here is the CNN article...
Lawyer says he, Jackson secretly taped on plane
Source: Police raids targeted private detective, videographer
Tuesday, November 25, 2003 Posted: 7:02 PM EST (0002 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Mark Geragos, singer Michael Jackson's lawyer, said Tuesday that a charter airline company secretly videotaped conversations between him and Jackson on board a plane and attempted to shop the tapes to media outlets.
Geragos said he and Jackson were recorded while flying between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Santa Barbara, California, where the singer surrendered to authorities on suspicion of child molestation Thursday.
Geragos said his legal team obtained a restraining order from a court in Los Angeles that prohibits XtraJet, the airline that he said placed the cameras aboard the plane, from disseminating tapes of the conversations.
"We've also filed suit ... against the airline company, and we reserve the right to file suit against anyone and everyone who is remotely connected with what I think is one of the most outrageous acts that I've ever seen in my 20 years of practicing criminal law," Geragos told reporters in Los Angeles.
"Michael Jackson is not going to be abused. Michael Jackson is not going to be slammed, is not going to be a pinata for every person who has financial motives," Geragos said.
Addressing the child molestation allegations against Jackson, Geragos said, "If anybody doesn't think ... that the true motivation of these charges ... is anything but money and the seeking of money, then they're living in their own Neverland," referring to Jackson's ranch.
A man who answered XtraJet's reservation line said the company had "no comment to make at this time." The Los Angeles Times quoted an XtraJet official as saying, "We explored the opportunity as any business person would."
Meanwhile, detectives with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department have searched the Beverly Hills office of a private detective hired by Jackson, as well as the home of Jackson's videographer, CNN has learned.
The sources who disclosed the locations of the raids would not discuss what evidence might have been seized. The raids were carried out after officers raided Jackson's Neverland ranch November 18.
Sheriff's Department officials said November 18 that two additional locations had been searched but at the time did not say where those locations were.
Jackson was arrested and booked on suspicion of child molestation last week and was released after posting a $3 million bond.
Formal charges will not be filed before mid-December, a source close to the investigation told CNN.
Jackson is scheduled to be arraigned January 9 in Santa Barbara Superior Court. A single count of child molestation can carry a prison sentence of up to eight years. (Full story)
Jackson has denied the allegations. The singer launched a Web site Monday dedicated to countering what he called "a big lie" -- the child molestation allegations. (Full story)
Jackson's accuser participated in a documentary about the pop star, a source close to the child's family told CNN. The boy and Jackson appear in the documentary holding hands through much of the interview, which caused a stir when it was broadcast in February.
Investigators also have begun checking almost 70 calls from people claiming to have information about the investigation.
"Those calls need to be screened, and we haven't been able to substantiate all of them as actual tips," a law enforcement source told CNN. "Hopefully, they will be screened, check out thoroughly, and we will take it from there. Of course you have to figure some may be nuts."
The source said that documents in the Jackson case that can be released to the public are likely to be posted on a department Web site, even though the department is having trouble keeping up with the Web traffic the case has generated.
The source said the department's Web servers were shut down by heavy traffic after Jackson turned himself in to the department and was booked.
The department posted Jackson's booking photo on its Web site and soon had counted millions of hits. The site crashed, and the photo had to be moved to a server dedicated to visitors trying to see the photo.
"It received more than 1 million hits in the first two hours when the booking photos were posted," the source said. "It was just too much for the system. We've never had anything like this. That's why we had to move to another server."
