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Healthcare/Hospital Law

Mar. 17, 2007

Victim of 'Holistic Dentists' Weighs Lottery-Ticket Offer

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman alleging fraud and malpractice after she was duped by a con man posing as an attorney has received one of the more unusual settlement offers in recent memory: $5,000 worth of lottery tickets.

By Anne Marie Ruff
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman has received one of the more unusual settlement offers in recent memory: $5,000 worth of lottery tickets.
      The offer stems from a $1 million lawsuit filed in October 2005 by Peggy Rinella against Pasadena attorney Paul Stabile and Michael Mastrovito, a former Phoenix attorney disbarred two decades earlier. The...

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