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Pretty Lies And Alibis

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Pretty Lies And Alibis

GiGi McKelvey

True Crime, Daily News, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Paul Bergrin is a hotshot criminal defense attorney in Newark, New Jersey. Seemingly unstoppable and with unorthodox methods, he’s built a reputation for getting his clients off the hook. But as Paul's legend grows, so do the suspicions swirling around him.
When FBI Agent Shawn Brokos starts investigating a major drug ring, she makes a shocking discovery: the gang's most powerful player is none other than Newark’s star attorney. Has the ex-federal prosecutor crossed the line and started committing crimes himself?
From Wondery, comes a new series about a lawyer who breaks all the rules, the FBI agent determined to take him down at all costs, and the people caught in the middle who paid the ultimate price.
 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

From Wonderry, I'm wondering.

0:16.0

I'm Brandon Jinks Jenkins, and this is criminal attorney.

0:21.0

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

0:25.8

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

0:30.6

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

0:34.1

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

0:40.6

what she'd been doing seven years earlier.

0:43.2

She ran the loan department at a bank in El Paso.

0:46.5

So overseeing who qualified for commercial loans, personal loans, car loans.

0:52.2

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

0:56.6

clients who they suspected of money laundering.

0:59.5

It wasn't like in the movies.

1:01.3

It wasn't all that exciting.

1:03.0

Just two guys wearing suits serving a subpoena.

1:06.1

But Sean was fascinated.

1:08.5

She thought to herself,

1:10.0

Wow, this sounds a whole lot more interesting than the work I'm doing. I literally walked down to the local FBI office.

1:16.4

I put my name in, filled out an application, and before I knew it, I was off to Quantico for training for the FBI.

1:23.8

Fast forward to present day, and Sean was a full-on, bona fide FBI agent.

1:28.4

It was something that I knew would be an adventure.

1:32.6

Look, Newark, at that time, was not a great place, but if you're in law enforcement,

1:36.4

boy, there's no better place to be.

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