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2 April 2008 11:34 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Writers covering the trial of former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano compared Tuesday's testimony with dialogue in The Godfather and The Sopranos -- particularly tapes of obscenity-laced telephone conversations between Pellicano and Adam Sender, a New York hedge fund manager. Sender, who agreed to testify after being promised immunity from prosecution, told how he had hired Pellicano to investigate producer Aaron Russo in 1999 after Russo had allegedly borrowed $1.1 million from him to start up a movie production company and an Internet business and had failed to repay the money. On the witness stand Sender quoted Pellicano as having said to him, "I could authorize to have him murdered on the way back from Las Vegas -- have someone follow him back, drive him off the road and bury his body somewhere in the desert." Sender said that it was the "scariest" thing Pellicano ever said to him and that he did not authorize him to carry out such a suggestion. (Russo died last year of natural causes.) Cross-examined by Pellicano, Sender acknowledged that Pellicano had probably made the comment offhandedly when he began complaining about the costs of the Russo investigation, which, Sender said, had cost him $500,000.

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