Prosecutors can check out privileged communications between a former DEA agent and two Miami-based protection attorneys with whom he allegedly shared delicate, private data, a federal court docket in Manhattan mentioned Wednesday.
There’s possible trigger to consider that the attorneys’ communications with Manuel Recio, a former agent turned advisor, fall inside the crime-fraud exception, the US District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York mentioned.
The proof at trial established that John Costanzo Jr., a DEA agent on the time, leaked confidential DEA data to Recio in change for practically $100,000 in bribes. Recio in flip shared the …
