State Bar of California investigators are looking into how the Los Angeles city attorney's office handled lawsuits stemming from a faulty DWP billing system launched in 2013.
Facing an onslaught of lawsuits over billing errors, attorneys working for the cityThat collusive lawsuit was internally known in the city attorney’s office as the “white knight” suit because it was crafted to “quickly settle a slew of costly, embarrassing, and politically damaging lawsuits on terms the City wanted,” prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office wrote in court documents this month.led by the U.S.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Calix told Blumenfeld that some attorneys being investigated by the State Bar of California are invoking their 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination, in an apparent effort to allow the statute of limitations on potential charges to expire.
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