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State Bar & Bar Associations

May 22, 2025

Convicted ex-LA deputy prosecutor testifies against former colleague

Convicted ex-LA prosecutor Thomas Peters testifies that James Clark knew of an extortion plot in the water and power billing scandal, involving an $800,000 payoff to silence a legal assistant, at Clark's State Bar hearing.

A former chief Los Angeles city prosecutor, James P. Clark, was aware of an attempted extortion related to the Department of Water & Power Building scandal in the lead-up to an $800,000 payoff, a key witness and former colleague testified at Clark's State Bar disciplinary proceedings on Wednesday.

Thomas H. Peters, former head of the city attorney's litigation department, was convicted of extortion for pressuring the city's outside counsel, Paul Kiesel, to pay off ...

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