The embattled attorney faces 12 counts in Chicago and five in Los Angeles.
If that sounds confusing, allow me to clear it up for you: Through their law firm, Girardi Keese, Girardi and his colleague David Lira, represented five clients—all of whom were family members of passengers killed in the 2018 crash—and filed lawsuits in federal court in Chicago against the plane’s manufacturer, Boeing. The suits were settled in 2020, with a judge ruling that Boeing was to pay substantial sums of money to each relative.
That money, intended for distribution, was sent via wire to their firm’s trust account,aintaining the firm’s payroll and operating expensesAdvertisementand fraudulently claimed to have “serious issues” with Boeing—even though they’d already received the money. The filing states that the defendants are owed a total amount of $3,069,500.
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