Ethics

Here is more on the story involving Ben Kuehne, a highly regarded lawyer in Florida who has been indicted for money laundering in connection with the advice that he gave to well-known criminal defense attorney Roy Black.  Black wanted to know whether he could accept more than five million dollars in legal fees from an alleged drug kingpin of a Colombian drug cartel.  Kuehne investigated the issue by (among other methods) traveling to Colombia to trace the funds, and he concluded that Black could accept the money.

The story makes pretty clear how murky the law is on the subject of a lawyer's acceptance of money that might be the proceeds of criminal activity.  It's worth a read for any criminal defense lawyer.

For other links to this story, see John Steele's post and the comments after it.