🚀 go-pugleaf

The audacity of this "Lawyer for the People" is astounding!

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ASSOCIATED PRESS 12:04 a.m., July 16, 2003

SAN FRANCISCO - A prominent plaintiff's attorney could face fifteen
years in prison, plus fines and other penalties, on federal charges
of mail fraud and money laundering. 

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Tehin began his alleged 
fraud in 2001 when he took $1.3 million owed to dozens of low-income
tenants he represented in Napa and squandered it on personal and
professional expenses. The clients, many of them migrant farmworkers
from Mexico, had sued their landlord for failing to keep rental
units habitable. Public interest lawyers enlisted Tehin to win the 
landmark settlement. 

According to the affidavit, Tehin finally paid all Napa tenants by 
July 2002 using funds pilfered from at least three malpractice
settlements - including a baby born with severe brain damage,
two children born with cystic fibrosis and a girl who died while 
under a medical supervision. 

In those cases, the alleged victims told FBI agents that Tehin 
either never reported receiving a settlement check, stalled when
they pressed for payment or tried to short change them by charging
for fictitious expert witnesses. 

Full Article at:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20030716-0004-ca-lawyerarrested.html

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Yet another reason insurance in California is so high!