Lawyer for Judge in Meek Mill Case Can’t Recover Interview Audio

An attorney who made “embarrassing statements” about his client to the makers of an Amazon documentary about rapper Meek Mill’s controversial incarceration lost on claims that the filmmakers violated wiretap laws by recording the statements after the cameras were off.

Attorney A. Charles Peruto Jr. was hired to represent Judge Genece Brinkley after she controversially imprisoned Robert Rihmeek Williams, a.k.a. Meek Mill, for violating his probation.

Peruto gave an interview to the filmmakers for the documentary series "#FreeMeek,” produced by Roc Nation and Amazon Alternative. The documentary series was to focus on Meek Mill’s experience with the criminal justice system, ...