Tarts and torts

The wife of Bill Lerach, onetime lawyer and investor champion who did a stretch in federal prison after copping a plea to fraud charges related to a client kickback scheme, gave a cool $1000 to the successful reelection campaign of Superior Court judge Robert Longstreth against self-proclaimed Christian insurgents. An attorney herself who helped her husband handle the Enron case, Michelle Ciccarelli Lerach’s occupation is listed as owner of Cups organic cupcake lounge in La Jolla. …The Port of San Diego is slashing the annual compensation of its high-powered public relations consultant Sara Katz and Associates from $300,000 to $200,000. Katz handles “goods movement initiatives, gentrification, community education, attracting visitors to the tidelands and tenant businesses; member city relations and environmental initiatives.”