A former DJ-corporate-fraud prosecutor carried out the “most serious” example of public corruption by a U.S. Department of Justice attorney in years.
An attorney for a California company tipped off the FBI to an approach by Wertkin who had offered to sell a sealed federal lawsuit for $310,000 to the Silicon Valley technology company
After his arrest, Jeffrey Wertkin embarked on an “obstruction binge” at his private law office to destroy additional evidence and tried to frame a former colleague at the Justice Department for the records theft, court files show.
Wertkin stole and copied dozens of files taking some at night from his boss’s desk copying them and then reached out to targeted companies in four states to try to drum up business for himself. Wertkin joined Akin Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld as a $450,000-a-year partner.
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