On Wednesday, Jeffrey Borer was sentenced to six months of home detention for secretly videotaping Michael Jackson in November 2003. He will also have three years of probation and was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and serve 150 hours of community service, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Shallman.

Borer’s attorney, Stanley Stone, said outside court that the terms were “very fair.”

Borer and co-defendant Arvel Jett Reeves had admitted during the trial that they installed two digital video recorders to record “a professional entertainer” and his lawyer as the pair traveled on a private jet from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara.

Borer was the former owner of XtraJet, the private jet company that operated the Gulfstream jet carrying Michael Jackson. Reeves owned Executive Aviation, which provided maintenance service for XtraJet’s aircraft fleet.

Borer instructed Reeves to obtain and install the videotaping equipment and intended “to sell these recordings to the media for a large sum of money”. Borer and Reeves each pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy. As part of the deal, federal prosecutors agreed to dismiss other charges.

Reeves was arleady sentenced in July 2006 to eight months in prison and ordered to spend six additional months in a halfway house and pay a $1,000 fine.

Source: Associated Press