The US Department of Justice announced Wednesday that a grand jury indicted Girardi, 83, for allegedly embezzling more than $15 million from his clients.
was charged with five counts of wire fraud, according to a copy of the indictment obtained by Page Six.
Girardi and Christopher Kazuo Kamon, the former chief financial officer of the now-defunct law firm Girardi Keese, are accused of lying to their clients in order to misappropriate settlement funds slated for victims of the 2018The attorney and his former CFO allegedly used the clients’ winnings to fund payroll, other clients’ settlement funds that had previously been misappropriated as well as personal expenses.
Girardi negotiated a $17.5 million settlement due to the injuries they sustained in the accident, but more than $5 million of the money was transferred into an account controlled by Girardi.Getty Images for Annenberg Space
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