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Robbins Geller Ordered To Pay Sanctions To Boeing

Robbins Geller Ordered To Pay Sanctions To Boeing Over `Confidential Witness' Who Wasn't - Forbes


Securities class-action specialists Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd have been ordered to pay sanctions to Boeing over a lawsuit the San Diego firm filed and vigorously pursued even though the crucial witness behind it was a fake.


Robbins Geller based the suit on a “confidential witness” the law firm portrayed as an engineer with inside knowledge about the 787 wing problems. Problem: The “witness” couldn’t have known about the wing problems because “he was employed by a Boeing contractor to perform low-level engineering work on a different airplane months after the events at issue in this case,”
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