My purpose was to find out the status of the investigation, which has been delayed by the tainting of evidence by some illegal eavesdropping (euphemized as "monitoring") within the Department of State.

Ms. Pirro's lawyer, Paul Shechtman, said in an interview that, based on his conversations with federal prosecutors, he believed they had no evidence of illegal eavesdropping.

In this ruling, the judge rejected the Government's argument that the wiretap records should be retained because the illegal eavesdropping was of great historical interest.

That, presumably, is why his bill grants immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated in five years of illegal eavesdropping.

Coulson always denied any knowledge of the illegal eavesdropping, for which the NoW's ex-royal editor, Clive Goodman, and a private detective were jailed in 2007.

Federal prosecutors have notified Senator Robb that he is also a target of their investigation into illegal eavesdropping.

His lawyer said the taping amounted to an illegal eavesdropping, and he demanded that Mr. Kavanaugh prosecute the neighbor.

He moved to New York, where he was chief counsel to the State Joint Legislative Committee investigating illegal eavesdropping.

On January 13, 2010 a Tel Aviv Court handed down its first verdict in the case of illegal eavesdropping on Cherney.

Mr. Perini, who resigned in February to start his own law firm in Hauppauge, said at the news conference that there had never been any "systematic, illegal eavesdropping in this county."