"Real Housewives" Attorney Tom Girardi CAUGHT Stealing From Clients

Via America’s Lawyer: Hollywood attorney and "Real Housewives" star Tom Girardi hasn’t just been rubbing shoulders in Beverly Hills. He’s been pumping millions of dollars in political contributions, bribing judges, and hemorrhaging money to his ex-wife Erika Jayne. Mike Papantonio is joined by Attorney Archie Lamb to break down Girardi's fall from grace, as the California Bar association now wants to make sure the now-bankrupt attorney can never practice law again.

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Hollywood attorney Tom Girardi hasn't just been rubbing shoulders in Beverly Hills, he's been pumping millions of dollars into political contribution. He's been buying influence from major politicians, including none other than Joe Biden. Attorney Archie Lamb joins me to talk about this. Archie, you, you're very, very familiar with California politics and you've handled some of the biggest cases in the country and a lot of it is centered out in California. What, what is Tom Girardi accused of? Let's start there to let the viewers understand how awful this story is.

Well, he's accused of a lot of things and that's, that's misuse of his huge power through wealth. But the biggest problem is he violated the cardinal rule of all lawyers and that's siphoned, siphoning off clients money for his own personal use.

So here we have a lawyer that's probably known better for the Erin Brockovich case. Although, you know, Erin did most of that case, Girardi didn't do it.

Right.

But he's the one that got all, oh, this is a great lawyer. I think they settled that for $250 million. Even back then, there was question about whether or not the clients were getting their money and then it kept resurfacing, Archie, that as I look at this history, kept research, resurfacing with the California bar where they said something is not right about Tom Girardi and the way he's, he's handling this money. How does, how does the, how does that bar association with all of that staff and all that influence just drop the ball and say, yeah, keep stealing from clients?

Okay. So you have to look at what an evil genius this guy was. Yes, with Brockovich, he got a lot of money, a lot of notoriety, but it's how he used the wealth that really is what made the difference. The Supreme Court of California controls the bar, the leaders of the bar determine who gets investigated and how, and what Girardi did is he, he, he engendered this trust by campaign. He's probably the largest Democrat, Democratic fundraiser in California for three decades. And so what he did is by getting judges elected and politicians elected, controlling the leadership of the bar, he sort of kept in the can the investigations of him, by controlling those people.

Archie, I have a story, I know you're aware of it, where he actually bought a Mediterranean trip, $350,000 on a boat, a Mediterranean trip. And in there were included staff from the bar that's supposed to be saying these reports we're getting are serious, Tom, we need to take, take and audit. Judges were on the Mediterranean trip, 10 judges that he had helped get appointed. How did he even do that? How does a guy say to a governor, this was governor Brown, I mean, this was Jerry Brown buddy. This has got Jerry Brown all over it. It's got Gavin Newsom all over it.

Gray Davis.

Gray Davis, exactly. How does it happen that they have so much influence that they say, I want this judge? How does that happen?

It's the political system of campaign finance that we have and they hide the money. Nobody knows. And yet he was so brilliant in terms of befriending the most powerful people over his misconduct that he paralyzed the system.

Yeah, there's a story that is, it's infuriating. The, the, the CEO for Hewlett Packard, the state, the state attorney had her on the ropes. The DOJ had her on the ropes. Real bad stuff happening with this woman.

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