New accusations outline how ‘lawyer helped alleged Ryan Wedding drug ring

Brampton, Ont., lawyer Deepak Paradkar has denied any wrongdoing

After an FBI informant was killed last year, “cocaine lawyer” Deepak Paradkar doubled down on his assertion that the FBI’s case against accused drug kingpin Ryan Wedding would unravel, now that the man had been killed, according to new evidence from U.S. prosecutors.

Prosecutors have previously alleged that Paradkar advised Wedding and his second-in-command Andrew Clark to kill the informant to ensure the case against them would collapse.

In a new court filing, Paradkar is accused of “reaffirming that belief” in conversations with Wedding and a co-operating witness that the FBI’s case was “no longer viable” after the January 2025 killing of Montreal-born former drug trafficker-turned-FBI informant Jonathan Acebedo-Garcia.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/new-accusations-cocaine-lawyer-alleged-ryan-wedding-9.7096018

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