Government
Aug. 25, 2009
Committee Finds Lawyer Improperly Paid Witnesses
When R. Paul Howes was a federal prosecutor in Washington D.C. in the 1990s, he improperly paid witnesses and later lied about it. Now a partner at Coughlin Stoia, that conduct may come back to bit him in California.
Daily Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - When R. Paul Howes was a federal prosecutor going after drug gangs in the nation's capital in the 1990s, he improperly paid witnesses and others with thousands of dollars of worth of federal expense vouchers and later lied about it, a professional responsibility committee reported last week. Howes left the U.S. attorney's office in 1995 and later moved on to plaintiffs' securities fraud wor...
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