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Watching CNBC on demand in this episode of The American Dream is a powerful litigator who hates big corporations over lunch. Super lawyer Tom Girardi is worth $100 million, but says he's a champion of the small, one of the most respected travel

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in the US legal history makes billions for clients around the world who is a lawyer to sometimes he feels pretty good Girardi makes his fortune in the courts but his reputation is all Hollywood said I was on it about Arab Rock's lawyer and those stocks and whether he's taking on big pharma or big league baseball, he It's a legal legend, they did the wrong thing, you have to do it right, you already have the mansion, the cars, the arrogance and the glamorous Beverly Real Housewife, she said things like, forget it, honey. that's show business, but science claims this showman is actually a swimmer who allegedly siphons off tens of millions in deals to fund a gilded lifestyle.

Many people have been victims once, twice, three times and their victims trust American Greed to tell the stories they are ruining. Lives are ruining thousands of lives until this accused scammer counts for his world starts to fall apart that's what's been happening all along the old man spent all the money and Gerardi's days are in the headlines they're far from over he's green yeah it is it's pride absolutely it's an ego it's prestige it's all of the above but the foreign lawyer has turned it into an all-American success story the brilliant lawyer for Uber is a billionaire with a lower lifestyle who can own a Dreamboat is on display every week along with his beautiful, much younger wife, Erica James, who shares the Internet details of their marriage on the hit reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but on November 3, 2020, the press finds out It's a bombshell that Eric is filing for divorce.

Wife number three he had had. She already had a lot of lovers her future ex-husband is not right at least in the courtroom a real world in the world of reality it is about Erica James the husband Erica says she wants a divorce because she maintains that Tom cheats on her and treats her wrong but there could be another reason for the split Gerardi's financial life is falling apart as the public will soon discover 17 counts of federal criminal indictments and a torrent of civil lawsuits that will later claim that Tom stopped Christian funds and Erica knew he did. we demand. under a federal statue Rico, which is the statue that used to haunt the mafia, a collapsing marriage and an avalanche of legal problems are just the beginning of Tom's problems, as he teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, Gerardi runs the risk of losing, but according to Erica, what matters most to him is his only identity as a great lawyer in 1964 seven years even born Girardi graduates from Loyola Marymount Law School in Los Angeles establishes a personal injury in the practice of law and wins early victories, including big claim only fears in law school Tom made a name for himself by being the first attorney in California to win a medical malpractice judgment of over a million dollars and always adept at promoting himself to turn each small Victory into three more, including the victory that will make him famous the so-called Aaron Brockovich case to Aaron The Brockovich case put him on the map nationally before the world knew him as a character who wins Julia Roberts and the Oscar for best actress.

Aaron Brockovich is a real-world paralegal. He works with his boss, attorney Ed Mastery, to file a lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric. carcinogenic chemicals in groundwater called toxic Mass Torch Case Mastery runs out of money turned to Tom Girardi to help him with Gerardi on the mastery team in 1996 PG E settles for $333 million Ernie's budget $133 million of dollars in contingency fees just for us to go to law school and fight for the underdog, if they already name you, abandon your atheist connections to the film for decades in promotional interviews, it seems that you have the leading role in the filming of your movies on Saturday.

I met Julia Roberts and this except that in the movie Tom is not important enough to score a hit on screen Reuters invents a compound they call Kurt I should talk to someone who says I understand what you mean by a secret weapon Aaron, it's It's a pleasure to meet you, you've done a fabulous job, that's me, so even though they never said Tom Gerard, he said that I was in it, in the Airbrook lawyer and in those actions, and he realized that that fame he gained an incredible amount of power, a powerful lawyer, even a better businessman, in glossy advertising and public relations interviews.

He takes every opportunity to present the company's signature calling card of him doing one thing and that's helping the little guy give a voice to the guy who's been wronged and would otherwise have no voice. Gerardi thrives on high-profile cases that earned him headlines. He even takes over the LA Dodgers in 2014. Los Angeles police today arrested a suspect in the brutal beating of a San Francisco Giants fan outside Los Angeles Dodger Stadium, beaten so brutally that he remains in a coma in a San Francisco hospital. The victim's attackers and the Dodgers blamed negligent security for Trump's clients.

