District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced the promotion of a Valencia attorney who’s built a reputation on prosecuting some of L.A. County’s most heinous crimes against its most vulnerable victims.

Jonathan Hatami, who previously ran for the top D.A. job in the March primary, was named Friday as assistant head deputy of the Family Violence Division, which oversees the division’s Complex Child Abuse Section.

The promotion represents a reversal of fortune for the prosecutor who was at loggerheads with the previous district attorney, suing George Gascón in a case recently settled for terms that Hatami said he could not yet disclose pending approval from the county’s Board of Supervisors.

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