Magistrate Recommends Dropping Fraud Charge in Kuehne Case

The case against Miami attorney Ben Kuehne keeps crumbling. A federal magistrate recommended Friday that a wire and mail fraud count against Kuehne and a Colombian co-defendant be dismissed — another embarrassing setback in the case for the Justice Department. Kuehne and Colombian attorney Oscar Saldarriaga are accused of using drug profits from the family of Colombian drug kingpin Fabio Ochoa to pay the drug trafficker’s legal fees. Kuehne was hired by Ochoa’s defense team to find untainted money. Continue…