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She was New York's most feared attorney, until the lies finally demanded their due.

Michelle Hartmann built her legacy in tailored suits and sealed verdicts, a courtroom prodigy with an unbroken record and a reputation that silenced judges, prosecutors, and juries alike. To the public, she was justice incarnate. To her clients, she was salvation.

But behind the victories was something far more dangerous.

For more than two decades, Hartmann didn't merely defend the guilty, she cultivated them. She twisted the law into a weapon, manipulating victims, intimidating witnesses, and ensuring predators walked free so long as they served her ambition. Bribes were routine. Blackmail was strategy. Truth was expendable.

Among those she protected was Emily Cannister, a child killer Hartmann knowingly freed, granting her the opportunity to claim more victims. It was never an accident. It was the system working exactly as Michelle designed it.

Now, with her career in ruins and her silence broken, Hartmann delivers a confession stripped of justification and mercy. Criminal Plague traces her ruthless ascent, the tactics she buried beneath legal jargon, the lives destroyed in her wake, and the unraveling that finally exposed the rot she helped normalize.

This is not a redemption story.
This is not an apology.

Disturbing, intimate, and unapologetically brutal, Criminal Plague exposes the kind of corruption that doesn't just poison institutions, it leaves bodies behind.