"On May 18, 2006, the firm and two of its named partners, David J. Bershad and Steven G. Schulman (Schulman resigned in December 2006), were indicted by a grand jury in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on various counts, including racketeering, mail fraud, and bribery.The charges included claims that Milberg Weiss paid portions of its legal fees to plaintiffs in order to induce them to sue.