Robert Kardashian: Family Crisis With First FBI Raid

Robert Kardashian became notorious as the defense attorney for his close friend O.J. Simpson — but his law career started with his family's first FBI raid!

RadarOnline has a bombshell first look at the upcoming book "The Kardashians: An American Drama" — where author Jerry Oppenheimer reveals that Robert's law-school stint was interrupted by an FBI raid on the original Kardashian family business in Vernon, Calif.

“In the early 1970s," reveals Oppenheimer, "federal prosecutors began a top secret, wide-ranging probe of corruption in the city of Vernon’s meatpacking industry. And dead center in the government’s net was none other than Great Western Packing, the Kardashians’ long-successful family business.”

Robert's brother Tom ended up taking the fall for the family. He was arrested for bribing or offering to bribe U.S. Department Agriculture inspectors on March 18, 1974 — although Tom tells Oppenheimer that he was only guilty of maintaining "an industry practice." But now his record is clean, thanks to President George H.W. Bush pardoning Tom in January 1993!