(The Center Square) – Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s senior ethics aide has received at least two months of her $320,000 salary since felony charges were filed against her by the California Attorney General for allegedly improperly using confidential records when creating a list of disreputable police officers to ban from use as witnesses.

If the LADA’s office is paying for her criminal defense — which is yet unknown as the office has not responded to a public records request on the matter — taxpayers could be paying for both prosecution and defense in this case. However, with the dropping of three of the charges before the start of hearings, and a judge’s dismissal of another two charges, there’s a chance the prosecutor in question may not be found guilty of anything at all.