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Discipline

May 22, 2001

Judge Gives Lenient Sentence in Blackmail Trial

VENTURA - Opting for leniency, a judge has sentenced Century City attorney John J. Reiner to 120 days in jail for attempting to blackmail the real-life Erin Brockovich and her boss out of $310,000.

By Matthew Heller
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        VENTURA - Opting for leniency, a judge has sentenced Century City attorney John J. Reiner to 120 days in jail for attempting to blackmail the real-life Erin Brockovich and her boss out of $310,000.
        Reiner, 53, faced up to...

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