{"id":5994,"date":"2025-05-23T03:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T03:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ford-sues-lemon-law-lawyers-for-masterminding-massive-racketeering-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T03:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T03:39:01","slug":"ford-sues-lemon-law-lawyers-for-masterminding-massive-racketeering-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ford-sues-lemon-law-lawyers-for-masterminding-massive-racketeering-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Sues Lemon Law Lawyers for Masterminding Massive Racketeering Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Ford Motor Co. accused five lemon law attorneys in Southern California of creating a massive racketeering enterprise to inflate their fees, including in two multidistrict litigation matters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.alm.com\/8f\/be\/25b0345c463fa7ae21c5a8a52c00\/2025-0521-ford-rico-complaint-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lawsuit filed Wednesday<\/a>, Ford alleged that lawyers at the Knight Law Group, the Altman Law Group, and Wirtz Law billed \u201cphantom legal fees\u201d and \u201choodwinked all of the judges\u201d in hundreds of lemon law cases for the past decade. The lawsuit, citing instances of mail and wire fraud supporting claims under the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, alleges that at least 50% of the $100 million billed by the defendant lawyers during that period was fraudulently inflated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Motor Co. accused five lemon law attorneys in Southern California of creating a massive racketeering enterprise to inflate their fees, including in two multidistrict litigation matters. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5287,153,7,3024,2071,6060,1078,583,479],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-ford","tag-law","tag-lawyers","tag-lemon","tag-massive","tag-masterminding","tag-racketeering","tag-scheme","tag-sues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}