{"id":12982,"date":"2003-11-23T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=12982"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T18:56:01","slug":"sly-mentioned-in-drudge-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/23\/sly-mentioned-in-drudge-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly Mentioned in Drudge Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><br>On November 19, 2003\u00a0<strong>The Drudge Report<\/strong>\u00a0posted that\u00a0<strong>Sly<\/strong>\u00a0was &#8220;questioned by the\u00a0<strong>FBI<\/strong>\u00a0in connection with a case in which his phone may have been tapped by disgraced celebrity sleuth\u00a0<strong>Anthony Pellicano<\/strong>.&#8221;<br><br><strong>Pellicano,<\/strong>\u00a0under grand jury investigation for alleged illegal wiretapping, was hired by attorney\u00a0<strong>Burt Fields<\/strong>\u00a0who represented\u00a0<strong>Sly<\/strong>&#8216;s former business manager\u00a0<strong>Kenneth Starr\u00a0<\/strong>in case where he had been sued by\u00a0<strong>Sly<\/strong>\u00a0for $17.3 million. That case was settled in January.\u00a0 <strong>Fields<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;has vehemently denied that he had any knowledge of\u00a0<strong>Pellicano<\/strong>&#8216;s alleged wiretaps.&#8221;<br><br><strong>Sly<\/strong>\u00a0was simply questioned for any knowledge that he might have and was in no way under investigation. <strong>&#8211; Craig Zablo<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 19, 2003\u00a0The Drudge Report\u00a0posted that\u00a0Sly\u00a0was &#8220;questioned by the\u00a0FBI\u00a0in connection with a case in which his phone may have been tapped by disgraced celebrity sleuth\u00a0Anthony Pellicano.&#8221; Pellicano,\u00a0under grand jury investigation for alleged illegal wiretapping, was hired by attorney\u00a0Burt Fields\u00a0who represented\u00a0Sly&#8216;s former business manager\u00a0Kenneth Starr\u00a0in case where he had been sued by\u00a0Sly\u00a0for $17.3 million. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-78","category-celebs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-3no","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12983,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions\/12983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}