Paul Bergren was the lawyer who could get you out of any sticky situation. Caught selling pirated

videos like Queen Latifah was in 1995, better call Paul. Accused of lying to a jury during

testimony like Lil Kim was in 2003, better call Paul. Caught stabbing your spouse 10 times with a

steak knife. No matter if you were innocent or guilty, Paul could get you off the hook.

We see lawyers like this and the Sopranos are breaking bad, but what happens when those fictional

lawyers cross over into the real world? At the peak of his career, Paul Bergeren was undefeated,

a master lawyer who knew the system inside and out. But when an FBI agent finds traces of Bergeron's involvement in a massive drug ring,

questions start to arise on the lengths Paul went to to achieve his dominance

and what he would do to ensure he stayed there.

In Wondry's True Crime Podcast, criminal attorney, host Jinks Jenkins,

will tell you the true story of how Paul Bergrand went from representing others in court

to representing himself. No one is better suited to breaking the law than those who know it

best. I'm about to play a clip from Criminal Attorney. Follow Criminal Attorney on the

Wondry app or wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to Criminal Attorney early and ad free right

now by joining Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or'm Brandon Jinks Jenkins, and this is criminal attorney.

It was 2003 and Sean Brokos was on her way to a Newark apartment complex.

She'd received a tip that someone in that apartment had a gun, that they shouldn't.

Sean was in her early 30s, blonde and white in Newark.

She looked like a teacher or a dentist or someone with a desk job at a bank,

which is actually what she'd been doing seven years earlier.

She ran the loan department at a bank in El Paso. So overseeing who qualified for commercial loans, personal loans, car loans.

Until one day when federal agents came to the bank, they were investigating one of the bank's

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