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Ex-attorney for Casey Anthony Arrested for Conspiracy to Transport 1,500 Kilos of Cocaine

I immediately thought of this scene from Breaking Bad after reading this story.

Todd Macaluso served as one the defense attorneys for the infamous Casey Anthony murder trial. Macaluso was sentenced last year to five months in prison for defrauding his clients. Then again, ethics weren't a strongpoint for Casey Anthony's defense team. After all, a private investigator who was hired by Jose Baez, another attorney for Casey Anthony, alleged in court that Baez accepted sex from Casey Anthony as payment for services rendered.

Back to Todd Macaluso. He is a pilot and he's now accused of conspiring with two other men to transport 1,500 kilos of coke from Ecuador to Honduras and eventually to the U.S. In fairness to Macaluso, these conspiracy drug trafficking charges often have a very low burden of evidence. Furthermore, these kinds of cases are usually based primarily on the word of dubious criminal informants who have finaincial incentives for gaining convictions. Look no further than the recent "Narco Nephews" case. The nephews of Venezuela's first lady were convicted on November 19th for conspiring to smuggle 800 pounds of cocaine. However, the star witnesses, a father-son-duo of criminal informants, were paid over $1 million by various law enforcement agencies. Also, those two informants were actively trafficking drugs while they built their case against the "Narco Nephews."