Criminal,
Civil Litigation
Jul. 31, 2020
Developer and officials acquitted of bribery can sue, judge says
Then-Attorney General Jerry Brown and then-District Attorney Michael Ramos said it was the biggest public corruption case in the state’s history.
San Bernardino County, its former district attorney and his staff can be sued for alleged retaliation and malicious prosecution by a developer and former county officials who were acquitted of bribery and other corruption charges in 2017, a U.S. judge has ruled.
The case stems from a $102 million settlement Colonies LP and its co-managing partner, Jeffrey Burum, reached in 2006 in a suit against the county over flood control easemen...
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