Government,
Criminal
Aug. 3, 2022
Former civil litigation chief for LA city attorney cooperating with FBI
Thomas H. Peters, once chief of the Los Angeles city attorney’s Civil Litigation Branch, had pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting extortion, by pressuring one of the city’s outside counsel to pay off that lawyer’s former employee to keep quiet about the water-billing litigation plan.




A top former Los Angeles city attorney official agreed to cooperate with the FBI’s investigation of possible crimes surrounding the handling of LA’s water bill litigation, and his sentencing Tuesday for a possible 20 years in prison was put off until December.
Thomas H. Peters of Pacific Palisades, once chief of the city attorney’s Civil Litigation Branch, pleaded guilty April 5 to one count of aiding and abetting extortion by pressuring on...
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