Legal Justice
Disbarred lawyer Girardi’s son-in-law pleads responsible to contempt for former agency’s failure to pay Lion Air purchasers
Legal professional Tom Girardi is pictured outdoors a Los Angeles courthouse in July 2014. (Picture by Damian Dovarganes/The Related Press)
Disbarred lawyer Tom Girardi’s son-in-law pleaded responsible final week to contempt of court docket for failing to obey a court docket order calling for the distribution of $7.5 million in settlement funds to 4 purchasers in reference to the October 2018 crash of Indonesia’s Lion Air Flight 610.
David R. Lira, 65, of Pasadena, California, pleaded responsible Thursday earlier than U.S. District Choose Mary M. Rowland of the Northern District of Illinois, in accordance with a June 6 press launch and tales by Law360, Reuters and Legislation.com.
Lira, then a senior lawyer on the now-collapsed legislation agency Girardi Keese, knew between the April and June 2020 that Girardi didn’t pay the settlement funds in full, in accordance with the plea settlement. Throughout that point, Lira advised Girardi to distribute the complete quantity and despatched a number of emails to Girardi and the agency’s accounting division with a payout request
Lira resigned in June 2020 after confronting Girardi in regards to the withheld funds, which amounted to about $3 million in December 2020. The victims finally acquired the cash from the insurer of a distinct agency, Edelson, which was the native counsel within the Illinois case, in accordance with Law360.
The Lion Air crash had killed 189 folks. Boeing, the lawsuit defendant, had wired the settlement cash to Girardi Keese’s consumer belief account.
Girardi, 86, is legendary for his authorized workforce’s portrayal within the film Erin Brockovich and for his marriage to Erika Girardi, who has appeared on The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills actuality TV present.
Girardi was sentenced to 87 months in federal jail earlier this month and ordered to pay $2.3 million in restitution after his conviction for stealing $15 million from 4 completely different purchasers over the course of a decade.
Lira’s sentencing is about for Oct. 8.
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