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When will people learn? DO NOT lie to the FBI! (And don't cheat on your taxes, by the way).

Die Hard director John McTiernan was sentenced by a U.S. district judge to four months in federal prison on Monday.

Why? He lied to the FBI about hiring disgraced private detective Anthony Pellicano to illegally wiretap film producer Charles Roven.

McTiernan's other directing credits include The Hunt for Red October and The Thomas Crown Affair.

McTiernan's legal team said they would immediately seek an appeal.

    Posted: Sep 25, 2007 at 10:17 am / Email this  »
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    44 comments to “Die Hard Director Going To Jail”

    1. auntie liz says – reply to this


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      first?

    2. JennBoogi says – reply to this


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      What a loser!

    3. kay says – reply to this


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      woot

    4. talu says – reply to this


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      justice for all!

    5. SHANE says – reply to this


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      1ST word up

    6. LOL! says – reply to this


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      2nd

    7. MEKIABOO says – reply to this


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      YOU R LATE

    8. tina says – reply to this


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      firrst

    9. Tania says – reply to this


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      lol wow doesn't he know the FBI know everything…..

    10. asd says – reply to this


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      shit

    11. AMC says – reply to this


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      first!!

    12. wake up says – reply to this


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      It's OK for the executive branch to illegally wiretap…..just no one else try it.

    13. ellen says – reply to this


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      first

    14. Abbey says – reply to this


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      NOOO!!! :(

    15. latisha says – reply to this


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      1stttttttttttttt

    16. Ciro says – reply to this


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      they never learn…

    17. HAPPY NOW????????????????? says – reply to this


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      OH MY!!!!! WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS SITE????????????????????????????

    18. bruce says – reply to this


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      shit

    19. c says – reply to this


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      Who? What? Oh this is news now I guess — the website has gone down hill since your new tv show. Gotta save some gossip for it I guess

    20. GHOST TOWN JUST A LITTLE TOO EARLY FOR HALLOWEEN says – reply to this


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      20 WHOLE COMMENTS AND YOU GUYS PUT UP A NEW STORY?????

    21. GHOST TOWN says – reply to this


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      17 RATHER!!!!!

    22. pirateshark says – reply to this


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      First? haha

    23. Michael Y says – reply to this


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      WTF? Doesn't the President and his Cronies illegally wiretap all the time?

    24. Hello Kitty says – reply to this


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      You would think that people took notes on the way the FBI took Willie Nelson and darined him dry for trying to avoid paying taxes.

      DON'T FUCK WITH THE FEDS !

    25. Bel says – reply to this


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      You just can't F with the Federal Government. The Govt. will ALWAYS come out on top.
      His only hope is that his lawyer can convince them to be lenient ……..

    26. NOT ANYMORE says – reply to this


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      THIS SITE "USED " TO BE FUN.

    27. renzoc says – reply to this


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      WOW! Just for lying huh??? I guess Lying carries a harsher sentence than doing drugs, having drugs on you, driving under the influence on the wrong side of the freeway, etc, etc….I love the justice system.

    28. curious says – reply to this


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      I wonder how we can find out how many other Hollywood people hired Pellicano to wiretap them. I had heard he wouldn't talk. Does the FBI have a list available? ALL OF THEM SHOULD BE EXPOSED, all the way down to each and every actor. Especially the actor who stalked innocent single women.

    29. Sally says – reply to this


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      He's not going to jail, not for 4 months. He's white, he can buy his way out of this, or he can attorney his way out of this. I predict 90 days tops.

    30. Doud says – reply to this


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      lol….3rd

    31. Anonymous says – reply to this


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      I worked with that a*hole once and he so deserves this. The dude was an obnoxious drugged out jerk and everybody on the show was catering to his Britney Spears type coke-induced whims just to keep their jobs. Not me! I'm happy to say I told him to shove it and walked. He deserves a whole lot of bad to happen to him. Finally!! Yea!!! Karma and Justice for all.

    32. Rash Manly says – reply to this


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      He won't be in the big house long.
      He has already hired Wentworth
      to break him out.

