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Jan 22, 2024 · "We are pleased that the court has concluded that the evidence we presented demonstrated that we are reasonably likely to succeed on some of the more serious disciplinary charges against Mr. Lira ...
Jun 20, 2023 · The notice of disciplinary charges, filed Wednesday, alleges that Lira misappropriated more than $743,000 of the funds. During a three-month period in 2020, it asserts, Lira wrote 270 checks, totaling $2,782,051.83, from his client trust account “to individuals and entities that were unrelated to the client families in the Lion Air matter.”
"We are pleased that the court has concluded that the evidence we presented demonstrated that we are reasonably likely to succeed on some of the more serious disciplinary charges against Mr. Lira," George Cardona, the California bar's chief trial counsel, said in a Monday statement.
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.
Jun 16, 2023 · The State Bar of California filed Notices of Disciplinary Charges (NDCs) Wednesday against former Girardi Keese law firm attorneys David Richard Lira (SB#134370) and Keith David Griffin (SB#204388), the Office of Chief Trial Counsel (OCTC) announced today. OCTC will seek the pair’s disbarment for what the NDCs charge are their part―along with previously disbarred attorney Thomas V. Girardi ...
Procedural History. On October 12, 2023, OCTC brought this application seeking Lira’s enrollment as. inactive. The bases for the petition incorporated the allegations of the two abated disciplinary. matters, State Bar Court case numbers SBC-23-O-30689 (“Lion Air matter”) and SBC-23-O-. 30690 (“CalTrans matter”).
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Feb 10, 2023 · Lira entered his plea before Magistrate Judge Jeffrey I. Cummings in Chicago. He will be released pending resolution of the charges on a unsecured bond of $75,000. Each count of wire fraud is punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison. The maximum penalty for each contempt count is determined by the court. ...
