http://www.omaha.com/article/20101218/NEWS97/712189880Published Saturday December 18, 2010
By Todd Cooper
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
WORLD-HERALD EXCLUSIVE
An attorney said it seemed like something out of “Star Wars.”
From a field office on 108th Street, FBI agents could press a button and activate a device that allowed them to listen inside two rooms at the Douglas County Jail in downtown Omaha.
These weren't just any rooms. They were the attorney-clergy privilege rooms, places where inmates are supposed to be able to meet in confidence with their attorneys or pastors.
The goal of the wire: to have cooperating inmate Richard “Ricky” Conway obtain information about reputed marijuana ringleader Shannon Williams and Williams' former attorney, the late Eric Whitner.
The “novel” investigative technique, as one attorney called it, was revealed this week in evidentiary hearings as Williams seeks to have a judge throw out the indictment against him.
The wire was the third way that the U.S. government tried to obtain evidence against Williams, a reputed gang leader once acquitted of murder.
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