OREGON
Statesman Journal
Attorney Dan Gatti made headlines nearly a decade ago by filing lawsuits on behalf of 15 men who said they were sexually abused as teenagers by a prison chaplain at a state reform school in Woodburn during the 1970s.
Now, the ailing Salem lawyer, on the mend from open-heart surgery and resulting complications, faces his own trial.
The Oregon State Bar has leveled an ethics complaint against Gatti, accusing him of knowingly misleading his clients about out-of-court settlements stemming from the sex-abuse lawsuits, totaling $1.6 million.
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