Die is cast for McTiernan in wiretap case

September 25, 2007 More than a year after admitting he lied to the FBI about his association with Anthony Pellicano only to later try to retract it, "Die Hard" director John McTiernan was sentenced Monday to four months in a federal prison. McTiernan appeared at a morning hearing in Los Angeles federal court to argue why his April 2006 guilty plea should be withdrawn. But now McTiernan claims that his former lawyer, John Carlton, failed to advise him of possible defenses, including that the government's evidence is tainted because its evidence was a phone conversation with McTiernan, illegally taped by Pellicano.

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