Trump investigative journalist Brandon Mowry covers the trial and gets a front-row seat to Girardi's show. When I met Tom, he was in the middle of the Brian Stowe case, he was representing the fan against the Dodgers and he does it all with a dramatic tone. Panache Gardner should pay the medical bill for this man who was family at this point. Hey, we made a mistake, we're really sorry and instead you come here and deny what the wives do because now you have the ability to keep the place safe. Do people get hurt too much in and out of the courtroom?

Laurie is impressed. She remembered my name the first time I shook hands with her. The next day she spoke to me. Brandon is a great story. He was just a very nice guy. Gerardi's final argument is a folksy teacher. persuasion class you know what you're ready to do the right thing or you will I'm Charities the clients needed a win he was the man who was going to solve their problems he was their hero the jury awards Girardi clients almost 18 million dollars No I knew who it was. I mentioned this to my colleagues and he said, oh yeah, it's a big deal.

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on his wife's unreal Housewives and I thought, wow, this guy remembered! I can only imagine how clients would have felt to be treated like they really mattered six years later met on camera interviewed personal injury attorney Daniel Ferguson who lands Girardi as a featured guest on his talk with theferoan podcast Frozen podcast I went in there thinking on Myself, wonderful, I got a great name for the first episode of my podcast, that's all I knew and I was excited to listen to it and learn. Sharing that interview exclusively with American Greed, the Peruvian learned that Gerardi is happy to talk about his victory in the Dodgers, not also.

Much not much, sir, I was listening live to his closing in the Brian Stow case and now here I am sitting in front of you asking you all these questions. I can't express how excited I am. Wait, he already won. Forget it. About that, honey, he was that wonderful, sweet customer who really liked those shows. He says things like forget it, honey, and the charm never lasts long. John Girardi plays Erica James, Prince Charming. He had so much power, influence and money that he could take. She timed no one and turned her into a star, but who is really funding her fairytale lifestyle since the 1980s.

She had a mansion in Pasadena and when they met it was like a stereotype. He ran into a cliche Dave Mary in 2000 and the only one of her The exotic dancer begins the metamorphosis of her into Erica Jane, the aspiring singer and celebrities financed by her new husband. She 33 years old. Its lead author, Catherine Sharp, will spend years researching Tom Girardi. They are very similar to Ambitions and its public personas. She was very smart to reach for her star. for him, but at the same time Erica's Tower is growing and the rich and famous are behind another devastating disaster and for Girardi it is a new opportunity to profit from the tragedy on a long afternoon in September 2010 he is a teenager in home watching a soccer game with his girlfriend, suddenly his entire neighborhood actually explodes due to an explosion so powerful that it claimed lives and forever charred the landscape.

Here the local gas company Pacific Gas and Electric says a 30-inch gas line probably broke and burned covering his body. Joe is clinging to life surprisingly this is his second appearance as a victim in an American grave the first was in season 14 episode 11 negligence um fire fills the whole house it's like we can articulate I don't know what's going on but all I know is this it's um like melting alive it's over Joe's girlfriend Jessica parishes along with others in San Bruno we don't know if he'll make it and he's connected to a million tubes and covered it's over you can't recognize him Kimberly RK a Close friend of Joe's mother knows to many attorneys in her work as a youth sports safety advocate.

Some of them have high praise. We just talked about this. We'll take it to Tom and when it comes to winning against PG, no one has a better reputation. and when they met Tom because this was just a horrible nightmare for them, but it was a house in ashes and he was facing a mountain of medical debt for Joel, the real Gomez family, like many of Girardi's clients, are vulnerable, he has Jamie , Joe's sister, because we think. wow, he is an incredible lawyer, he is so well known that we had no experience in that world as if we were from a middle class working class family and his celebrity.

The lawyer fights for them by suing pgne for negligent procedures. I was in a coma during the host of that and I woke up and they told me this is our lawyer, you know, every time I talk to him, he whispered sweet things all the time, he talked about a good game, it seemed logical to trust him, He began working closely with Tom as a litigation consultant and gave him an advantage. a close look at Girardi's scandalous spending delicious not one but two private jets describes a rotating fleet of luxury cars Tom showers Erica with two including banquet resistance 7 50,000 diamond earrings his estimated net worth peaks at 100 million of dollars still for all his Wells ads.

