Crime & Safety
Bergrin Associates to be Sentenced
Men were indicted for selling drugs out of a Newark home controlled by the imprisoned attorney
Two men with ties to former celebrity defense attorney Paul Bergrin will be sentenced on charges they sold drugs out of a Newark home controlled by Bergrin, according to a published report.
Jose Jiminez and Alonso Barraza-Castro were indicted on the drug charges in 2010.
The men were associates of Bergrin, the former Newark-based attorney who was later revealed to have taken part in witness-tampering, narcotics trafficking and murder. In March, he was convicted on nearly two dozen of counts and is now serving a sentence of life in prison.
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Bergrin’s clients included rap artists and the US soldiers accused in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal during the war in Iraq.
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