{"id":644072,"date":"2010-01-26T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T22:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01287716b9eb970c"},"modified":"2010-01-26T17:32:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T22:32:31","slug":"bling-ring-lawyer-indicted-for-allegedly-bribing-witness-in-another-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/644072","title":{"rendered":"‘Bling ring’ lawyer indicted for allegedly bribing witness in another case"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Sherman Oaks attorney who represents a key suspect in the "bling ring" celebrity burglary case has been indicted in a separate case for dissuading and bribing a witness, officials said today.<\/p>\n

Sean G. Erenstoft, 42, pleaded not guilty this morning after the indictment was unsealed. Prosecutors allege the attorney, while representing a defendant in a stalking case, filed a civil case against the victim to dissuade her from testifying against the defendant at his preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n

\n Prosecutors in the grand jury indictment also allege that Erenstoft later offered to drop the civil case in exchange for favorable testimony at his client\u2019s sentencing. <\/p>\n

Deputy L.A. County Dist. Atty. Paul Nunez of the justice system integrity division said the indictment charges Erenstoft with one count each of dissuading a witness, bribery of a witness and offering to bribe a witness.<\/p>\n

\nErenstoft was released on $100,000 bail. He is due back in court March 16 for a pretrial hearing.<\/p>\n

\nErenstoft represents Nicholas Prugo<\/a>, 18, of Calabasas, who is charged with eight burglaries of celebrities’ homes, including Paris HIlton’s and Rachel Bilson’s. <\/p>\n

— Richard Winton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Sherman Oaks attorney who represents a key suspect in the "bling ring" celebrity burglary case has been indicted in a separate case for dissuading and bribing a witness, officials said today. Sean G. Erenstoft, 42, pleaded not guilty this morning after the indictment was unsealed. Prosecutors allege the attorney, while representing a defendant in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Hyg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}