{"id":2174,"date":"2024-08-07T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/prosecutor-tom-girardi-used-his-clients-money-like-a-personal-piggy-bank\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:01:19","slug":"prosecutor-tom-girardi-used-his-clients-money-like-a-personal-piggy-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/prosecutor-tom-girardi-used-his-clients-money-like-a-personal-piggy-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor: Tom Girardi Used His Clients&#8217; Money &#8216;Like a Personal Piggy Bank&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Tom Girardi used his law firm to pay for private jets, luxury cars, jewelry and \u201cthe entertainment career of his former wife,\u201d a federal prosecutor told jurors during opening statements Tuesday in a federal district court in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Girardi, 85, who is the estranged husband of Erika Jayne, star of \u201cThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,\u201d faces criminal charges of stealing $15 million from four clients. Prosecutor Scott Peatty alleged that Girardi hid his fraud by lying to his clients, blaming an \u201cassortment of reasons that weren\u2019t true\u201d on why they did not receive their settlement funds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Girardi used his law firm to pay for private jets, luxury cars, jewelry and \u201cthe entertainment career of his former wife,\u201d a federal prosecutor told jurors during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[210,859,2887,1106,1016,2888,1162,2119],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-bank","tag-clients","tag-girardi","tag-money","tag-personal","tag-piggy","tag-prosecutor","tag-tom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}