San Francisco attorney David Repogle was convicted Monday of helping to kill and attempting to loot the assets of a Palm Springs retiree. Also convicted was Miguel Bustamante, a Daly City barkeep purportedly hired to help murder Cliff Lambert, a wealthy retired art dealer. Still awaiting trial are alleged accomplices Danny Garcia, and Kaushal Niroula -- the leader of an alleged con-artist crew who purportedly engineered swindles worth millions of dollars in diverse areas such as fine art and real estate.
Replogle once enjoyed local fame as an anti-child abuse crusader, after
recruiting underage plaintiffs willing to claim San Francisco financier
Thomas White had sex with them. Among the plaintiffs was Garcia, who is
expected to face similar murder charges next year.
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