Bruce Loren Karey

My family hired Mr. Karey to represent a family member. My brother is a licensed Real Estate Broker. My brother was allowing our cousin to rent one of the condo residential properties he owned. Our cousin was on federal drug and gun smuggling parole. My cousin began using the condo as a staging p...oint for drug deals. A drug task force arrested our cousin. Later the same task force came into my brother's home, at 2am, and arrested him while he was sleeping. My brother was charged a felony. The task force seized $190,000 cash my brother had in his own condo. Mr. Karey was hired later the same day (approx 20 hours after my brother was arrested). Mr. Karey arranged for a bail bond agent to bail my brother to be bailed out of LA Jail one hour before the DA "faxed" to the jail a "1275 bail hold order". Mr. Karey then was able to postpone the "1275 bail hold order" hearing for over a year. At the conclusion of the "1275 bail hold order" hearing the Judge ruled in my brother's favor and allowed him to remain on bail.. Mr. Karey then lined up alibi witnesses (19 in number), and character reputation witnesses (including my brother's ex-wife and ex-mother-in-law). More importantly, Mr. Karey secured the assistance of the best forensic accountant who was able to prove that my brother had acquired the $190,000 legitimately. Ultimately the DA's office agreed to simply dismiss the charges after a two and a half year fight.

My brother had Mr. Karey as his lawyer in a gang murder, conspiracy to commit murder, shootout with cops case. My brother was supposed to have been the shot-caller. There was a federal witness-protection informant. Mr. Karey went out to the crime scene area several times (Normandie and 109th in LA...) once at midnight on a Friday looking for witnesses. That's a heavy gang area. There ended up being two juries for three defendants. My brother was found not guilty. The other two defendants were found guilty. Karey did 90% of the cross-exam of all the witnesses. He was the only lawyer in the case to file any motions. He was the only lawyer to use experts and was the only defense attorney to use a media presentation for closing and opening. He didn't let the judge intimidate him. Judge thought my brother was guilty.