{"id":154829,"date":"2026-06-15T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/15\/do-i-close-my-eyes-los-angeles-judge-grills-lawyers-in-4b-sex-abuse-settlement-over-das-fraud-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:42:50","slug":"do-i-close-my-eyes-los-angeles-judge-grills-lawyers-in-4b-sex-abuse-settlement-over-das-fraud-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/15\/do-i-close-my-eyes-los-angeles-judge-grills-lawyers-in-4b-sex-abuse-settlement-over-das-fraud-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Do I Close My Eyes?’ Los Angeles Judge Grills Lawyers in $4B Sex Abuse Settlement Over DA’s Fraud Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff denied an ex parte<\/i> application filed by Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, who argued in court on Monday to intervene in the settlement after finding potentially 81% of the claims could be fraudulent. But the judge ordered his office to file supplemental papers by Thursday.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff denied an ex parte<\/i> application filed by Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, who argued in court on Monday to intervene in the settlement after finding potentially 81% of the claims could be fraudulent. But the judge ordered his office to file supplemental papers by Thursday.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff denied an ex parte application filed by Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, who argued in court on Monday to intervene in the settlement after finding potentially 81% of the claims could be fraudulent. But the judge ordered his office to file supplemental papers by Thursday. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/legal-news-8uMGVJ.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}