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A Times investigation finds that California school districts have paid nearly a half-billion dollars to settle past sexual abuse claims, and could pay billions more.
In many school districts’ child abuse settlements, the public is left in the dark about the full cost, sometimes in the millions of dollars.
In the Hollywood neighborhood where he lived and worked as an Uber driver, one acquaintance described suspect Jonathan Rinderknecht as ‘a really nice guy.’
A Superior Court judge overturned a $100,000 verdict against celebrity attorney Mark Geragos involving a 2018 scheme to extort Nike.
Garry Poe’s former students alleged that he had cultivated relationships of trust and mentoring with them, only to then sexually assault them, particularly on a European tour he chaperoned after graduation.
A federal grand jury has charged two brothers in Southern California with tax evasion on more than $1.1 million in income they allegedly received in part from a years-long scheme selling tee times on local golf courses.
Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were taken to the hospital Monday after their patrol car was struck by another motorist, who attempted to flee the scene, authorities said.
The dispute drew in some of the city’s top lawyers, triggered calls to police, and led the Annenberg children to march into Los Angeles County Superior Court in a frantic effort to dislodge Vikki Levine from overseeing their mother’s medical care.
The coach, Gary Franklin, had contended that Geragos and the now-disgraced and disbarred lawyer Michael Avenatti had bungled a potential $1.5-million settlement from Nike by pushing for a lucrative revenue stream for themselves.
The 86-year-old disbarred lawyer, once the most prominent trial attorney in California, will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of wire fraud last year.
