Federal Judge Unseals Warrants in Case of Botched LADWP Billing
Published on April 17, 2024
A Los Angeles federal judge on April 16 unsealed 33 FBI search warrants and related documents that detail a probe into alleged unethical and illegal activity at the L.A. City Attorney’s Office and the Department of Water and Power. The government’s investigation came in the wake of the DWP’s botched launch of a new billing system in 2013 that cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. As a result of the U.S. Attorney’s Office probe, which ended in November, a former high-level advisor to former City Attorney Mike Feuer, an outside attorney hired by Feuer’s office, and two top DWP officials pleaded guilty to federal bribery and extortion charges....