Thomas Girardi, a former California plaintiff’s attorney accused of stealing millions from his clients while the state bar seemingly overlooked a field of red flags, pleaded not guilty to wire fraud and criminal contempt charges Friday.
The charges, brought in a Feb. 1 indictment, came a little more than two years after Girardi admitted in civil proceedings that his firm spent millions in client settlement money belonging to family members of people killed aboard Lion Air Flight 610 when it crashed in October 2018.
The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois also set a March 8 ...
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