He served on the DART board, he represented a corrupt city councilman, now he's a convicted federal felon.
If the judge goes along with the deal, 52-year old Rayshun 'Ray' Jackson of the Jackson Law Firm will serve 5-years in federal prison.
The one-time high-profile lawyer now admits he tried to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars of drug money in exchange for a 5-percent cut.
But for a lawyer, Jackson wasn't that savvy. The man he thought was a drug trafficker was actually an undercover DEA agent. Jackson surfaced during the DEA’s years-long investigation of a large-scale opioid distribution ring, when a high-level dealer offered to introduce an undercover agent to someone who could launder drug proceeds.
Jackson is well known as a criminal defense lawyer in North Texas, he was the man who represented former Dallas City Coucilman Don Hill in his federal corruption case.
“Attorneys swear an oath to conduct themselves with integrity and uphold the rule of law. Mr. Jackson instead chose to ignore his oath by allegedly laundering money for purported narcotics dealers,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah. “He explicitly instructed them on how to further violate the law and profit from the devastation of our nation’s opioid epidemic, lining his own pockets in the process. He will now have to face the consequences of his actions.”
Jackson also served on the DART board. He is to be sentenced in February.
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