Attorney Says LAT Writer 'Wiretapped' Him

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By: Matt Reynolds | Courthouse News Service

LOS ANGELES (CN) - An attorney filed a class action accusing a Los Angeles Times business columnist of recording telephone conversations without his interviewees' consent, in violation of state wiretap law. In California a recorded call requires the consent of all parties on the line, so if one speaker records a call without informing the other, it is called wiretapping.

Los Angeles attorney Robert B. Silverman claims Michael Hiltzik illegally wiretapped him, and may have recorded hundreds, or thousands, of such telephone conversations.































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