ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – As the long-running DWI dismissal scandal continues to play out in the courts, one chapter in the story has wrapped up: the fate of the law office where the criminal scheme operated. Last month, KRQE Investigative Reporter Gabrielle Burkhart showed how targets in the DWI scheme who are suing Thomas Clear III in a class action lawsuit also went after his home law office in northeast Albuquerque, arguing the proceeds from that property should be doled out to them.
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But on Monday, a federal court judge ruled that the victims in the scheme do not have a legal right to that home office. The judge ordered the federal government to take ownership of the property and “dispose of it in accordance with the law.”…