The Girardi Keese law firm’s bankruptcy trustee filed a series of adversary proceedings late Monday seeking to claw back millions of dollars funds paid to ex-firm attorneys, its jailed former chief financial officer, and Thomas Girardi’s celebrity ex-wife, Erika Jayne, and others.
The defunct firm drained money from its accounts through various means including fraudulent transfers and paying numerous American Express charge cards for purchases that didn’t benefit the firm, trustee Elissa D. Miller said in the filings in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. Fourteen such complaints were added to the court’s docket on Monday. ...
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