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Attorney wears a wire on client in jail

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In Omaha, an attorney worked as a wired informant for the government against his own client recording conversations in jail. Suspected drug lord duped by Todd Cooper: More than 30 times this year, investigators say, Shannon Williams orchestrated a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring from inside the Douglas County Jail. In one-on-one sessions with a jail visitor, Williams would use the visitor's cell phone to call associates and instruct them on how to divvy up the gobs of marijuana and money his operation was taking in. He would confide in the visitor about his past exploits, claiming he had earned $15 million to $20 million while operating the marijuana ring in Omaha. He would ask the visitor to launder the money he was making. And he would use the visitor's cell phone to try to arrange hits: one to beat up his longtime defense attorney and another to “put a few into the back” of an Omaha man who had been messing with Williams' girlfriend...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).