I wrote about this again in October 2022, when the costs had been filed, after which in November 2022, once they had been dropped; now this is this replace (NBC Los Angeles [Eric Leonard]):
Los Angeles County can pay [Eugene Yu,] the proprietor of Michigan-based election administration software program firm[, Konnech,] $5 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the LA County District Legal professional’s Workplace violated his rights when he was arrested and charged in 2022 with a felony case that was dropped 37 days later.
“Plaintiffs alleged Mr. Yu’s arrest and the seizure of Konnech’s property was without probable cause and a violation of Mr. Yu’s civil rights causing damage to Konnech’s business and Mr. Yu’s reputation,” county legal professionals wrote to the Board of Supervisors in a letter urging approval of the settlement….
LA District Legal professional George Gascón introduced at a information convention [in Oct. 2022] that Yu and his agency had criminally violated the phrases of the corporate’s $2.6 million contract with LA County, below which the corporate supplied election logistics software program to voting officers.
Gascón accused Yu and the corporate of conspiracy and embezzlement, by allegedly storing some information about ballot employees on servers in China, relatively than on servers within the U.S., however specified that there was no proof voting or voter information had been saved offshore….
For Konnech and Yu’s grievance, see right here. My first response, I remorse to say, was that the prosecutors had been more likely to have strong proof behind their fees, partly as a result of the prosecution was opposite to what one might need politically anticipated from Gascón, and partly as a result of in my expertise prosecutors normally (although not all the time) do have strong proof. However on this occasion it seems that the prosecutors erred; I might like to know extra about how all this took place.