The attorney at the center of the "DWI Deception" scheme involving local law enforcement has been disbarred and his law office home has been seized.

A suspended Albuquerque attorney has pleaded guilty to federal charges amid a yearlong investigation into DWI officers.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The attorney at the center of a decades-long public corruption scheme was officially disbarred on Tuesday. Thomas Clear III will no longer be allowed to practice ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The ringleader of a massive public corruption scheme making drunk-driving cases disappear has officially lost all privileges to practice law. Thomas Clear III has been ...

A defense attorney who admitted to paying off law enforcement to let DWI cases get dismissed can no longer practice law in New Mexico. Chief U.S. District Judge Kenneth Gonzales on Thursday ...

The state Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 4-1 to temporarily suspend the law license of Albuquerque attorney Rudolph Chavez over allegations linking him to an ongoing federal DWI bribery case. The ...

Thomas Clear, the defense attorney at the center of Albuquerque's police corruption scandal, pleaded guilty this week to federal bribery, extortion, and racketeering charges. Clear's plea ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — One of the admitted organizers of the DWI bribery scheme involving local law enforcement wants to leave the country – and now can. Rick Mendez was the paralegal for local ...