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Criminal

Apr. 9, 2014

Panel lawyer billing record audit spawns criminal investigation

Members of the Central District's indigent defense community are outraged over informal audits of panel attorney billing records that have triggered a federal criminal investigation by the Southern District U.S. attorney's office.


By Henry Meier


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Members of the Central District's federal indigent defense community are outraged over informal audits of panel attorney billing records that have spawned a federal criminal investigation by the Southern District U.S. attorney's office.


At issue are "reasonableness reviews" the Central District's federal public defender's office provided to U.S. District Judge D...

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