If Rush Limbaugh's ex-housekeeper Wilma Cline tape-recorded her prescription drug sales to the talk radio megastar, as claimed in the National Enquirer, she committed a felony punishable by up to five years in jail, according to lawyers familiar with case.
That means that Mrs. Cline - and not Mr. Limbaugh - could be the one doing jail time if the Florida State's Attorney's office decides to prosecute.
Although so-called legal experts outside Florida have repeatedly called Mrs. Cline's tapes the most legally problematic evidence against Limbaugh, Assistant State's Attorney James Martz told the Palm Beach Post that Cline's recordings were illegally obtained and would therefore be inadmissible in court.
"Such tapings can't even be heard by prosecutors," said Martz, who is
currently heading up the larger drug probe in which Limbaugh became ensnared.
Based on interviews with Martz and other local lawyers, the Post reported last week, "If Wilma Cline did tape Limbaugh without his knowledge, that is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison."
Martz's office would not comment on whether it has granted Cline immunity, but last week lawyers familiar with the case told the New York Daily News that the housekeeper's decision to sell her story to the National Enquirer compromised an ongoing drug probe in which Limbaugh was not the target.
Commenting on the strength of the case against the top talker without Cline's tapes, Florida attorney Michael Salnick told the Post, "I think it's legal suicide to go after a guy like Limbaugh with evidence as flimsy as this."
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