A lawyer accused of taking part in a scheme to extort Dole food company for billions of dollars is under orders to appear at a contempt hearing Wednesday.
Juan Dominguez is accused of bringing fraudulent claims against Dole by men pretending to have been harmed by pesticides on Nicaraguan banana plantations in the 1970s.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney has reported Dominguez to the State Bar and to federal prosecutors for investigation of multiple crimes, including perjury, obstruction of justice, defrauding a court and conspiring to extort a United States company.
The judge called the alleged fraud "outrageous and …
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