By Dakota Smith | LA Times
The State Bar of California filed disciplinary charges Thursday against a former high-ranking official in the Los Angeles city attorney’s office for his alleged role in a Department of Water and Power scandal.
Jim Clark, a top deputy under then-City Atty. Mike Feuer, secretly directed other attorneys to orchestrate a class-action lawsuit so that claims over a botched DWP billing system could be settled on terms favorable to the city, State Bar prosecutors allege.
Clark “directed and authorized a scheme of collusion and deceit that was a blatant betrayal of his duties as an attorney and public official,” George Cardona, the Bar’s chief trial counsel, said in a statement.
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