US-Unternehmer muss nach Lauschangriff auf Jackson in Haft
Wegen eines Lauschangriffs auf Michael Jackson muss ein US-Bürger für acht Monate ins Gefängnis. Der Unternehmer Arvel Jett Reeves hatte in einem Charterflugzeug heimlich Videokameras und Mikrofone installiert, um Michael Jackson zu belauschen, wie Bundesrichter Howard Matz in Los Angeles mitteilte.
Reeves und seine Mittäter hatten sich von den Aufnahmen sensationelle Enthüllungen aus Jacksons Privatleben erhofft.
Jackson nutzte das präparierte Flugzeug im November 2003, um von Las Vegas nach Santa Barbara zu fliegen, wo er sich wegen des Verdachts auf Kindesmissbrauch in Polizeigewahrsam begab. Mit an Bord war damals sein Anwalt Mark Geragos.
Die Tat war aufgeflogen, als Reeves und seine Komplizen die Bänder mehreren Fernsehstationen zum Kauf angeboten haben. Der Verurteilte ist Inhaber einer Firma für Flugzeuginstandhaltung; er steckte mit dem Besitzer der Charterfirma unter einer Decke.
Dieser soll im Oktober verurteilt werden. Die Mikrofone und Kameras kauften die Täter in einem Fachgeschäft für Spionageartikel. Jackson wurde inzwischen freigesprochen.
Quelle: GMX
Man Sentenced For Conspiring To Videotape Michael Jackson On Jet
POSTED: 5:59 pm PDT July 24, 2006
LOS ANGELES -- A man was sentenced Monday to eight months behind bars and six months in a halfway house for conspiring to videotape Michael Jackson on a chartered jet en route to surrender on child molestation charges.
Arvel Jett Reeves owns a company that serviced the Gulfstream twin-engine jet Jackson rode on with his then-attorney, Mark Geragos, on his way from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara in November 2003.
Reeves was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles by U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz, who stressed the seriousness of the crime, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Shallman said.
His defense attorney could not be reached to comment on the sentence.
Because the video system was not fully hooked up, Jackson can only be seen and not heard on two videotapes made during the flight.
In pleading guilty earlier this year, Reeves and charter plane company XtraJet's owner, Jeffrey Borer, admitted planning to install two Sony mini-camcorders on the jet in the hope of creating recordings to sell to the media "for a large sum of money."
Borer, who is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 4, was to be responsible for "contacting media companies, negotiating with them, and selling the recordings to the highest bidder," according to the court papers.
Their plan was apparently foiled after Reeves lacked a necessary Cable to capture audio on the two recordings.
After the FBI began investigating, Reeves -- owner of Chino-based Executive Aviation -- tried to cover things up by telling an unnamed and unindicted co-conspirator to lie to investigators, the documents state.
The co-conspirator told investigators Reeves put the cameras on the Gulfstream because Borer had accused him of stealing alcohol from the plane and wanted to catch the real thief.
A Santa Maria jury acquitted Jackson in June 2005 of charges of molesting a 13-year-old boy, giving him alcohol and conspiring to abduct, extort and falsely imprison the boy's family.
Quelle: MJ-special.net / NBC
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