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  1. Dec 8, 2021 · Two former Girardi Keese partners testified on Wednesday that Tom Girardi purposely directed clients of the Lion Air Flight 610 crash in 2018 not to receive their full settlement funds, then lied...

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  2. Jun 17, 2023 · State Bar prosecutors moved Friday to disbar David Lira, Girardi's son-in-law, and another former employee, Keith Griffin, for alleged misappropriation of client funds.

  3. Jun 18, 2023 · The State Bar case against Lira and Griffin alleges that they helped him conceal from their clients, Indonesian widows and orphans, that millions in settlement money had arrived into a firm trust account, but that it was not flowing on to the clients. Lira is accused of issuing checks totaling $2.7 million from an account holding the Boeing ...

  4. Nov 2, 2022 · Still, in a 14-page order, he made conclusions about the lawyers: He found no wrongdoing among those at Edelson, but was highly skeptical that Lira and Griffin did not know about...

  5. Jan 23, 2024 · Evidence suggests Lira and Griffin knew that he was mishandling the funds. “Tom is lying to clients,” Lira confided to the firm’s chief financial officer in a March 2020 email.

  6. Jan 23, 2024 · David Lira, who is married to Girardi’s daughter and worked for his firm for more than 20 years, is barred from controlling bank accounts that hold client money and must work under the...

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  8. Feb 12, 2022 · Former Girardi Keese attorneys David Lira and Keith Griffin say the Northern District of Illinois lacks authority to order them to compensate their former clients for settlement funds allegedly stolen by Thomas Girardi.