Today, Matthew Rifat was scheduled for his Meet and Confer with the California Bar Association.  He has not yet responded to inquiries from this writer sent to him earlier today. 

Did it happen?  Did he do his Meet and Confer with the Bar today?  Did he schedule his settlement conference date and his trial date with them? 

Don’t know.  Waiting for that information.

Matthew is fighting to keep his attorney Bar license.  Charged in an indictment from the Riverside County District Attorney’s office in January of 2019, that case against him for insurance fraud and money laundering ended in a hung jury in the Summer of 2022.  The case was repeatedly set to be retried but the date kept getting continued on and on into the future.   Now, it has been dismissed. 

The stress on Matthew Rifat was enormous because a guilty verdict would have meant a maximum sentence equal to a life sentence for him.  After all, -he’s a man in his fifties.  A thirty-year sentence could take him into his eighties.

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