The scandal involving rogue L.A. private detective Anthony Pellicano, who illegally wiretapped some of the Hollywood’s biggest stars like Sylvester Stallone, continues to show life.
A Los Angeles federal jury earlier this week convicted former SBC phone company employee Joann Wiggan, 56, of Burbank, of perjury and lying to FBI agents about information she provided from the company data bases to a former phone employee, Ray Turner. Authorities say Turner used the info to help Pellicano illegally wiretap stars.
In closing arguments, prosecutors alleged that Wiggan, a facilities technician with access to the phone company’s mainframes in Los Angeles, was the person physically connecting the illegal wiretaps at the direction of Turner and Pellicano, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
In 2006, a federal jury acquitted her on four counts alleging perjury before a federal grand jury. A mistrial was declared on the fifth count. Earlier this week, prosecutors tried her on that unresolved fifth count, plus new charges of lying to FBI agents in 2004 and committing perjury during her 2006 trial.
Sentencing is set for Feb. 22.
Pellicano is serving 15 years in prison.
