Suspended, high-profile Attorney Kenneth Lawson entered a guilty plea Wednesday morning to the charge of conspiracy to obtain a controlled substance.
That's a federal felony drug charge.
The plea agreement has been sealed until now.
Ken Lawson left the federal courthouse declining to talk about Wednesday's court hearing.
"I don't have any comment," said Ken Lawson.
On Wednesday morning, he entered a guilty plea to a federal drug charge of conspiracy to obtain a controlled substance.
Back in October of 2007, Ken Lawson told a review board that he had a drug addiction to painkillers Oxycontin and Percocet.
He says he started taking the drugs after injuring his shoulder while lifting weights and it then turned into an every day habit.
"I was at the point man I just wanted to die. You know, I mean the drugs weren't working anymore the pain was just too great and it was either.....I mean I couldn't stop," said Ken Lawson.
Newly unsealed court records say Ken Lawson was part of a conspiracy that began back in 2004.
The records state Lawson obtained painkillers from a medical doctor licensed to prescribe them.
The documents go on to say "Lawson informed the medical doctor of a possible criminal investigation conducted by a state agency...that for $50,000 the attorney could make the state investigation 'go away."
Court records go on to say that Lawson would provide the doctor with names of other persons including family members to use in writing prescriptions.
For a sum of money, those persons got the prescriptions filled and the drugs were then handed over to Lawson according to court documents.
In return, the doctor received free legal services and money.
After Wednesday's hearing, Ken Lawson was released on bond and returns to court for sentencing at a later date.
The review board ruled Ken Lawson is suspended indefinitely from practicing law.
He faces up to four years in prison, a fine of $250,000, a year of probation, and restitution.
As a condition of his bond, he has to submit to random drug and alcohol testing.
He told the review board last year he got help for his addiction and has been sober ever since.
