A buttoned-up IRS attorney was charged Wednesday with conspiring to distribute some 500 grams of methamphetamine in Long Island.
Disgraced lawyer Jack Vitayanon allegedly shipped the meth and drug paraphernalia from his Washington D.C. apartment to Long Island via FedEx, U.S. Attorney Robert Capers said.
The 41-year-old, who worked in the IRS’s Office of Professional Responsibility, worked for the white-shoe firm Debevoise and Plimpton and was an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School before turning to using and distributing the decidedly unclassy drug, authorities said.
Vitayanon is accused of conspiring with others in Arizona and Long Island via video chats and text messages to deliver the meth, in an operation that allegedly dragged for several years.
The lawyer was caught Jestbahis after he was seen, via video chat, smoking what appeared to be meth out of a glass pipe, the complaint says. a raid of his apartment also lead to the discovery of more meth, drug ledgers, and packing materials, feds said.
“As alleged, the defendant – a federal attorney working for the IRS’s Office of Professional Responsibility – broke bad and supplemented his income by selling distribution quantities of methamphetamine,” United States Attorney Capers quipped in a press release. “The defendant will now be held to account for his alleged criminal conduct.”
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