In a new report, a court-appointed investigator said he has found preliminary evidence of fraud and ethics violations related to lawsuits and payments stemming from the 2013 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power billing debacle. AdvertisementFeuer’s office has blamed two attorneys it hired to work on the PricewaterhouseCoopers litigation: Paul Kiesel and Paul Paradis. The six-page report also says that Robbins’ team has served subpoenas to witnesses who refused to be interviewed. The city attorney’s office paid for an ethics analysis of the handling of the lawsuits, while a new set of attorneys are reviewing the $67-million settlement. Separately, the FBI raided the DWP and city attorney’s office in July, seeking information related to the billing litigation.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 27, 2019 13:02 UTC