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Ex-phone worker guilty in Hollywood wiretap case

Associated Press - November 3, 2009 8:14 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former phone company employee has been convicted of lying to FBI agents and a federal grand jury investigating wiretapping allegations against Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano.

Joann Wiggan of Burbank was found guilty by a jury on Monday of 3 counts. She faces up to 15 years in prison.

Prosecutors say Wiggan was an SBC employee who gave former co-worker Ray Turner information from confidential phone company databases he used to help Pellicano illegally tap the phones of several Hollywood figures.

Wiggan was acquitted in 2006 of 4 perjury charges but jurors deadlocked on a fifth. New charges were later filed.

Pellicano and Turner were convicted last year of conspiracy, wiretapping, and other charges.

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