The fraud trial against JAMS Inc. and retired appellate justice Sheila Sonenshine for allegedly padding her online resume is through its first week, and it already appears the judge is having some regrets about the case.
Venture capitalist Kevin Kinsella and his attorney Bryan Vess told a San Diego jury that Sonenshine and JAMS fabricated the claim that she founded a private equity fund after leaving the bench. They also say Sonenshine claimed to have run an investment bank called EquiCo but that the company was actually just a broker and that Sonenshine concealed from her resume that it settled a fraud class action for $41.5 million. They allege JAMS and Sonenshine took these steps to attract businessmen like Kinsella to use their services.
