The firm filed a suit in federal court in Chicago, claiming that instead of paying out settlement money to victims – and co-counsel fees to Edelson – Girardi and his wife were using victims’ money to prop up a glitzy façade.Įdelson also alerted the judge overseeing the Lion Air litigation against Boeing. 'It's all a big conjecture piled on maybes.'Įdelson first blew the whistle on Girardi’s alleged embezzlement of millions of dollars from the families of victims of the Lion Air crash in December. 'They produced no evidence that showed any direct payments to Erika or her companies,' he said. The trustee's special litigation counsel, Ronald Richards of Ronald Richards & Associates said Edelson's new assertion is unfounded. “I don’t know what Edelson is referring to, and he has conveniently redacted or blacked out his alleged references in his brief to supposed evidence,” Borges said. The trustee in Girardi’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy, “never has alleged that Erika received Lion Air settlement money,” he added. “I’ve never seen any evidence to support the allegation that Lion Air settlement money received by Girardi Keese was sent by GK to my client,” Borges said. “Far from foreclosing the possibility that Erika received settlement money from the Lion Air cases, showed the opposite: Money that belonged to the surviving widows and orphans of the victims of that plane crash had, in fact, been used to make payments for Erika or her companies,” the brief said.Įrika Girardi’s counsel, Evan Borges of Greenberg Gross, refuted the new Edelson accusation in an email statement.

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