Opinion ID: 1198866
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Brutoco Account

Text: Dann represented Brutoco Construction and Len Brutoco over a number of years beginning in the late 1980s. Tom Salata was Brutoco's right-hand man, and handled bills and claims. Transcript of Proceedings (TP) at 376. One claim that Dann was involved with for Brutoco arose during 1992 and was referred to as the Cerritos claim. Salata specified that he did not want Dave Graham to work on the Cerritos claim. Dann and Salata agreed that Radder would work on the claim instead. Nevertheless, Dann and Radder agreed that Graham would work on the claim also, but that Graham's initials would not be shown on the bill. On a WIP for hours billed in February 1992, there is a notation in Dann's handwriting: Change DG's [Dave Graham's] time to JR's [John Radder's] timebut pay Dave for his time. Ex. 2D. From that point forward Graham's initials were removed from WIPs and replaced with those of Radder for purposes of the final billing, in addition to the record for the work that Radder actually did. Radder's billing rate was higher than Graham's, so Radder wrote off time in an amount that exceeded the aggregate amount of overbilling and the client was, thus, not overbilled. Dann admits that Graham actually worked hours attributed to Radder.