Die Hard Director Going To Jail
Filed under: Legal Matters
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: September 25, 2007 at 10:17 am
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What a loser!
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justice for all!
1ST word up
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lol wow doesn't he know the FBI know everything…..
shit
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It's OK for the executive branch to illegally wiretap…..just no one else try it.
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NOOO!!!
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they never learn…
OH MY!!!!! WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS SITE????????????????????????????
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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 WHOLE COMMENTS AND YOU GUYS PUT UP A NEW STORY?????
17 RATHER!!!!!
First? haha
WTF? Doesn't the President and his Cronies illegally wiretap all the time?
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 !
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 ……..
THIS SITE "USED " TO BE FUN.
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.
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.
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.
lol….3rd
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.
He won't be in the big house long.
He has already hired Wentworth
to break him out.
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.
That's too bad. He's a really good director too.
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.
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
…he should take bruce willis with him — if only bad acting was a federal offense…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.