Sonoma County taxpayers paid private divorce attorney Julie Levy for one job: to represent Johnny, a 9-year-old boy, during his parents’ custody case. Nothing else.
On July 13, Levy used Johny’s parents’ case to ask a judge for something that had nothing to do with her child client at all. She wanted county taxpayers to pay her legal bills in a civil harassment lawsuit she had already filed, with her own private attorney, three weeks earlier.
The lawsuit was filed against a mother, Heather, a well-known court watcher and contributor to the Vanguard’s investigative reporting team. By extension, it was filed against journalists reporting on the job she was doing representing children as minors counsel…