Richard Shapiro, former chairman of the California Horse Racing Board, has been charged with one felony count of vandalism, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Shapiro allegedly caused more than $6,700 in damage to the 2008 Jaguar XJS of horse owner Jerry Jamgotchian, district attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons told the publication. Shapiro allegedly keyed Jamgotchian’s car after a CHRB meeting on April 24.

Jamgotchian sought to bar Shapiro from state racetracks and to have his horseman’s license suspended, the Times reported in May.

CHRB Executive Director Kirk Breed told the newspaper that if Shapiro were charged with a crime and convicted, “the board would vote whether or not to revoke his license.”

Jamgotchian has sued the CHRB, which Shapiro headed until his resignation in December, for the release of public records on multiple occasions.

On October 31, 2006, a judge ordered to the CHRB to pay Jamgotchian $18,735 in attorney’s fees and court costs after failure to comply with a public records request. Jamgotchian accused then-CHRB Executive Director Ingrid Fermin and Shapiro of establishing a policy to “withhold nonprivileged documents to cover up the gross mismanagement and financial problems currently plaguing the CHRB under their leadership.”

Shaprio later said that he had to add another staff person just to handle Jamgotchian’s numerous lawsuits.

“It’s very unfortunate that one disgruntled horse owner chooses to harm a commission which is dedicated to improving the sport of horse racing [in] California,” Shaprio said in 2006.

In October 2007, the CHRB paid Jamgotchian $17,900 to settle another public records suit, and in February ’08, the CHRB agreed to pay Jamgotchian $19,440 in attorney’s fees in cost over the release of necropsy submissions forms.