kickback scheme
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Former lawyer sentenced to nearly 3 years in LADWP kickback scheme
Former attorney Paul Paradis, who represented the LADWP, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for accepting more than $2 million in illegal kickbacks tied to a surge of lawsuits filed against the city because of a computerized billing problem the department ran into when it made a software switch in 2013.