More than 1,400 pages of search warrant affidavits and other investigative documents were made public Thursday that shed new light on the decade-old DWP overbilling lawsuit scandalshow agents investigating corruption at the LA Department of Water and Power, and the City's role in manipulating over-billing lawsuits -- believed that former City Attorney Mike Feuer played a direct role in an effort to try to cover up the wrongdoing, something Feuer says is,"absurd.
"Any claim that I knew about collusion and tried to conceal it is absurd," Feuer emailed in response to the documents being released."To the contrary, when I first learned of it, in April, 2019, I worked with our team immediately to disclose it," Feuer said of the collusive litigation scheme and cover-up., that argued successfully in Federal court that the corruption investigation concerned L.A.
The files do not include information about what FBI agents seized while serving search warrants on City offices and on a variety of internet accounts, nor is there information that suggests why Federal prosecutors did not seek criminal charges against Feuer.,"pleased but not at all surprised, to see that my statements to the FBI about Feuer were corroborated by multiple, independent sources.
The private attorney who filed the bar complaint against Feuer, Paul Paradis, pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge for receiving a near-$2.2-million kickback -- for his role in manipulating a class action lawsuit that was supposed to recoup millions of dollars for thousands of overcharged DWP customers.