Local News in Brief : Ex-Prosecutor Charged
A former Los Angeles County prosecutor, Michael E. Consiglio, was charged Friday by the state attorney general’s office with practicing law without a license, a misdemeanor.
According to a statement by the attorney general’s office, Consiglio, 47, failed to pay State Bar dues and was suspended by the Bar from practicing law in September, 1986. Nevertheless, he continued to handle cases as a deputy district attorney in the county prosecutor’s Van Nuys office, the statement said.
A spokesman for the district attorney’s office said Consiglio’s loss of his license would not affect cases he prosecuted.
Consiglio resigned as a county prosecutor last March amid an investigation by the attorney general’s office into whether he tipped two reputed organized crime figures in the ZZZZ Best fraud case that they were under police surveillance. The investigation of the possible obstruction of justice is continuing, officials said.
The charge of practicing law without a license carries a maximum penalty of six months in county jail and a $1,000 fine.
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