Est. 1998
Jeffrey Borer and Arvel Reeves admitted on Monday that they had installed two digital video recorders to record “a professional entertainer” (namely Michael Jackson),and his lawyer as they traveled on a private jet from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara in November 2003, for Michael to surrender to the Santa Barbara DA’s office.
Borer is the owner of ExtraJet, the company from whom the jet had been hired, and Reeves is the owner of the company providing maintenance for ExtraJet’s planes.
The two men arranged a “plea bargain” in that they pleaded guilty to these charges so that Federal officers would agree to drop two further charges.
A judge will ultimately decide whether they should each be sentenced to up to five years in prison, three years of probation, and pay a fine of $250,000 US at a hearing scheduled for July 12th.
According to the plea agreement, Reeves purchased video and audio equipment and, with an unindicted suspect, secretly installed the recorders in the airplane’s cabin. They were unable to install the remote microphones because Reeves didn’t get the proper connectors, so the two recordings were made without sound.
Borer, who instructed Reeves to obtain and install the equipment, intended “to sell these recordings to the media for a large sum of money,” the agreement said.
In April 2004, Reeves told a suspect to lie to FBI agents, telling them the equipment was installed in an attempt to catch someone who had been stealing alcohol from the aircraft.
Source: Associated Press & MJWN
