The State Bar of California has dropped a misconduct investigation of three lawyers for Dole Food Co., according to a Feb. 16 letter Bar disciplinary officials sent to an attorney handling their case.
Steve Condie, a solo practitioner in Oakland who represents Nicaraguans who worked on Dole’s banana plantations in the 1970s and 1980s, filed a Bar complaint in October 2010 against three of Dole’s lawyers, arguing that a newly translated recording indicated that the company bribed witnesses in the form of thousands of dollars in cash and luxury hotel accommodations. The witnesses later testified in secret about alleged fraud between the workers and the plaintiffs’ lawyers.
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