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Miami lawyer indicted for money laundering in pay fee for a client

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

A high profile Miami lawyer, one of Al Gore's lawyers during 2000 Floria election challenge, was indicted for money laundering for receiving money paid over to Roy Black to defend a Colombian drug lord, according to the Daily Business Review. The article includes a link to the indictment. The worst part of it is that one can never trust the opinions of others that money was legal: The indictment revives the issue of the legal suitability of money accepted by criminal defense attorneys from clients accused of drug trafficking and money laundering. Medellin kingpin Fabio Ochoa faced charges of plotting to smuggle 30 tons of powder cocaine per month into the United States from 1997 to 1999. Since it’s illegal to accept funds from a criminal enterprise, Black paid Kuehne $197,300 to vet money coming from horse and cattle holdings of the Ochoa family and property offered to cover Black’s fees...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).