• L.A. County supervisors are calling for an investigation into the claims revealed in a Los Angeles Times investigation. Some plaintiffs in a $4-billion sex abuse settlement claimed they were paid to sue the county.
• Downtown LA Law Group has categorically denied paying people to sue and said no representative of the firm had been authorized to make payments.
• State lawmakers and a powerful attorney trade group called for an investigation by the State Bar.

California lawmakers, local officials and labor leaders are demanding an audit of Los Angeles County’s historic $4-billion sex abuse settlement as well as a State Bar investigation into a law firm that represents thousands of alleged victims.

The call follows a Los Angeles Times investigation that revealed some plaintiffs in the largest sex abuse settlement in U.S. history said vendors paid them cash to sue the county, with two telling The Times that vendors instructed them to fabricate the claims. All of the plaintiffs in the report had lawsuits filed by Downtown LA Law Group (DTLA), a personal injury firm with more than 2,700 cases in the settlement.

DTLA denied that it had any involvement with vendors, who some plaintiffs said paid them to file suit, and The Times could not reach the vendors for comment.

A majority of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors expressed outrage.

“I’m disgusted,” said Supervisor Kathryn Barger, the chair of the county board of supervisors, which approved the settlement this April. “It...

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