Archie, something doesn't quite add up. How come he lives like a billionaire with millionaire money? I never thought he made that kind of money from deals alone. She might be right, but she still doesn't know it, three years after her lawsuit against PG Eve Tom. Girardi has exciting news for the Gómez family. He was not motivated to undergo dozens of surgeries and will require extensive medical care for the rest of his life. He had no money at that time. Everything my family and I own is up in smoke, literally. But Joe's sister, Jamie, says Girardi isn't explaining the details of her deal.

We didn't see any paperwork and started putting pressure on him. He practically cut off communication with her. We had no idea what we were getting into when John tells the family how. They will receive a lot of money and comfort them. Jamie remembers feeling judged. He made me feel like he was being ungrateful. Wrath as if he expected me to jump for joy because I got this money, but also I lost everything that was important to me. of that, if you're already smart, it makes her suspicious, he calls everyone like, oh baby, and stuff like that, and he just tried too hard and it was funny, he even called my dad, baby, like, what are you doing?

The poor family is in Dire. The Straits depend on Girardi to be their little guy's defender. We need this money to help. We don't want this to come out generously, but his lawyer does it and it still led to his downfall. This was not a small criminal operation no matter how large it was. hard to handle, that's something out of a John Grisham novel, answers your prayers, are represented by Tom's firm as part of a 2012 lawsuit against the drug Johnson and Johnson, which if you're shaking the drug as a child , Holly and her husband Michael's son, Matthew, who is Artistic develops male gynecomastia swelling of the breast tissue insurance will not cover the corrective operation he needs I was heartbroken again when Michael dies of lung cancer in 2016 Holly and her children They are left aimless and in financial trouble Holly suffers brain and physical injuries that leave her disabled.

They expect a miraculous settlement from that and a little money to repair their house if there is anything left and it's not that we want this money, it's that many of us We can't afford these things, we can't afford mathematical surgery, so The Girardi Affair announces that we treat our clients like family. The Joneses say they barely receive a word of correspondence and we needed to help. Something just wasn't right. They really handled youthe way they treated you. Finally, after seven years, he notifies Holly that they have negotiated. An agreement with the manufacturer of Risk Patrol will allow the judges to pay for the party's surgery and fix up their house.

The amount is modest, only twelve thousand dollars, and for the Jones family it is life-changing with Gerardius' programs on American Express charges. , but his celebrity seems to pay Tom how reality television affected your career how has it affected your office marketing? I would be in a hotel in New Orleans 20 people are running, are you Erica's husband abroad? The team is going to spend some mind-blowing space, that's where the green spirit really comes from people who just don't have empty desires, their clients just survive, they were brilliant at getting recovery and getting a payment made by the defendants in these lawsuits, just wasn't very good at allocating those funds where they should have been paid, the real Gomez family discovers firsthand a major US raid to keep the exact amount confidential, but in 2018 they alleged that Gerardi pays them only a small fraction of their multi-million dollar settlement telling them that eventually you will get the risk in first to run your reasoning seems possible, you will receive payments every five years, loading sums every five years and then you will receive an annuity every month and it makes sense, I'm young, you know, Neil Woodley is a lawyer and ethicist.

In California, clients do not really have access to information to determine what they are entitled to, unless the attorney does what he is supposed to do and simply tell them precisely what has been received. penny and any remaining balance, all of that is supposed to be allocated to clients, instead his clients allege that Girardi avoids their place to see the actual documentation of their agreement, they claim that he protects himself by showing them his detailed rates and that is late in payments. It's modern skills and other excuses, that's when some red flags started appearing. The reparations are just the beginning and eventually if you push them hard enough they will eventually pay you something and then finally that just stopped and back in Kansas the John family says Gerard and Keith plan to keep most of it of their little 12, well, they said okay, we'll pay you in a month.

The month passes and nothing happens. We kept calling them and calling them and calling them and they didn't answer us the next week. Tom Girardi. is on the scene, check your pockets if you are unlucky enough to touch Tom Girardi, he probably had your wallet in 2018. Chicago consumer law attorney Jay Edelson has the opportunity to team counsel with the man that helped inspire his career. a new truth in an old saying never meet your heroes, they only disappoint you, he operates like a moth boss, you know why you see in The Sopranos where they are in the restaurant all day and if you want to meet him, you can. coming to the restaurant was not like any other lawyer I had ever met in my life talking about the opioid case they could work on in Jay Anderson's opinion Tom is surprisingly sharp he is a horrible person it was clear that he is

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, it is clear From the At first I didn't know anything about the case.

