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William Lerach in Prison Lockdown for Alleged Football Tickets Offer

Posted Sep 9, 2008 5:04 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Former lawyer William Lerach, serving time for paying kickbacks to lead plaintiffs in securities class actions, is now accused of offering another kind of incentive, this time to a prison guard: his San Diego Chargers season tickets.

Lerach has been moved to administrative segregation where he is locked up for 23 hours a day because of the alleged offer, three sources told the Recorder. If he loses a formal administrative proceeding on the matter, he could be moved to a higher security facility and lose his good time credits, the story says.

Lerach was sentenced to two years in prison in February and was incarcerated at a prison camp that is part of the penitentiary in Lompoc, Calif. Prison rules bar inmates from offering anything of value to a staff member and categorize the offense at the second most egregious level in a four-tier system.

But the news isn't all bad for Lerach. A federal judge has approved nearly $700 million in attorney fees for plaintiffs lawyers who represented shareholders in Enron litigation, and Lerach stands to collect as much as $50 million of that amount, according to one previous report.

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Sugiarto Setiabudi
Sep 9, 2008 11:51 PM CST

I think law firm in doing business to use bribery schemes is ordinary business course without feeling oddly
Law firms need given handout training moral and ethic every month .

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Ellen Barshevsky
Sep 12, 2008 4:48 AM CST

Yes, this man did wrong.  He should be punished and evidintely is getting now a jail sentence. 

But is this bad to give some of your tickets, WHICH HE OBVIOUSLY CAN"T USE, to the warden? 

It doesn’t make sense to let this go to waste, even though I could care less about football, with men banging their heads together with their helmets.  How dumb is that.

Maybe the tickets should be given to the underprivileged children of San Diego, so they can go see football live, in sted of on TV.  My boyfriend says this is a better result, and I completely agree with him.

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silencedogood
Sep 12, 2008 6:09 AM CST

Hello?  He’s in jail for doing this very type of thing on the outside! 

Either you are someone with an extremely dry sense of humor taking or I need to shudder and hope you are not registered to vote.

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Smirk
Sep 12, 2008 6:56 AM CST

I sure hope someone was in those seats to see the Carolina Panthers beat the Chargers.  Go Panthers!

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MTL
Sep 12, 2008 8:41 AM CST

Ellen - The only reason you dislike football is because you’re a woman and it takes away from your time to “cuddle” and watch Sex in the City.  Don’t comment on competitive sports if you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Obviously the two year jail sentence didn’t teach this guy a thing.  Put him in gen pop and then see how long it takes him to straighten out.

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Anthony
Sep 12, 2008 1:54 PM CST

You know, I just started reading these articles and their associated comments, and I have a sneaking suspicion that Ms. Barshevsky’s attitude is a self fulfilling prophecy.  If I were to guess, she has the same attitude that she displays here at whatever she does for a living.  Consequently, she is never promoted and is generally disliked by many, and the cycle of anger continues.

If I could offer a bit of advice, I know several people like Ms. Barshevsky, and they always end up disapointed and angry at the world.  A little “go along get along"attitude goes a long way.

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R
Sep 19, 2008 9:48 AM CST

Lerach was trying to inflict the CHARGERS on his warden? Heck, he should be given an additional five years for attempted assault.

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