SAN FRANCISCO — In the run up to a criminal trial against PG&E Corp., federal prosecutors are clashing with lawyers for employees of the company who are set to be called as witnesses.
Prosecutors have sought to subpoena the attorneys and their law firms for retention agreements and billing records that could be used to show PG&E has paid the employees’ legal fees and to cast doubt on the credibility of their testimony. Defense lawyers who represent those on the government’s witness list—many of them former prosecutors themselves—clearly feel stung by the move.
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