Earlier Connections
Five-month-old Sabrina Aisenberg disappeared from her parents' unlocked home during the night of November 27, 1997, and has never been found. Anthony Pellicano was a wiretap consultant for the government in connection with the 1999 Hillsborough County Florida investigation and federal prosecution of Steven and Marlene Aisenberg for making false statements to law enforcement officials. In 2001, county detectives were found to have lied both in obtaining warrants and as to the content of the conversations recorded under those warrants, and the indictment of the Aisenbergs was dismissed. The US Attorney later admitted that the prosecution was frivolous, vexatious, or in bad faith (in the terminology of the Hyde Amendment, U.S. Public Law 105-119, which added a footnote to 18 U.S.C. ยง 3006A). In his capacity as an expert, Pellicano claimed to hear those supposed conversations that the opposing former FBI expert and the federal magistrate judge could not hear.
Pellicano is known to have represented Anthony "the Ant" Spilotro, the Chicago mobster charged with monitoring the Las Vegas casino "skim" for the Chicago mob. Gustave Reininger, the co-creator of NBC's acclaimed television drama Crime Story, was served both a subpoena and a warning from Spilotro through Pellicano.
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