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Law Practice

Sep. 22, 2007

Trailblazer Indicted in Kickback Scheme

LOS ANGELES - Capping an eight-year investigation, prosecutors on Wednesday successfully sought a wide-ranging federal indictment against trailblazing class-action lawyer Melvyn I. Weiss in connection with a kickback scheme that ensnared his firm and three former partners.

By Gabe Friedman
and Robert Iafolla

Daily Journal Staff Writers

      LOS ANGELES - Capping an eight-year investigation, prosecutors on Wednesday successfully sought a wide-ranging federal indictment against trailblazing class action lawyer Melvyn I. Weiss in connection with a kickback scheme that already ensnared his firm and three former partners.
      The indictment came near the ...

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