The owner of an air charter service has been ordered to pay a lawyer and his associate more than 12 million dollars (£6 million) for ordering secret videotaping of them as they flew with Michael Jackson to his surrender on molestation charges in 2003. A lawyer for XtraJet owner Jeffrey Borer said he would appeal. Borer and a co-defendant pleaded guilty in 2006 to conspiracy for installing digital cameras aboard an XtraJet plane that flew Jackson from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara.
The damages resulted from an invasion-of-privacy case filed by lawyer Mark Geragos. Jackson was acquitted in the molestation case.