Jackson's spokesman, Stuart Backerman, declined comment about the past lawsuits involving the accuser's family.
In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday against Santa Monica-based XtraJet, Geragos claimed that the charter company covertly installed two cameras in the cabin of the plane used by Jackson last week.
Jackson's attorneys won a temporary restraining order against XtraJet, barring any release of the tapes.
The cameras "were recording attorney-client conversations and then somebody had the unmitigated gall to shop those tapes around to media outlets in order to sell them to the highest bidder," he said.
Separately, FBI spokesman Matthew McLaughlin said agents went to the headquarters of XtraJet. "We're currently assessing if a federal violation has occurred," McLaughlin said.
The tapes' existence came to light when representatives of XtraJet showed it to several news organizations, saying they had found two videotapes aboard one of their jets and wanted to know whether it was legal to distribute or sell them.
Geragos said he contacted XtraJet and was referred to an attorney who told him Tuesday: "We had a lottery ticket and we thought we were going to do something with it."
"This is not the lottery," Geragos said. "This is this man's life. This is his family's life. These are scurrilous accusations."
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