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Print The warning signs about Tom Girardi flashed year after year, allegations that he skimmed settlement money, inflated costs, abandoned clients and cheated colleagues. The vaunted Los Angeles trial lawyer, a regular on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” and his firm were sued more than a hundred times between the 1980s and last year, with at least half of those cases asserting misconduct in his law practice. Yet through it all, Girardi’s record with the State Bar of California, the government agency that regulates attorneys, remained pristine. The bar took no action to warn the public despite receiving what The Times has learned were multiple complaints. That spotless license allowed him to continue marketing himself as one of the nation’s most renowned civil lawyers, and to sign up thousands of new clients, some of whom would later say he absconded with millions of dollars of their settlement money. ....
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon wants to hire a special prosecutor to review and re-evaluate police shootings with questionable use of force. On Friday, he sent an official letter to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors requesting approval to hire former Federal Prosecutor Lawrence Middleton. Things have progressed in the hiring process to the point that Gascón sent an official letter to the members of the county’s Board of Supervisors, asking for their authorization to hire Middleton for a four year contract, with options to extend. “To promote public confidence in the decision-making process and the outcome of any such investigations,” he wrote to the board members, “the DA has determined the need for a Special Prosecutor to reevaluate, and if the facts support it, to criminally prosecute any officers whose actions unlawfully caused the death of the victims in those cases.” ....
Share this article Share this article MEXICO CITY, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Individuals who were held in L.A. County jail based on ICE holds in the period from October 2010 to June 2014 may be eligible to participate in a financial settlement to compensate them for rights violations committed by the L.A. County Sheriff s Department (LASD). More than 18,500 people are entitled to receive restitution from the $14 million USD settlement. Class members are eligible to receive from $250 to $25,000 based on the time they were held and other details. In order to receive compensation, individuals must submit a claim which does not require them to disclose their immigration status no later than October 10, 2021. All information submitted by claimants will be kept confidential. ....
PERSPECTIVE On November 23 rd. NPR Reporter Brian Naylor wrote and reported that President -elect Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban American to head and become the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Mayorkas if confirmed would be the first Latino and the first immigrant to hold this position. The Secretary of Homeland Security leads the third largest Department of the United States Government with a workforce of over 230 thousand employees. This department has more than 22 components to and include, TSA, CUSTOMS, BORDER PROTECTION, IMMIGRATION CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, US CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES, EEMA, COAST GUARD, SECRET SERVICE, FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINNING CENTERS, NATIONAL PROTECTION AND PROGRAMS DIRECTORATE AND THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE. ....