Nancy Greenlee, Fischer's attorney in the Bar complaint, initially told me that whether or not she was representing Fischer was "confidential." Eventually, she copped to being Fischer's counsel but would not respond to allegations against her client.
"We're not going to try her Bar matter in the media," she told me. "I would rather you leave this be."
Arm-in-arm before a backdrop at the federal pen in Kentucky: New Mexican Mafia shot-caller Angel Garcia and his wife, Phoenix defense attorney Carmen Fischer.
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I told her that, like it or not, Fischer is a story because she has been accused of having sexual relations in the past with an incarcerated killer and has now wed a member of "New eMe," as the New Mexican Mafia is called.
Indeed, law enforcement sources believe Garcia, doing time in an Arizona pen for a prison assault and facing state charges of money-laundering and running drugs, has ordered as many as 10 people whacked (though he never has been charged with these crimes).
His photo even surfaced on Gangland: Valley of Death, a History Channel documentary on New eMe. Though his eyes are blacked out, it's obviously Garcia in the picture with some of his carnales, as his brothers in the gang that controls Arizona Department of Corrections prison yards are called.
The documentary is chilling because it re-creates the near-assassination of former ADC director Terry Stewart at Oaxaca restaurant in downtown Phoenix, which Stewart frequented.
The assassins had their hands on their guns at one point, ready to off Stewart. But when a couple of uniformed cops came in to eat, the plan was blown.
There's no indication Garcia had anything to do with that assassination attempt in 1999, but he is a shot-caller in the same organization that would target such a high-ranking state official.
Which gives you an inking of what the man Fischer's married to is all about.