Four former lawyers at Girardi Keese have been told they are targets of an ongoing federal criminal investigation, according to testimony from an IRS agent.
Federal prosecutors have warned at least four lawyers who worked for years alongside the now-disgraced former attorney Tom Girardi at his Los Angeles law firm that they, too, could face criminal charges as part of an ongoing investigation. The revelation came this week in the trial of Girardi, 84, who is defending against four counts of wire fraud and is accused of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to swindle his clients out of more than $15 million in settlement funds.
Although Girardi is the sole defendant now on trial, the names of these other lawyers — Aumais, Lira, Finnerty and Griffin — have come up repeatedly in testimony and other evidence in recent days. Prosecutors, for example, pointed to an April 2019 email in which Finnerty highlighted the extent of the 'disturbing' issues inside Girardi Keese and the pervasive delay of payments to clients.
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