Secret Informant Recordings to be Allowed in PetroTiger Case
Can the Federal Bureau of Investigation wire up your longtime company counsel and then use recordings of the conversations against you in court? The answer – as reported in The Wall Street Journal‘s Risk & Compliance Journal – is often yes, according to legal experts and a ruling by a New Jersey federal judge.
Joseph Sigelman, the ousted chief executive of oil services firm PetroTiger, was seeking to have a secretly recorded conversation with his former general counsel turned informant, barred from his coming trial for foreign bribery. Sigelman, who maintains his innocence, argued that the secret video recording made with a camera attached to the lawyer Gregory Weisman, who also sometimes served as his personal attorney, violated his right to attorney-client confidentiality, The Journal reports.
