Tom Girardi found guilty of embezzling $15m from clients in fraud case

prosecutors accused former attorney and ex-husband of Real Housewives Erica Jane of stealing settlement funds A Los Angeles Federal jury on Tuesday found Tom gerardi the disbarred California attorney guilty of four counts of wire fraud after us prosecutors accused him of stealing $15 million in settlement funds from clients prosecutors said gerardi blamed the alleged fraud on Christopher camon the former Chief Financial Officer of their Law Firm gerardi keys camon was charged with wire fraud in Los Angeles alongside gerardi but will be tried separately in January gerardi was a prominent figure in the US plaintiff's bar before allegations that he defrauded clients upended his career in 2020 and caused him his law license prosecutors in a separate criminal case in Chicago have accused Tom gerardi camon and David lra Gerard's son-in-law who also worked at gerardi keys of misappropriating more than $3 million in client funds owed to families of the victims of the 2018 Boeing 737 Max Lion Air Flight 610 crash in Indonesia gerardi camon and lra have pleaded not guilty to the Chicago charges Gerard's lawyer in Chicago has argued that staton's competency ruling is not binding on the Illinois case