Ms. Lewinsky is on the witness list for a pretrial hearing, scheduled to begin on Monday in Howard County, Md., where Mrs. Tripp faces charges that she illegally taped their telephone calls.

In the midst of her 2006 State Attorney General campaign, Pirro revealed that she was the subject of a federal investigation into whether she illegally taped her husband's conversations in order to catch him committing adultery.

Linda Tripp was indicted for illegally taping telephone conversations with Monica Lewinsky.

Less than two weeks ago, Ms. Pirro revealed that she was the subject of a federal investigation into whether she illegally taped her husband's conversations.

I dont think it will ever be OK for a commercial organisation to illegally tape phone calls from a sick mother to her children for profit.

Ms. Lewinsky is on the witness list for a pretrial hearing in Maryland, where Mrs. Tripp faces charges of illegally taping calls.

Federal investigators are now looking into whether Mr. Kerik illegally taped the husband of Jeanine F. Pirro, the Republican candidate for attorney general, at Ms. Pirro's behest.

Two weeks ago the justice, Rolf Larsen, retaliated against the two justices who voted to censure him, accusing them in a sworn statement of fixing cases, accepting kickbacks and wearing "body wires" to illegally tape private conversations.

Justice Larsen also accused Mr. Zappala of accepting unspecified "kickbacks" and using a "body wire" to illegally tape conversations with others without their consent or knowledge.

A federal investigation is trying to determine if Ms. Pirro illegally taped her husband.