“The lawyers tell me to deny everything...
“The lawyers tell me to deny everything and to say everything is not true, and to say that we are an honest, moral company.”
--Ben Karmelich, president of Highland Park-based Highland Federal Savings & Loan, one of two lending institutions charged in Los Angeles Superior Court with secretly controlling some of Los Angeles’ worst slum buildings through shady lending practices.
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