Criminal
Aug. 19, 2009
State Attorney General's Tactics Get Fraud Case Tossed Out
Fraud! Eavesdropping! Secret Russian conversations! It may sound like the plot of a James Bond movie, but it's a real-life case that has tarred the attorney general's office with a prosecutorial misconduct finding for surveillance techniques a judge termed "outrageous."




By Greg Katz
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - Fraud! Eavesdropping! Secret Russian conversations! It may sound like the plot of a James Bond movie, but it's a real-life case that has tarred the attorney general's office with a prosecutorial misconduct finding for surveillance techniques a judge termed "outrageous." Now, prosecutors will begin an uphill battle to salvage what they can of the case, a high-profile bust of an alleged M...
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - Fraud! Eavesdropping! Secret Russian conversations! It may sound like the plot of a James Bond movie, but it's a real-life case that has tarred the attorney general's office with a prosecutorial misconduct finding for surveillance techniques a judge termed "outrageous." Now, prosecutors will begin an uphill battle to salvage what they can of the case, a high-profile bust of an alleged M...
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