It was in 2006 that Columbus attorney J. Mark Shelnutt first heard from clients that an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Columbus had told them if they needed a lawyer, they better look somewhere else.

The reason they were being steered away, Shelnutt said his clients told him, was because he had become the subject of a criminal investigation by federal law enforcement agents.

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