ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The former defense attorney at the center of a decades-long DWI scheme conducted backdoor deals from a home office in Albuquerque. Today, victims of the scheme are laying claim to the headquarters of that criminal operation.

As KRQE Investigative Reporter Gabrielle Burkhart reports, they're going after that very place where they say they were unknowingly solicited into the scheme.

In the middle of a quiet suburban neighborhood in northeast Albuquerque, a massive criminal enterprise operated for decades behind closed doors. It was ground zero for one of the city's biggest public corruption scandals.

"It was one of the houses that was raided and was on television," explained Carlos Smith. "When I saw it, I was like, 'Wow, I was at that house.'"

Once former defe

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