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Breaking: The State Bar of California has been conducting an investigation into whether its own employees helped Tom Girardi escape discipline for cheating clients.
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A Times investigation last year found that Girardi cultivated bar investigators with private plane rides, wine-soaked lunches and free legal representation at a time he was accused of siphoning client settlement money and other unethical behavior.

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Girardi, who gained pop culture cache alongside his third wife, Erika Jayne, on #RHOBH saw his Wilshire Boulevard law firm and reputation collapse in December 2020.
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The immediate cause was a judicial finding that he had misappropriated $2 million from the families of victims of an Indonesian air crash, but evidence of additional wrongdoing spanning decades quickly followed.

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The probe is the second internal review since The Times began reporting on Girardi’s relationship with bar officials.

A previous audit of complaints against him “revealed mistakes made in some investigations over the many decades of Mr. Girardi’s career.”
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Tom Girardi has not practiced law since late 2020 when plane crash victims began clamoring for payment and his firm, Girardi Keese, closed down.

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Within months, Girardi had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and placed in a court-ordered conservatorship with a younger brother serving as his legal guardian.
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