Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer’s tab with the taxpayers has reached nearly $18 million after county supervisors approved another round of settlements in cases questioning his conduct and several of his top lieutenants last week.
They’re the latest payouts in a long line of judgements and settlements to former investigators and prosecutors alleging a litany of misconduct by Orange County’s top law enforcement officer and his lieutenants, including whistleblower retaliation, harassment and botched prosecutions.
Orange County supervisors chose to settle most of those lawsuits out of court, meaning there was never an official court decision on many of the allegations in the suits…