Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer is facing a reckoning years in the making, with county taxpayers now on the hook for over $3 million related to what a jury today concluded was official misconduct, finding he retaliated against female victims of sexual harassment within his own office.

There’s another half dozen female prosecutors with court cases on the same issue waiting to be heard.

On Thursday, a jury found Spitzer and his top aide Shawn Nelson, who’s now an OC Superior Court judge, retaliated against Tracy Miller, one of his top subordinates who reported sexual harassment against prosecutors from the best man at Spitzer’s wedding, who Spitzer later put in a senior role as DA.

The case was heard over the last couple of weeks in San Diego Superior Court under Judge Kather

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