Whitman Murder-Plot Retrial Opens
The retrial of a former West Hollywood restaurant owner convicted of conspiring to kill a government witness involved in the probe of alleged ticket scalping at the 1980 Super Bowl opened Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court.
The first trial of H. Daniel Whitman, 55, ended in his conviction and an eight-year sentence in 1984 on charges of conspiring to murder protected government witness Raymond Cohen. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last year ordered U.S. District Judge Francis Whelan to grant a new trial.
Whitman’s first trial produced the first public disclosures that Dominic Frontiere, husband of L.A. Rams football team owner Georgia Frontiere, was allegedly involved in the ticket scalping scheme. Frontiere was indicted last month on tax charges in connection with the alleged scalping of thousands of Super Bowl tickets.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
