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Jury awards $1.5 million to fired LA prosecutor Associated Press LOS ANGELES - A jury awarded more than $1.5 million to a former city prosecutor who claimed she was retaliated against and ultimately fired for reporting mistakes and misconduct by other attorneys. In addition to Wednesday's jury award, the city could have to pay plaintiff Lynn Magnandonovan's legal fees, which are expected to exceed $2 million, said her attorney, Samuel J. Wells. "This was an indictment of the city attorney's office," he said. A spokesman for City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, who is running for state attorney general, said the office is deciding whether to appeal. "We are disappointed in the verdict and will be reviewing our options," spokesman Jonathan Diamond said. Magnandonovan, 55, claimed the city attorney retaliated against her because she won the post of chief of a new hate-crimes unit as a settlement of an earlier gender-discrimination claim she filed against the office. She said she was put on administrative leave in December 2001 and fired in 2002. The city countered that Magnandonovan, a 13-year veteran of the office, was a difficult, abrasive employee who had angered a number of Superior Court judges. The city paid a private law firm $1.5 million to defend the case.
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