To the editor: The Los Angeles Instances article about plaintiffs who declare they had been paid to sue L.A. County particulars one of the vital disturbing situations now going through our state (“Officers demand investigation into claims that plaintiffs had been paid to sue L.A. County,” Oct. 3). The repercussions of paying out $4 billion in intercourse abuse settlements will result in so many hardships when it comes to budgets, raises and figuring out priorities.
The preliminary story was dangerous sufficient. Now comes the bombshell, uncovered by a Instances investigation, that a number of the circumstances could have been tainted by fraud as a result of a regulation agency allegedly paid folks to illegally file claims. We should always all be outraged by this.
The one constructive for me in the complete state of affairs is that the paper had the time and manpower to analyze the settlement. It proves as soon as once more how precious it’s to have a newspaper that really covers and uncovers information. I doubt we’d ever know concerning the doable fraud with out the arduous work of those journalists.
I applaud this vital effort, and although I’m typically enraged studying a number of the content material in The Instances, I’ll proceed to assist our paper so long as its reporters are devoted to telling the reality and bringing the necessity for justice to gentle.
Peggy Jo Abraham, Santa Monica
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To the editor: If it seems that the claims had been certainly fraudulent, county supervisors and attorneys ought to admit duty for not requiring their attorneys to correctly do due diligence. With this huge quantity, each pebble and grain of sand ought to have been examined. If this may be uncovered by outsiders, it reveals that county executives clearly don’t know who and rent attorneys to guard the funds of taxpayers. They probably allowed a rip-off that reduces funding of providers and packages for county residents.
Barry Weiss, Studio Metropolis
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To the editor: As an legal professional, if these claims transform true, I might be amazed on the capitulation by our board of supervisors to the shameful acts alleged, and on the moral abandonment of regulation agency Downtown LA Regulation Group. Thus far, the State Bar is doing nothing. The laws permitting these lawsuits opened up the floodgates to fraud. What had been they considering? That’s the reason there’s such a factor as a statute of limitations.
This might transform a narrative of fraud by plaintiffs, the greed of regulation corporations and the complacency of our legislative department. And who pays? We do.
Errol H. Stambler, Los Angeles
This author is a bar-certified felony regulation specialist.
