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Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
Bankruptcy

Jul. 16, 2021

Tom Girardi’s wife hiding California Lottery payments, attorney says

Ronald Richards, who is tasked with finding firm assets, said in the filing that Erika Girardi collected payments stemming from an agreement in a lottery dispute case.

A recent filing claimed that Erika Girardi, the estranged wife of disgraced plaintiffs’ lawyer Thomas V. Girardi, hid payments that she received from the California State Lottery following a 2012 settlement agreement involving her husband’s law firm.

“[D]efendant Erika has used her glamor and notoriety to continue to aid and abet in sham transactions that have occurred with respect to large transfers of assets from the Debtor [Girar...

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