He had no other strategy than to simply exert influence on him. It wasn't a good combination, but again it's better. Adelson will give Girardi a second chance, adding to the mystery of the air disaster. The next passenger plane the companies most recently designed suddenly plunged into the scene they depicted, killing all 189 people on board and the question is what caused a new plane to crash into Clear Skies when a Boeing 737 Max owned by Lion Air crashes in Indonesia. Gerardi Peace swoops in to represent a dozen saluting family members, most of them widows and orphans and others.

A few months later we get a call from Tom Gerardi's firm saying we're filing the case in Chicago and we would like you to help as Edelson confirms that Girardi will not be directly involved with the groundwork he signs on the shell companies agree to a 50-50 fee split and in February 2020 Girardi and Henderson entered into a multimillion-dollar settlement for their clients in the Gerardi case is responsible for quickly paying fami

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and reducing co-bills on their end, but as a federal judge will discover later in September, Pendleton's firm hasn't seen a dime. We called every week trying to get more information and we were still stuck, Gómez family.

You know the feeling after years of hanging around, they started digging into Girardi's past and discovered a long list of complaints against him that they find online, they tell their friend Kimberly, she files what they found, there are a number of civil lawsuits which was later alleged that Tom Girardi appears to have been regularly transferring client settlements to his own bank accounts to support his obscene expenses by California lawyers. They are also required to follow specific payment procedures. Let's say it's a hundred thousand dollars in the trust account and I have a 40 contingency fee for that, so if you give my client a hundred thousand dollars.

I'll take the forty thousand and take it out of the trust account. Put them in my operating account before I touch a cent or nickel of that money. Why is it not your money while it is in your trust account? that belongs to your clients, the bankruptcy trustees will claim later, not if it's your time, prepare yourself, they took the funds for their own use, their own personal expenses, for gifts to their wife, whatever it is, it's called mix clients, the amount of money involved. Here he became very attractive, maybe he saw those funds and thought: I've earned them.

I deserve it. I love you. Combining funds is the fast track to getting this far or was supposed to be the fast track to getting this part instead of California. The State Bar Industrialization of the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame on the surface is about a celebrity couple, but when in reality it is about people who have been thinking once, twice, three times, the family also knows that feeling, it really is a slap in the face because we I'll just sit there watching TV and be and be oh, that's what our money is spent on, oh, that's what all the other victims' money is spent on, oh, that's what what you're doing, it seems untouchable, no one is watching any of this, how could they? he did it, no one knew then.

Girardi has apparently perfected hiding dirty little secrets, it's not a work in progress, he was already a main man and the most correct way, thanks in 2019. Tom Girardi is considered one of the most successful litigators in America. Kathleen Sharp is best known from the 1990s. Tom was an operator back in 2000, when he wrote a scathing exposé on the Aaron Brockovich case. The victims of that first PG case. The defendants were these poor people who had suffered for years and years and I trusted Girardi to do them if nothing actually happened, but there's more: what I found was a kind of gold mine, which is the arbitration system that Voluntary arbitration allows Girardi to direct and some of his famous cases, including the Aaron Brockovich case, the Intel deal, and retired judges manage.

In those cases they made hundreds of millions of dollars by paying judges two or three times what they had won in the public sector. Maybe it's surprising that this is perfectly legal, it wasn't just arbitration, it was him who made friends with private judges, but Tom took it a bit. beyond Judy Warren, tonight's judges in Los Angeles, f

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them to baseball games in his Gulfstream Jet and even on Charter's Mediterranean cruises and his judge rules, then he called for educational seminars, there would be waiters unauthorized with silver trees filled with champagne or in a bikini leading astrology in the sun.

