The State Bar of California said Tuesday it is again investigating Mark Geragos, one of California’s best-known celebrity lawyers, and another prominent attorney over how money was spent from a multimillion-dollar insurance settlement related to the Armenian Genocide.
Both attorneys are caught up in an ongoing investigation of other LA lawyers including Tom Girardi stemming from a $17.5-million settlement with an insurance company based in France. The money was intended for descendants ofin 1915-16 by the Turkish Ottoman Empire during World War I as well as for Armenian charities.
He said the announcement is not in itself an indication of misconduct by the lawyers, but emphasized that "the status of attorneys, or the size of their practice, cannot and will not impact our decisions to investigate misconduct." Kabateck in a statement called the reference "to a world-class university that established a highly-regarded center to study genocides as a ‘pet’ charity is offensive and insensitive.""The undisputed facts are and will always be that an independent third-party appointed, approved, and overseen by the Court distributed the settlement funds to the class members," Kabateck said.
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