A California judge said a lawyer should be disbarred for helping cover up a scandal involving the country’s largest utility, and later trying to hack the personal messages of a judge and lawyer involved in the case.
Attorney Michael Jacob Libman, while pretending to represent customers, filed a collusive lawsuit against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power that was drafted by the city’s own lawyers, and reaped $1.65 million in attorneys fees for work that he didn’t do, a California State Bar Court judge found.
After the collusion was discovered, Libman courted Israeli intelligence group Black Cube in ...
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