologist at September 24, 2007 11:14 PM (bJCud)

37 But he made "The 13th Warrior." He is forgiven. One of my favorites. So bad, it's good.

Posted by: otcconan at September 25, 2007 12:23 AM (/bSFl)

38 illegal to lie to feds,but legal for them to lie to us.seems wrong to me,but what the hell do i know.

Posted by: billfry at September 25, 2007 03:01 AM (hEBKh)

39 Anyone who talks to a federal investigator is a fool. They love their false statements charges, and if you don't say what they want you to say, you are lying. Better to take the Fifth in all cases.

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