"Even though the FBI had DeLorean on videotape buying felony-weight cocaine from an undercover agent, a jury found him not guilty...

"James P. Walsh, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case, notes that when Pellicano (in his role as the defense team's tape expert) examined the videotapes at the FBI's lab in Washington, a confrontation just happened to break out between Pellicano and an agent in the room. 'In the course of that, Mr. Pellicano damaged, in a small way, one of the tapes. In other words, there was a small puncture that was put in one of the original tapes...'"