Criminal
Feb. 3, 2023
Girardi’s Indicted. What’s Next?
The Girardi story is the quintessential “truth is stranger than fiction” paradigm. No one understands how such a successful trial attorney experienced such a fall from grace.
Louis J. Shapiro
Email: LouisJShapiro@Gmail.com
Louis, a former Los Angeles County Public Defender, is a criminal defense attorney and State Bar-certified criminal law specialist out of Century City. He is also a legal analyst, board member of the California Innocence Project and Project For The Innocence at Loyola Law School, CACJ and LACBA'S Criminal Justice Executive Committee.
On Feb. 1, 2023, The U.S. Attorney’s Office out of the Central District of California and Northern District of Illinois announced indictments on former plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyer Thomas Girardi. Charged with him is the former CFO of the firm, Christopher Kamon, and Girardi’s son-in-law, David Lira. It is alleged that, from 2010 to December 2020, the defendants fraudulently obtained more than $15 million that belonged to Girardi Keese clients.
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