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From his Wilshire Boulevard office, Tom Girardi has dominated consumer law in California and beyond for decades, wresting billions of dollars from drug companies, carmakers and polluters on behalf of the injured and cheated, most famously in the case that inspired “Erin Brockovich.”
His cut of those legal victories, up to 40%, brought him spectacular wealth. With his third wife, a pop singer known as Erika Jayne, he appears on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” flaunting the couple’s historic Pasadena estate and lifestyle: private planes, jewelry, exotic cars, couture-filled closets and vacations in Aspen and Mykonos.
The millions Girardi poured into Democratic political campaigns made him a confidant of generations of power brokers, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who last year gave the attorney an official role in filling coveted state judgeships.
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Tom Girardi, of Girardi Keese in Los Angeles, has been fined, the assets of his firm frozen and he appears to be the subject of a federal criminal investigation. The once-respected attorney is accused of stealing the money Boeing sent to him to settle several suits in the October 2018 Lion Air crash.
In a lawsuit filed in Northern District of Illinois Federal Court, Chicago attorney Jay Edelson compares Girardi to the notorious embezzler Bernie Madoff and accuses Girardi of presiding over a Ponzi scheme that included his wife, television personality Erika Jayne Girardi and a company she controls, son-in-law David Lira, law partner Keith Griffin and several attorney finance companies.
On top of all that he is currently in the midst of a divorce from his wife, Erika Girardi.
Tom has a lot on his plate and things just got worse!
Tom Girardi’s assets have been frozen
A judge in Chicago has just taken severe action in the lawsuit involving Tom Girardi and the funds that were to be dispersed for family members of victims from the Boeing jet crash in 2018.
The Los Angeles Times reports that U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin found that Tom misappropriated at least $2 million meant for his clients. Due to this, his assets have been frozen.
Erika Jayne s Estranged Husband Tom Girardi Held in Contempt of Court as His Assets Are Frozen E! 12/15/2020 Lindsay Weinberg
Erika Jayne s Estranged Husband Tom Girardi Held in Contempt of Court as His Assets Are Frozen
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A month after
Erika Jayne filed for divorce, a judge in a separate case has frozen the assets of her estranged husband
Tom Girardi.
E! News was at the telephonic hearing on Monday, Dec. 14, when the high-powered lawyer was held in contempt of court while facing a civil lawsuit that is accusing him of embezzlement.
The legal battle began on Dec. 2, when Girardi was accused of taking money from a settlement fund that was given to clients after their family members died in an Indonesian airplane crash.
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