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Outstanding Pittsburgh lawyer amongst these charged in Penn State frat cocaine ring
Pittsburgh legal professional Paul Robinson was charged with serving to to cover proof from an alleged multistate cocaine trafficking ring on the Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon fraternities at Pennsylvania State College run by his son, Thomas. (Photograph courtesy of the Pennsylvania legal professional common’s workplace)
A distinguished Pittsburgh lawyer and his son are amongst these charged in a Pennsylvania State College frat brother drug trafficking scandal.
Paul Robinson, an legal professional with Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck was charged with serving to to cover proof from an alleged multistate cocaine trafficking ring within the Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon fraternities at Penn State run by his son, Thomas, and different present and former college students, based on an Aug. 17 news release from the Pennsylvania legal professional common’s workplace.
In all, 14 individuals had been charged, with Thomas and Agostino Abbatiello described because the alleged ringleaders of the operation. 13 of them had been Penn State college students at or across the time of the alleged conduct in 2023 and 2024, when prosecutors stated the Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi homes at Penn State had been slicing and packaging cocaine kilos at a time.
“This was a coordinated and extremely worthwhile drug trafficking crew revolving round two senior members of the fraternities, different fraternity brothers and pledges,” Pennsylvania Lawyer Basic Dave Sunday stated. “In truth, based on the proof uncovered, slicing and packaging cocaine was, for some pledges, an indoctrination into the fraternities.”
In a press release, Robinson’s legislation agency informed KDKA-TV: “The allegations concern Mr. Robinson individually and don’t contain the agency, its shoppers or the authorized providers offered by the agency. … As a result of the felony continuing is ongoing, the agency is not going to touch upon the substance of the allegations or speculate relating to the proof.”
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