Government Informants

In my all too skilled opinion, Paul Bergrin's so-called girlfriend and current co-defendant, Yolanda Jauregui, started working with the government long ago – when she was charged in the mortgage fraud case. The rest of it is all plotted by the government – from the hitman story to the drug trafficking racketeering case. Jauregui doesn't really face decades in prison at all, but then she is probably the only one that knows that except for the agents that planned it all. Her new attorney had best watch his back.

She is not a potential cooperator as she is being portrayed. She was already an informant and worked to save her own life by setting herself up as co-defendant with Paul Bergrin. Payback is hell, and people in high places felt that Bergrin deserved it for his zealous defense of a soldier in a War on Terror case.

The good news is that more than one person is aware of this plot. The hard part is getting just one participant to spill their guts. Bergrin must look at the entire picture objectively in order to figure out exactly when Jauregui started working for the government. From that moment forward it was all a part of a game.

Yolanda Jauregui did not start quietly cooperating. Mark my words. This case is a house of cards built entirely by agents and informants. It is all a show, complete with her crocodile tears and recent revoked bail.

Paul Bergrin had better step up to the plate and save his own life. He no longer has the luxury of being a naïve attorney. Government informants are indeed a dirty lot, capable of absolutely anything. Cases charged as a RICO conspiracy are anything but simple to fight – I know this from personal experience.

In my own case, the main informant (and alleged uncharged co-defendant Theresa Isaacs), when exposed for the dirty dog that she was while on the stand, actually cried her crocodile tears to a juror in the bathroom – with the planned intention of provoking a mistrial. The juror did the only thing that she could do and reported the encounter to the court officer and the judge. We had a hearing and I was offered a mistrial by the prosecution and the judge; however, I declined and requested that the trial continue. The rest is history.

Government prosecutors play dirty beyond imagination.