Prominent Baltimore Defense Lawyer Indicted for Allegedly Aiding Crimes Of Marijuana Kingpin
The Baltimore Sun reports that federal prosecutors obtained indictments for prominent Baltimore defense attorney Ken Ravenell on charges of conspiracy to commit racketeering, money laundering and drug distribution, accusing the veteran lawyer of covering up and aiding the crimes of one high-profile client, a Jamaican alleged marijuana kingpin.
Authorities rained his law offices in June and in 2014, and the law office of his attorney also was raided in June. The latest sweep by DEA and IRS agents nabbed more than 50,000 emails, reports the Sun‘s Tim Prudente.
Prosecutors accuse him of conspiring from 2009 to 2014 with a cross-country drug crew led by Richard Byrd in Baltimore.
Read the Baltimore Sun article.
