From all that I have read in the court documents, I know that there are at least 6 confidential informants involved in the Paul Bergrin case. This must be the only way that the government had to create a case to begin with.
I have discussed informants at length on this blog; however, have never discussed confidential informants (CI) and they are a different animal for various reasons. I am not referring to what is called the citizen confidential informant here as there is no doubt whatsoever that the CIs involved in the Bergrin case are only involved to gain favor with prosecutors for their own criminal conduct and prosecutions.
I will assume that each remains confidential as the DOJ is claiming that Paul Bergrin, a top-level attorney and former federal prosecutor, has participated in witness tampering and having witnesses killed for clients as a major part of the case. I will also assume that Bergrin knows what person is referred to as CI-1, CI-2 etc... and if he has no clue then the government prosecutors really did pull people out of thin air and solicit their testimony.
The fact is that I am also sure that the identities of these CIs have not been disclosed by prosecutors at this point. I am just as sure that inevitably they'll have to produce the names as Paul Bergrin is entitled to a fair trial and could not possibly have one without the identities of his accusers. In reality he needs the names now so that these people can be investigated before trial.
I had no confidential informants listed in my own case, but the state's main witness, an informant that went along with the create-a-case plan to weasel out of her actual criminal conduct, tried desperately to avoid being deposed by my attorney prior to trial. In fact, Steve Wolverton was deposing Theresa Isaacs just 3 days before trial. But because I knew her name and who she was (another escort service owner), I had already investigated her. Note: She actually had the audacity to plead the Fifth repeatedly when being deposed, but this gave a clue as to what she was hiding, so all was good. Pleading the Fifth as a witness in trial did not work for her and she was ordered to leave the courtroom.
Another major issue in Bergrin's case is that prosecutors have their CIs claiming that he had large sums of money hidden in accounts outside of the US. Well, they always claim that crap and they did in my case too. Of course my main question was, Where? What bank account? (they never responded) At that point they made the absurd claim that I “buried garbage bags full of money in my backyard”. LOL This was stated by the main prosecutor at a hearing when I was stuck defending myself and I followed that statement with my own statement giving them permission to “go dig it up” provided that they left the backyard as they found it.
One of the CIs in the case is also claiming that Paul Bergrin had 5 false US passports with his photo and aliases. This is stated by CI-4. Another CI (CI-6) claims knowledge of Bergrin's plan to open a casino in the Dominican Republic and all of the dirty money details involved. Personally, I would make the government prove it with documentation, and I'd bet that this particular CI pushed Bergrin into opening a corporation there, as someone attempted to do to me long before my arrest.
According to court documents posted on Who is Paul Bergrin? There is no agent to corroborate these wild allegations by the list of CIs. I'd bet my last $ that I know who one of them is and as a clue, he used to have major ties to the escort business in NY. I hope that he is publicly named because he deserves it more than most.
In cases like this, the prosecutors absolutely count on a defendant making a deal and the trial never happening. I would really like to see some attorney come forward and really help Paul Bergrin pro bono as Paul helped so many others.
grt
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