The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:
He used a restaurant in Newark, N.J., as a front for a cocaine-distribution network.
He traveled to New York City to oversee a $1,000-an-hour call-girl ring.
He had a witness killed in one drug case and hired a hit man to rub out another.
And he did it all out of his law office.
That's the picture federal authorities have painted in a 39-count racketeering indictment charging prominent New Jersey defense lawyer Paul Bergrin with being the leader of a criminal enterprise that used violence, intimidation, and deceit to generate millions of dollars.
Bergrin, a former federal prosecutor, is to be arraigned today with seven codefendants in U.S. District Court in Newark.
There's more, much more:
Authorities also allege that over the last two years Bergrin met repeatedly with a hit man from Chicago to set up the murder of a witness against another of his clients, Vincent Esteves.
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