“A private, for-profit law firm called Silver and Wright was hired by Indio in 2014 to serve as the city’s official prosecutor for code enforcement cases. The firm’s pitch was appealing. It offered ‘cost neutral or even revenue producing’ prosecution services, so long as the city changed its ordinances to allow the firm to bill property owners for its full attorneys fees.”
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