Bert Fields To Be Indicted?

Fox News reports:

"Premature" was the way my sources described yesterday’s reports that Hollywood lawyer Bert Fields is out of the woods in the Pellicano case.

Indeed, my sources insist that despite those reports, Fields is on the verge of being indicted for illegal wire tapping. Several times the statute of limitations has been extended for Fields in this case, but now action on the part of U.S. Attorney Daniel Saunders may be imminent.

On Wednesday the New York Times reported that federal prosecutors were interviewing at least 10 attorneys from Fields’ firm, Greenberg Glusker, about his use — and theirs — of Pellicano as a rogue private eye. A rough list of names, provided by an informed source, includes Ricardo Cestero, the lawyer I told you months ago worked first for Pellicano before joining Fields’ firm to represent Tom Cruise.

Others on the interrogation list are thought to be Bonnie Eskenazi, Aaron Moss, David Moriarty, Jill Cossman, firm spokesman Norman Levine, and Chuck Shepherd, Fields’s go to guy in the firm. Levine has gone on record telling other publications that the case, however, is over, and that the firm “has moved beyond it.”

The inside word, though, is that under pressure any attorney from Greenberg Glusker is going to toss Fields to the wolves.

“None of those people are going to lie to a federal prosecutor,” says a source. “If they think they can save themselves, they will give Bert up in a second.”

Fields, of course, has maintained his innocence and ignorance about the Pellicano matter. His side has used the argument that nothing of much interest has occurred since last February in the case. That, coupled with a fairly light-touch article in The New Yorker, is said to be Fields’ reasoning that he’s untouchable at this point.

If, however, Fields is wrong, and he is indicted, the result will be a sensation in Hollywood. Fields is attached to just about everyone of interest in Tinseltown. His secrets extend from Cruise to Michael Jackson and beyond. He could charge more for tickets to his trial than Barbra Streisand would ever imagine for one of her comeback concerts.

For the U.S. Attorney to bring a case against Fields would mean they believe the evidence is incontrovertible.