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Law Firm Denies Campos Love and Money

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

10:00 PM PT

On Monday (June 9), TheSmokingGun.com uncovered a shady secret in "For Love or Money" star Rob Campos' past and by Tuesday he was out of a job.

TSG revealed that while in a JAG training program, Campos got drunk, stormed into a fellow trainee's room and groped her breasts. The incident led to his removal from the JAG course, despite the fact that both his official NBC biography and the one on his law firm's web site reference his JAG Corps experience.

The investigation was handled by Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents and no public charges were filed, preventing NBC investigators from uncovering the information in a routine background check. Campos didn't volunteer the information, which might have altered his selection for the reality dating show in which the woman who wins his heart will have to choose between love and a million dollar prize.

While Campos apologized for failing to mention the incident, he explained that he believed it to be a private matter.

Now that the scandal has gone public, though, Campos' Dallas-based law firm, Mathur Law Offices, P.C., wants no part of the publicity. In a statement posted on the firm's web site on Tuesday, Sanjay S. Mathur explains why Campos was let go.

Mathur is quick to explain that Campos only worked for the firm as an independent contractor with "Associate Attorney" duties and that only a basic criminal record background check was performed before hiring him.

"Since Mr. Campos has never been a formal 'employee' of this firm, the firm simply will cease any additional work and we have asked him to vacate his office space," the statement says.

The firm's decision was based on both the new information and on Campos' behavior on "For Love or Money." In Tuesday night's episode, the series' second, Campos got drunk and had Jacuzzi-centric revelry with 10 women that one of the participants described as "disgusting."

"What is of greatest significance to us, is that our firm vigorously enforces the rights of individuals, many of them minorities, many of them foreign to this country and many of them women," Mathur's statement says. "We do not wish to allow any possibility of our practice of law being perceived as unsympathetic to the causes we strive so hard to protect."

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