A top Los Angeles private detective who helped Hillary Clinton quash her husband's "bimbo eruptions" in 1992 has been charged with making criminal threats and with conspiracy to commit a crime.
Prosecutors say that Anthony Pellicano - known as the "Private Eye to the Stars" - hired a second man to threaten Los Angeles Times reporter Anita Busch, in a bid to "cause her to fear for her life."
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Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley announced the charges against Pellicano last Friday, in a complaint that alleges that the private detective's co-conspirator threatened Busch "by placing a dead fish with a rose in its mouth on the windshield of her car. He made a hole in the windshield with the intent to make it appear like a bullet hole. He also placed a sign with the word 'stop' on the windshield."
In 1992, the Clintons recruited Pellicano to contact some women on a list of 19 so-called "bimbo eruptions" that had been leaked to the press. Some of the women later complained to then-Bush 41 campaign director Mary Matalin that they had been threatened.
Matalin, now a senior White House advisor, detailed the episode when she hosted a Washington, D.C. talk radio show in 1997, explaining: "I got the letters from Pellicano to these women intimidating them. I had tapes of conversations from Pellicano to the women. I got handwritten letters from the women."
In 1998, the New York Post reported that Pellicano helped with damage control in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, unearthing Monica's old boyfriend, Andy Blieler. Blieler told reporters that Monica told him she wanted to go to Washington to earn her "presidential kneepads."
Pellicano has told reporters that he prefers to carry a baseball bat, not a gun, explaining to the Los Angeles Times: "I only use intimidation and fear when I absolutely have to." After her brush with the Clinton P.I.'s hardball tactics, Anita Busch retired from journalism.
Pelicano is currently serving a 30-month jail sentence for possession of hand grenades and plastic explosives, which were discovered during a Nov. 2003 search of his Sunset Blvd. office by police investigating the Busch case.
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