Disbarred lawyer married to ‘Real Housewives’ star found competent to stand trial for alleged $15M embezzlement

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Disbarred lawyer married to ‘Actual Housewives’ star discovered competent to face trial for alleged $15M embezzlement

By Debra Cassens Weiss

January 4, 2024, 2:24 pm CST

Disbarred plaintiffs lawyer Tom Girardi has been discovered competent to face trial in Los Angeles for allegedly stealing $15 million from shoppers.

U.S. District Choose Josephine Staton of the Central District of California famous the competency discovering in a docket entry, report Regulation.com, Law360 and Reuters. His attorneys have mentioned he suffers from dementia.

Girardi, 84, is the estranged husband of Erika Girardi, who appeared on The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills actuality TV present. He was additionally an adviser to the film Erin Brockovich and a part of the profitable authorized group portrayed within the movie that sued over contaminated groundwater. He at present lives in an assisted dwelling facility.

Girardi is accused of stealing greater than $15 million in Los Angeles. In Chicago, he’s accused of misappropriating greater than $3 million in settlement funds for 5 family members of victims killed within the October 2018 crash of Indonesia’s Lion Air Flight 610.

Staton’s competency order is below seal. She has requested the events to determine which components of her order ought to stay sealed.

Girardi and his former legislation agency, Girardi Keese, have been compelled out of business, in response to Law360.

“Since Girardi Keese went bankrupt,” the article stories, “the trustee has filed over 100 complaints towards casinos, former Girardi Keese workers and different legislation corporations and firms, in search of a complete of greater than $140 million.”

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“Ex-lawyer Tom Girardi lashes out at prosecutor in competency listening to; mind shrinkage reported”

“State bar finds ‘stunning previous tradition of unethical and unacceptable habits’ in its dealing with of Girardi complaints”

“Greater than 1,700 California attorneys suspended for failure to adjust to new belief account guidelines”