In a Baltimore Federal case certain to draw the attention of the national criminal defense bar, a lawyer who represented a lawyer in a money laundering prosecution ended up also charged with a Federal felony. KENNETH RAVENELL, a local criminal defense attorney, was represented at trial by Joshua Treem, who was charged with Obstruction of Justice, in connection with an affidavit and letter submitted to Court that were allegedly misleading. A private investigator, Sean Gordon, was also charged.
Both Treem and Gordon were acquitted; Ravenell himself was convicted of money laundering conspiracy, although he was acquitted on several other counts, involving Racketeering, narcotics and Obstruction of Justice. apparently, the local criminal defense bar took offense to the indictment of one of their own while defending a lawyer-client, as improper conduct and a threat to lawyers in general.
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