Thomas Peters, who until 2019 was one of the highest-ranking officials in LA City Attorney Mike Feuer’s office, formally entered a guilty plea in federal court in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday in connection with the FBI’s investigation of corruption inside the LA Department of Water and Power.
In a plea agreement, Peters admitted to a single count of aiding or abetting extortion, stemming from a failed 2017 effort to conceal from judges and the public the City’s legal misconduct in handling the lawsuits that followed the botched 2013 rollout of a new billing computer system that issued wildly excessive bills to tens of thousands of LA residents and businesses.
A former top executive of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge stemming from a probe of the city's handling of the botched launch of a DWP billing system. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. The crime carries a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison, but Peters was expected to receive far less time when he's sentenced later this year.
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