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Article: Milberg Weiss Indicted: A Safe in a Credenza

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LOS ANGELES (HedgeWorld.com) - There is one imaginatively employed piece of office furniture, along with five named defendants, 20 counts, and more than 100 pages in the indictment issued Thursday [May 18] by a U.S. grand jury in Los Angeles as a result of a long investigation of an alleged rent-a-plaintiff scheme.

One of the defendants is a prominent New York-based law firm, one that has been at the center of much recent litigation affecting the alternative investments industry: Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP. Two other defendants are two of that firm's named partners - David Bershad and Steven Schulman. Then there are two lawyers from outside the firm - Seymour Lazar and Paul ...

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