Legal Industry News
May 27, 2009
Former NJ Prosecutor Indicted for Arranging Murder of Witness
New Jersey criminal defense attorney Paul Bergrin, a former assistant U.S. Attorney and Essex County Prosecutor, was arrested today by the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration. The arrests following the unsealing of a federal indictment that accuses Bergrin of witness tampering, racketeering, mortgage fraud, and the murder of a federal witness. Prosecutors claim that Bergrin organized an operation that regularly intimidated – and at least twice schemed to murder – witnesses scheduled to testify against Bergrin’s clients.
Bergrin, who has represented high profile clients like Queen Latifah and Lil’ Kim in the past, just plead guilty two weeks ago in…
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