The soaked covers, the game jacket with the officiating results are kept secret, so Girardi's plus escapes scrutiny and, in this good-guy culture, Girardi's official registration with the California bar remains being observant, it is notable because assuming that in the year 2042 the college revealed a staggering number of complaints and lawsuits, more than two specific ones dating back to the early 1980s, they taught me not only to keep an eye on their clients, but also to how to get away with it if it is already silent in some of the cases in a similar way to a pubg. pay old debts with new money other times, court findings show the statute of limitations simply runs out and Girardi flouts a California bar mandate there were 37 cases in which he was required to appear himself himself, the bar association trusted him to report his own misconduct and he basically didn't, if you're unlucky enough to have touched Tom Gerardi, he probably had your wallet, but by 2019, the real Gomez family has had enough of Tom Girardi and not only did he get fired, he got sued, for which Erica publicly blamed him.

Tom's alleged cheating as her reason for divorcing him Jay Edelson doesn't bite, it didn't make sense until Erica filed for divorce and then we said that's what's been happening the whole time the one who spent all the money was the next at that time. Known for being a Croc, his entire reputation ended. He wakes up, he depended on a lot of outside money to keep him going and not stop. Grizzly is deep in debt, baby, as he reveals in a video deposition for the Rugomez case. deeply concerned for his clients and horrified to discover that they have barely received half of the settlement money.

No, the customers told them they were shouting, where is Armani? on December 2, 2020. Jay Edelson Files Third Page Five-Count Civil Complaint Against Tom Erica. and other peace associates of Gerardi, in my opinion, is the crime family, that is how they operated just two weeks later in December. Judge Thomas Durkin calls Girardi's behavior unscrupulous and demands that two million dollars be paid to the Lion Air families, but Tom Girardi is a brother, the court issued the sentence, his assets were frozen, a criminal investigation was launched, then was forced to declare bankruptcy and at the time was known for being a Croc, his entire reputation ended like this overnight over the next two years, new civil lawsuits filed by Jay Edelson allege that Tom invested in funds and Erica helped him hide more than $20 million in assets through loans to his company EJ Club under a federal statute Rico, which is the statue that time was huge pretending otherwise, which is why we claim that she is the first. she is the front man for Enterprise in a statement to American Greed Erica's local attorney denies all of the lawsuit's claims against her and writes that they are disappointed with the focus on Erica, which has been used as a distraction tactic from which she He had no knowledge and did not participate. her in any misconduct and she gave her winnings to her husband and her law firm, but Erica does not hand over these infamous 750,000 Tom earrings until the court ordered her to put them up for auction.

I'm angry, I'm upset here. They were showing me all this stuff that shouldn't be yours, oh that should go away, everything that could be money for people who need it, oh I shouldn't sell it for 312k after months in foreclosure. Tom's Opulent Pasadena Mansion Sells for Millions of Dollars Treasures Left Inside Expansion Lasts Less Than Half a Minute as Girardi Divorce Speaks in Limbo Tom Lives in a Memory Care Facility Reportedly Due to Advancement of the Alzheimer's disease 18 months after suspending Girardi's law license due to his suspected cognitive impairment the State of California Bar permanently disbars him, then writes that Gerardi caused irreparable harm to hundreds of clients, all lawyers, the vast majority Of the lawyers I know get up in the morning and do a good job.

Tom Gerardi's lawyer responded to American created without comment and although at least one court has found no evidence that Erica participated in any alleged crimes brought by Gerardi's former colleagues, she and Tom still faced civil cases, including Edelson's , a role she may have played in this feels embarrassing because of the roles played by numerous people whose names we don't know, Tom. He would never have gotten as far as he did without these other people and their enablers, the other lawyers, the partners, every time you pull a thread, it goes in 15 different directions, which is difficult in this case, since it really was a criminal conspiracy expanding for decades.

Gerard's automated debt is at least $100 million with another $700 million in losses from claims against him. The Jones family has launched a GoFundMe campaign and Holly wonders what justice would look like for the Gerardis. This may sound harsh, but I want them to live like us. I have to live and I want justice for all the clients who act on the agreement Joe has another idea I don't care how old he is he should be byabove the law should be in prison that's where and that could be a possibility in November 2022 federal Agents in Baltimore, a nursing home, former Gerardi CFO Chris Cayman indicted on criminal charges over foreign arson , although they declined to comment.

FBI and IRS agents are reportedly conducting investigations against Girardi and his associates. Would it be a happy ending to see an octogenarian in prison because he is already there? hurt everyone, the happiest we can hope for is that people start looking at the system and changing it and probably doing it right now.