A Montgomery County lawyer is facing federal charges of money laundering and witness tampering after federal prosecutors said he helped conceal a dead drug dealer’s cash booty and told a client to lie about the money’s whereabouts.
According to an indictment unsealed Thursday in the U.S. District of Maryland, Walter Lloyd Blair, 57, of Brookeville, met with a woman identified as “relative A” who told Blair she had been holding tens of thousands of dollars for a drug-dealing relative who was now dead.
Blair, the indictment alleges, took the bundled bills and held them for the relative. Between 2003 and 2005, Blair allegedly helped the woman buy property and conceal it from the government. He also allegedly spread the wealth, paying off other attorneys who were defending the dead drug dealer’s colleagues in court.
When the relative was questioned by the FBI about the money and her purchases, the woman lied at Blair’s direction, officials said.
Calls to Blair were not immediately returned.
