Doctor wins $5.2 million in planted gun case
February 08th, 2013
Former IHHI president Larry Anderson testified that immediately after Fitzgibbons' legal win, [Chief Exec] Mogel instructed him to make a $10,000 contract for unnecessary work on IHHI's website with a man named Mikey Delgado. Delgado had come up in prior conversations, Anderson testified, as a "scary guy" who Mogel told him had the Santa Ana police on his payroll.
"So what did IHHI get for that $10,000?" Mathews asked the jury. "They got Dr. Fitz set up."
Anderson testified that it was only after Fitzgibbons' arrest that he realized that the $10,000 contract must have paid for the planted gun.
IHHI's board learned of the $10,000 payment after Anderson described it in a 2008 deposition. But instead of firing Mogel, Mathews said, the board gave him an eight-month consultancy worth $43,750 per month.
The IHHI board "knew what Mogel did to Dr. Fitzgibbons," Mathews told the jury. "They ratified it, and they gave him a golden handshake goodbye."
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