Skip to content

Judicial Watch, Inc. is a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, which promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.

Judicial Watch, Inc. is a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, which promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.

Because no one
is above the law!

Donate

Judicial Watch

Corruption Chronicles

Jail For Top Democratic Donor, Clinton Friend

A prominent California attorney who got Bill Clinton to veto legislation that would hurt his business and has donated generously to the Democratic Party will go to jail for two years for conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

Crowned “King of the Shareholder Suit,” William Lerach made his fortune winning billions of dollars for defrauded investors in class-action cases against some of America’s biggest corporations, including Enron. He also operated an illegal scheme by filing class actions on behalf of ready-made plaintiffs who received kickbacks.

Lerach’s firm made an estimated $250 million in fees over two decades by filing these kinds of illegal lawsuits and paying people, who agreed to be plaintiffs in actions against companies such as Xerox and United Airlines, a total of $11.3 million.

For years Lerach was among the nation’s top paid attorneys ($7 million a year, according to Forbes) and a generous Democratic donor who befriended Bill Clinton while he was president. Lerach and his wife have given Democrats hundreds of thousands of dollars, including several thousand to Hillary’s Clinton’s various campaigns.

When the Clinton’s lived in the White House, Lerach got Bill to veto a popular tort reform bill (Securities Litigation Reform Act) that had bipartisan support because it would negatively impact his lucrative law business. Congress overrode the veto which makes it more difficult for shareholders to sue their own companies for securities fraud.

Related

5 Million Names Cleaned from Voter Rolls!

JUDICIAL WATCH VICTORY: Five Million Names Removed from Voter Rolls Nationwide Judicial Watch Sues for Info on Biden Grants to Leftists ‘The Gravy Train is Over’—HUD, DHS End Subsi...

Legal watchdog scores with elimination of 5 million ineligible voters

In The News | April 04, 2025
From Washington Examiner: A long-term campaign by a conservative legal watchdog to clean up the nation’s voter rolls has led to the erasure of over five million ineligible names si...

Judicial Watch Sues for Records on Biden State Department Grants to Support Leftist Opposition…

Press Releases | April 04, 2025
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State for records on grants made by the Biden ...