Also charged in the indictment unsealed Wednesday was Christopher Kamon, 49, formerly of Encino and Palos Verdes, the firm’s former chief financial officer.
The indictment alleges that, from 2010 to December 2020, Girardi and Kamon fraudulently obtained more than $15 million that belonged to the firm’s clients.
Also on Wednesday, Girardi, Kamon and former Girardi Keese partner David Lira were indicted in Chicago federal court on fraud charges for allegedly misappropriating more than $3 million in settlement funds intended for relatives of victims killed in the 2018 crash of a Lion Air flight in Indonesia. Girardi became widely known when he was thanked in the credits of the 2001 Oscar-winning film “Erin Brockovich,” for which he served as an adviser. The attorney was part of the legal team when Brockovich successfully sued Pacific Gas & Electric in 1993 for contaminating the groundwater of a small California town.
Girardi Keese, famous for representing plaintiffs in large-scale civil litigation against major corporations, collapsed in late 2020 after Girardi was accused in a Chicago lawsuit of embezzling money meant for clients the firm was representing in litigation over the airline crash. The lawsuit brought by plaintiffs’ firm Edelson PC has since been transferred to Los Angeles.
Kamon was arrested on the charge in November at Baltimore airport after arriving on a flight from the Bahamas, where he had purchased a $2.4 million home, court papers show.
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