BREAKING NEWS Tom Girardi found guilty of stealing $15million from clients in legal Ponzi scheme By Neil Blincow In Los Angeles For Dailymail.com Published: 20:10, 27 August 2024 | Updated: 20:54, 27 August 2024 e-mail 7 View comments Once-powerful attorney Tom Girardi was found guilty Tuesday on four charges of swindling his horribly injured or grieving clients out of around $15 million in settlement fees. The 85-year-old disgraced lawyer and estranged husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne was stone-faced, showing little emotion as Judge Josephine Staton announced the verdicts, which carry sentences of up to 20 years prison on each count.
Dressed in wrinkled khaki pants, an open-neck checked blue-and-white shirt and the same shabby gray jacket with blue lining hanging out that he’s worn for most of the three-week trial, Girardi was virtually unrecognizable as the super-lawyer whose $2,000-plus designer suits once put him on best-dressed lists and whose success winning huge settlements in personal injury cases landed him on magazine covers. It took the jury of seven men and five women only four and a half hours of deliberation to reach their guilty verdicts - two hours Tuesday and two-and-a-half hours yesterday. Disgraced lawyer Tom Girardi has been found guilty of stealing more than $15million from his clients.
He is seen before the verdict on Tuesday Girardi, who built the prestigious LA law firm Girardi & Keese after his fight against a California .