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80% of claims in America's largest sexual abuse settlement in history could be fraudulent, LA DA says | Robert McGreevy, Fox News Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman asked a judge to freeze payments to the victims of a $4 billion sexual abuse lawsuit settlement, claiming four out of five of the claims could be fraudulent, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. In April 2025, Los Angeles County agreed to pay $4 billion to settle more than 11,000 claims of sexual abuse in county-run juvenile halls and foster homes, making it the largest sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history. But an LA Times investigation discovered nine plaintiffs who said they were paid by recruiters to join the class-action lawsuit, four of whom, the paper reported, said their claims were entirely fraudulent. Hochman launched his investigation shortly after the LA Times investigation went public. "They looked at this opportunity to compensate these true victims of sex abuse as an opportunity to personally profit and engage in some of the most greedy and heinous conduct," Hochman said in a November 2025 news conference. "We are going to aggressively go after them," he said. However, Hochman said then that the nine who came forward represented a small fraction of the "significant number of fraudsters involved in these settlement claims." Now, Hochman is claiming 80 percent of claimants could be fraudulent while asking the judge overseeing the case to freeze the payments for six months while he continues his investigation, according to the LA Times. Hochman's request would only apply to cases stemming from juvenile halls, the bulk of the cases in the lawsuit, according to the LA Times. Since the LA Times released the results of its investigation, LA County has imposed extra scrutiny on claimants, particularly those represented by Downtown LA Law Group (DTLA), a firm that represented all nine of the plaintiffs who reportedly claimed to have been recruited. DTLA firmly denied recruiting anybody for the lawsuit. "As we have consistently stated, DTLA never recruited anyone to join this lawsuit. In fact, we rejected over 70% of the cases that came to us. The allegations of fraud involving our firm are false," a DTLA spokesperson told Fox News Digital. The company also believes its being unfairly scrutinized compared to other company's representing plaintiffs in the lawsuit. "DTLA was the only one subjected to an extensive independent third-party audit of more than 1,000 cases, with every client interviewed by a neutral auditor at our own expense. No other firm has undergone this level of scrutiny. We believe that fairness dictates that the regulatory agency make similar demands of other firms," the spokesperson said. The increased scrutiny, Hochman argued in a Wednesday filing obtained by the LA Times, was necessary after lax vetting from prior agencies reviewing the cases. "The prior and ongoing vetting by other agencies and entities has been insufficient to determine whether the claims are fraudulent," Hochman stated, per the LA Times. Representatives of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit question Hochman's claims and say they further hurt victims who have suffered enough. "They’re beyond frustrated," victim attorney Patrick McNicholas told the LA Times. "Once again, they’re getting victimized," he said. Lawyers for the plaintiffs are expected to go in front of Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff on Monday for a review of Hochman's request. The DTLA spokesperson told Fox News Digital the company has cooperated with DA Hochman's investigation. "We look forward to Judge Lawrence Riff’s ruling on this matter and, as we have always maintained, we remain fully committed to working cooperatively with District Attorney Nathan Hochman and his office to verify the authenticity of every claim," the spokesperson said "Our firm is fully committed to ensuring that clients who suffered real abuse are fairly compensated for the trauma they endured," the spokesperson also said. Fox News Digital contacted the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office for further information. foxnews.com/us/80-percent-…

2/ David Friedberg (@friedberg) breaks down the suspicious statistics of the LA mayoral race In person voting: Spencer Pratt 35% Karen Bass 29% Nithya Raman 26% Mail-in ballots before Election Day: Karen Bass 38% Spencer Pratt 28% Nithya Raman 20% Mail-in ballots after Election Day: Nithya Raman 37% Karen Bass 35% Spencer Pratt 19%

California universities dropped the SAT to help COVER UP the miserable education outcomes from the failed K-12 system from which applicants come! Year after year, governor after governor, over half of our kids can't read or do math at basic levels of proficiency, & these numbers soar to 70-80% for low-income minority kids. This is a civil rights crisis because education is the key to the American Dream. Enough! As Lt Governor, who will serve on every board of higher education in CA, I call upon @UC_Regents to immediately adopt SAT criteria and work with me in establishing a TK-16 Education Pipeline to end these stark achievement gaps once and for all. Schools can no longer just push and promote kids through a failed system to protect the pensions & perks of the adults. School choice must be made available for all. Teacher contracts must include meritocracy & linking pay to student outcomes. Contracts must ensure that high-quality teachers are assigned – with bonus pay – to challenged communities. Lifetime tenure laws must be changed. We CAN do this – but only if California elects leaders who are willing to stand up to powerful special interests and Democrat officials who have no backbone. @JFrgatUCLA @garrytan @uc_faculty @CAGOP @UCBerkeley @UCLA I have a track record of fighting to turn around California's failed public education system, which now ranks near the bottom of the pack nationally. Join me at gloriajromero.com. .

Trump prosecutor in L.A. pushing unusual public search for voter fraud before count is in latimes.com/politics/story…