Former Girardi Keese Partner Pleads Not Guilty To Charges Of Stealing $3M | Law.com
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Girardi & Keese building at 1122 Wilshire Blvd., in Los Angeles. Credit: Google
David Lira, 62, who is Tom Girardi’s son-in-law, appeared virtually at a hearing in Chicago, where federal prosecutors indicted him Feb. 1 on charges of stealing $3 million from the families of airplane crash victims.
February 10, 2023 at 04:07 PM
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- David Lira, who left Girardi Keese in mid-2020, now works at Los Angeles-based Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack.
- Lira worked with Girardi on cases against Boeing over the 2018 crash of Lion Air Flight 610, in which $2 million in settlement funds went missing.
- In 2021, Lira faced an evidentiary hearing involving the missing Lion Air settlement funds, but a federal judge declined to sanction him.
An attorney for a former Girardi Keese partner pleaded not guilty to criminal charges on behalf of his client, accused of stealing $3 million from the families of airplane crash victims.
Tom Girardi’s son-in-law, David Lira, 62, appeared virtually at a hearing in Chicago after federal prosecutors indicted him Feb. 1 on charges of wire fraud and criminal contempt of court.
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