    33. And they all fall down says – reply to this


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      The actor that hired others to stalk an innocent single woman was in the Thomas Crown Affair. Guess he knew how to hire Pellicano through his director and or got the idea and hired any other thug willing to do his wiretapping and dirty work. Karma indeed.

    34. Kirk says – reply to this


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      That's too bad. He's a really good director too.

    35. hollywood gangsters says – reply to this


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      Why would you wiretap a Hollywood producer?

      What a dumbass..wait that's most of hollywood directors and producers.
      They have no education and no class most of them don't know shit
      about films and just want to make a fast buck. Like drug dealers.

    36. all fall down says – reply to this


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      Birds of a feather flock together. They wiretap and stalk and harass people for financial reasons and sexual reasons. Actor gets rejected and stalks and wiretaps and virtually ruins innocent lives. Sicko doesn't want it to get out but the FBI know- and they all fall down! Karma

    37. bbbbmer says – reply to this


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      …he should take bruce willis with him — if only bad acting was a federal offense…

    38. all fall says – reply to this


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      Perez, you should dig deeper on this one, there is a story here. And this guy wiretapped his exwife they say on other news outlets. His Thomas Crown actor friend will probably be contacted by the FBI next. Have a martini on me Perez.

    39. pr says – reply to this


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      When will people learn that

      "making a false statement in connection with a Justice Dept. investigation, an offense that carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment"

      is a ridiculous overreaching of the law and serves only to bring it into disrepute.

      Pellicano is a scumbag and anyone hiring him deserves censure, but prison? Jailing Mctiernan is worth tax dollars? At some point the people who want tax cuts and to lock everyone up have to pick a side.

      Wiretapping is okay if you are the NSA and actually have a legal channel (FISA) to get approval but choose to ignore that and violate people's rights and then lie about it, but bugging a movie producer gets a ticket to the big house?

      Martha Stewart is a hag but to be the scapegoat for all of Wall Street's real criminals for lying to SEC investigators while not under oath is a ridiculous reason to lock someone up.

      The average culpable homicide convict (murder, manslaughter) serves about 7 years and 18 year old kids get 15 year mandatory minimums for holding a couple of crack rocks. If they are black.

      The law needs to get some perspective. You can beat someone within an inch of their life and get less than this. Reserve prison for dangerous violent offenders (murderers, rapists, psychos who assauly and maim) not kids smoking dope or film directors who like to play Dick Tracy.

    40. all fall down says – reply to this


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      PAY ATTENTION: It's what Dick Tracy according to you- did next with the information gathered, THROUGH WIRETAPPING. Ruining peoples lives is not funny, and is illegal. These people have ruined other peoples lives from wiretapping them and then using that information to further "Dick" them around. Financially and sexually.

    41. I know says – reply to this


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      Right, Dick Tracy wiretaps your phone and knows your everymove and now you are not safe ANYWHERE. Send in fake people to ask for fake dates which you might go on and after a few dates you might have sex with that fake person and then they show up where you work next morn and make fun of you and the experience blow by blow. Hang them by the balls in Macys window is better than prison I say.

    42. misa says – reply to this


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      there is actually no federal law that states you have to pay taxes, except when you sign those damn W2 forms… Federal Reserve is about as Federal as Federal Express

    43. do not pass go says – reply to this


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      THE SUBJECT IS WIRETAPPING and violation of privacy, not taxes. Violating someone's privacy and getting four months in jail along with your future cronnies. The FBI will be contacting them all. KARMA, LONG TIME COMING!

    44. pr says – reply to this


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      Re: all fall down –

      Pay Attention?

      He was convicted of "making a false statement in connection with a Justice Dept. investigation, an offense that carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment”

      If McTiernan committed assault, threatening, fraud, harrassment, slander, etc charge him with that and convict him.

      Not saying he is a good guy. Just saying that convicting someone on the bullshit charge you can make stick makes a mockery of the legal system.

      This is not like convicting Al Capone of Tax evasion because you can't get any of his cronies to testify on a murder charge. Tax evasion on $200 Million of unreported income is per se a real crime.

      Convicting someone because someone claiming to be a Federal Agent phones you up at midnight and you don't tell him the truth is bullshit.