Law firm Lackie, Dammeier & McGill, which represents many police unions, has a reputation for aggressive attacks against city halls. One critic described its tactics as ‘litigation terrorism.’
By Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times
September 16, 2012
One after another, people stepped before the Costa Mesa City Council to decry the blight and lawlessness on tiny Ford Road — prostitutes, thieves, home invaders. What the city needs, they pleaded, is more cops.
Councilman Jim Righeimer, a GOP activist and an architect of the city’s controversial plan to radically slash its workforce, perceived the parade of concerned citizens as the pawns of a police union and its law firm, with its statewide reputation for bare-knuckle tactics.
“This City Council is being held hostage by the police union,” Righeimer railed from his seat at the Aug. 21 meeting. “This council will not be shaken down.”
The next afternoon, Righeimer assembled a team of city officials to tour Ford Road and recommend improvements. Afterward, he stopped at a Newport Boulevard pub, Skosh Monahan’s, then climbed into his GMC Yukon and drove home.
Minutes later, a policeman arrived at his door to ask if he’d been drinking. Someone had called 911 to say Righeimer had stumbled out of the pub and swerved his car between lanes.
Righeimer passed the field sobriety test, furnished a $6.47 receipt for two Diet Cokes and wasted no time seizing the political moment. He was being set up, he announced at a press conference.
The 911 caller, it emerged, was a private investigator who worked for the police union’s Upland-based law firm, Lackie, Dammeier & McGill. The firm insists it did not send the investigator to follow Righeimer, and the police union denies involvement.
The Orange County district attorney’s office is now investigating the case, which has thrust Costa Mesa’s protracted city-union battle back into the spotlight. It has also raised scrutiny of a law firm with vast influence in the state and a reputation for aggressive attacks against city halls.
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Kind of reminds one of Nazis Germany’s police state.
These scumbags should be disbarred, prosecuted and jailed. Scum of the earth!
Looks like LDM needs a little training in public relations!
Watch out if they are responsible for any of the Bell PD v. LA Sheriff mess that ended-up getting ET the Clown incarcerated in LA. Hope the OC DA knows a little something that LA’s DA doesn’t, and that’s how to tell the difference between a CRIMINAL and a COP. Down in Bell PUBLIC SAFETY is BIG BUSINESS, just like it has become in most all jurisdictions throughout SoCal because of the MISGUIDED WAR on CRIME/ DRUGS where the authorities use gangland SCARE TACTICS to frame their negotiating positions.
And notice how the PRIVATE DICS are always the ones doing all the shady and illegal stuff… reminds me how the politicians use their appointed bureaucrats and the respective City Attorney (most times it’s BB&K) to do all the DIRTY WORK.
The Clown was working to expose the corruption and the dirty rats got him.
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But the “clown” is making HIMSELF the “center of attention” and not the CORRUPTION.
Acting foolish, imposing, throwing his weight around, and making a “circus” of these serious evils is NOT a prudent or effective approach—obviously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The clown’s selfish craving for attention is in itself not a good thing, so of course the “dirty rats got him” what the h did he expect!!!!!!!!